Many of us have grown used to drinking soda and we don’t even think twice about giving it to our children. To us it is like drinking tea or juice – but it is time that we start cutting back on soda as well as most carbonated drinks. New studies show that carbonated drinks can harm your bones.
3 reasons to think before you drink:
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is the United States largest private supporter in biomedical research. This week they revealed a five year initiative - $600 million – medical research fund that is full of 56 scientists that have been handpicked from all around the country.
The Chevy Chase-based nonprofit, which conducts biomedical research in collaboration with nearly 70 universities, medical centers and other research institutions, hopes to discover long-term medical advances in genetics and biology through the fund.
Summer is right around the corner and women are gearing up for some fun in the sun. They are buying their new bikinis, putting on some sun tan lotion, and beautifying themselves with the latest lip gloss.
Whatever you girls do it is important that you stay away from the cheap stuff. Studies show that the cheaper brand of lip gloss might be fun – but they do not have any SPF. This means that wearing them could actually increase your risk for skin cancer.
Not all of us are blessed with the kind of intelligence that can speed us through any school or work project within in a matter of a couple hours. Some of us actually have a hard time learning new concepts and understanding certain subjects. Yet, according to new studies there might be a way to make us more intelligent.
The government has been funding research to find a diet that is safe and can help to reduce high blood pressure and save people from strokes and heart attacks. During research they followed 88,000 women (all healthy) for 25 years. During this time they kept record of what they ate and how many of them suffered from strokes or heart attacks.
For years parents have been complaining about the food that is being served to the students in the cafeteria. They feel that their children are being given too much sugar and fat in the foods that are being served. In order to change things around five Philadelphia elementary schools have decided to change the way things work by replacing fruit juice for the sodas.
For years doctors have warned us about the effects that obesity can have on our bodies. It can bring on heart disease and high blood pressure – but what we didn’t know was that being overweight around the age of 40 can actually put you at a high risk of getting dementia or other forms of Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers at Yale University have been working on creating a unique blood test for ovarian cancer. Their test will be able to accomplish something that no other test has been able to do – spot the disease while it is in the early stages of development and has a chance being cured. For now the phase II study test has an accuracy of 99%.
When we think about how healthy we are we usually think about how fast and long we can run, how much weights we can lift, what our cholesterol level is, and other things like that. These are important things to know any they will help you to understand how healthy you think you are – but there may be a simpler way.
Here is a reason that your doctors tell you to eat certain foods. One of the most common types of food that they recommend is fish. Fish has a good source of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fat that can help your heart.