A BMJ study of two U.S. surveys found people in good health were almost twice as likely to be interested in sex as those in poor health, and men stayed sexually active for more years than women. A health observer cautioned the data cannot show that having sex causes good health.
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Lifestyle
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Lifestyle
The Secret to Helping Your Child Excel in School and in Life
Mercola summarizes the theory of eight intelligences - linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal and naturalist - and argues that schools' focus on the first two leaves children gifted in other ways labeled disabled or underachieving.
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Kids Lose Pounds, Gain Fitness, in Science-Based Regimen
An ARS-funded study assigned 57 overweight Houston middle schoolers, mainly Hispanic, to either a self- and parent-taught plan built around a weight-management textbook or an instructor-led program with four outdoor fitness periods and a nutrition class each week, over six months.
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Marie Osmond's son Michael Blosil commits suicide: What you need to know
Michael Blosil, 18, left a note citing a lifelong battle with depression before jumping to his death from his Los Angeles apartment. The piece turns to FDA research covering 372 trials, which found antidepressants raised suicide risk in people under 25 and lowered it after 65.
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New Treatment Helps Cancer Without Drugs: Why Hasn't the FDA Approved It?
Dietrich Klinghardt describes autonomic resonance testing, the diagnostic system he developed that reads changes in muscle tone, and Mercola points readers to an earlier article and a five-disc DVD set on the method.
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Science Finally Reveals How You Can Actually REVERSE Aging
Sierra Sciences CEO Bill Andrews explains telomeres, the caps at the tip of each chromosome arm that run about 15,000 bases at conception, and argues that extending them may alter human aging. Mercola met him at a 2009 longevity gathering.
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Happiness cuts coronary heart disease risk
Following 1,739 healthy adults for about a decade, researchers found each step down in positive emotion came with a 22 percent higher risk of heart disease. Occasional negative feelings did not change the risk.
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Obesity may raise kidney stone risk
Reviewing insurance records for 95,598 people, Johns Hopkins researchers found kidney stones in 4.9 percent of obese participants against 2.6 percent of non-obese ones, with no difference between mild and severe obesity. The study cannot show that obesity causes the stones.
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Childhood obesity linked to premature death in adulthood
Following 4,857 American Indian children for about 24 years, researchers found those in the highest quartile of BMI were more than twice as likely to die of endogenous causes, and the most glucose-intolerant 73 percent more likely, than those in the lowest.
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Do chubby babies need a weight-loss program?
Among 111 children above the 85th BMI percentile, weight gain began around three months and averaged 0.08 excess BMI units a month, with over half overweight by age 2. The piece notes the study itself did not link early weight gain to adult health problems.
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Sharing Your Bed May be Bad for Your Health
Dr. Mercola cites a study finding couples averaged 50 percent more sleep disturbances when they shared a bed, and notes the marital bed became common only with industrial-era crowding. He argues sleeping apart can improve rest, which he ranks alongside diet and exercise.
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Environmental Exposure to Hairspray, Lipstick and Pollution Can Trigger Arthritis
Mercola summarizes reports that environmental factors appear to trigger inflammatory rheumatic disorders, listing second-hand smoke, food and airborne chemicals, jet fuel fumes and UV exposure among suspected triggers, with hairspray and lipstick named as occasional ones.
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Older moms more likely to have child with autism
Janie Shelton and colleagues at UC Davis examined 4.9 million California births and 12,159 autism cases and found a 40-year-old mother faced a 50% greater risk of an autistic child than mothers aged 25 to 29, with risk rising 18% for each five years of maternal age.
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11 year old gives birth to baby boy: What lesson can we learn?
An 11-year-old girl gave birth to a boy. The writer argues a girl that age is not ready for motherhood and urges parents to serve more vegetables and grains and less meat and dairy, citing a study that tied milk drinking to higher IGF-1. An editor's note calls the piece personal opinion.
Lifestyle
Stress Linked to Cancer
Mercola relays research in Nature indicating that everyday emotional or physical stress opens pathways between cells, so cancer-causing mutations sitting in different cells may combine to promote tumour growth rather than having to occur in one cell.
Lifestyle
Lost Sleep Can Never Be Made Up
A study finds that sleep lost over long stretches builds a debt extra weekend sleep cannot repay, with the effects on focus showing up most at night. The post adds advice for teenagers: a consistent bedtime before 10 PM and waking no more than two to three hours later on weekends.
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BMI associated with health status
A European Journal of Epidemiology study of 4,259 people aged 65 and older found those with a BMI under 20 more often had mental distress, hip fracture and low grip strength, while high-BMI groups more often had diabetes and ischemic heart disease. Asthma and poor health followed a U-shape.
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Obese women less likely to breastfeed their babies
Analyzing 2,846 black and 3,517 white women surveyed from 2000 to 2005, researchers found 67.2% of white women breastfed versus 41.2% of black women, and white women nursed longer. Among white women, the odds of starting fell as BMI rose; the link was not significant among black women.
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