Doctors kill 2,450% more Americans than all gun-related deaths combined.
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Coffee Really Does Make You Live Longer, After All
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Caffeine addicts, rejoice: all the coffee youre downing over the course of a day could be lengthening your lifespan. For real. According to research published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, people who drank four or five cups…
Facebook Tied To Feeling Fat, Eating Disorders
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“Do I look fat?” The answer is a resounding yes if you’re on Facebook. But it’s not your friends telling you, it’s yourself. Facebook is fueling our thin-obsessed culture, says a new study from the Center for Eating Disorders at…
The Dilemma of Pink Slime: Cost or Culture?
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Pink slime is the pejorative term for “lean finely textured beef,” a product designed to recover useful bits from carcass trimmings. These are warmed, centrifuged to remove the fat, treated with ammonium hydroxide gas to kill pathogens and compressed into…
Kids do best if autism is identified early
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At 18 months, Cristina Astacio spoke only a few words, wouldn’t respond to her name and shunned other kids in her day care group. Last October, her worried parents found out why. She has a mild form of autism, a…
Debut of U.S. anti-smoking ads leads to boom in calls
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More than twice as many people called a toll-free number to help them quit smoking a week after the launch of a $54 million ad campaign that shows graphic images of diseased smokers, U.S. federal health officials say. Calls to…