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Just the expectation of a mirthful laughter experience boosts endorphins 27 percent, HGH 87 percent

...nces need to 'get serious about happiness' and the lifestyle that produces it, relative to mind, body and spirit and its biotranslation," he added. "Why do you think Reader's Digest has claimed that 'Laughter is the Best Medicine' for so many years?" Berk concludes. ...

Chocolate, wine, spicy foods may be OK for heartburn, Stanford study finds

...e advised to keep your weight under control. Those lifestyle changes coupled with antacids and various over-the...ided that maybe it's time to look and see if these lifestyle measures really work." In a May issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, Gerson and two other physic...

One-third of adults with diabetes still don't know they have it

.... A major study of people with IGT has shown that lifestyle changes leading to a 5 to 7 percent weight loss lo...ry of diabetes are overweight have an inactive lifestyle (exercise less than three times a week) are members of a high-risk ethnic population (e.g., African...

Genes discovered that allow gum disease bacterium to invade arteries

...or Microbiology in Orlando, Florida. "Aside from lifestyle and genetic factors, there is increasing evidence that bacterial infections may play a role in heart disease. Porphyromas gingivalis, an important bacterium that causes gum disease, is also linked to cardiovascular disease. In this study we have id...

How ancient whales lost their legs, got sleek and conquered the oceans

...enetics Institute. "Their transition to an aquatic lifestyle occurred long before they eliminated their hind limbs. During the transition, their limbs became smaller, but they kept the same number and arrangement of hind limb bones as their terrestrial ancestors." In findings to be published this week in the ...

Survivors of childhood polio do well decades later as they age

...pect years of stability without the need for major lifestyle modifications." ...

Global study shows all tobacco bad for the heart

...alculations, the investigators accounted for other lifestyle factors that could affect the heart attack risk, such as diet and age. They found that tobacco use in any form, including sheesha smoking popular in the Middle East and beedie smoking common in South Asia, was harmful. Compared to people who had n...

New research examines genetics of successful aging

...s of the human genome that contributed, along with lifestyle factors, to reaching age 90 with preserved cogniti...ssful aging. The study also looked at a variety of lifestyle factors, such as smoking and alcohol consumption, with the goal of eventually exploring the interact...

Sleep deprivation doubles risks of obesity in both children and adults

...sting piece of research putting together different lifestyle aspects with food choices. We need more research on the obese environment - the integration between medical research and socio-political research is something we should be exploring more." ...

Diabetes hits 275 Australians each day as pandemic spreads

... needs. "The diabetes epidemic is being driven by lifestyle factors, particularly the dramatic increase in obe...nd its appalling complications if they do not make lifestyle changes," he said. The first stage of the AusDiab study - which was conducted in 1999/2000 and invo...

Gut microbes' partnership helps body extract energy from food, store it as fat

...mes evolving as a function of changes in our diet, lifestyle and environment? And can we use this knowledge to improve our personal health, including, for example, optimizing the performance of our gut microbial communities?" ...

Compound in dairy products targets diabetes

... associated with poor diet and nutrition and other lifestyle issues," Vanden Heuvel says. The reason for the increase in diabetes may have to do with the ratio of so-called "good" and "bad" fats, with the average American diet containing too much of the "bad" fats. CLA, whose effect is very similar to fish oil...

Joslin discovers signs of residual islet cell function in people with long-term type 1 diabetes

... been investigating whether other factors, such as lifestyle or longevity genes, play a role in the development of complications, reported Dr. Keenan. Overall, the study opens new avenues for research and treatment of type 1 diabetes. "The findings suggest that many patients, even after many years of diabetes...

Tamed 11,400 years ago, figs were likely first domesticated crop

...as provided by the gods. This shift to a sedentary lifestyle grounded in the growing of wild crops such as barley and wheat marked a dramatic change from 2.5 million years of human history as mobile hunter-gatherers." The researchers found nine small figs and 313 fig drupelets (a small part of an aggregate fr...

Looking to a new era in bee research

...rincipal focus was on the complex honey bee social lifestyle and how it differs from other solitary lifestyle insects. This large communal effort is presented in the special issue of Nature (Honey Bee Genome Se...

Better sludge through metagenomics

...d functions that didn't make sense for the current lifestyle of the organism," said Phil Hugenholtz, head of the JGI's Microbial Ecology Program. "Accumulibacter has all the genes necessary to fix carbon and nitrogen, which it would be compelled to do in a nutrient-poor environment like freshwater, but it pres...

New evidence of early horse domestication

...rsemeat. They were forced to abandon their nomadic lifestyle during the Soviet era and have returned to small village pastoralism, Olsen says. ...

Why Popeye only has eyes for spinach

... their eyes might be the first step to a change in lifestyle for many people." ...

Walking not enough for significant exercise benefits

...systolic blood pressure, more than the 10,000-step lifestyle program," Dr. Harber said. Of the 128 sedentary men and women who completed the six-month research program, those who took part in a more active traditional fitness regimen increased their peak oxygen uptake, an indicator of aerobic fitness, by 10 pe...

Holiday gluttony can spell disaster for undiagnosed diabetics

...arch studies have shown that maintaining a healthy lifestyle with a balanced diet, weight management and regular exercise can prevent the development of diabetes or help control an existing condition," said Dr. Chandalia, an associate professor of internal medicine. Diabetes has several basic forms and stage...

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