‘Visions link’ to coffee intake
People who drink too much coffee could start seeing ghosts or hearing strange voices, UK research has suggested.
Diet, Exercise Cuts Kids’ Risk for Metabolic Syndrome
Components of metabolic syndrome that appear in children should be treated by doctors who also must encourage them to improve their diet and exercise routines, a new report says.
First US count finds 1 in 200 kids are vegetarian
Sam Silverman is co-captain of his high school football team — a safety accustomed to bruising collisions. But that’s nothing compared with the abuse he gets for being a vegetarian.
How you eat could impact your smarts
It’s common to resolve to lose weight, but any sane person dreads a diet’s dulling effect on the brain.
In fact, many studies have shown that counting calories, carbs or fat grams, is truly distracting — to the point that it taxes short-term memory.
Coffee may protect against oral cancers
New research indicates that drinking coffee lowers the risk of developing cancer of the oral cavity or throat, at least in the general population of Japan.
The consumption of coffee in Japan is relatively high, as is the rate of cancer of the esophagus in men.
It Pays to Eat Less as You Age
While it may sound painfully obvious, nutrition experts have been divided over whether cutting calories leads to long-term weight loss, because the practice can sometimes boomerang, triggering binge eating and weight gain.
Controlling Type 2 Diabetes With Low-Carb Diets
In a six-month comparison of low-carb diets, one that encourages eating carbohydrates with the lowest-possible rating on the glycemic index leads to greater improvement in blood sugar control, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers.
Women Need 400 Micrograms of Folic Acid Every Day
The B vitamin folic acid helps prevent birth defects. If a woman has enough folic acid in her body before and while she is pregnant, her baby is less likely to have a major birth defect of the brain or spine.
Scientists dismiss ‘detox myth’
There is no evidence that products widely promoted to help the body “detox” work, scientists warn.
The charitable trust Sense About Science reviewed 15 products, from bottled water to face scrub, and found many detox claims were “meaningless”.
Spicy Food Can Prevent and Heal Disease
Spicy foods add an incredible amount of flavour to food. As ethnic foods become abundant, chilli and spicy food is increasingly popular. The good news is that adding spice to our food has a range of benefits for our health and wellbeing.
