The good news is that, yes, red wine is better for us than grape juice. Karen Weintraub, writing in the New York Times, tells us why. “Because the fermentation process involved in making wine changes the makeup of the juice, and the skin of the grape, which is loaded with […]

Every five years, the government’s Agriculture and Health and Human Services Departments update their dietary guidelines, and yes, the latest edition just went live. What’s new? Eggs get a pass, as the new guidelines removed limits on cholesterol. And sugar takes a big hit, with the recommendation that sugar represent no […]

Here are some alarming numbers: every person who enters our homes emits 38 million bacterial cells an hour. In fact, even if a guest walked into the kitchen and held their breath, they still would slough off 10 million bacterial cells in just 60 minutes through skin shed. Those numbers come […]

For men with slow-growing prostate cancer, three aspirin a week can reduce the risk of developing lethal cancer by 34 percent, and the risk of dying of prostate cancer by 39 percent. That’s the finding of a new analysis from the long-running Physicians’ Health Study, a longitudinal trial at Brigham […]

Ski helmets save lives. But they only work if you put them on your head. That’s the word from researchers at Johns Hopkins, whose 2012 found that helmets worn by skiers and snowboarders decrease the risk and severity of head injuries and yes, they save lives. A Johns Hopkins news […]

Does smoking marijuana make us want to drink more? Or does smoking marijuana make us drink less? That’s the question that researchers at the University of Washington set out to answer when they sat down to review more than 750 studies on marijuana and alcohol use, focusing on 15 that […]

A few more things that are changed for the better by exercise: the hundred trillion bacteria in your gut. This suggestion comes from researchers a the University of Colorado, who are convinced that exercise, especially exercise at a young age–when our microbrial community is particularly plastic– can encourage a microbial […]

Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as too much food, and it arrives reliably with the December holidays. Fortunately, University of Florida nutrition expert Michelle Cardel has a few tips to get us through without adding extra pounds. Ready? Here we go, straight from University of Florida news. 1) […]

Once a year, readers’ concern for reindeer fitness appears to skyrocket, so to speak, so we are pleased to report on the latest study of the animal’s remarkable cooling system, often used in endurance flights. HealthDay reports that when researchers at the University of Tromso put reindeer through their terrestrial […]