A diet based on healthy carbs offers best chance of keeping weight off.
A study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that a diet based on healthy carbohydrates—rather than a low-fat or low-carbohydrate diet—offers the best chance of keeping weight off without bringing unwanted side effects.
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New research shows that the moderate noise level in busy cafés also perks up your creative cognition.
How quiet or noisy should your workplace be in order to optimize creativity?
Five experiments were conducted by researchers led by Ravi Mehta to help understand how ambient sounds affect creative cognition. In one key trial, they tested people’s creativity at different levels of background noise by asking participants to brainstorm ideas for a new type of mattress or enumerate uncommon uses for a common object.
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There is no correlation between an uptick in recent teen drug use and the increased availability of pot.
Teen pot use has not been boosted by the surge in outlets for legal medical marijuana, according to a new study by economists at University of Colorado Denver and other colleges.
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Only 28% of men, compared with 49% of women, see gender bias as still prevalent in the workplace.
There hasn’t been much progress for women seeking top leadership roles in the workplace in the past decade. The percentages of women running large companies, or serving as managing partners of their law firms, or sitting on corporate boards have barely budged even though female graduates continue to pour out of colleges and professional schools.
Continue reading… “Women held back from advancement in the workplace by colleagues’ wives”
Looks like having kids may not make you miserable after all.
Based on early research, the conventional wisdom that’s developed over the past few decades has been that parents are less happy, more depressed and have less-satisfying marriages than their childless counterparts.
Continue reading… “Study: Parents today are happier than their childless counterparts”
More Americans can’t live without their smartphones anymore.
People are using their mobile devices increasingly to settle a dispute, coordinate a meeting, find a restaurant or get emergency information, according to a new study released Monday.
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Jogging regularly can add years to your life.
Jogging regularly may help you live longer, a new study from Denmark suggests. The study finds that women who regularly jogged lived 5.6 years longer than women who didn’t, and men who jogged lived 6.2 years longer than those who didn’t.
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E-mail causes stress at work.
Your email could be killing you!
The University of California, Irvine and United States Army researchers released a new study on Thursday which found that people who do not look at e-mail on a regular basis at work are less stressed and more productive.
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Brain scans can show the difference between ”go-getters” and ”slackers”.
Scientists have identified neural pathways that appear to influence an individual’s willingness to work hard to earn money. Lazy people who prefer to live off others may have brains that are wired for under-achievement, according to a new study.
Energy drink habit among teens is causing irreversible damage to teeth as the high acidity levels in the drinks erode tooth enamel.
Scientists have warned that teenagers’ love of energy drinks is taking a terrible toll on their teeth. A study published in the Academy of General Dentistry charted an alarming increase in the consumption of both energy and sports drinks among young adults in the U.S. who use them to help get through the day.
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Forty-eight percent of the time, drivers either neglect to use their signals when changing lanes or fail to turn the signals off.
A new study finds a more serious problem than distracted driving that’s responsible for as many as 2 million accidents annually.
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Every hour a baby is born in the United States with symptoms of withdrawal from opiates.
During the last decade the U.S. has seen a sharp increase in the number of pregnant women addicted to opiate drugs and the number of babies born experiencing withdrawal symptoms as the fastest growing abuse of prescription drugs has hit hospital maternity wards across the country.
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