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Junk Food Tax Could Improve Health (CME/CE, with audio)

Posted on Mar 09 @ 01:25 pm

Patients got significantly less of their energy (calories) from soda or pizza when there was a 10% increase in the price of either...

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Researcher presents risk-free treatment for low female sexual desire

Posted on Mar 09 @ 01:23 pm

"This finding is especially exciting because low sexual desire among women has been not only the most common, but the least successfully treated of all the sexual problems brought to therapists" Mintz said.

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Vitamin D Crucial to Immune System

Posted on Mar 09 @ 01:21 pm

T cells are dormant immune cells until they are activated to detect and kill bacteria and viruses. A new study shows without vitamin D in the blood, activation would not take place.

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Obesity Protects the Body?

Posted on Mar 09 @ 01:20 pm

One researcher says obesity is the body's way of preventing the destructive effects of overeating.

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Global Healing Center founder Ed Group speaks out about toxic chemicals, cleansing, fasting and more

Posted on Mar 09 @ 01:09 pm

This is a raw, "natural" and unscripted conversation with one of the industry greats. Watch the full video right now on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKfGq-BFmH4

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The truth about online dating and the link between depression and relational uncertainty

Posted on Mar 09 @ 01:06 pm

"Our findings dispel the myth that people using online dating are that different than any one else who might find a relationship through friends, school or work," Hall explains.

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Acts of kindness spread surprisingly easily: just a few people can make a difference

Posted on Mar 09 @ 01:04 pm

San Diego and Harvard provide the first laboratory evidence that cooperative behavior is contagious and that it spreads from person to person to person. When people benefit from kindness they "pay it forward"...

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Vitamin D deficiency now so widespread that rickets is on the rise once again

Posted on Mar 09 @ 01:02 pm

To put this amount into perspective, however, exposure to the summer sun for about 20 minutes is enough to produce up to 20,000 IU of vitamin D in the body.

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Natural compounds in carnivorous plants could fight human fungal infections

Posted on Mar 09 @ 01:00 pm

Now Tel Aviv University researchers say they've found a way these natural plant compounds could benefit human health by fighting serious fungal infections.

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How a romantic breakup affects self-concept

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:54 pm

The loss of the relationship has multiple psychological consequences, including the tendency for individuals to change the content of their selves and the feeling that their selves are subjectively less clear and even smaller.

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Cheers! A Drink a Day May Keep the Pounds Away (CME/CE)

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:53 pm

Normal-weight women who drank 5 to 30 grams of alcohol daily gained less weight and had a lower risk of becoming overweight or obese than either teetotalers or those who drank too much...

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Texas breaks US wind energy record

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:52 pm

Texas set a new record for US wind energy generation late last week when at 6:37am on Friday wind turbines provided 19 per cent of the electricity mix – the equivalent of 6,272MW - to its main grid.

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Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP) recall leaves food consumers wondering: What is this stuff?

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:50 pm

As far as veggie burger companies go, I'm going to say this bluntly and boldly: In my opinion, many of the larger corporate foods companies are selling little more than chemical additives and unhealthy fillers while calling them "vegetarian" foods.

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Stem Cells for Spinal Cord Injuries: Medicine's Next Big Thing?

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:46 pm

In six weeks, the previously paralyzed rats walked. Dr. Keirstead says human trials could start later this year. About 10 patients will get an injection of cells directly into their spinal cords. The hope is to see small movements with three months.

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The Soda Epidemic

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:30 pm

New research shows the increase in consumption of sugar-sweetened sodas, sport drinks and fruit drinks has correlated to an increase in the number of patients diagnosed with diabetes and heart disease over the past decade.

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Majority of Obese People Fail to Recognize Their Own Obesity

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:25 pm

Researchers interviewed 2,000 people about their height, weight and perception of their size and diet.

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Tooth Soap founder Karen Adler speaks out about creating a successful business as a working mom

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:15 pm

Karen Adler speaks out about how she found the courage and creativity to create the Tooth Soap product line and grow her business to the internationally-recognized success it has become today.

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Moderate Drinking Increases Flashbacks

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:13 pm

The amount of alcohol you drink before a traumatic event could have a direct influence on how much impact that memory has on your mental health in the future.

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Antidepressants During Pregnancy Cause Premature Birth

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:12 pm

Women who take strategic serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants during pregnancy are twice as likely to give birth prematurely as women who do not take the drugs,

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Asteroid killed off the dinosaurs, says international scientific panel

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:11 pm

...the extinction was caused by a massive asteroid slamming into Earth at Chicxulub (pronounced chick-shoo-loob) in Mexico. The asteroid, which was around 15 kilometres wide, is believed to have hit Earth with a force one billion times more powerful than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima.

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Magnetic Pulse Device Shows Promise for Migraine (CME/CE)

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:08 pm

A handheld, short-term magnetic stimulation device relieved migraine-aura pain for as long as 48 hours after a single treatment session, according to results of a randomized clinical trial.

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No consensus in definitions of 'had sex,' study finds

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:07 pm

Is oral sex considered sex? It wasn't to around 30 percent of the study participants. How about anal sex? For around 20 percent of the participants, no. A surprising number of older men did not consider penile-vaginal intercourse to be sex.

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Marijuana and Psychosis: New Evidence

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:07 pm

Researchers caution that the relationship between psychosis and cannabis is a complex one, since individuals who experience hallucinations and thus are at higher risk for psychosis are more likely to use cannabis longer and more frequently.

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Daimler and BYD team up in electric car alliance

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:05 pm

Automotive giant Daimler has this week teamed up with rechargeable battery and electric car specialist BYD to develop a new electric vehicle specifically aimed at the largely untapped but potentially lucrative Chinese car market.

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Due to high demand, Healing Miracles LIVE event to be broadcast on the 'net; watch live from your PC

Posted on Mar 09 @ 12:00 pm

The upcoming "Healing Miracles LIVE" event in Southern California on March 19 and 20 has been quickly sold out.

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Heal Yourself in 15 Days by eating MORE (not less)

Posted on Mar 09 @ 11:58 am

For example, one of the action strategies here is to aim to eat three whole fruits per day; one before each meal.

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Estrogen Replacement Linked to Cataract Risk (CME/CE)

Posted on Mar 09 @ 11:56 am

Women who receive hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to counter the drop in estrogen levels after menopause are more likely to suffer from cataracts, a new Swedish study found.

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Coffee Prevents Heart Arrhythmia?

Posted on Mar 09 @ 11:53 am

A California study by Kaiser Permanente found men and women who reported drinking four or more cups of coffee each day had an 18 percent lower risk of hospitalization for heart rhythm disturbances.

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Blindness may Start in the Brain

Posted on Mar 09 @ 11:51 am

A recent study by researchers at Vanderbilt Eye Institute found the first sign of injury in glaucoma occurs in the brain.

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Parents Choose Death for Kids with Cancer

Posted on Mar 09 @ 11:48 am

Some parents say they would choose death over life for terminally ill children in extreme pain.

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