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Ate a peppery breakfast? How about changed the oil in your car? Those behaviours—as well as 24 other, seemingly unrelated habits—might actually prove you’re pretty bright, a new study published in Personality and Individual Differences suggests. In the study, researchers sought...

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Amongst men, testosterone is one of the most spoken and thought about hormones. It’s the subject of much curiosity and misunderstanding and the scapegoat for that aggressive guy at the bar. It’s responsible for muscle-building and sex drive; and men shudder at the thought that their T...

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There is currently no treatment to stop or reverse the effects of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS or Huntington's. But new research has found that tiny snippets of genetic material called microRNA can help detect the diseases...

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A new study sheds light on how vision loss is linked to mental decline in seniors. For the study, University of Miami researchers analyzed health data from more than 2,500 adults, aged 65 to 84, who were followed from about 1993 to 2001. The investigators found that the rate of vision loss...

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I’ve never been one to get caught up in the latest diet craze. In fact, I’ve never dieted. I lead an active lifestyle and try to eat as clean as possible, but my late-night snacking habit was becoming a bit of a problem… So when I found myself interviewing someone who’d...

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Have you ever been on a diet and wished that spinach excited your taste buds? Or that chocolate left you cold? Neuroscientists say they have discovered how to manipulate the brain to make sweet things off-putting, and bitter ones nice. But only in mice, for now. According to results from...

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Certain species of herpesviruses may play a role in Alzheimer's disease according to a study of brain samples from people with and without the disease. Researchers made the discovery after examining data from brain banks and cohort studies that are part of the Accelerating Medicines...

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The long-anticipated release of Incredibles 2 is clearly giving fans what they want with the movie already making box office history. But when the movie was official released on 15 June 2018, many US cinemas posted warnings in front of the theatre that a “sequence of flashing lights”...

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Sensitivity to an allergen in red meat has been linked to heart disease, according to a study. Although high saturated fat levels in red meat have been with associated with the buildup of plaque in the heart's arteries, researchers for the first time found that some people face an increased...

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You know that quote about insanity – the one claiming that its definition is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? (It’s often attributed to Einstein, but there’s no solid evidence of that to be honest.) Well, that’s basically how it feels...

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While scientists have not yet come up with a final verdict on whether coffee is good or bad for you, an American judge has. A Californian judge has called for coffee sellers in the state to place cancer warnings on the coffee they sell. The problem is the chemical produced during the roasting...

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If you think you’re safe from throat cancer because you don’t smoke, sadly you’re mistaken. 60% of all oropharyngeal cancers (cancers of the throat, tonsils and the base of tongue), are linked to an STD known as Human Papillomavirus (HPV), according to the US Centre For Disease...

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Tying the knot can come with a slew of benefits—but settling down might have one big downside: Being married could make you gain weight, according to a new study from the University of Bath’s School of Management in the U.K. Using more than a decade of data from nearly 9,000 men in...

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Here’s a case against watching Netflix on the couch all weekend: All that vegging could rot your brain. For years, doctors and scientists have lectured about the dangers of being inactive, so it’s not exactly surprising that being a couch potato is bad for your health. But a new...

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Want blooming gut bacteria? Turns out, it’s not all about popping probiotic pills. Six surprising facts about the hottest topic in health right now… You ordered a side of sauerkraut with lunch and your fridge is packing probiotics – because by now you know there’s more...