LONDON (Reuters) – Drug addicts and their non-addicted siblings share certain features in the brain, suggesting a susceptibility to addiction is inherited but is also a flaw that can be overcome, scientists said on Thursday. Researchers who scanned the brains of 50 pairs of brothers and sisters of whom one was a cocaine addict found [...]
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February 3, 2012
February 3, 2012
Potatoes lower blood pressure in people with obesity and hypertension without increasing weight
ScienceDaily (Feb. 1, 2012) The first study to check the effects of eating potatoes on blood pressure in humans has concluded that two small helpings of purple potatoes (Purple Majesty) a day decreases blood pressure by about 4 percent without causing weight gain. In a report in the ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food [...]
February 3, 2012
"Yo-yo dieting" not tied to early death: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite earlier concerns, dieters who repeatedly lose weight and then gain it back aren’t at higher risk of early death than people who don’t “yo-yo diet,” according to a new report. About two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, and many are trying to shed the extra pounds. Over the [...]
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