Aug 31, 2016 12:44PM
In a British study of twins, those that consumed the most fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin C developed fewer cataracts than their sibling.
Serbian soccer players who took astaxanthin daily for three months recovered more quickly from muscle exertion and had lower rates of inflammation than a control group.
Aug 31, 2016 12:43PM
In a four-night University of Chicago study, young adults getting only four-and-a-half hours of sleep a night were significantly hungrier afterwards and more likely to snack heavily in the afternoon.
Aug 16, 2016 12:53PM
A six-year Texan study found that prolonged breastfeeding reduces both sniffles and painful earaches in newborns.
Jul 29, 2016 10:50AM
Danish children that start kindergarten at age 6 instead of 5 are far less likely to be inattentive or hyperactive five years later.
Busy working mothers between the ages of 40 and 50 that drank Concord grape juice daily improved their performance on a driving test, results that lasted after the study ended.
Inhaling a three-fragrance formula of essential oils sharply reduced allergy symptoms for Korean sufferers in just seven days.
Perhaps because of the natural vitamin D supplied by sunlight, researchers found that children are less likely to have asthma if their mothers lived in a sunny location during the second trimester of pregnancy.
Eating three-quarters of a cup of beans, lentils, chickpeas or other legumes per day as part of their usual diet helped subjects feel more full and shed nearly a pound in six weeks.
About two in five Dutch adults between the ages of 19 and 22 that reported problems sleeping had chronic pain three years later.
Jun 30, 2016 10:14AM
Two prominent meta-studies have found that calcium in supplements have at most a tiny initial effect on bone density.
Adults that eat hefty amounts of plants high in carotenoids have five- to eight-percent longer telomeres, cellular markers that typically grow shorter with age.
Two cans of an energy drink per day produced abnormal heart rhythms and higher blood pressure in healthy adults.
Jun 30, 2016 10:13AM
In a recent study, at least 25 percent of children between 8 and 17 taking such ADHD meds as Ritalin and Focalin were found to have osteopenia, early bone loss.
People with severe low back pain had significantly less pain and more mobility after six sessions of osteopathic manual therapy.
Six new neurotoxins identified in the British journal The Lancet include fluoride found in many municipal water systems and PBDEs, flame retardants found in electronics and plastics.
May 31, 2016 04:06PM
High blood levels of DHA, EPA and DPA, found in fish oil supplements, increased prostate cancer risk by 43 percent in a recent study.
May 31, 2016 12:06PM
The herb Ashwagandha raised testosterone levels and increased arm muscle mass in a study of 57 men between the ages of 18 and 50.
The electric coils that heat up the nicotine in e-cigarettes produce levels of reactive free radicals roughly similar to those found in heavily polluted air.
A six-month treatment with a mushroom extract called AHCC healed eight of 10 women with human papillomavirus, a common sexually-transmitted disease.
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