Source: HealthDay News A sweetener used in many organic foods may be a hidden source of arsenic, new research suggests. Researchers at Dartmouth College also note that the sweetener, organic brown rice syrup, is found in some infant formulas. Their report appears in the February 16 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives. Arsenic is a natural ...
Source: HealthDay News Eating a Mediterranean-style diet appears to reduce damage to small blood vessels in the brain, a new study says. Researchers tracked the brain health of almost a thousand people who completed a questionnaire that scored how closely they followed a Mediterranean-type regimen. This diet emphasises plant-based foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, ...
Source: HealthDay News A smaller plate will not help you eat less, says a new study that challenges a widely held belief. “Smaller plates are often recommended as a way of controlling intake, but that simply isn’t an effective strategy,” senior researcher Meena Shah, a professor of kinesiology at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, ...
Source: HealthDay News Doing yoga in a room heated to between 90 and 105 degrees — known as “hot yoga” — is increasing in popularity, but it may not be for everyone, an expert warns. Exertion in high temperatures may be dangerous for people with certain health conditions, said Diana Zotos, a yoga instructor and ...
Source: HealthDay News Couples with similar jobs are more likely to have trouble finding a good work-life balance than those in different lines of work, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Bedfordshire in England questioned 291 academic workers whose partners had jobs in education and 350 academic employees whose partners had ...
Source: HealthDay News No doubt about it. People have a deep and complex relationship with animals, which elicit a wide range of emotional responses by their very presence and interactions with human beings. But these days, animals are being involved in human therapy in innovative ways that depart drastically from traditional notions of animal-assisted therapy. ...
Source: Reuters A large new European study finds that simply eating a lot of fruits and vegetables may not be enough to stave off the weight gain that often comes with age ‒ except for people who recently quit smoking. Researchers found that of nearly 374,000 adults in 10 European countries, who were followed ...
Source: Reuters A survey from the United States and Canada found 40 per cent of police officers had symptoms of a sleep disorder, including sleep apnoea and insomnia. Officers who screened positive for those disorders were also more likely to be burnt out, depressed or have an anxiety disorder. Over the next two years, they ...
Source: HealthDay News Not only does their health improve, but people who quit smoking get a boost in their quality of life, new research finds. “Quitting is hard, but if you can actually do it, there are a lot of benefits that you might not have thought about,” said study author Megan E. Piper. “If ...
Source: Reuters In people with low blood levels of vitamin D, boosting them with supplements more than halved a person’s risk of dying from any cause compared with someone who remained deficient, according to a large new study. Analysing data on more than 10,000 patients, University of Kansas researchers found that 70 per cent were ...
