Reader beware: this is not an old wive’s tale, at least not yet. It’s based on research conducted at Northumbria and Oxford Universities, where scientists suspected that people might be genetically inclined to be either promiscuous or faithful. They looked for another genetic manifestation–the length of ring fingers compared to the […]

The glycemic index, which as the New York Times’ Anahad O’Connor explains, “reflects the extent to which carbohydrate-containing foods raise a person’s blood sugar and subsequent need for insulin,” has served as a kind of biblical guide to many who pay attention to what they eat. Theory has is that low […]

Is there anything that red wine is not good for? A few days after reading that the heart-healthy beverage can improve our memories, we learn of research conducted at Oregon State University suggesting that it can help us burn fat. Wow! Smarter and thinner; what’s not to like? Science Daily […]

First the bad news: from the age 25 or so, our brains begin to wither, and with that withering comes some functional loss. And now the good news: researchers at UCLA, building on earlier work that suggested people who meditate have less age-related atrophy in the brain’s white matter, have found […]

Much, perhaps too much, has been written about the heart health benefits of resveratrol, an antioxidant found in the skin of red grapes, and yes, in red wine, peanuts and some berries. Now comes another apparent benefit of resveratrol; it appears to have positive effects on the hippocampus, an area […]

The beauty of a natural landscape or a Mozart concerto for strings apparently gives us more than a momentary thrill. According to researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, it’s good for our health. How do they know? A Berkeley news release reports that scientists have linked positive emotions […]

Yes, Virginia, jogging is good for your health, but it may be possible in the case of jogging to have too much of a good thing. A new Danish study that followed 1,100 healthy joggers and 413 sedentary people for more than 12 years suggests that people least likely to […]

Older adults who would like build muscles should eat twice the amount of protein recommended by federal health experts. How do we know? Because researchers at the Center for Translational Research in Aging and Longevity at the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences […]

It’s old news, but it’s still depressing.  In 2008, yet another year that the Patriots played in the Superbowl, the New York Times reported that researchers at Clemson University had looked into the likelihood that bacteria would be transferred by double dipping chips or crackers in a bowl of party […]

Can beer help keep Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease at bay? It’s not as crazy as it sounds. Science Daily reports that researchers at Lanzhou University in China are convinced that the anti-oxidative powers of xanthohumol, a compound found in hops, could protect the neuronal cells of the brain, and slow the development of […]