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The Harsh Life of a Smoker

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Life as a smoker has never been as difficult as it is today: warning labels on cigarette packs, smoke-free zones in public buildings, price increases, and almost daily bad news in the media. Non-smokers are angry at their fellow citizens who smoke. And yet the number of smokers is rising. Around 100,000 young people worldwide […]

The Buzz on Caffeinated Beverages

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Caffeine: Are the Perks Worth the Price? Caffeine is the world’s most widely used drug. Approximately 90 percent of Americans consume caffeine in some form every day. Is a caffeine habit harmless, or can it constitute an addiction to a potent drug? Janice Keller Phelps, MD, shares how at an addictions conference where she guest lectured, juice […]

Engineered for Success

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In September 2017, Harvey pounded Texas with such violence that it put 2/3 of Houston under water. Irma followed shortly after, crushing the Caribbean Islands, pounding Florida, and wreaking havoc in surrounding islands. Aside from the indescribable human and private property loss, these hurricanes inflicted more than 500 billion dollars in damage. Storm-ravaged cities face […]

Scientific Facts about Exercise that Few People Know

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I’m going to bring you something different in terms of mental health. What role do exercise and good nutrition have for your mental powers? The organ in our body that enables us to think, feel and make decisions is the brain, which, in an adult, weighs about 3 pounds (1.5 kg). God created the brain […]

Intermittent Fasting to Control Diabetes and Obesity

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People with obesity, high blood sugar, high blood pressure or high cholesterol are often advised to eat less and move more, but our new research suggests there is now another simple tool to fight off these diseases: restricting your eating time to a daily 10-hour window. Studies done in mice and fruit flies suggest that […]

Problems with Chocolate

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Let’s face it. Chocolate is delicious, and a top favorite of many people. Some enjoy it freely, relying on its positive contribution to pleasure and nutrition, others, aware of some of its unhealthful qualities, abstain. Seems we are currently caught between surges of those opposing attitudes and usage. What, really is the current state of […]