A new study has found that a chemical found in large quantities in fast food and margarine causes aggression.
Trans fat can actually make you angry – and should not be fed to school pupils, a new study has warned. A chemical called ‘trans fatty acids’ – found in large quantities in margarine, and also in other fast foods – makes people aggressive and irritable.
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The body may compensate for the sugar rush of soft drinks by making its own supply of fats.
Men who drink only one sugar-laden soft drink every day could be dramatically increasing the odds of having a heart attack. A study of more than 40,000 men suggested that a daily sugar-sweetened drink raised the chances of having a heart attack – including a deadly one – by 20 per cent.
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Why do American children depend on their parents to do things for them that they are capable of doing for themselves?
Elinor Ochs, an anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles and her colleagues, have studied family life as far away as Samoa and the Peruvian Amazon region, but for the last decade they have focused on a society closer to home: the American middle class.
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Ambitious people are unhappier.
A new study found while people who are ‘go-getters’ are more likely to attend prestigious universities and hold high-paying jobs, they are only slightly happier than their less-ambitious counterparts—and actually live shorter lives.
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Many employees are feeling out of sorts and tired because the clocks have sprung ahead an hour.
Monday on Twitter, DST and daylight savings were trending, and the theme of many of the tweets had to do with workers’ difficulties adjusting to the time switcheroo.
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A single dose of LSD helped give alcoholics a new insight into their heavy drinking and made it less likely they would relapse.
The mind-bending drug, LSD could be used to treat alcoholism, as the hallucinogenic trips it creates alter the drinker’s perception of their habit.
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A significant number of pilots say that sleepiness has caused safety problems on the job.
A major study conducted by the National Sleep Foundation has found that airline pilots are some of the sleepiest transportation workers in the country, along with train operators.
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Propranolol
The common heart disease drug, Propranolol, may have the unusual side-effect of combating racism, a new study suggests.
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Lower-income people struggled the most with medical debt.
One in 5 Americans say their families are having trouble paying their medical bills, according to a new survey. Worse, half of those who are struggling say they are unable to pay a single dime toward those debts.
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Relationship satisfaction was directly related to men’s ability to read their female partner’s positive emotions correctly.
According to a new study published by the American Psychological Association, men like to know when their wife or girlfriend is happy while women really want the man in their life to know when they are upset
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About 10 percent of children snore regularly.
Parents may have more to worry about than just a noisy bedtime when their children snore. Irregular breathing during sleep could actually have much more serious implications for a child’s behavior.
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Most of that sweet fare is coming from home.
In recent years, America’s intake of sugary foods and drinks has dropped, but kids in the U.S. are still consuming too much, government researchers say.
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