Archive for April, 2010

The benefits of breast milk for babies are numerous.

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How Breastfeeding Benefits Mothers’ Health

A pregnant woman knows she is shaping her child’s future from the moment of conception. But she might not realize that the baby is already talking back. Mother and child are engaged in a silent chemical conversation throughout pregnancy, with bits of genetic material and cells passing not only from mother to child but also from child to mother

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Beyond Birth: A Child’s Cells May Help or Harm the Mother Long after Delivery

The statistic is hard to swallow: in the U.S., nearly one in three children under the age of 18 is overweight or obese, making being overweight the most common childhood medical condition. These youngsters are likely to become heavy adults, putting them at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and other chronic ailments

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Underage, Overweight: The Federal Government Needs to Halt the Marketing of Unhealthy Foods to Kids

Eat less saturated fat: that has been the take-home message from the U.S. government for the past 30 years

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Carbs against Cardio: More Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart

Do Chimpanzees Understand Death?

After the death of her mother, Rosie had a fitful night, tossing and turning and getting up frequently. [More]

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Do Chimpanzees Understand Death?

Calendar: MIND events in May and June

MAY 5 German philosopher Karl Marx was born on this day in 1818.

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Calendar: MIND events in May and June

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How To Create A Successful Massage Therapy Business

I remember my excitement one morning in the winter of 2006 when I peered through a microscope in my laboratory and saw a colony of cells that looked just like embryonic stem cells. They were clustered in a little heap, after dividing in a petri dish for almost three weeks. And they were glowing with the same colorful fluorescent markers scientists take as one sign of an embryonic cell’s “pluripotency”–its ability to give rise to any type of tissue in an organism’s body

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Your Inner Healers: A Look into the Potential of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (preview)

Health insurers make big bucks from Big Macs

Like most businesses, health and life insurance companies are out to make a buck, and one way they augment their income is by investing in other industries. [More]

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Health insurers make big bucks from Big Macs

The human body’s immune system can quickly track down and kill cells that don’t belong. Take certain kinds of bacteria: molecules on their surfaces flag them as foreign invaders, alerting the body’s defenders to the breach and drawing a full-fledged attack on anything waving that molecular flag. But sometimes the system mistakenly attacks the body’s own cells

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Counterintuitive Cure: A Nanovaccine That Stops Autoimmune Disease by Boosting the Immune System