Green tea contains antioxidant chemicals that may help ward off the cell damage that can lead to disease.
Over time, elderly adults who regularly drink green tea may stay more agile and independent than their peers, according to a Japanese study that covered thousands of people.
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Some perfectly functional middle-agers still turn to the drugs of their youth.
A burned-out Baby Boomer using hard drugs way into middle age may conjure images of addiction, destruction and death.
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Researchers monitored people’s brain waves with an EEG while they looked at pictures ranging from war photos to pictures of kittens.
Women remember unpleasant events far less accurately than men do, say researchers at the University of Montreal.
Urges to keep on top of social networks and work were the hardest to resist.
It is more difficult to resist the urge to check social networking sites for updates than turning down a drink, according to a study of people’s everyday desires.
Ozone pollution generated in each of the Northern Hemisphere’s major industrialized regions damages six important agricultural crops.
Europe loses 1.2 million tons of wheat a year due to man-made pollution from North America, an new study has found.
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It may be easier for people to lie in a text message.
People might fib more frequently when text messaging, suggests a new study.
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The “Proustian phenomenon” proposes that distinctive smells have more power than any other sense to help us recall distant memories.
A new study shows smells can transport us back to powerful and emotional memories from the past more effectively than sounds, supporting a theory by Marcel Proust.
Women, young people, and those on low pay with moderate alcohol consumption most at risk.
Workers who spend long hours at the office are more than twice as likely to develop depression as those who do a standard day, according to a study.
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Harvard study finds the iPad is putting a lot of strain on the neck muscles.
A record breaking 15.43 million iPads have been sold by Apple in the last three months of 2011, which means a lot of people are starting to use tablet computers. And with last week’s news that Apple is planning to bring textbooks to the iPad — well, that’s a lot more people who may start to use tablets, too.
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Heart attack deaths in England are half the 2002 level.
The death rate from heart attacks in England has dropped by half in the last decade, according to British researchers.
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Study found kids’ weight, cholesterol and blood pressure helped predict the odds of a parent developing heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes over the next three decades.
When children have high cholesterol or blood pressure, their parents may have increased risks of diabetes and heart disease down the road, according to a new study.
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Managers who fail to exercise ‘more abusive to employees’.
A new study has found stressed supervisors struggled to cope with time pressures and vented their frustrations at subordinates without regular physical activity.
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