Ramping Up The Amount You Harvest: Food Security
Food security is what we do every day: moving foodstuffs from areas of surplus to areas of deficit. Be that geographically, across borders, across the ocean; be that in time,...
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Child Breathing Problems Linked To Prenatal Exposure To BPA
Exposure in pregnancy to a chemical commonly found in plastics and cans — known as bisphenol A, or BPA — may increase a child's risk of breathing problems, researchers say....
Your Gut’s Best Friend?: Granny Smith apples
Non-digestible compounds found in apples promote the growth of friendly gut bacteria, which stabilizes the metabolism and creates satiety. That's according to the results of a new study that singled...
Antibiotic Resistance Is Too Weak To Protect Human Health: White House
Each antibiotic is effective only against certain bacteria. In selecting an antibiotic to treat a person with an infection, doctors estimate which bacteria are likely to be the cause. For...
Enhancing Your Memory And Intellect: Curiosity Fix
It appears that decades of open borders and political sensitivity has finally caught up with us. After sifting through the 2013 census data, the Center for Immigration Studies has found...
Drug Overdoses: US Officials Target
As deaths from heroin and prescription painkillers mount across the United States, government officials are searching for ways to stem the toll of addiction. The death last week of Oscar-winning...
Labels To Contain Inaccurate Information: FDA’s Proposed Nutrition Facts Labels
Every day, millions of Americans use the Nutrition Facts labels on food packages to make healthy choices. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently proposed changes to make the...
Mammograms: New 25-Year Study Questions Them
Women between the ages of 20 and 39 who have no symptoms of breast disease should have a clinical breast examination every 3 years. A physician, a nurse practitioner, a...
Winter Dermatitis Of Kids’: Improve With Vitamin D
A study conducted in more than 100 Mongolian schoolchildren found that daily treatment with a vitamin D supplement significantly reduced the symptoms of winter-related atopic dermatitis, a type of eczema. Vitamin...
Vaccine Safety And Effectiveness: Whistleblowers Talks
A top research scientist working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) played a key role in helping Dr. Brian Hooker of the Focus Autism Foundation uncover data...