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High-Fat Diet Messes Up Body Clock, Seriously
Timing may be everything, or at least a lot, when it comes to metabolic diseases like obesity and diabetes. And that, according to researchers at Texas A&M University, is why it’s important that...
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For Weight Loss, Fun Beats Exercise
OK, it’s not exactly true, but it is true that people who have fun while exercising are likely to eat fewer calories when the exercise is done. Gretchen Reynolds reports in the New York Times on two...
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What’s Better, “Local” Or “Organic” Veggies?
What’s better for your health, “local” vegetables or “organic” vegetables? The answer, unsurprisingly, is all of the above– locally grown organic vegetables. What is surprising is the results of a...
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Broccoli Drink Flushes Two Toxins From Your Body
It sounds like something you’d read on the internet. OK, it is something you’re reading on the internet, but in this case, it’s something that came from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg...
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Extreme Exercise May Diversify Gut Bacteria
When we last visited the gut bacteria lab at the University College of Cork, we learned that the strange and tiny creatures that inhabit your stomach have the power to exert a major influence on weight...
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No, Drinking Is Not Good For Your Heart
In a study whose results will surprise few and disappoint many, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that, contrary to some extremely popular earlier studies,...
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Probiotics May Lower Blood Pressure, But Just A Little
Probiotics, — literally “for life”– certainly sound like they should be good for you, and there’s a boatload of research that suggests they are. Now comes the latest, a study of other studies (nine to...
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Fruits and Veggies: You Can Stop At Five Servings, Thanks
Yes, fruits and berries are good for you, but according to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, they are only good for you up to a point. And that point is….? Five servings a day....
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Question About Exercise? Don’t Ask Your Doctor
Got a question about exercise or nutrition? Don’t ask your doctor; chances are three to one that she won’t have an answer, and if she did, she doesn’t think it’s her job to talk about such things. The...
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Fish Eaters Are Smarter Than The Rest Of Us
It’s possible that our mothers were right about fish being brain food. If only we had eaten more, we might have known that. Or not. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are convinced that people...
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Cure For Tinnitus: Coffee
Tinnitus, otherwise known as ringing in your ears, plagues about one in five people. Yes, it’s annoying. Now comes a study suggesting that a cure for tinnitus is so simple that it too is annoying:...
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Wait, Now Low-Salt Diets Are Bad For Us
Remember the advice from health experts to minimize the amount of salt in our diets? Now hear this: a new study that tracked more than 100,000 people for more than three years found that people who...
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My Microbiome Made Me Do It
Yes, the 100 trillion bacteria and other microbes that reside in your body certainly outnumber you. Now comes a group of researchers who suspect that they may also outsmart you–influencing your...
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Coffee May Be Good For Your Teeth
Remember when your dentist told you that too much coffee could damage your teeth? Hold that thought, and think about this: researchers at Boston University believe that coffee may actually be good for...
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Low-Carb, High-Protein Diet Is Back, Yes, Again
Remember the when low-carb, high-protein diets (a la the Atkins Diet) were all the rage? Good. Because they’re back, with a serious endorsement from the National Institutes of Health. Anahad O’Connor...
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Spinach Cuts Craving For Sweets and Fast Food
Imagine, for a moment, how things would be different if you never had a craving for fast food or sweets. Well, for one thing, you would be thinner. How do we know? Because researchers at Lund...
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Watching, Yes Just Watching Football Can Be Bad For Your Health
Perhaps the strangest thing about the warning that just watching football can be bad for your health is its origin: the University of Alabama, home of the Crimson Tide, and a place where watching...
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How Action Movies Make Us Fat
It turns out that all of the action in action movies isn’t on the screen. Action-packed films, according to researchers at Cornell University, also compel viewers to act, in some cases by eating twice...
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Fish Is Good For Your Ears. What?
Fish is good for your ears. What? No, it’s true. Science Daily reports that researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital studied data from 65,215 women were followed from 1991 to 2009. After 1,038,093...
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Artificial Sweeteners May Pose Real Threat To Glucose Levels
Artificial sweeteners, used to avoid the health risks of real sugar, turn out to have their own problems. The New York Times reports that the sweeteners have been found to “disrupt the body’s ability...
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