Listen up, people, Miley Cyrus does not have an eating disorder. Sweet niblets! According to a recent tweet from the 19-year-old starlet, she's not starving herself to be skinny:

"For everyone calling me anorexic I have a gluten and lactose allergy. It's not about weight it's about health. Gluten is crapppp anyway!"

She even tweeted a photo of herself with a bag of fast food, inhaling deeply:

"I can't eat it, so I'm just gonna smell the s--- out of it! My mouth is LITERALLY watering."

Okay, I have a little bit of experience with this topic. When I was around Miley's age (hmm, weird coincidence), I was also diagnosed with a "gluten and lactose allergy," which required me to follow the same strict dietary guidelines. And guess what I figured out, fast?

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Can I interest you in a shamrock cookie covered in what appears to be grass green acrylic paint? A beer the color of swamp water? I know, I know, St. Patrick's Day comes but once a year. A little bit of artificial color -- FD&C Green No. 3, to be exact -- never hurt anybody ... did it?

Well, probably not. Since we're only talking about a little bit, chances are the casual St. Patrick's Day Green No. 3-consumer doesn't have to worry about most of the risks associated with food dye, like ADHD in kids or even cancer, which was recently linked to the caramel color used in some sodas. (Coke actually changed its secret recipe in response to the mass freakout over that one.)

Still, there is one very unpleasant possible side effect of artificial food dye that's almost immediate -- and most people don't even know about it.

Uh-oh! Looks like it's time for the annual mass panic about how "this allergy season is going to be the worst, longest allergy season ever" to begin! Because it is, you know. Going to be the worst, longest allergy season on record. That's what everybody's saying.

Look, I know it's pretty much true -- I've had allergies for my entire life and over the past few years they've definitely gotten more severe. I just think it's kind of funny how every spring it seems like the current allergy season is on a mission to one-up last year's edition.

I mean, Allergy Season 2011 was bad enough. If Allergy Season 2012 lives up to the hype, I'm afraid the standard methods of relief for the pollen-sensitive just won't cut it.

We've barely worn our hats and gloves, let alone our puffy down coats. We're saving money by turning down the thermostats, enjoying long walks in the unseasonable warmth with our families, basking in the unexpectedly balmy temperatures. Our snow shovels and giant bags of salt and sand stand at the ready, but have been sadly neglected. All of these are wonderful, welcome effects of this year's unusually mild winter.

Personally, I've been thrilled not to be freezing my you-know-what off out there, shoveling snow off my walk and digging out my car. (Remember last year's endless blizzards?) And I've even managed to escape (so far, at least) catching my usual winter cold. But from a health perspective, there's actually a downside to all of those remarkably unfrosty winter days: Allergies. (Sniff-sniff!)

The health benefits of owning a pet are well known: Having a furry friend around the house can lower your blood pressure, help you maintain healthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and make you feel less lonely, boosting your mood and sense of well-being. But as anyone who finds herself wheezing, sneezing, and rubbing her itchy, itchy eyes at the first whiff of dander can tell you, pets can make you miserable from a health standpoint as well.

Sadly, a new study adds a new health twist for people who are longing to adopt a cat for the first time: If you've never owned a cat and you adopt one as an adult, you are almost twice as likely to develop an immune reaction to your kitty than people who owned cats when they were kids. The rates of response are even higher in people who have other allergies, prompting the researchers to recommend that those people consider avoiding cats altogether.

When E! News host Giuliana Rancic announced she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, many of us were seriously dumbfounded by the news. This poor woman! Given her struggles with infertility and all the attention that's been paid to her weight, it seemed like she had already been through enough already!

But after having gone through a double lumpectomy as part of her breast cancer treatment last month, it turns out she's in really high spirits. She says she has "good days and bad days," but she's "hanging in there," and she credits her fans for that. She says she's grateful they've continued to tell her through blogs, tweets, and emails, "'Be strong. You're strong.'" I could see why that would make an amazing difference. In fact, it seems her entire experience -- from announcing the diagnosis to recovering from her surgery -- has ironically done a very positive number on Giuliana.  

When I saw the new Kleenex commercial about the disgusting array of germs that can hide in the average home's hand towels, I couldn't resist going online and putting my own set under the microscope of the Kleenex Hand Towel Analyzer. It's easy enough: Answer a few questions about how many people live in your home, your family's handwashing habits, and whether or not you have pets, and voila! The Analyzer instantly tells you where your home's hand towels fall on the gross-out spectrum.

As a germaphobe with less-than-great housekeeping skills, I was neither pleased nor surprised with the Hand Towel Analyzer's results.

Does your partner ever claim to feel sick after he ejaculates? I mean really sick, with fever, fatigue, and itchy eyes, like he has the flu.

Well, he may be telling the truth, that he has the man-flu, and not just trying to find an excuse to lay around in bed because he’s worn out from your love-making session. He may actually be allergic to his own semen.

Huh? Come again?

The results of a new Dutch study of this semen allergy, known as post-orgasmic illness syndrome (POIS), confirms the cause of this sickness. The study was conducted by pricking the subjects' skin with their own diluted semen and recording their bodies' reactions, which ran the gamut of flu-like symptoms.