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Cancer Leading Cause of Death in China
Cancer is now the leading cause of death in China. Chinese Ministry of Health data implicate cancer in close to a quarter of all deaths countrywide. As is common with many countries as they...
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AARP- an Insurance Company in Non-Profit Clothes
AARP, under the guise of an orginization offering discounts to Seniors, sells their names to companies, who pay heftily to be their exclusive supplier. A recent Hearing Aid company bankruptcy revealed...
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Bird Flu Blamed for Seal Deaths
First there was swine flu. Now, while everyone’s attention is on another Ebola outbreak there may be seal flu. In the wake of a pneumonia outbreak that killed 162 harbor seals in New England last...
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You Can’t Blame Your Stress On Work
Work stress, job satisfaction and health problems due to high stress have more to do with genes than you might think. The lead author of “Genetic influences on core self-evaluations, job satisfaction,...
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More Deaths Caused by Obesity than Hunger
Obesity has become a bigger threat to global health than child hunger, according to a major study. More than three million deaths in 2010 were attributable to excess body weight, three times the death...
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Would you rather be Right or Happy?
When you argue and win, your brain floods with different hormones: adrenaline and dopamine, which makes you feel good, dominant, even invincible. It’s a the feeling any of us would want to replicate....
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Get Fat Back In Your Diet
Listening to the doctors on cable TV, you might think that it’s better to cook up a batch of meth than to cook with butter. But eating basic, earthy, fatty foods isn’t just a supreme experience of the...
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How Vaccines Have Changed Our World
The data in this graphic come from the web site of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, but a graphic designer in Purchase, N.Y., named Leon Farrant has created a graphic that drives home...
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More Baby Talk = More IQ
Children whose families were on welfare heard about 600 words per hour. Working-class children heard 1,200 words per hour, and children from professional families heard 2,100 words. By age 3, a poor...
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Vampires Have Increased Risk Of Heart Attack
Edinburgh University research suggests sunlight helps reduce blood pressure, cutting heart attack and stroke risks and even prolonging life. Heart disease and stroke linked to high blood pressure are...
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Causes of Autism Found
“Let’s suppose you buy a book, we’re used to getting books where the cover’s on right, the pages are in order, and they tell a continuous story. But imagine a publisher that duplicated his pages,...
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How Safe to take the Train?
Filed under: health, In The News Tagged: Death, health, Trains, transportation
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What makes mosquitoes bite certain people and not others?
Many years ago in another twin study we showed that underarm body odour as perceived by human sniffers had a genetic basis – with huge variability in how strong smells were perceived. This showed that...
View ArticleIf you want to understand a culture, look at its drugs of choice.
“Drugs have always reflected a simpler, consistent truism. Sometimes we have wanted out of ourselves, sometimes we’ve wanted out of society, sometimes out of boredom or out of poverty; but always,...
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What Happened To Us?
It didn’t used to be this way As a result we spend an inordinate amount of money on Health Care. Yet our life expectancy is going down. Even though we are smoking less. But we picked up worse vices...
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Have We been Wrong About MSG?
Almost all of the dishes served at New York City restaurant Bonnie’s contain MSG, says owner/chef Calvin Eng.Adam Friedlander/The New York Times/Redux MSG is the most misunderstood ingredient of the...
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Flesh Eating Bacteria Found in Sargassum
https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/perfect-pathogen-storm.php ‘Pathogen’ Storm: Vibrio Bacteria, Sargassum and Plastic Marine Debris Some cultivation-based data show beached Sargassum appear to...
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