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One third of cancers are caused by lifestyle choices. That also means that over one third of cancers are avoidable by choosing different life style options.

How’s your mood these days? A study of millions of tweets on the popular online Twitter service shows most people feel best in the morning.

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead Every hour spent on the sofa watching TV is bad for your heart.

Young Adults Who Exercise Have Higher IQ Scores Young adults who are fit have a higher IQ and are more likely to go on to university.

Walking at the Right Pace New research tells us how you can improve your walking regimen with a pedometer: The magic number for most people is 100.

Omega-3 fatty acids for depression: Depression during pregnancy is very common. A small study may hold clues toward non-drug treatment alternatives.

Whole Diet May Ward Off Depression and Anxiety
A traditional or whole diet characterized by vegetables, fruit, whole grains, and high-quality meat and fish may help prevent mental illness.

Mediterranean Diet Relieves Symptoms of Arthritis: people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) felt some relief of their pain and symptoms after switching to the Mediterranean diet. But there's a hitch...

How to lower your bad LDL Cholesterol: Eat a diet with lots of this and you are well on your way...

Internet Addiction: Make the Connection The Internet has revolutionized such things as shopping, politics and entertainment. But for many people going online is not just about convenience. It's about the need to be online. And it interferes with social, professional and personal activities and obligations. A recent study sheds some light on this under-reported condition.

Do you have an internet addiction? Take our one-minute screening test here.

Cell Phones and Cancer: In May 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) labeled radiation emitted from cell phones as “possibly carcinogenic”, and research supporting this conclusion was published subsequently. So, is it time to get rid of your cell phone? The scientific evidence so far is weak and inconclusive, but that also it could not be ignored completely. Hence the cautious label. Interestingly, low and intermediate exposure to radiation appeared to decrease the risk for cancer. Only high exposure increased it. But we need to be careful: “... the effects that the researchers are looking for here may not be observable for 20 or 30 years. It could be similar to what was seen with cigarettes and cancer in which several decades of smoking behavior in patients were often necessary to uncover the linkage.”

Children and adolescents especially should be careful about excessive cell phone use, since their brains are smaller and still developing and more susceptible to radiation.

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And just when we thought, we had a reasonable answer... along comes another study that seems to completely contradict the results and recommendations of the WHO meta-study above. This study shows no correlation between cell phone use in kids and cancer.

The caution, however, is that there are no longitudinal studies out there. Kids and teenagers who grew up using cell phones just have not reached their 40s or 50s and we don’t know if and how radiation from cell phones will affect them later in life.

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