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What are my hiccups telling me?
Hiccups are mostly harmless. But, if they last more than 48 hours this could potentially signal serious health complications. “You should seek advice from your health care provider if your hiccups progress from happening every once in a while to […]
Air pollution kills 5.5 million every year
Air pollution kills 5.5 million people worldwide every year. More than half of these deaths are from India and China. The new study, presented today at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), […]
Ways to boost your metabolism
The Texas A&M University shares 5 ways to boost your metabolism through an infographic.
Where you turn gives meaning to your kisses
A recent study in Laterality shows that couples turn righ when they kiss, while parents and kids turn left. Authors Jennifer Sedgewick and Lorin Elias discovered a significant left-turn bias between parent-child kisses, with little difference between mothers and fathers. […]
Giving support to others also good for health
Giving support — rather than receiving it — may have unique positive effects on key brain areas involved in stress and reward responses, suggests a study in Psychosomatic Medicine: Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine, the official journal of the American Psychosomatic […]
Lifelong exercise increases bone density in men
A University of Missouri study found that individuals who continuously participated in high-impact activities, such as jogging and tennis, during adolescence and young adulthood, had greater hip and lumbar spine bone mineral density than those who did not. “While osteoporosis […]
Beetroot Juice improves endurance and blood pressure
Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center found that a daily dose of beetroot juice improved exercise endurance and blood pressure in elderly patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF). The study is published in the current online […]
Stress could help activate calorie-burning fat
Mild stress stimulates the activity and heat production by brown fat that burns calories, according to a study published in Experimental Physiology. Brown adipose tissue (BAT), also known as brown fat, is one of two types of fat found in […]
What happens to your heart when you’re in love?
A researcher at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) explains what happens to your heart when you are in love. Peter Crawford, M.D., Ph.D., is the Director of the Cardiovascular Metabolism Program at SBP in Lake Nona, Florida. He […]
Couch Potatoes may have smaller brains later in life
Poor physical fitness in middle age may be linked to a smaller brain size 20 years later, according to a study published in the February 10, 2016, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. […]
