Monday, December 26, 2011

The Health Report



Giving babies salty food may create a lifelong preference

Giving babies salty food may create a lifelong preference

 

Feeding young babies solid foods such as crackers, cereals and bread may set them up for a lifelong preference for salt. And though babies are born with a clear preference for sweet foods and distaste for bitter foods, they appear indifferent to salt in the first few months of life.

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 Obesity epidemic may have roots in 1950s

Obesity epidemic may have roots in 1950s

 

Food has changed in the last five decades. Obesity rates soared in the 1980s because a generation of young women decades earlier smoked, spurned breast-feeding and restricted their weight during numerous, closely spaced pregnancies.

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Coffee And Athletic Performance: Any Effect?

Coffee and athletic performance: Any effect?

 

The latest issue of the Journal of Caffeine Research offers two studies on the effects of caffeine on physical activities. One study looks at how runners performed after consuming caffeine and the other considered whether caffeine provides bicyclists with a boost.

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Additive claims to be the boss of sugar, benefiting diabetics

Additive claims to be the boss of sugar, benefiting diabetics

 

What if there was a natural product that effectively reduced blood sugar and calories and could be added to the food supply? That's the premise behind Emulin, a patented formulation of compounds found in fruits, like grapefruit and berries.

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Supreme Court to hear arguments in March on healthcare law

Supreme Court to hear arguments in March on healthcare law

 

The Supreme Court announced that it would hear arguments over three days in late March to decide the constitutionality of President Obama's healthcare law, another sign the justices see the case as a once-in-a-generation test of the federal government's regulatory power.

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Healthiest American cities for women
Healthiest American cities

 

Fashionable medical alert bracelets
Medical alert bracelets

 

Bacteria's favorite places to hang out
Bacteria's favorite hangouts

 


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