Health and Lifestyle

• Fit-2Gether.com's Blog | Top Gym Mistakes that Can Hurt Your Progress and Your body February 2, 2010
  Fit-2Gether.com's Blog | Top Gym Mistakes that Can Hurt Your Progress and Your body […]
• Biomechanics: Barefoot running strikes back January 27, 2010
  Biomechanics: Barefoot running strikes back Nature 463, 433 (2010). doi:10.1038/463433a Authors: William L. Jungers Detailed analyses of foot kinematics and kinetics in barefoot and shod runners offer a refined understanding of bipedalism in human evolution. This research will also prompt fresh studies of running injuries. […]
• Eat your greens: they can prevent the ill-effects of toxins in foods January 25, 2010
  (PhysOrg.com) -- LLNL researchers have found that a small dose of chlorophyll or chlorophyllin, found in green leafy vegetables, could reverse the effects of aflatoxin poisoning, a potent, naturally occurring carcinogenic. Food and food crops most prone to aflatoxin contamination include corn and corn products, cottonseed, peanuts and peanut products, tree n […]
• More melamine-tainted milk products found in China January 25, 2010
  (AP) -- Melamine-tainted dairy products were pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children had been sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday. […]
• Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, study finds | World news | guardian.co.uk January 25, 2010
  Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, study finds | World news | guardian.co.uk […]
• Even small dietary reductions in salt could mean fewer heart attacks, strokes and deaths January 21, 2010
  Reducing salt in the American diet by as little as one-half teaspoon (or three grams) per day could prevent nearly 100,000 heart attacks and 92,000 deaths each year, according to a new study. Such benefits are on par with the benefits from reductions in smoking and could save the United States about $24 billion in healthcare costs, the researchers add. […]
• Low vitamin D levels associated with greater risk of relapse in childhood-onset multiple sclerosis January 21, 2010
  Low vitamin D blood levels are associated with a significantly higher risk of relapse attacks in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who develop the disease during childhood, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of California, San Francisco. […]
• Stain repellent chemical linked to thyroid disease in adults January 21, 2010
  A study by the University of Exeter and the Peninsula Medical School for the first time links thyroid disease with human exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). PFOA is a persistent organic chemical used in industrial and consumer goods including nonstick cookware and stain- and water-resistant coatings for carpets and fabrics. […]
• Barrow researcher reports that slow breathing reduces pain January 20, 2010
  Research performed by a scientist at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center has shown that controlled breathing at a slowed rate can significantly reduce feelings of pain. […]
• Retail meat linked to urinary tract infections: Strong new evidence January 20, 2010
  Chicken sold in supermarkets, restaurants and other outlets may place young women at risk of urinary tract infections (UTI), McGill researcher Amee Manges has discovered. Samples taken in the Montreal area between 2005 and 2007, in collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada and the University of Guelph, provide strong new evidence that E. coli (Es […]