Gretchen Reynolds, health columnist for the New York Times, has found some more evidence that exercise can slow the aging process. Aging is a process, right? Reynolds directs us to research conducted at the University of Mississippi and University of California, San Francisco, correlated the length of telomeres with amounts […]

Feel like you need a little testosterone boost? Fire someone. According to researchers at the University of Michigan, that works well, and it works particularly well if you’re a woman. HealthDay reports that researchers at the school found that firing someone increased the level of testosterone in women about 10 […]

Hold the bacon. Also, hold the sausages. In fact, hold all the processed meat, which according to the World Health Organization increases the risk of colon cancer. How much?  The New York Times reports that a person’s risk of colorectal cancer rises by a factor of about 1.1 or 1.2 […]

Let’s say you’ve got a problem. And of course, because you work in modern office, you’ve got a team to solve it. Is that really the best way to go? Now comes a business professor at Boston University who, working with a small team, came up with this answer: it […]

Yes, shoulder dislocations hurt. So does recovery from the surgery that often follows dislocations. Now comes a study from St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto suggesting that surgery can do more harm than good, by prolonging the recovery period from a shoulder dislocation. Researchers at the hospital studied the progress of […]

Why do people who are in touch with their feelings have less belly fat that others? Researchers don’t really know, but they are fairly certain that people with a high awareness of their present thoughts and feelings — “dispositional mindfulness” — have about a pound less belly fat on average. […]

Here’s a sneaky and fun pastime. Take a look at what foods are sitting on your neighbors’ countertops, then take a look at your neighbors. See anything interesting? Researchers at Cornell University’s Food and Brand Lab tried it, and here’s what they saw. The Cornell Chronicle reports that researchers looked […]

Cramped muscles, as New York Times health columnist Gretchen Reynolds tells us, were long thought to result from dehydration. Not anymore. That supposition was disproved when tests showed that it takes the same amount of small electric shocks administered to muscles of athletes who were dehydrated and athletes who were not […]

So you want to blog about healthy foods? Rule number one: lose those extra pounds. Researchers at Cornell University know this because they randomly assigned 230 people to one of two groups, both of which were shown pictures of the same ten meals– including black bean and cheese quesadillas, chopped […]

Is coffee really a health drink? Not exactly, but the Wall Street Journal has found a Harvard professor who thinks it may be, kind of. The paper talks with Eric Rimm, a professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who goes far enough to […]