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With spring on the way, Harvard researchers advise men to get more sun, supplements, and seafood. All are good sources of vitamin D, and a large, lengthy study suggests the vitamin reduces risk of prostate cancer. Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone knows children are getting fatter and that both a poor diet and a lack of exercise are to blame. But, what researchers have been unable to discover until now, is exactly how major a role activity plays in the battle to keep obesity at bay. Read the rest of this entry »

Any dieter can tell you: Body weight is a function of how much food you eat and how much energy you use. The trick to maintaining a healthy weight lies in regulating the balance. Now new research from Rockefeller University suggests that brain cell receptors linked to sex hormones may play a role in the process by which we maintain that balance. Read the rest of this entry »

Engineers have developed a system that uses a simple water purification technique that can eliminate 100 percent of the microbes in New Orleans water samples left from Hurricane Katrina. The technique makes use of specialized resins, copper and hydrogen peroxide to purify tainted water. Read the rest of this entry »

Bigger is not necessarily better when it comes to an immune response against HIV, according to research published in Nature Medicinewww.nature.com/nm/index.html by Oxford University, Harvard Medical School and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The finding has important implications for the development of a vaccine against the disease. Read the rest of this entry »

Researchers at Purdue University have used a new technique to rapidly detect and precisely identify bacteria, including dangerous E. coli, without time-consuming treatments usually required. Read the rest of this entry »

Heart disease patients who eat one grapefruit daily can significantly reduce the levels of cholesterol in their blood in comparison to patients who do not eat the fruit, a new study has found. Chronic high blood cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease. Read the rest of this entry »

Children exposed to the insecticide chlorpyrifos while in utero demonstrated poorer mental and motor development by the age of three as well as a greater risk for behavioral problems, according to a just-published study co-authored by Columbia University researchers. Read the rest of this entry »

Rice is Asia’s staple food. Every grain processed generates biowaste: A quarter of the weight consists of husks that have to be separated. Yet these can be used, for example, to supply Vietnam with power. Read the rest of this entry »

Though promiscuity may be risky behavior for humans, it’s healthy for honeybees: Queen honeybees who indulge in sexual surfeits with multiple drones produce more disease-resistant colonies than monogamous monarchs. Read the rest of this entry »

Parenting a child with an eating disorder—monitoring meals, friends and activities—can be a full-time job. But two new studies from researchers at the medical school and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital indicate a need for increased vigilance in two key areas: Internet use among adolescents with the condition, and pre-teen weight loss in seemingly healthy children. Read the rest of this entry »

People — especially overweight people — consume up to 50 percent more calories when they eat low-fat versions of snack foods than when they eat the regular versions, according to a new Cornell study. Read the rest of this entry »

New research from the University of California indicates that reductions of human-generated air pollution could create unexpected agricultural benefits in one of the world’s poorest regions. Read the rest of this entry »

Researchers have observed that overweight people underestimate how much they eat by twice as much as normal-weight people do. So are heavier people’s underestimates intentional? Read the rest of this entry »

Health conscious but time poor? Grab a pack of packaged ready-to-eat fruit and your body will be none the wiser. Read the rest of this entry »