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The Healthy Skeptic: Is caffeine an effective weight-loss aid?
If losing weight was one of your New Year's resolutions, you might already be growing weary of counting calories and working out. Wouldn't it be great if you could slim down without so much effort?
Anyone looking for a shortcut to weight loss might be...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Nutrition, High Blood Pressure, Entertainment, Science
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Resveratrol appears to make fat men fitter
The first clinical trial to test the effects of resveratrol -- the plant compound plentiful in red wine and grapes -- on humans has found that a small daily dose of a purified resveratrol supplement lowered blood pressure and improved a wide range of...Tags: Long Island, Physiology, Medical Research, Health, Diabetes
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That bad attitude? Blame the birth month
If you don't believe in horoscopes, you're in step with science. But that's not the same as saying the season of your birth cannot affect your fate. Hundreds of studies, published in peer-reviewed journals, have suggested that the month a person is born...Tags: Diphtheria , Insulin, Pancreas, Weight, Flu
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Wylie W. Vale Jr. dies at 70; researcher helped discover stress hormone
Wylie W. Vale Jr., a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla and an internationally renowned expert on brain hormones who led a team of Salk researchers that discovered the brain hormone that triggers the body's reaction to...Tags: Medical Research, Stress, Science, Health and Safety at School, Rice University
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Division of duty is the name of the brain game
You may be lazing by the pool after a visit or two to the swim-up bar, but parts of your brain are always on duty — ready to leap into action should a stressful event require attention.
This skeleton crew of sorts is called the default-mode...Tags: Surgery, Hydrocortisone
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Pro/Con: Is sharing a bed with baby healthful or risky?
If Facebook is any indication, new parents love to take photos of their partners happily dozing with a sleeping baby. But while this moment may be picturesque, how safe is it?
The practice of having infants sleep in the same bed as mom and dad is known...Tags: Immune System, Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Nursing, American Academy of Pediatrics
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Retromania: Pop's past is taking over
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band reformations and reunion tours, tribute albums and box sets, anniversary festivals and live performances of classic albums: Each new year is better than the previous year for music...Tags: Television, Simon Reynolds, Missy Elliott, Radio Industry, Donna Summer
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'Forever,' by Maggie Stiefvater
Los Angeles TimesForever A Novel Maggie Stiefvater Scholastic: 390 pp., $17.99, ages 13 and up The middle book in Maggie Stiefvater's bestselling "Shiver" trilogy ended with a Romeo-and-Juliet cliffhanger, as Grace mysteriously disappeared from the hospital, Grace's...Tags: Suicidal Behavior, Health, Chicago Hotels, Suicide, Hospitals and Clinics
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Therapy dogs make the rounds in more healthcare settings
"Pets are embedded in the soul of our humanity," says Dr. Edward Creagan, an oncologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., as he describes the special fondness and respect he has for a certain other member of the clinic's staff.
That would be Dr....Tags: Heart Failure, Health, Dog (animal), Long Term Care, Healthcare Provider
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In-Your-Face-Fitness: High-intensity training burns more calories
Welcome to another exciting installment of Fun With Math!
Today we're going to use basic addition and subtraction to show how running is better than walking for fat loss, no matter what your doctor says. I have no idea where the myth that walking a...Tags: YouTube, Running, Physiology, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health
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