How bad, exactly, is anger for your health? Let this article in the Wall Street Journal count the ways. The journal reports that anger releases adrenaline and cortisol, which can trigger an increase in heart rate, blood pressure and sugar metabolism. That’s great if you’re being attacked by a saber-toothed […]

Readers who would prefer a longer life should note well: Researchers at Harvard Medical School tracked about 370,000 people -all aged from 50 to 71- from the mid-1990s, when they took surveys, through the year 2009. The envelope please… the researchers found that those who ate the most fiber were 17 […]

Let’s go right to the numbers: How much exercise does a man have to do to have noticeably better sex? Answer: Two hours of strenuous exercise, 3.5 hours of moderate exercise, or six hours of light exercise a week. For those readers interested in more information, there’s this: HealthDay reports […]

Over the years, vitamin D has been hailed, and often unhailed, as a cure for several unpleasant conditions. Now comes research from the Medical University of South Carolina suggesting that it can slow the progression of some non-aggressive prostate cancers. Science Daily reports that researchers at the school conducted a randomized, controlled […]

Drinking wine may be good for your heart, but for brain health, you may need another beverage: milk. Researchers at the University of Kansas Medical Center who asked 60 people about their milk consumption and took scans of their brains are convinced that people who drink a lot of milk have higher […]

At least two good things often happen in bed, and now researchers at the University of Michigan Sleep and Circadian Research Laboratory believe they are related. HealthDay reports that scientists at the sleep lab surveyed 171 college-age women, who kept diaries of their sleep for 14 consecutive days and reported whether […]

Does drinking diet soda make us fat, or do fat people drink more diet soda than thinner people; that is the question. And the answer is……nobody knows. What researchers do know is that there is an association between the consumption of noncaloric sodas and a wider waist circumference. HealthDay reports that […]

Can walking, yes just walking, really reduce cancer-related fatigue? Researchers at McGill University think so. A McGill U news release reports on a pilot study that assigned eight-week-long personalized walking exercises to 26 people with advanced cancer. Participants who walked less than 5,000 steps per day were told to increase their […]

Energy may be good thing, but energy at the price of increased blood pressure? You decide. Science Daily reports that researchers at the Mayo Clinic gave a can of a commercially available energy drink or a placebo drink to 25 healthy young adults, age 19 to 40, then measured changes in […]

Ok, the first thing you should know is that the research was done with fruit flies, not people, although earlier research has shown that people who eat later in the day are more likely to suffer from heart disease. Science Daily reports that researchers at the Broad Institute have found that […]