People who are depressed eat more chocolate than people who are not, US researchers said on Monday, in a study that puts numbers behind the link between mood and chocolate. They said people who were depressed ate an average of 8.4 servings of chocolate per month, compared with 5.4 servings among those who were not. [...]
A few months ago the United Nations published a report about illicit drugs consumption during the year of 2007. The conclusion was that 208 million people – 4,8% of the World’s adult population – had used illicit drugs, at least, once a year. It was also found that the “regulars” – classified as drugs addicts [...]
Youth and beauty will always be in fashion. This makes the interest to Botox injections remain acute for many years. Wrinkles-free face looks youthful and charming. There is much debate about Botox, some good, some bad. Its application in cosmetology is a great achievement but not a miracle. It does have certain disadvantages. In 1970, [...]
Teen girls drinking may link to breast cancer later in life, the USA Today reported on Saturday citing the latest research published online April 12 in the journal Pediatrics. The study surveyed 6,899 women who had become participants when they were 9 to 15 years old. Research found that girls who drank the most alcohol [...]
A diet rich in olive oil, nuts, fish, poultry and certain fruits and vegetables may have a powerful effect at staving off Alzheimer’s disease. People who ate nutrients specifically selected for brain health had a 40 percent lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease compared with others, Yian Gu, an Alzheimer’s disease researcher at Columbia University [...]
May be linked with an increased risk of stroke in middle-aged and older adults, especially men, a new study suggests. Researchers from the Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS)based their conclusion on analysis of 5,422 participants for an average of about nine years. During the study, 193 participants had a stroke – 85 men (of 2, [...]
Obesity in pregnancy may increase the risk of heart defects in babies, according to a new study. In the study, U.S. researchers compared the records of mothers of 7,392 children born with major heart defects and more than 56, 000 mothers of infants born without birth defects. The study found that the heavier a woman [...]
British scientists studying the genetics of aging said on Thursday that experiments on laboratory worms showed that a specific gene is strongly linked to lifespan, immunity and disease resistance. Since the gene, called DAF-16 in worms, is found in many animals and in humans, the finding could open up new ways to affect aging, immunity [...]
People with higher intakes of vitamin K from food may be less likely to develop or die of cancer, particularly lung or prostate cancers, than those who eat relatively few vitamin-K- containing foods, a new study suggests. The study, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, appears to be the first to look at [...]
Anxiety may modify depression for better or for worse, indicating a link between the two, U.S. researchers suggest. By using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), researchers at the University of Illinois looked at brain activity in subjects who were depressed and not anxious, anxious but not depressed, or who exhibited varying degrees of depression and [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama traveled to Portland, Maine Thursday to sell the health insurance reform, touting its benefits to small business and asking the public to be patient about the reform. Making fun of what happened before and after the reform became law last week, Obama said after he signed the bill, he “looked up [...]
There is a great deal of factors that may cause cancer, and not all of them are known. Yet, doctors know some of them very well. Bad nutrition is one of them. Cabbage Out of all vegetable, cabbage is especially rich in specific anti-cancer substances that block the development of the disease at all stages. [...]
