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Eating Red Meat Linked to Kidney Failure Risk

Eating Red Meat Linked to Kidney Failure Risk

Singapore-Red meat may take a toll on the kidneys that increases risk for kidney disease and eventually kidney failure, a large study suggests. The authors also found that replacing some red meat in the diet with other types of protein – whether chicken, fish, eggs or...
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How Bacteria in Your Belly May Affect Your Heart

How Bacteria in Your Belly May Affect Your Heart

Collectively known as the gut microbiota, these microbes assist with digestion, but also make certain vitamins, break down toxins, and train your immune system. Over the past decade, scientists have uncovered compelling connections between different types of gut...
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Fruits and Vegetables Boost Happiness

Fruits and Vegetables Boost Happiness

London-Based on national surveys in Australia, a study team linked increases in fruit and vegetable servings per day to rising happiness over two years. With the addition of eight portions of fruit and veg daily, the change in wellbeing was about equivalent to going...
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A window display with different color models electronic cigarettes is seen in a shop in Paris May 31, 2013. REUTERS/CHARLES PLATIAU


E-cigarettes Could Cut Smoking-related Deaths

E-cigarettes Could Cut Smoking-related Deaths

Washington -A U.S. study published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research said e-cigarettes could lead to a 21 percent drop in deaths from smoking-related diseases in those born after 1997. The study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Cancer...
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Obesity is Mental Illness, Researchers Say

Obesity is Mental Illness, Researchers Say

London-Dutch researchers have succeeded for the first time in understanding how the brain communicates with the stomach when people eat their food, and said that small amounts of water may affect satiety, stomach function, and brain’s activity, which reduce the amount...