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Nine-day sugar-free diet improved teens’ health
Reducing consumption of added sugar, even without reducing calories or losing weight, has the power to reverse a cluster of chronic metabolic diseases, including high cholesterol and blood pressure, in children in as little as nine days, according to a […]
Breastfeeding lowers breast cancer risk
Breastfeeding lowers the risks of getting hormone-receptor-negative (HRN) breast cancer by 20%, a large international study shows. Hormone-receptor-negative (HRN) breast cancers are more likely to be aggressive and life-threatening. This subtype is more commonly diagnosed in women under age 50. […]
New bandage may treat skin cancer
A radiotherapeutic bandage is being tested to treat skin cancer. Skin cancers are normally treated by surgically removing the tumors followed by radiation therapy to ensure all cancer cells are removed. Radiation therapy is also a primary treatment for inoperable […]
Learn new words while you sleep
You can’t learn new things in your sleep. Nevertheless, if you’ve been learning vocabulary in a foreign language, it can be highly effective to hear these words played over again while you sleep, as was already shown a year ago […]
Prolonged TV viewing linked to deadly diseases
In a new study suggests that prolonged hours watching TV is linked with 8 leading causes of death in the US. In this study, researchers at the National Cancer Institute looked at more than 221,000 individuals aged 50-71 years old […]
Soothing words better than pills for anxious patients
Soothing words may do a better job than pills for anxious patients before anesthesia and surgery. Researchers used conversational hypnosis, which consists of talking quietly and positively to the patient (e.g. “Keep calm and quiet” vs. “Please don’t move”) and […]
The brain forgets to save energy
A research group at Lund University in Sweden has now been able to describe how our memories flush out “unnecessary learning.” The premise is that human or animal subjects can learn to associate a certain tone or light signal with […]
Red meat may cause cancer
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer agency of the World Health Organization, has evaluated the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat and processed meat. The experts concluded that each 50 gram portion of processed meat […]
Toxins found in clothes
Researchers at Stockholm University examined if there are chemicals in the clothes we buy as well. Several substances related to health risks were identified and not even organic cotton was a guarantee for non-toxic textiles. In a new thesis 60 […]
Wives get sad, husbands get frustrated
Husbands and wives look marital problems in different ways. When a marriage has troubles, women become sad and frustrated. For men, it’s just frustration. In a new Rutgers and University of Michigan study, published in the Journal of Gerontology: Social […]
