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The summer solstice marks the official start of summer. It brings the longest day and shortest night of the year for…

Studies have found consumption of chillies is inversely related to the risk of being overweight or obese.

Adopting a Mediterranean-style eating pattern improves heart health, with or without reducing red meat intake, as long…

Everyone knows we should exercise more, drink less, and stop scoffing junk food. Even committed smokers know that…

Your hair can say a lot about you. It doesn’t just give people clues about your personality or your taste in music.

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I sat quietly, listening to her pain-filled words. She had just been diagnosed with breast cancer and was in my office…

If you watch kids at a local playground, sooner or later one of them will run around and fall face-first to the ground.…

Fighting to protect salmon habitat, however, is more than just upholding tribal rights.

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You’re ready to blow your top – but how much is due to your internal hunger and how much to external annoyances?

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The Brothers Grimm have been dead more than 150 years, but they recently released a new story with a little help from…

AI system that can smell human breath and learn how to identify a range of illness-revealing substances that we might…

It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples…

Eating habits develop in early childhood. Research shows eating patterns can continue into adolescence and then through…

We’re increasingly aware of how plastic is polluting our environment. Much recent attention has focused on how…

Have you ever wondered what Jesus Christ really meant when he said that heaven is within you? Dante's epic The Divine…

Over the course of three decades on public broadcasting, he brought to millions of children what his faith’s General…

According to some surveys, more than 90% of owners view their pets as members of the family.

Some media reports say that eating at night makes you gain weight, others say that it has no effect on body weight. So…

Paramhansa Yogananda said: We are all of us a little bit crazy, but most of us don't know it because we mix only with…

We’re all told we need to eat healthier and exercise more to combat obesity, but did you know that there’s also an…

An ingredient in toothpaste and other personal care products may be harming the microbes in our gut and leaving us…

In my late twenties, I developed both forms of the autoimmune deficiency disease Lupus. My doctors advised me that,…

I had the privilege of meeting and communicating with Gable over time, and assisting Jennifer and Gable with their…

Some of us like to stroll along and smell the roses, while others march to their destination as quickly as their feet…

It is difficult to refer to what dogs, as a collective, like and dislike and how they behave. Just as humans do, dogs…

When humans’ genetic information (known as the genome) was mapped in 2003, it promised to change the world. Optimists…

Ever since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin growing naturally on a petri dish, we have been aware of the power…

Roseanne Barr has claimed that she was under the influence of the drug Ambien when she posted her already infamous…

We all make tough decisions, but choices relating to money send many of us running in the other direction.…

The wisdom and knowledge that the martial arts offer is something that should be preserved in modern society. The…

Around 200,000 people in Australia suffer from a debilitating illness often branded with the unfortunate name of…

With all the different types of yogurt on offer, making a decision on which one to buy can be difficult. How do you…

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Global obesity rates have risen sharply over the past three decades, leading to spikes in diabetes, arthritis and heart…