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Eating mostly plant-based foods and fewer animal-based foods may be linked to better heart health and a lower risk of dying from a heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular disease according to new research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. “While you don’t have to give […]
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Social scientists have long worked to understand the roots of racial prejudice in the U.S., and for years, the story went like this: As different groups are exposed to others, their prejudice against those others increases. Brian O’Shea wasn’t buying it. A postdoctoral fellow working in the lab of Matt Nock, the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, O’Shea is the […]
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Sharing her symptoms! Thomas Rhett’s wife, Lauren Akins, is experiencing a lot of nausea during her pregnancy. “My little sunshines,” the University of Tennessee grad, 29, captioned a photo of her daughters, Willa, 3, and Ada, 23 months, on Saturday, August 3. “On our ‘adventure walk’ around the neighborhood (a game I made up on the fly because we desperately […]
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(HealthDay)—The U.S. Air Force has ordered a day off from training to focus on a suicide epidemic in its ranks. The first-ever move was announced as the Air Force deals with 30 more suicides among airmen so far this year compared with the same time last year, CBS News reported. “We lose more airmen to suicide than any other single […]
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Dave Harper and Dale Drewery are not only romantic partners, they're keto diet partners as well. In 2013, the couple, who live in Vancouver and have been together for 22 years, decided to give the high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet a try. Six years and 40 or so pounds later, they're still going strong on keto. In fact, they recently published a book, BioDiet, that covers […]
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A new study released by the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity uncovers some of the relationships between faith and mental health in Ireland. The study is published by the peer-reviewed journal Research on Aging. The research, involving over 6,000 adults aged 50 and over found that a majority of over 50s in Ireland attend religious services regularly, […]
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Emotional intelligence is key to parenting. That’s because it refers to your capacity to be cognizant and in control of your emotions and how you allow those emotions to manifest in your expressions, as well as how empathetically you handle your interpersonal relationships. So when your child throws a temper tantrum, as all children do, emotional intelligence will help you […]
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Large, complex bone wounds are hard for doctors and patients alike to contend with. They often require grafts and multiple surgeries. Jan Stegemann, a University of Michigan professor of biomedical engineering, is reprogramming adult cells from bone marrow so that they can be injected directly into a wound and grow into bone. The marrow-derived cells are known as progenitor cells, […]
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One day, when my daughter was about four years old, she plucked a sanitary towel out of my toilet bag, unwrapped it and stuck it to her forehead. Her big brother (six) ran through from his bedroom to see what I was laughing so hard at. It’s a moment that sticks in my mind, and not only because it gave […]
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For respiratory infections in children under 12, physicians are increasingly more likely to recommend antihistamines and less likely to recommend cough and cold medicines, a Rutgers study found. Antihistamines are widely used over-the-counter to treat various allergic conditions. However, these medicines have little known benefit for children with colds, and some older antihistamines cause sedation and occasionally agitation in children. […]
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