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    Workouts are no antidote to death by desk job

    This New Scientist article, usually accessible only to subscribers, is made available for free by Philips MICHAEL JENSEN is talking to me on the phone, but his voice is drowned out by what sounds like a vacuum cleaner. Or maybe ...
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    How to master your habits and take control of your life

    I’M STARING down at my fingers on the keyboard with some shame and disappointment. I expected them to look different by now. When I set out to write about habits, I vowed to break one of my own – biting ...
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    Are We Born Craving a Balanced Diet?

    “He won’t eat anything but cornflakes,” complained the mother of a boy I used to know. Breakfast, lunch, dinner — always a bowl of cornflakes and milk. Even at other people’s houses, he made no concessions. To his mother, his ...
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    Your gut’s trick for controlling the bacteria that live in it

    The bacteria living in our gut may have powerful effects on us, but we aren’t entirely at their mercy. We now have the first evidence of the mechanism our bodies use to keep these microbial hangers-on in check. There are ...
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    Food vs you: How your dinner controls you

    How the trouble starts This New Scientist article, usually accessible only to subscribers, is made available for free by Philips FOR those of us who would like to shed a few pounds, dietary advice usually boils down to brute arithmetic. ...
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    Work Schedule Is Top Barrier to Staying Healthy

    “The Mayo Clinic National Health Check-Up takes a pulse on Americans’ health opinions and behaviors, from barriers to getting healthy to perceptions of aging, to help identify opportunities to educate and empower people to improve their health,” says John T. ...
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    Are people suffering as a result of ultrasound in the air?

    New research from the University of Southampton indicates that the public are being exposed, without their knowledge, to airborne ultrasound. The study found increasing exposure to ultrasound in locations such as railway stations, museums, libraries, schools and sports stadiums, in ...
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    Bitter truth: How we’re making fruit and veg less healthy

    WHERE have all the white grapefruit gone? When I was a kid, they were almost the only kind around, but today white grapefruit are hard to find in my local shops, often replaced by sweeter pink or red varieties. I’m not ...
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    Sand-Covered Gyms

    The ‘Baja Body Athletic Club’ covered one of its workout rooms with a sand floor in an attempt of increase the intensity of members’ workouts. The interior of the room was only altered with a sand floor while everything else ...