Posted in: Featured, Health by Roxana Ostafe | May 22nd 2011 | no comments
According to a new study, children who do not feel fear are at a high risk of developing psychopathic behavior later in life.
According to what Patrick D. Sylvers, Ph.D., the study’s primary author, said, the theory about psychopaths not feeling fear dates back to the 1950s. He went on saying that what really happens is that if you do not feel fear and your parents try to socialize you, you will not [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | April 11th 2011 | no comments
Being a parent was never easy, but now it seems that, however wonderful and self-fulfilling, it is also a bit inconvenient. According to a new study, parents of young children are less able to stay fit.
Yes, it’s true. New parents are less able to stay fit, in comparison [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | April 11th 2011 | no comments
A combination of two existing drugs may be the long waited solution for solving the problem of obesity that seems that have taken over the whole world.
The good news is that this particular combination also helps [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | April 11th 2011 | no comments
According to a new study, elderly people who walk regularly to a store are healthier than others.
Going in a shopping spree seems to be a sign of health and well-being, especially for seniors. It is a widely known thing that physical activity makes us healthier, but in the case of [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | April 9th 2011 | no comments
According to a new study, the amount of coffee we end up drinking is not related to the lack of sleep or to being a habit, it’s more like our DNA is telling us whether we should drink that cup of coffee in the morning or not.
The [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | April 7th 2011 | no comments
A new study shows that heavy beer drinkers have higher risks of developing gastric cancer, especially if they posses a certain gene.
The study’s results have shown that people who had two or three beers a day for many years had a 700 [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | April 7th 2011 | no comments
Happy Meals are kids’ greatest joy. It’s not the food they crave for, it’s the toys. And now, New York City is considering banning these toys in order to make children stay away from [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | April 7th 2011 | no comments
You always see on Facebook requests to help people by donating some money or my doing something for them, but asking for a kidney on a social network and actually receiving one is simply extraordinary. [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | April 7th 2011 | no comments
Teenagers are more and more likely to abuse drugs and that’s a very worrying problem.
A rave party in June 2010 saw 15-year-old Sasha Rodriguez dying of an overdose after she had water laced with ecstasy. Not to mention the amount of kids who die [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | April 7th 2011 | no comments
According to a small study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Orlando, Florida, eating strawberries may protect people from getting esophageal cancer.
It has not been long since a testing on animals showed that strawberries may have [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | April 6th 2011 | one comment
Pregnancies in teenage girls are very common nowadays, but the United States has seen a great decline in childbirth from teenagers in 2009.
According to a study based teenage girls, aged 15 to 19, [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | April 6th 2011 | no comments
It has been recently discovered that food addiction is similar to alcohol or even drug addiction, as this one is also triggered by some cues.
According to a new study, people who are compulsive eaters show an activity in the brain that is similar to the activity in the brain of alcoholics or drug addicts. It seems that “cues” like a photo of a chocolate cake, for instance, [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | April 2nd 2011 | one comment
The US Food and Drug Administration proposed that restaurants should include the numbers of calories meals have, on their menus.
Given that the United States of America (and sadly, this is not the only [...]
By Paula Timaru | March 22nd 2011 | no comments
It’s true that games are a way to find relaxation and enjoy our free time in a pleasant way without having to worry about the other things that bother us every day.
We know that games have a good impact on the human mind and they can be very deceiving when it comes to [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | March 22nd 2011 | no comments
In the last year, more than 400 calls have been made to hospitals to report poisoning.
This week is the National Poison Prevention Week and the theme of this year’s celebration is “Children act fast, so do poisons.” The [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | March 22nd 2011 | one comment
According to a new study, richer women are more prone to develop deadly skin cancer.
It is only normal, according to researchers, for richer women to develop this type of cancer, given that they have the [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | March 21st 2011 | no comments
According to a new car safety guideline, parents should be more careful with their children when they are driving around with them.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Highway [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | March 21st 2011 | no comments
A new study points towards the fact that smoke-free environments are better for women, as there are slimmer chances for them to develop breast cancer.
It is a well-known fact that environments where people do not smoke are safer that others and this new study comes to support [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | March 18th 2011 | no comments
According to a new research study, life expectancy has grown surprisingly in the United States.
If back in 2008, life expectancy was of 77 years and 11 months, according to a more recent study, the age has gone as [...]
