The Toxic Workplace: Know the Risks of Where You Work
In a study published in the online journal Environmental Health, researchers set out to outline the link between breast cancer risk and workplace exposure to carcinogens and toxic substances. Scientists found that exposure to hormone disruptive chemicals is prevalent in many professions, contributing to the most frequent cancer diagnosis in the United States. Wide Range of Dangerous Professions for Women Researchers...
1 in 5 Children Now Obese: Are Lax School Laws to Blame?
As the childhood obesity epidemic continues (the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now estimates that 1/5 of American children are obese), public health officials continue to look at ways...
Naturally Boost Your Libido With These 5 Delicious Treats
It would be hard to heat up your love life if, after "50 First Dates" with the same guy, your amnesia made it impossible to remember who you'd met, or even what you thought of him. But, unlike Drew Barrymore's character Lucy Whitmore, most women who struggle with what they consider inadequate desire can reboot their libido with smart...
5 Belly Fat Risk Factors That Lead to Heart Disease
Weight gain is hard on the ego, but it's even harder on your heart--especially when that weight is centered around your middle. Fat is dangerous to the heart, and not only because it increases the risk for conditions that contribute to heart disease, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. The fat located in your abdomen--called visceral fat--lies...
Debunking 7 Myths About Alcohol
Blame it on craft beers, inexpensive wine or the down economy - North Americans are sipping more alcohol, more often. (Twenty-two percent of you say you drink too much, up from 17 percent a decade ago.)
Childhood Obesity in Poor Neighborhoods Spinning Out of Control
We all know that obesity rates in the US are staggeringly high. And the sad part is, according to a recent study at Rice University, they are higher for people in poorer neighborhoods – and the most negatively affected – children! “The researchers based their conclusions on a comparison of 17,530 5-year-old children living in approximately 4,700 neighborhoods nationwide. They...
Scientists Prove Meditation Benefits Practitioners Even When They Aren’t Meditating
Curious about the long term effects of meditation on the brain, researchers from Boston University and Massachusetts General Hospital examined functional MRI (fMRI) images of individuals who completed meditation training for two different types of meditation practice – mindful meditation and compassionate meditation. Although the effects of meditation while a person is practicing meditation have been studied in the...
Probiotics Cut Cold Symptoms Two Days Short
When Eli Wallach, Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef mixed it up in the spaghetti Western "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," they had a lot of guts - in fact, the title could have been describing your guts. Lurking in your intestines are 10 trillion bacteria, some good, some bad and none good-looking! They comprise between 40...
Take Care of Your Kidneys Now, Not Tomorrow
Medical researchers have known for a long time that kidney disease can lead to renal failure. In one of the first studies to examine the overall impact of kidney disease, researchers from Temple University, University of Maryland and University of Maine have found that kidney disease has a significant impact on cognitive function and memory. Beyond Renal Failure According to study,...
How to Kick That Soda Habit
Drinking one 20-ounce bottle of soda daily for a year can pack on 25 extra pounds! But when the NYC Board of Health banned sugary drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces, special-interest groups insisted that sugar in soda isn't to blame for the country's obesity woes. Now, a super-size serving of three studies should quiet that debate once...
