In America, 29.1 million Americans – that's 9.3% of the population – have diabetes. Both types 1 and 2 diabetes affect roughly 380 million people around the glo...
Reading is pretty much universally recognized as a source of intelligence. It's a leisurely activity that seems to be placed a few levels above most others.
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The food industry has no shortage of awful secrets just waiting to be uncovered. In the past, we've spoken about tuna that isn't really tuna, food that gives yo...
One of the weirdest things that happens sometimes is when I'm talking on the phone and I get a bit of bounce-back, and hear my own voice echoing for a second.
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According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses in the United States, affecting 40 millio...
Our culture is obsessed with staying clean. Hand sanitizer dispensers seem to be on every other corner, people carry around disinfecting wipes with them, parent...
More than half of the world's population lives in cities, and study after study has shown that urban life may be taking a toll on our health and well-being. Exp...
For years people have been debating whether butter or margarine is better for your heart. Researchers have been divided for decades on the subject.
It seems ...
As people get older, they tend to rely on medications to help them live life comfortably. However, many of these medications could be increasing a person’s chan...
Silence is pretty hard to come by in the modern world.
We have a seemingly infinite number of outlets for our rambling. From blogs to social media, if you ha...
In 2010, Canadian doctor Christopher Charles when to Cambodia and discovered that many local children were suffering from iron deficiency. The adults weren't fa...
Few things reveal the power of the human mind more than the placebo effect. Put simply, a dud pill or treatment can have a powerful effect on everything from de...
