During a political season like this one, some candidates claim that immigration leads to high crime rates, but a new study shows that immigrant neighborhoods actually experience LESS violence.
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The oldest child in a family is usually the most successful. Even identical twins are not really identical. And for some reason, the marriages that produce the most children are unions between distant cousins.
New research shows that first-born children get about 3,000 more hours of quality time with their parents between ages 4 and 13 than the next sibling gets when they pass through the same age range, which is probably why older children tend to get more education, make more money and score higher on IQ tests. Economist Joseph Price says, “We’ve known for a long time that eldest children have better outcomes, and these findings on quality time provide one explanation why.”
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How much do you spend on bottled water? If you buy certain brands thinking the water is cleaner or safer, experts say you may as well be pouring money down the drain because some brands of bottled water are actually just tap water.
Physician Jane Sadler says, “There is no guarantee that bottled water is any better than tap water. 25% of bottled water is actually just repackaged tap water.” Also, what kind of plastic is the bottle made out of?
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Researchers have found a link between a lack of exposure to sunlight, specifically ultraviolet B (UVB), and breast cancer. UVB exposure helps create vitamin D3 in the body, which can you can also get from your diet and from supplements, if you don’t have enough chances to get out in the sun. But vitamins may be BAD for you.
Science Daily quotes researcher Cedric F. Garland as saying, “In general, breast cancer incidence was highest at the highest latitudes in both hemispheres. Even after controlling for known variables such as meat, vegetable and alcohol intake, cigarette consumption, weight, fertility and others, the inverse association of modeled vitamin D status with breast cancer incidence remained strong.”
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