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British social workers decided on Tuesday to allow an eight-year-old boy who weighs almost 200 lb (90 kg) to remain at home with his mother, even though she has refused to stop feeding him junk food.
Connor McCreaddie’s mother says her 196-lb (89 kg) son will not eat healthy food like fruits and vegetables and [...]
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To paraphrase a great old slogan for Guinness beer: Sex isn’t just good, it’s good for you!
Okay, so maybe there’s some wishful thinking going on — the science isn’t exactly iron-clad — but evidence is accumulating that the more sex you have, the better off you are.
There is one caveat, though. “We do not [...]
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Television poses risk to childrens’ health: study
The study published in the science journal Biologist concludes that cutting viewing time for children must become a health priority and could save Britain’s state-run National Health Service (NHS) money.
It found that watching television inhibits the production of the hormone melatonin, which affects the immune system, sleep cycle [...]
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Rachel and Shawn’s love story sounds like something out of a fairy tale. They say it was love at first sight when they met almost eight years ago, and they have lived together as a happy couple ever since. But there is one crucial difference that sets Rachel and Shawn apart. They are part of [...]
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Amillia Taylor, born after just under 22 weeks in the womb, is no longer allowed home. She had been expected to be sent home this week.
Barbara Moore, spokeswoman for Baptist Children’s Hospital, said she did not have details on why doctors changed their minds.
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Hunger kills 18,000 kids each day
Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, a “terrible indictment of the world in 2007,” the head of the U.N. food agency said.
James Morris called for students and young people, faith-based groups, the business [...]
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British doctors give Viagra to save premature baby
English doctors used the anti-impotence drug Viagra to save the life of a severely premature baby, media reports have said.
Medics in the northeast city of Newcastle upon Tyne gave the drug to Lewis Goodfellow — who was born at 24 weeks, weighing just one pound, eight ounces (780 [...]
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Eating large amounts of carbohydrates does not appear to increase the risk of colon cancer in women, according to study findings published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
There is experimental evidence to suggest that abnormal sugar and carbohydrate metabolism plays a role in the development of colon cancer, Dr. Susanna C. Larsson, of the Karolinska [...]
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Your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you’re a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers’, a new research report shows.
Women have three to four times the number of bacteria in, on and around their desks, phones, computers, keyboards, drawers and personal items as [...]
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Why do men ignore nagging wives? It’s all science
A psychologist has found the answer to the age old question many women have about their husbands: ” Why does her husband often seemed to ignore her requests for help around the house?”
New research findings now appearing online in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology show that [...]
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