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The madness of King George is well known -- but it wasn't until 2005 that researchers discovered his symptoms of a rare inherited metabolic disorder were aggravated by arsenic in medication he was taking.

Knowing what symptoms are associated with a disease is essential so you can know if you should see a doctor -- and for a doc, it's essential ...Read more

Sneezing can be funny. Comedian Henny Youngman thought so: "When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say." But whatever you think about your sneezing and wheezing, as allergy season blooms, one thing's for sure -- it's arriving sooner and lingering longer with more intensity than ever before.

A new study in the Proceedings of the National ...Read more

When Serena Williams was pregnant in 2017, she won the Australian Open, and you can bet her heart was filled with joy -- and healthy. That promises good things for her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. According to a new study in JAMA Network, mom's heart health while pregnant has a lot to do with her child's heart health during ages 10 to 14...Read more

In "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Brad Pitt's character is born old -- with arthritis, cataracts and osteoporosis -- and becomes younger as the years pass, dying as an infant who'd lived for eight decades. Not the scenario researchers were contemplating when they looked at data from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety to ...Read more

There are some great sayings about teeth: "Lying through your teeth does not count as flossing." "Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you." And, of course, from Dr. Seuss's "The Tooth Book," "Teeth are always in style."

As important as it is to take care of your teeth, new information reveals their health is simply an indicator of ...Read more

"WALL-E" is a 2008 animated movie about a garbage-collecting robot named WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth-Class) who, with the alluring robot EVE, helps a polluted and deserted Earth flourish again.

WAL-nuts can do the same for you. And now, thanks to researchers from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health and their Spanish ...Read more

Spinach was super-fuel for Popeye, but that's nothing compared to the superpowers it has now. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently used nanotechnology to make growing spinach capable of detecting explosive residue in groundwater -- say from landmines -- and then send that data back to scientists via email. This veggie...Read more

Americans eat 2.8 billion pounds of chocolate a year, enticed by catchy slogans like "Do you dream in chocolate?" And folks are encouraged to indulge by the numerous scientific reports that chocolate is good for you -- well, at least 70% dark chocolate is, in 1-ounce-a-day doses. But that, we worry, makes folks who vape think chocolate-

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When Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young sang "Teach Your Children Well" in 1969, they were imploring parents to raise children with "a code to live by." More than 50 years later, we still need to be reminded of how important that is -- especially when it comes to kids' nutritional code of conduct.

Two new studies reveal that the food choices kids ...Read more

Charles Schulz launched the "Peanuts" cartoon on October 2, 1950, in seven newspapers. Eventually it appeared daily in 2,600 papers in 75 countries. The funny and often poignant responses of Charlie Brown and the other Peanuts characters resonated with adults, not just kids.

According to a Northwestern University survey published in the Journal...Read more

In the late 1960s, American Airlines public relations specialist Donald Bain ghostwrote a supposed expose on the wild times of three stewardesses titled "Coffee, Tea or Me?" The book's publisher hired two stewardesses as the "authors" for book tours and television appearances -- even though their escapades were pure fiction. That would never fly...Read more

Exergaming can be exergasmic -- distracting you from the discomforts of exercise and motivating you to repeat the workout day after day, because you're engaged in a virtual reality video game that thrills you. There are programs for strength-building and aerobics that get you into a jump-rope challenge, a spacey dance routine, sword-fighting, ...Read more

"The more refined one is, the more unhappy" -- that was the Russian author Anton Chekhov's view of the world. And more than 100 years after he penned that observation, nutritional scientists are shouting it from the rooftops: Eating refined carbohydrates not only fuels depression and some cancers (prostate and breast, for example), it lowers the...Read more

The U.K.'s Royal Horticultural Society once conducted an experiment on how talking to plants affected their growth. Charles Darwin's great granddaughter -- one of 10 plant talkers who were recorded and then piped in one-to-a-tomato-plant -- saw her veggie grow 2 inches more than the plants who were listening to a male voice. The other female ...Read more

When Jose Canseco's book "Juiced" hit the shelves in 2005, it rocked the baseball world with its tales of the illegal use of performance-enhancing drugs like steroids. Juicing is never good in sports, and it can be just as unhealthy for your diet. For example, drinking filtered kale juice instead of eating whole leaves robs you of glucose-

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When The Archies sang, "Oh, honey/Ah, sugar, sugar/You are my candy girl/And you got me wanting you," they could have been describing this country's sweet addiction. The average American eats more than 152 pounds of sugar annually!

Some of that is from sugar bombs like ice cream -- you're each eating 23 pounds a year! But a lot of what gets ...Read more

There's air conditioning, hair conditioning and, lately, err-conditioning. A new study in the journal Obesity found that in the past year, folks have become even more sedentary (in prepandemic years, 60% of Americans were inactive). Both intensity of and time spent doing exercise has decreased, and almost 28% of the study's participants fessed ...Read more

Aaron Ulland, 41, was "stroke patient one" in a daring new study that tested -- successfully -- the possibility of restoring the brain-muscle connection using tiny electrodes implanted in his brain to move a brace worn on his immobile arm. Although this was preliminary, the fact that the technology worked offers hope that, down the road, damaged...Read more

Around the world, people generate more than 2 billion metric tons of solid waste annually -- and high-income countries like the U.S. account for more than a third of that pollution. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that Americans are also experts at accumulating pollution around their waists. Since 1999, the average American guy's waist size ...Read more

Did you tailgate with (masked) friends to watch the Super Bowl outdoors? All kinds of innovative ways to share the day safely were tried this year and with viewer numbers hitting around 100 million, we're betting more than 100 million bags of chips, corndogs, doughnuts and beers were consumed.

Seems even if your team won, it's likely your food ...Read more