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. [...]
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Some men like eating ample tasty meals and drinking in a cheerful company, others are regular smokers, while some work to rapidly build muscle mass, using hormones and anabolic. Such careless attitude to health, according to urologists, will inevitably reflect on male strength over time. Beer lovers are at a great risk since regular consumption [...]
A newly-developed Israeli device allows even the severely paralyzed or disabled to communicate with the world and control devices, including wheelchairs, all by easily-learned nasal breathing techniques. Researchers at Rehovot’s Weizmann Institute of Technology, which is considered a world-leader in life science technology, have designed a system that recognizes and translates minor changes in air [...]
Sure on the high end of the scale, according to the CIA World Factbook are Lesotho at 28,1% infection rate, followed by Swaziland at 26% and Zimbabwe at 24%. In Europe, the highest rates are Ukraine at 1,06% and Spain at ,7%. Russia’s ,6% places it in the same category as the United States and [...]
People with depression are more likely to gain weight, but overweight people are not more prone to depression than their normal-weight peers, a new study suggests. Although there is a link between depression and weight gain, it is not exactly clear how they’re connected, researchers at University of Alabama said in the study, which appears [...]
Although the precise estimate is still uncertain, researchers found that people who started taking zinc-loaded lozenges or syrups within 24 hours of showing symptoms … a sore throat, say, or runny nose … shortened their cold by one day. By comparison, a normal cold lasts about a week. A new look at the medical evidence [...]
A passion for 3D films can be very bad for your eyes. Movie–goers should not watch 3D films more than three or four times a week, whereas such films are not recommended at all to some people for medical reasons. Eye doctors had to pay attention to the phenomenon of 3D films as a result [...]
Expectant moms who get a lot of iron in their first trimester tend to have heavier, although still healthy-weight, babies, English researchers say. They did not find the opposite trend – that insufficient iron intake in early pregnancy led to lower birthweights, however. Specifically, the more daily iron women got from food or supplements, the [...]
There are many myths about men’s sexual preferences. A well-known psychologist helped us understand which of them are pure fiction, and which are true. Myth 1. A man must hunt for sex; otherwise he would quickly cool off towards his woman. True. Men are hunters (real men), so the process of conquest is very important [...]
With or Without Diabetes by Roberta Kleinman, RN, M.Ed., CDE Hello ! Roberta Kleinman, RN, M.Ed., CDE… The new FDA nutrition guidelines have changed from the food pyramid to the plate method of eating. As a nation, we are trying to decrease our ever growing rate of obesity which can lead to multiple [...]
Researchers concluded that levels of sexual desire were higher in women who were moderate drinkers of red wine than in their counterparts who preferred other alcoholic drinks, or were teetotal. How red wine could have such effect to sex ?
Here’s a new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly. Scientists are increasingly warning that sitting for prolonged periods — even if you also exercise regularly — could be bad for your health. And it doesn’t matter where the sitting takes place — at the office, at school, in the car or before a computer [...]
