[HealthDay News] — Breaking bad eating habits and starting good ones is one of the healthiest steps you can take. But making healthy choices second nature can take time. After all, it’s hard to change a lifetime of bad habits overnight. In fact, research published in the European Journal of Psychology shows it can take
Even the most popular kids online deal with cyberbullying. “99.9 percent of all the comments are so nice and so empowering and motivating and supportive [but] there’s that, like, one, tiny, like, .01 percent that are just, like, so angry at their life that they want to hate on you,” YouTube star Lauren Riihimaki (a.k.a. LaurDIY) said
When I attended university, I used to volunteer in the venomous animal lab. Among the many things I got to do, I helped milk a variety of venomous snakes including several species of rattlesnakes and cobras. The venom was used for the production of anti-venom and for medical research, as there are many different properties
Are you like so many other women who find that as you grow older that you have more aches and pains than you used to? After years of lifting kids, groceries, carrying heavy laundry baskets, house cleaning, of standing on your feet or sitting in an uncomfortable chair all day at work, does your back
For the past few years, coconut oil has been touted as one of the superfoods to be used in most of your cooking needs. It has become the oil of choice for many Paleo diets, making it fashionable among the health conscious trendy set. After all, coconut oil is loaded with vitamin E. Vitamin E
The symptoms of ADHD foster important traits associated with entrepreneurship. That conclusion was reached in a study conducted by an international team of economists, who found that entrepreneurs with ADHD embrace new experiences and demonstrate passion and persistence. Their intuitive decision making in situations involving uncertainty was seen by the researchers as a reason for
The brave new world of 3-D printed organs now includes implanted ovary structures that, true to their design, actually ovulate, according to a study by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and McCormick School of Engineering. By removing a female mouse’s ovary and replacing it with a bioprosthetic ovary, the mouse was able to not
These days, by the time many women reach 40-years of age, they feel tired and fatigued and generally dismiss it as the result of raising a family, caring for a house and working. After spending 40 hours a week on the job, women come home to their husband and kids. They cook dinner and clean
Health care prices remain locked in a black box, and doctors are often impervious to them even when the costs of care are known. To make health care more value-oriented, Aaron E. Carroll’s suggestion for involving both physicians and patients simultaneously could be an effective approach. A recent study by Public Agenda confirms that 70
There has been a lot of talk over the past week about the possibility of the Senate Republicans keeping many or all of the taxes that were hidden in Obamacare. But what are those taxes and why were they in Obamacare to begin with? When Barack Obama ran for the White House, he promised that
