Is Your Health on the Line?

Unless you've had your cell phone permanently glued to your ear, chances are you've heard the recent health buzz: Mobile devices may cause cancer. While it's true that the National Cancer Institute has ruled them safe, a growing number of independent researchers disagree.

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Report: We Don't Need More Vitamin D and Calcium

Report: We Don't Need More Vitamin D and Calcium - Marion Nestle - Food - The Atlantic

Should You Be Snuggling With Your Cellphone?

WARNING: Holding a cellphone against your ear may be hazardous to your health. So may stuffing it in a pocket against your body.

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Cell-Phone Safety: What the FCC Didn't Test

Cell-Phone Safety: What the FCC Didn't Test (Time.com)

Dining On A Budget

McDonald’s Happy Meal resists decomposition for six months

Taking Early Retirement May Retire Memory, Too

Taking Early Retirement May Retire Memory, Too
Researchers suggest there is something to the “use it or lose it” notion. But not everyone is convinced. (NY Times)

The Claim: Gargling With Salt Water Can Ease Cold Symptoms

Nothing but time can cure the common cold, but a simple cup of salt water might ease the misery this winter.

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Walking helps keep body and brain young

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Everyone knows that walking limbers the aging body, but did you know it keeps the mind supple as well?

Research shows that walking can actually boost the connectivity within brain circuits, which tends to diminish as the grey hairs multiply.

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Al Jazeera investigates fraud and corruption in the US pharmaceutical industry.

But Will It Make You Happy?

But Will It Make You Happy? (NY Times)

How you spend has a greater effect on your happiness than how much you spend, researchers say.

SHE had so much.

A two-bedroom apartment. Two cars. Enough wedding china to serve two dozen people.

Yet Tammy Strobel wasn’t happy. Working as a project manager with an investment management firm in Davis, Calif., and making about $40,000 a year, she was, as she put it, caught in the “work-spend treadmill.”

So one day she stepped off.

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What's in Your Shampoo?

What's in Your Shampoo? (good.is)

No More Dirty Looks: The Truth about Your Beauty Products--and the Ultimate Guide to Safe and Clean Cosmetics (Book on Amazon)

Happiness May Come With Age, Study Says

For feeling content, 18 doesn’t hold a candle to 85, a nationwide poll has found. Researchers aren’t sure why.

Sweet Deception: The Bitter Truth About Sweeteners

Sweet Deception: The Bitter Truth About Sweeteners (blog.dailyburn.com)

The real cost of obesity

The Amazing Survival Abilities Of The Ibex

Baby Fat May Not Be So Cute After All

Evidence points to events early in life and even in the womb that can set children on a path to obesity.
(NY Times)

A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain

A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain (http://www.princeton.edu/)

A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.

Health Care Fight All Over But the Shouting ... and the Double-Counting

"A Long and Ugly Process": Obama Makes Final Push for Health-Care Reform