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There’s some surprising news for those of us who thought that ensuring the inclusion of calcium alone in the diet of our growing girls was enough for them to grow healthy bones. Studies have ...

More Vitamin D Means Fewer Stress Fractures for Teenage Girls

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It seems as though we are caught up in the tangle of urban living only to harm our bodies. As the demands of our careers dictate more travel, longer work hours, more frequent work with different ...

Mamta Singh commented on Mamta Singh's post Sleeping Less Could Make You Eat More

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It seems as though we are caught up in the tangle of urban living only to harm our bodies. As the demands of our careers dictate more travel, longer work hours, more frequent work with different ...

Mamta Singh commented on Mamta Singh's post Sleeping Less Could Make You Eat More

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It seems as though we are caught up in the tangle of urban living only to harm our bodies. As the demands of our careers dictate more travel, longer work hours, more frequent work with different ...

Sleeping Less Could Make You Eat More

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The drug metformin sold under the brand name of Glucophage has been studied by researchers at University of Maryland School of Medicine. They point out that this drug may help protect against ...

Diabetes Drug May Protect Your Liver Against Cancer

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There is some disturbing news from the scientific community based on research that those who have trouble sleeping or experience poor quality sleep are more susceptible to developing Alzheimer’s ...

Risk of Alzheimer’s Could Be Pegged for Those with Insomnia

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Here is more on how prolonged mental and emotional stress can take a toll on our health. Going beyond what we know of its ill effects on blood pressure, development of cardiovascular diseases and ...

Chronic Stress: A Major Suspect In Alzheimer’s Says Study

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Sleep apnea, which is a sleep disorder that is often not taken seriously by family, puts the person suffering from sleep apnea at an increased risk of having a silent stroke. A small study ...

The Sleep Apnea – Silent Stroke Connection

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How much sleep does your average day afford? Does your sleep meter clock less than six hours a day several times a week, because of the lifestyle you lead? Or perhaps your sleep mileage is more ...

Not Too Much, Not Too Little, Just Right: Sleep and Your Heart

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More women are putting off conceiving, bowing to the rising demands of their jobs and the pressures of city-living, looking to secure a financially stable future or even the right partner. As they ...

Thinking of Postponing Conception After 40? Think Again: Yale

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By virtue of its rich and appealing looks as well as its mild taste, spinach does not need much "luring into" to be served to and enjoyed by adults or children. Spinach is native to central ...

Nutritious and Delicious Spinach Soup

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Here’s reason for caution for people suffering from osteoporosis who are on oral bisphosphonates medication for the long-term. If you carry a variation of a particular gene, you are susceptible to ...

Osteoporosis Drugs That Could Cause Osteonecrosis Of The Jaw

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Scientists have long known that the cancer-fighting edge of broccoli comes from a chemical compound it contains, known as sulforaphane. This compound is also found in abundance in other ...

Double Benefits From Sulforaphane In Broccoli: Research

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The hypothesis that women who stop taking hormone medication postmenopause could bring about a regression of breast tumor has now been supported by a new study conducted by researchers who worked ...

Ending Hormone Therapy May Cause Breast Cancer To Regress

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Have you noticed that people who seem mentally sharper are also the ones who take brisk walks, go jogging, dancing, bicycling, swimming or have similar activities built into their daily routines? ...

Learn Faster -- Put On Those Running Shoes: Study

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New research has come in from the University of Rochester Medical Center suggesting that older adults who sleep poorly are at an increased risk of developing poor physical and psychological ...

Poor Sleep in Elderly Increases Mental And Physical Risks

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There is some very uplifting news for those of us who suffer from conditions that are brought on by suppression of our immune system. Researchers at Loyola have developed a technique which ...

New Technique Developed To Save Compromised Immune System

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By serendipity, the scientific community has struck upon a drug which so far has been used to get chain smokers off cigarettes to treat alcoholism. Study conducted by researchers at the ...

Striking Smoking And Alcoholism With The Same Ammunition

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Okra is a vegetable that grows in summers and finds natural habitat in regions around the world which have tropical or at least warm climates. It is a flowering plant that bears small yellow ...

Stir-fried Okra Recipe That’s Finger Licking Delicious!

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The mystery of autism’s causes and treatments continues to unfold as more research is being done into the condition. At the University of Alabama, a professor of human nutrition and hospitality ...

Lower Levels of Good Cholesterol Observed In Children with Autism: Study

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You only need to pick a magazine or visit most websites and you will come across weight loss advertisements running at the side margins. It seems as though a whole generation of people seem to ...

Keeping Fit and Active More Important Than Losing Weight: Study

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We are familiar with the term “runner’s high” – the feeling of euphoria or “being in the zone” that medium- to long-distance runners get after a strenuous run due to the release of the “feel good” ...

Step Up Your Physical Activity If You Want To Rev Up Your Life!

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Women who are living with HIV or AIDS could find coping becomes easier by adopting a furry pet, if possible. Studies from Case Western Reserve University show that women suffering from chronic ...

Pets Help HIV Patients Cope Better

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Here is one more reason why fish, seeds and nuts should be a part of your diet. New research conducted at Queen Mary, University of London, shows that omega-3 fatty acids have the potential to not ...

Omega-3 Has The Potential To Treat Nerve Damage: Study

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Resveratrol is the much-talked-about plant chemical found in red grapes and some other fruits that goes into making red wine beneficial, if taken in moderate amounts. Researchers at National ...

How The Resveratrol In Red Wine Works To Your Benefit

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A new technique suggested by scientists at the University of Bristol, Durham University and City University London holds immense hope for young children affected with autism. In a study that was ...

New Self-help Technique May Aid The Autistic

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The mung bean, mungbean or moong bean is a native of the Indian subcontinent and is a popular ingredient in recipes prepared in India, China, Thailand, Korea and Japan. Sprouts of the mung ...

Healthy Stir-Fried Mung Bean Sprouts

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Reports of studies on bone health have often spoken about how the loss in "quantity and mass" of the bones in an elderly population is the primary cause for frequent fractures and general bone ...

The Truth about Aging Bones

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We often come across medical literature talking about how those who are overweight or obese have increased risk of developing coronary heart diseases and diabetes. Research conducted by scientists ...

Bone Health Is Compromised In Obesity: Research

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People who suffer from heart diseases and conditions, as well as those suspected of this, and who have received a recommendation for a heart X-ray, should ask for a Magnetic Resonance Imaging ...

MRI Scans Better Than CT Scans For Heart Patients

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Not all wines are created equal when you consider what red wine can do for you that white wine cannot. Research from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at Los Angeles shows that drinking as much as eight ...

A Glass of Red Wine Daily May Cut Breast Cancer Risk: Study

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When it comes to gynaecological cancers such as ovarian, uterine and cervical cancers, symptoms such as abnormal vaginal bleeding, pelvic pain and abnormal vaginal discharge with traces of blood ...

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When it comes to gynaecological cancers such as ovarian, uterine and cervical cancers, symptoms such as abnormal vaginal bleeding, pelvic pain and abnormal vaginal discharge with traces of blood ...

10 Cancer Symptoms Women Should Be Aware Of: MD Anderson Center

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Pregnant women are often asked by their well-meaning friends if they are "eating for two". Though the volume of food being eaten by mums-to-be is of some concern, the more critical factor to ...

Caution, Mums-To-Be! Poor Diet Pegs Baby’s Risk Of Diabetes

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You reach for your brush and toothpaste groggy-eyed every morning to begin the day with a clean start. How effective is that toothpaste you have been using? Turns out, not much. It is keeping ...

Your Toothpaste May Be Unable To Fight Dental Bacteria Effectively

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Here is one more reason why you should put on that workout gear and exercise. To the already long list of benefits that can be availed from following a regular workout routine, a new study ...

Exercise Nudges Stem Cells To Turn Into Bone Cells

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A study observed more than 100,000 people, none of whom had a history of heart attack or stroke at the beginning of the study, over a period of seven years in Taiwan. The study suggested that ...

Dental Cleaning Could Reduce Risk Of Cardiovascular Diseases

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It’s Healthy Weight Week! It runs from January 15 through January 21. This health observance could not be more rightly timed as most of us are looking at eating healthy and returning to our ...

Healthy Eating: Garbanzo Beans And Couscous Medley

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Depression has so far been studied from a psychological perspective but a new study that was conducted by researchers at Canada’s Concordia University suggested that depression can have deeper ...

Depressed? Beware! It Can Lead To Heart Disease: Study

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Aphasia is “an impairment of language, affecting the production or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write.” (Source: The National Aphasia Association; Page Title: More Aphasia ...

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Scientists from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have hit upon a drug that will help contain the spread of a deadly type of eye cancer to other parts of the body. It was a ...

New Drug Holds Hope For Lethal Eye Cancer

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Piling up your plate with vegetables and fruits may have benefits beyond cancer prevention and maintaining healthy weight. Scientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet now say that it plays a ...

Rich Antioxidant Diet Could Reduce Risk Of Stroke In Women: Study

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It’s three o’clock in the afternoon and you have a few more hours of work to wind up at the office before you head for home. Yet you think you can barely go on any longer. You are drowsy and ...

Sleepy At 3? Don’t Reach Out For Sugar-Based Foods!

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It has now been confirmed through research that a high intake of starchy foods increases the chance of breast cancer to recur in breast cancer survivors. The results of the research project known ...

Starch Increases Chance of Breast Cancer Recurrence: Research

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New Year’s celebrations are only a few days away and most young mothers will step out to shop toys as gifts for their toddlers and for their friends or cousins. For many families, toys bought from ...

Going Toy Shopping For Your Child? Check For Toy Safety!

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If your gynecologist has recently confirmed your pregnancy, it would make sense to ask her/him if you could start folic acid supplements. Though there is no novelty in the knowledge that folic ...

Good News? Folic Acid Could Prevent Child’s Chances of Language Delay: Study

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The list to benefits derived from keeping physically fit and maintaining an active lifestyle just grew. The new addition that regular and moderate exercise bestows is to persons who suffer from ...

Suffering From Glaucoma? Increase Your Physical Activity: Study

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Researchers at the University of Missouri suggest that exercises will not aggravate the condition of breast cancer survivors who suffer from post-treatment lymphedema. Lymphedema is a condition ...

Exercise Benefits Breast Cancer Survivors: Research

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Here end the periods. Expecting a 2-day migraine episode any day now.

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If you are looking to reduce the pounds you gained during the Thanksgiving season while still putting out nutritious and delectable food on the dinner table, shrimps are a great option. Shrimps ...

Shrimp Scampi: Low on Calories, High on Protein