You must have heard the universal tip that you need to drink at least 2 liters of water a day. Especially to maintain beauty. The advice is wonderful, of course, but the kidneys may not be able to cope with it. More and more specialists are inclined to believe that this is just a myth.…
Chronic insomnia is a condition that is manifested by difficulty falling asleep, frequent night or early morning awakenings, daytime sleepiness despite keeping regular hours. Everyone suffers from insomnia from time to time – it is caused by stress. When the provoking factor is eliminated, sleep is restored. If stress is not the reason, and problems…
When your closet is bursting with winters coats — or you’re living in a small space without any closet at all — a few extra hooks can help relieve the pressure. That’s where a coat tree can prove invaluable. “In a tighter space, it’s about making space,” said Dan Mazzarini, the principal of BHDM Design,…
Recently, one jet-lagged night, when I gave up on sleeping and couldn’t concentrate enough to read anything else, I found a stack of battered Agatha Christie paperbacks and read my way right through “Murder at the Vicarage.” The next night, I read “Death on the Nile.” A memory was nagging at me as I read,…
Sometimes it takes the licensing and advertising of a treatment to get patients to seek help, even for a medical problem that is often painful and psychologically devastating. Such is the case with Peyronie’s disease, a scarring and bending or curving of the penis that can make sexual intercourse difficult or impossible for both straight…
Bread baking is certainly not new in the modern day. People have been baking bread for thousands of years, and through these years, different types of bread have been developed and also perfected so that we can today enjoy them in many ways. The preparation process is considered a crucial component to ensuring bread can…
One new study finds no evidence to suggest that eating the first meal of the day may help with weight loss. How important is eating breakfast for people trying to lose weight? Every single day, people around the world sit at the table to enjoy what many consider to be “the most important meal of…
IMAGE: UGA researchers Xiangyu Deng (shown) and Shaokang Zhang led a team of scientists who have trained an algorithm called Random Forest to predict certain animal sources of S. Typhimurium genomes. view more A team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety in Griffin has developed a machine-learning approach…
Love can make us do crazy things. It often prompts us to behave in counterintuitive ways, like, for example, placing the wellbeing of our loved ones above our own. But why? Such altruism has perplexed and intrigued scientists for centuries. A new study out of UC Santa Barbara explores how an individual’s genetics and brain…
IMAGE: Laurie J. Goodyear, Ph.D., Section Head and Senior Investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. view more Credit: John Soares BOSTON – (February 11, 2019) – It’s well-known that exercise improves health, but understanding how it makes you healthier on a molecular level is the question researchers at Joslin…