As a parent considering talking to a teen about weight control or healthy eating, you may want to stick with the latter. According to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School, conversations focused on losing weight or the importance of being thin were more likely to drive a teen [...]
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According to the CDC, all pregnant women should be taking iron supplements (30 mg/day) throughout their pregnancies to prevent iron deficiency anemia, which is the most common cause of anemia during pregnancy. However, research has not been done looking at the potential benefits of prenatal iron supplementation on birth outcomes, until now. Researchers from the [...]
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Yesterday’s Sunday Times column by former chief food critic Frank Bruni discusses, somewhat ruefully, the accelerating trend toward posting calorie counts more or less everywhere food can be purchased. (This “trend” will be accelerated when the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented, maybe next year, requiring chains of 20 or more locales to post the [...]
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Because intensive control of blood glucose levels in type 1 diabetes can have negative side effects — such as repeated bouts of low-blood sugar (hypoglycemia) — it is important to evaluate whether such tight control is worth the risk. The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) was a major clinical study conducted over a period [...]
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In a world dominated by the click of a button, where bad news seemingly travels at the speed of light, while science-based good news barely makes it into the media at all, it should come as no surprise that an article titled "Eight

The prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV), which is both a major cause of cervical cancer and the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, has been cut in half among teenage girls. Because the United States has such a low HPV vaccination rate in comparison to other countries, the reports came as a [...]
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Will wonders never cease? The British newspaper The Guardian has reported the sobering news that crop yields will be inadequate to feed the burgeoning world population by 2050. But that’s not the amazing thing — that news has been around for a while. No, what’s both surprising and encouraging is that the British environment minister, [...]
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Dr. Brad Rodu, one of the world's greatest experts on tobacco harm reduction, has published an overview of what might save millions of smokers this century.

Grist writer Nathaniel Johnson, who is as close to an impartial journalist as Grist has, still knows that he has to cater to their crowd, and that means anyone who accepts that a pesticide is safe - the EPA, American Council on Science and Health, all of science - must have been paid off.

Seems there is another reason to like Facebook: A recent study shows last year s initiative to add organ donation as an option on the popular social media site proved quite successful a