Everything from the size of your plate to the color of your food may be telling you to eat more than you actually need. The good news is you can use psychology to your advantage, if you learn a few tricks of the trade.
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Deception Diet: How Optical Illusions Can Trick Your Appetite : The Salt : NPR
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The antidepressant Prozac selectively targets the chemical serotonin. When the drug was introduced in the 1980s, it helped solidify the idea in many minds that depression was the result of a chemical imbalance. But the real story is far more complicated.
New tick-borne bacterium found in upper Midwest | Reuters
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Researchers in Minnesota have discovered a new bacterium carried by deer ticks that has caused flu-like symptoms in at least 25 people in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The bacterium, which is yet unnamed, is part of the Ehrlichia genus. Other species in the genus, such as Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Ehrlichia ewingii, are transmitted by ticks in the southeastern and south-central United States.
The bacterium, which is yet unnamed, is part of the Ehrlichia genus. Other species in the genus, such as Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Ehrlichia ewingii, are transmitted by ticks in the southeastern and south-central United States.
Study: Healthy eating is privilege of the rich
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A healthy diet is expensive and could make it difficult for Americans to meet new U.S. nutritional guidelines, according to a study published Thursday that says the government should do more to help consumers eat healthier.
A update of what used to be known as a food pyramid in 2010 had called on Americans to eat more foods containing potassium, dietary fiber, vitamin D and calcium. But if they did that, the journal Health Affairs said, they would add hundreds more dollars to their annual grocery bill.
A update of what used to be known as a food pyramid in 2010 had called on Americans to eat more foods containing potassium, dietary fiber, vitamin D and calcium. But if they did that, the journal Health Affairs said, they would add hundreds more dollars to their annual grocery bill.
Antidepressants have become some of the most commonly used drugs in the United States, yet most of them aren't prescribed by psychiatrists.
And what's more, almost three-quarters of the prescriptions are written without a specific diagnosis, according to a new study, raising the question of whether antidepressants are being prescribed too often.
And what's more, almost three-quarters of the prescriptions are written without a specific diagnosis, according to a new study, raising the question of whether antidepressants are being prescribed too often.
Doctors Who Can’t Communicate Kill 98,000 Patients A Year | ThinkProgress
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Virginia Tech Carilion Medical School, the nation’s newest medical school, is now requiring that students not only have excellent test scores for admissions, but exceptional communication skills. The school conducts nine brief interviews that require candidates to show their social skills and calmness in “navigating a health care system in which good communication has become critical.” The Joint Commission, a hospital accreditation group, found a lack of communication between doctors and other medical staff to be the leading causes of medical errors—communication being the cause of as many as
BBC News - Gonorrhoea strain found to be 'resistant to antibiotics'
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A new strain of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea has become resistant to antibiotics, international research shows.
Analysis of the bacterium that causes gonorrhoea found a new variant which is very effective at mutating.
Scientists from the Swedish Reference Laboratory warn that the infection could now become a global threat to public health.
Analysis of the bacterium that causes gonorrhoea found a new variant which is very effective at mutating.
Scientists from the Swedish Reference Laboratory warn that the infection could now become a global threat to public health.
California teenagers to get whooping cough vaccination | Reuters
Posted by admin 217 days ago (http://www.reuters.com)
A California law that takes effect on Friday requires all students in grades 7 through 12 to get booster vaccinations to combat what state health officials say is an outbreak of the illness.
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