Johns Hopkins researchers followed 10,892 adults for up to 17 years and found people who quit smoking faced a 70 percent higher risk of type 2 diabetes in the first six years, still 30 percent higher at the study's end. They suspect weight gain after quitting.
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Lifestyle
Love Really Can Cure a Broken Heart
Researchers report in Basic Research in Cardiology that infusing oxytocin cut cell deaths in an injured heart and lowered inflammatory factors that can slow healing. Outside of labour, skin-to-skin contact is the main way people release the hormone.
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Create More Time & Help the Environment
Mercola cites a MindClick GSM study calculating that an in-store Black Friday purchase carries 50 times the environmental impact of a Cyber Monday online one, and that buying in a store generally produces more than 15 times the carbon emissions of buying online.
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Teens lacking sleep more likely to suffer depression
A study in the journal Sleep of 15,659 adolescents found teens who regularly slept five hours or less were 71 percent more likely to suffer depression and 48 percent more likely to think of suicide. Researchers say teens need nine hours; participants averaged 7 hours 53 minutes.
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Early menstruation linked to higher heart disease risk
British researchers report that women who began menstruating before age 12 faced a 23 percent higher risk of heart disease, a 28 percent higher risk of dying from heart attack or stroke, and a 25 percent higher risk of dying from cancer.
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Lose Sleep, Gain Weight: Another Piece of the Obesity Puzzle
Angela Spivey reports that epidemiologic and experimental studies correlate shorter sleep with obesity, hypertension and other metabolic disorders, and that researchers increasingly tie this to circadian disruption from light, noise and round-the-clock schedules.
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Quitting smoking helps heart attack survivors
Israeli researchers followed 1,500 heart attack survivors for 13 years and found those who quit smoking were 37 percent less likely to die during follow-up than those who kept smoking. People who had never smoked had a 43 percent lower risk of dying.
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Hangover Hurts Performance
Brown University researchers brought 95 young heavy drinkers to a 0.11 percent blood alcohol level on bourbon or vodka. Bourbon, richer in congeners, left them feeling worse the next morning, but both drinks worsened sustained attention equally.
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Exercise indeed cuts death risk from breast cancer
Duke researchers implanted human breast cancer cells in mice on a high-fat diet and found tumors grew at similar rates in running and sedentary animals, but blood perfusion and vascularization improved with exercise. They say the change may bear on metastasis and therapy.
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Do Cold Temperatures Improve Sleep?
Studies put the best sleeping temperature at roughly 60 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit, because a cool room helps core body temperature drop and start sleepiness. Insomniacs tend to run warmer before bed, and a hot-water bottle at the feet can dilate vessels and lower core temperature.
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How You Can Normalize Your Blood Pressure Without Drugs
Dr. Mercola argues that high-grain, low-fat diets are the wrong combination for hypertension, and points to 1998 research in Diabetes reporting that nearly two-thirds of insulin-resistant subjects also had high blood pressure.
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Casual sex does not cause emotional problems
University of Minnesota researchers surveyed 737 women and 574 men averaging 20.5 years old and found psychological well-being no different among those whose last sexual partner was casual and those in committed relationships. Men reported casual encounters twice as often as women.
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How Dangerous is Outdoor Second-Hand Smoke?
A study of cotinine in nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke outdoors found levels up to 162 percent above the control group. Separate research identified bacteria of medical significance, including Acinetobacter, Klebsiella and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, in every cigarette tested.
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Loneliness raises breast cancer risk
University of Chicago researchers kept rats in isolation and exposed them to stress: the animals produced more corticosterone and showed a 3.3-fold increase in breast cancer risk, with 135 percent more tumors and far larger ones. Author Martha McClintock wants targets for intervention identified.
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Men Married to Smart Women Live Longer
Swedish Institute for Social Research data on more than 1.5 million people found men live significantly longer when married to or living with a college-educated woman — her schooling mattering more than his. Dr. Mercola suggests shared habits and mental stimulation may explain it.
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Shunning the Family Bed. Who Benefits Most?
Mercola relays Jay Gordon's argument that babies sharing a bed with sober, nonsmoking parents on a safe surface face a near-zero chance of SIDS, and that crib makers, not parents, should have to prove separate sleep is safe.
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Secondhand smoking raises breast cancer risk
The piece backs the US Preventive Services Task Force's move to start mammograms at 50, arguing screening has not been shown to cut mortality and citing Samuel Epstein's point that tumours are found long before doctors can tell which ones threaten a patient's life.
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Smoking linked to colorectal cancer
Following 185,000 people aged 50 to 74 from 1992 to 2005, American Cancer Society researchers found those who smoked 40 years or more, or had not quit by 40, faced a 30 to 50 percent higher risk of colon or rectal cancer after adjusting for 13 other risk factors.
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