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Confusion about Weight Watchers and overall diet advice – CNN (blog)

Confusion about Weight Watchers and overall diet advice – CNN (blog) Welcome back to Health and Fitness, the blog that brings you new and thought provoking snippets of weight loss diet news and views sourced just for you right here: ThirdAge Confusion about Weight Watchers and overall diet adviceCNN (blog)Daniela: Make up your mind, CNN…you [...]

Neurological protein may hold the key to new treatments for depression

Neurological protein may hold the key to new treatments for depression Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: Neuroscientists have developed a protein peptide that may be a novel type of highly targeted treatment for depression with a low side-effect profile. [...]

Hormone oxytocin bolsters childhood memories of mom’s affections

Hormone oxytocin bolsters childhood memories of mom’s affections Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: Researchers have found that the naturally-occurring hormone and neurotransmitter oxytocin intensifies men’s memories of their mother’s affections during childhood. Sourced from: ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News [...]

Sporadic breast cancers start with ineffective DNA repair systems

Sporadic breast cancers start with ineffective DNA repair systems Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: Breast cancers that arise sporadically, rather than through inheritance of certain genes, likely start with defects of DNA repair mechanisms that allow environmentally triggered mutations [...]

Playing with building blocks of creativity help children with autism

Playing with building blocks of creativity help children with autism Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: In an attempt to help children with autism learn the building blocks of creativity, researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center tapped a [...]

Antibacterial soaps: Being too clean can make people sick, study suggests

Antibacterial soaps: Being too clean can make people sick, study suggests Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: Young people who are overexposed to antibacterial soaps containing triclosan may suffer more allergies, and exposure to higher levels of Bisphenol A among [...]

New genomic technique reveals obesity gene variants

New genomic technique reveals obesity gene variants Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: Obesity is highly heritable, but so far genetic association studies have only explained a small fraction of this heritability. Now, researchers have identified DNA variants in two [...]

Moderate alcohol consumption lowers the risk of metabolic diseases, study suggests

Moderate alcohol consumption lowers the risk of metabolic diseases, study suggests Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: With the emergence of an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes (DM) throughout the world, the association of lifestyle habits that may [...]

New approach may help dialysis patients fight anemia

New approach may help dialysis patients fight anemia Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: A new drug called FG-2216 can stimulate production of the hormone erythropoietin in dialysis patients — possibly offering a new approach to treatment of kidney disease-related [...]

Low-Glycemic-Index Diet Not Easy To Obtain – TopNews United States

Low-Glycemic-Index Diet Not Easy To Obtain – TopNews United States Welcome back to Health and Fitness, the blog that brings you new and thought provoking snippets of weight loss diet news and views sourced just for you right here: TopNews United States Low-Glycemic-Index Diet Not Easy To ObtainTopNews United States“It's very difficult to know if [...]