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Diet Danger: Eating Fried Food Daily Could Increase Your Risk Of An Extra-Crispy Early Death

Filed Under: Nutrition

Diet Danger: Eating Fried Food Daily Could Increase Your Risk Of An Extra-Crispy Early Death
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Fried Food Dangers. Your Health Is Getting Smoked:
One of the problems many of us have is deciding how to help ourselves through diet.

This can involve anything from fad-diets to crazy movie-star weight-loss plans,

To something as simple as just trying to get less sugar.

But recently, it seems that some food may be damn-near poisonous.

Especially with the revelations about harmful chemicals in fast-food packaging materials.

And to add to that list of risks, a team from the University of Iowa is discovering that deep-fried foods may be particularly dangerous…

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Reversing Wrinkles: Smoothing Out Your Skin Could Soon Be A 1-Pill Reality With Help From Babies

Filed Under: Aging

Reversing Wrinkles: Smoothing Out Your Skin Could Soon Be A 1-Pill Reality With Help From Babies
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Wrinkles Could Be Removed With Accidental New Discovery:
So one of the problems people have as they get older, is that as much and as many ways they try to improve themselves,

Sometimes, their outside appearance doesn’t catch-up with how they feel inside.

Even though for many self-improvers and age-defiers the idea that “Age Is Just A Number” absolutely-applies.

Well, some researchers at UCSD have found the next step in the journey to making your outside look as good as your inside…

Note Please: The proposed-fix does not involve installing babies on your face.

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What Animal Do You Even Lift? As Part Of Your Fitness Resolutions, Answer This Important Question

Filed Under: Exercise

What Animal Do You Even Lift? As Part Of Your Fitness Resolutions, Answer This Important Question
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What Animal Do You Even Lift? -If You Lift…:
We all try to make ambitious New Year’s Resolutions,

Because a great deal of us are self-improvers, especially the visitors to this site.

And after you have found the answers to the important questions you ask yourself every New Year,

Like, “Do You Even Lift?”,

The next one should definitely be, “Which Animal?”…

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Dry January Health Benefits: A Little Tea-Totaling Temperance Could Fix More Than Just The Holiday Bloat

Filed Under: Nutrition

Dry January Health Benefits: A Little Tea-Totaling Temperance Could Fix More Than Just The Holiday Bloat
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Dry January Benefits. Temporary Discipline, Lasting Health:
Towards the end of every year at the holiday season, we all seem to have a few drinks.

And while that’s fine, it’s the excesses that cause problems.

A little bit of fun can sometimes spiral out of control and have unforeseen consequences.

But a relatively new program launched in the UK a few years ago is seeing some interesting results,

And the study data is stacking up to back those results up….

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Loneliness By Age Group: Different Times Of Life May Make The Epidemic Even Worse

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Loneliness By Age Group: Different Times Of Life May Make The Epidemic Even Worse
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Loneliness By Age, Risks Increase Across Lifespan:
Many people feel lonely in their day-to-day lives.

That feeling seems particularly keen around the holiday time of year, when everyone’s supposed to be happy, joyous, perfect, and above-all, Together.

Any deficit in those areas can make a person feel terribly-isolated.

It turns-out Science has found this peak-feeling may be even more difficult for people of 3 particular age-groups…

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Hangover Cure By UCLA & Chinese Researchers To Be In Pill-Form Soon, Does Not Contain Sprite [Video]

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Hangover Cure By UCLA & Chinese Researchers To Be In Pill-Form Soon, Does Not Contain Sprite [Video]


Hangover Cures Are Tough To Find, But This May Be It:
So as all of us get ready for some of the most prime drinking days of the season,

One of the “Ghosts of Christmas Past” that still lingers is: Hangovers.

And as much as we love to live-it-up on the big holidays, the after-effects often still haunt us.

Well, SCIENCE! is changing that with a set of experiments on how to power-up what our bodies already do,

Using natural enzymes to neutralize the worst parts of the drinking experience.

And it looks like they’re getting pretty close to that fabled “Hangover Cure”…

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Moderate Drinking Benefits: Harvard-Italy Study Suggests Wine Every Day Is Healthy

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Moderate Drinking Benefits: Harvard-Italy Study Suggests Wine Every Day Is Healthy
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Moderate Wine Drinking May Be Healthier At Least In Italy:
In the constant-war that seems to be the research-space dedicated to cell-phone cancers, organic vs. non-organic produce, and Does Alcohol Kill You?,

There seems to be a new study out every 3 months telling you the opposite of the last.

Recently, we all heard of one that suggests no amount of alcohol is safe.

This seemed to be an over-reaction typical of WHO or EU health-authorities.

So after a recent study hit the skids over some conflicts, a new team with one of those Harvard docs tried again with better data…

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Music And Your Immune-System: How Positive Vibes Make You Happy & Healthy

Filed Under: Disease

Music And Your Immune-System: How Positive Vibes Make You Happy & Healthy
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Music May Magically Boost Your Immune System:
Many times, because it’s always there just laying around like a lazy basset hound, we can take our minds for granted.

And perhaps underestimate them; until they cause a problem.

But on the benefit-side, our minds can also help in more ways than we might think.

If you’ve ever had a favorite workout-song that you always thought got you supernaturally pumped-up, you may not have been imagining things.

And researchers at McGill University and the Max Planck Institute are finding out it doesn’t just make you more active, it may even make you healthier…

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