Taking vitamins may do more harm than good, since some supplements may come with health risks. When researchers examined data from more than almost 40,000 women taking part in their study, they found that women who took supplements had a 2.4% percent increased risk of dying over the course of the 19-year study, compared with women who didn’t take vitamins.
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As this is posted, Iran claims to have shot down a drone that was spying on their nuclear facilities. When we finally leave Iraq, will we be able to put some of the technology we developed for that war to CIVILIAN use in the future?
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Yes, the giving season is here again, and this year, we have TWO wonderful and totally unique suggestions for Christmas presents to give to your loved ones.
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We learn something new about obesity every day. We’ve learned that being fat starts in your brain, and now scientists say that appetite regulation has to do with the HAIRS in your brain. In other words, if you have fat brain hairs, you’ll have a fat body.
These tiny hairy projections, called cilia, are present on almost every cell of the body–including the brain. New research shows that the cilia on our appetite-regulating brain cells control whether our bodies get the "stop eating" signal in time for us to lay down our forks when we’ve had enough.
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