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Pistachio Nuts Improve Heart Health
Going green may be heart healthy if the green you choose is pistachio nuts, according to researchers at Penn State who conducted the first study to investigate the way pistachios lower cholesterol.
Migraines More Frequent,
Intense in Overweight Kids
The more overweight children and teens are, the more numerous and severe their headaches, according to a U.S. study.
Antidepressants Harms Male Fertility
Antidepressants taken by millions of men could be impairing their fertility by causing damage to the DNA in their sperm.
Breastfeeding Reduces Cancer Risk
Breastfeeding for a year over the course of a woman's life helps cut the risk of breast cancer, research says.
5 Facts About Pain You Need To Know
Pain forces millions to miss work every year and results in millions of visits to the doctor. Studies find that exercise is in many cases one of the best remedies for chronic pain.
How To Find the Motivation to Exercise
Training is essential to your mental and physical wellbeing - you know that. And now that summer is gone and real life back in session, you are going to have to find added inspiration to manage a regular exercise regimen into your already busy schedule.
Mobile Phone Use 'Raises Children's
Risk Of Brain Cancer Fivefold'
Children and teenagers are five times more likely to get brain cancer if they use mobile phones, startling new research indicates.
Music Shown to Facilitate the
Development of Neurons in the Brain
Researchers have discovered evidence that music stimulates specific regions of the brain responsible for memory, language and motor control. They have located specific areas of mental activity linked to the emotional responses elicited by music. Now new research conclusions have identified how the affect of music could replicate the effects of hormone replacement therapy in the prevention of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
Chocolate Helps Heart Stay Healthy
A small square of dark chocolate daily protects the heart from inflammation and subsequent heart disease, a new study of Italians suggests. Milk chocolate might not do the job.
Acupuncture Better Than
Drugs To Treat Hot Flashes
Acupuncture works as well as a drug commonly used to combat hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms that can accompany breast cancer treatment, and its benefits last longer, without bad side effects, researchers said.
Can A Certain Smell Affect Your Dreams?
German researchers are reporting that when people smelled the scent of rotten eggs while sleeping, the nature of their dreams turned decidedly negative, while those who got a whiff of the scent of roses had more positive dreams.
How to Never Forget Anything Again
The human brain is a wonderful thing, but it's a bit faulty as a tool for remembering things. Luckily for us (and for our frazzled brains), technology has stepped in to help out.
Criminals Who Eat Processed
Foods More Likely To Be Discovered
Dr John Bond, a researcher at the University of Leicester and scientific support officer at Northamptonshire Police, said processed food fans are more likely to leave tell-tale signs at a crime scene.
Worldwide Survey Seeks
Answers To Multiple Sclerosis
The number of people suffering from the neurological disease multiple sclerosis (MS) worldwide could be far more than the estimated 1.3m, researchers say.
Acetaminophen Linked
To Childhood Asthma
Children given acetaminophen during the first year of life to reduce fever are more likely to develop asthma later on, a new study finds.
Sleep Apnea May
Cause Erectile Dysfunction
Men with sleep apnea may suffer from a treatable form of erectile dysfunction caused by regular deprivation of oxygen experienced during these episodes of obstructed breathing, a new report says.
5 Things You Must Never Forget
Whether it is a name, date or directions, there always seems to be something new to remember. Yet you probably feel like there's just not enough room in those little brain cells of yours to cram the latest tidbit. And unfortunately you have no external hard drive. But don't despair. Several recent studies reveal how memory works and what you can do to improve it.
The 7 Sins Of Dieting
You're completely committed to losing weight. You're even counting calories and eliminating fast food. But no matter how hard you try, you won't reach your goals if you fall victim to certain dieting blunders. Read on to uncover the seven deadly sins of dieting, and to ensure weight-loss success.
Heat Accelerates Release of Toxic Plastics Chemicals From Bottles, Food Packaging
Plastic water bottles release the toxic chemical bisphenol A at a rate 55 times greater when filled with boiling water than when filled with room temperature water, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and published in the journal Toxicology Letters.
Clean Living 'Slows Cell Aging'
Taking more exercise and eating the right foods may help increase levels of an enzyme vital for guarding against age-related cell damage, work suggests.
BPA Linked To Cardiovascular
Disease, Diabetes And Liver Problems
Higher levels of urinary Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical compound commonly used in plastic packaging for food and beverages, is associated with cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and liver-enzyme abnormalities, according to a study in the September 17 issue of JAMA.
Are There Age-Related Differences In
The Expectations For Future Happiness?
Albert Einstein once quipped, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." The famous scientist might have added that the illusion of reality shifts over time. According to a new Brandeis University study, age influences how we perceive the future.
Mediterranean Diet Prevents
Death From Chronic Diseases
People who eat a strict Mediterranean diet are at less risk of developing heart disease, cancer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, Italian researchers report.
Zen Meditation Really Does Clear the Mind
The seemingly nonsensical Zen practice of "thinking about not thinking" could help free the mind of distractions, new brain scans reveal.
Physical Therapy As
Effective As Knee Surgery
A new study questioning the usefulness of arthroscopic surgery for osteoarthritis of the knee should encourage patients to consider physical therapy as an effective non-surgical option, according to the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). The study was published in the September 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
Does Thinking Make You Fat?
It turns out that performing mental tasks, like trying to solve problems while working at a computer, stimulates the appetite so much that people tend to eat significantly more calories than they burned while performing the "knowledge-based" tasks.
The Brain Can Remember A Lot
More Than Previously Believed
If human memory were truly digital, it would have just received an upgrade from something like the capacity of a floppy disk to that of a flash drive. A new study found the brain can remember a lot more than previously believed.
Air Pollution Can Hinder
Heart's Electrical Functioning
Microscopic particles in polluted air can adversely affect the heart's ability to conduct electrical signals in people with serious coronary artery disease, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Why Thin Will Always Be In
Ideals of beauty change somewhat over time, but the simple fact is that proponents of plus-size preference have failed to convince the mainstream that fat is beautiful. They have tried for years to make fat as sexy as thin. But thin will always be in, for a few simple reasons.
Milk Helps Some Dangerous
Bacteria Survive In Your Body
Milk may help prevent potentially dangerous bacteria like Staphylococcus from being killed by antibiotics used to treat animals, scientists recently heard at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn meeting being held this week at Trinity College, Dublin.
Stimulate Your Thyroid And Get
Your Metabolism Back On Track
Millions around the world are diagnosed with some form of thyroid disease every year. It's a health problem that impacts every cell in the body and can cause severe weight gain or weight loss, mood disturbances and even infertility in both men and women. But changing your diet and lifestyle could dramatically influence the functioning of your thyroid.
Vigorous Exercise Helps Even
Those Genetically Prone To Obesity
Vigorous physical activity could blunt the effects of a common gene linked to obesity, claim US researchers.
Natural Childbirth Makes Mothers
More Responsive To Their Baby's Cry
A new study has found that mothers who delivered vaginally compared to caesarean section delivery (CSD) were significantly more responsive to the cry of their own baby, identified through MRI brain scans two to four weeks after delivery.
Can Your Geographic Origins
Be Located From Your DNA?
One day soon, you may be able to pinpoint the geographic origins of your ancestors based on analysis of your DNA.
Location Of Your Body Fat
Is Key To Your Heart Risk
In the face of a growing obesity epidemic in the United States, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have new study results that indicate that how much fat a person has is not as important as where that fat is located when assessing risk for cardiovascular events and metabolic disease.
UN Says Eat Less Meat
To Prevent Global Warming
People should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change, the world's leading authority on global warming stated.
Is Longevity Mostly Due
To Social Circumstances?
On average, a black man living in Washington, D.C., does not live as long as a man in India, and he certainly doesn't live as long as a white man in his hometown. The reasons - just like the reasons that the Japanese and Swedes live longer than the Ukrainians, and why aborigines in Australia on average die 17 years earlier than non-aborigines - are almost entirely social, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) released today.
Olive Leaf Extract Helps
Lower Blood Pressure
A supplement containing olive leaf extract may help lower blood pressure and cholesterol in people on the brink of developing high blood pressure, a new study suggests.
Why Mammography is NOT an
Effective Breast Cancer Screen
The most devastating loss of life from breast cancer occurs between the ages of 30 to 50. Fortunately, you have more options available to you today to help detect breast cancer than in the past decades.
Daylight Saving Time Throws Off The Body's Sleep Rhythms For 20 Percent Of The Year
Changing the clocks twice a year for Daylight Saving Time throws off the body's sleep rhythms for 20 percent of the year, with potentially serious immune consequences, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany.
Chemicals Affect Future Fertility
Chemical compounds could play a role in causing unborn boys to have fertility problems in later life.
Exercise Helps Improve Memory Problems
Adults with memory problems who participated in a home-based physical activity program experienced a modest improvement in cognitive function, compared to those who did not participate in the program, according to a study in the September 3 issue of JAMA.
Rosehip Supplement Eases Arthritis
Pain Better than Painkiller Meds
Powder made from rosehip is more effective at reducing osteoarthritis pain than Tylenol, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of California, and Fredericksburg Hospital, Copenhagen University Library and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and published in the journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.
Are Your Vitamin D Test Results Valid?
Recent developments have made it clear that there are irregularities in the values obtained from the different Vitamin D testing methods. Although results from any of the three commonly used assays may be analytically accurate, they might not be clinically accurate, which is, ultimately, what matters.
Experts Say "Don't Remove Ear Wax"
The gooey, golden stuff that builds up inside your ears should stay there, according to national guidelines on earwax removal released today
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