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One Way To Encourage Healthy Eating
Research led by the Cornell Food and Brand Lab found that cafeteria diners selected healthier food items just by seeing nutritious items like bananas offered - even if they did not put one on their tray. The study, which looked at 700 people found that about a third...
Research Suggests New Health Benefits of Tea
While it has been shown in the past that tea has antioxidant properties that can play a part in overall health, new findings suggest tea may also have important preventative effects against chronic disease. These discoveries were recently discussed at the Fifth...
“Natasha’s Law” Aims to Protect Texas Student Athletes With Concussions
Texas doctors and legislators believe the health of student athletes will be better protected with the recent enactment of Natasha's Law. The new state law requires specific responses when student athletes get concussions on the field. Previously, a coach was able to...
Muscle Strength – The New Medicine
While there was a time strength training brought to mind the image of body builders pumping huge amounts of iron, it is now widely shown that strength training is important for everyone in maintaining health over a lifetime. "It can slow and reverse age-related...
FDA Closes 18,000 Online Pharmacies
The Federal Drug Administration is investigating 18,000 online pharmacies for selling counterfeit, potentially harmful prescription medications. Working with over 100 countries during the fifth annual Internet Week of Action, the FDA seized more than 10 million...
Generic Version of Wellbutrin Antidepressant is Pulled Off Market
The Food and Drug Administration has asked Teva Pharmaceuticals to stop shipping Budeprion XL 300, its generic version of Wellbutrin after new testing has found the generic drug to be ineffective. Wellbutrin is prescribed to treat anxiety, depression and symptoms of...
Slow Breathing Can Help Reduce Pain
A small research study conducted at the University of Tulsa found that 30 healthy people obtained pain relief by breathing slowly, as compared to breathing normally or quickly. The patients received electric pain stimulations to their legs while breathing at various...
U.S Kids Spend Nearly as Much Time Around a Switched-on-TV as They Do in School
Children from ages 8 months to 8 years watch an average of 80 minutes of television each day. When you add to that the average of 232 minutes a day that the television is droning in the background, you have kids averaging more than 5 hours a day of interaction with...
An Optimal Time for Daily Tasks?
Research shows that a significant minority of people function on one of two particular chronotypes... morning people, who usually wake up and go to bed earlier, and evening people who tend to rise later, move slower in the morning and stay up later. Of course, the...
One Migraineur Talks About Outsmarting Diabetes
Debra Jaliman, a dermatologist practicing in New York City was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last year. While she had a history of diabetes on both sides of her family, she had always squeaked by with blood sugar in the normal range by maintaining her weight, and...