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With the demand for plant-based proteins growing, researchers say the next big source may be growing in a pot in your house or backyard: marigolds.

Marigold flowers contain about as much protein as conventional plant protein sources like quinoa, but marigold protein also has several key traits that may make it particularly well suited to the ...Read more

The number of Americans who are pursuing their lives childfree is growing. The reasons include greater reproductive autonomy, higher costs of living and shifting social norms. More people are prioritizing values like personal freedom, career goals and mental health over having kids -- god bless 'em.

But these childfree folks are not evenly ...Read more

Cross off another speculative cause of autism recently voiced by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who claimed infant circumcision doubles the rate of autism, speculating without proof that the use of post-procedure acetaminophen (Tylenol) as a painkiller was part of the reason.

Kennedy alluded to a pair of ...Read more

Rocketing into the heavens comes with a lot of glory and positive returns, but there is one well-known problem for astronauts in space: constipation. It's not something you'll find on a NASA brochure.

Researchers wanted to know why and examined blood samples from 52 astronauts who had participated in monthslong missions to the International ...Read more

Dollar stores aren't classified as traditional grocery stores and so aren't usually included in studies comparing access to healthy foods with customers' health. But they do sell food, mostly stuff with long shelf lives.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, looked at the distribution of dollar stores (there are more than 34...Read more

It's estimated that roughly 15% of Americans have trouble falling asleep, and 18% say they struggle to stay asleep. Innerbody, a health and wellness platform, crunched federal data and other sources to identify the top five most sleep-deprived cities in the U.S.

1. Norfolk, Virginia

2. New Orleans, Louisiana

3. Detroit, Michigan

4. Toledo,...Read more

Health insurance premiums continue to rise, with average marketplace premiums jumping by an average of 21.7% and employer-sponsored plans rising 6%-7%. The average annual family premium for employer coverage now tops $25,500.

But what you pay for health insurance varies with location. The finance company WalletHub analyzed average premiums in...Read more

Recent research has again suggested that drinking coffee can be good for heart health and more. Drinking caffeinated coffee without added sugars, flavors or cream has been linked to a lower risk of heart failure, heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes.

But can there be too much of a good thing?

Apparently yes. A recently issued statement ...Read more

Some places are more stressful than others, like your in-laws' house or the dentist's office. Also cities. The personal finance company WalletHub surveyed 182 U.S. cities to determine which were most or least stressful, at least in terms of how residents were faring economically.

Cities were ranked according to 39 metrics, such as average ...Read more

A meta-analysis of the weight loss effectiveness of GLP-1 drugs found that tirzepatide (marketed as Zepbound for weight loss) and Mounjaro (marketed for treatment of type 2 diabetes) helped patients lose more than 20% of their starting body weight.

Semaglutide (marketed as Wegovy) and liraglutide (Saxenda) also caused weight loss, but it was ...Read more

A study that used existing brain scans and questionnaires of more than 23,000 middle-aged and older adults identified three sleep behaviors that researchers said are distinctly associated with a marker (white matter lesions) for brain aging in healthy people:

-- Sleeping less than the recommended seven to nine hours per night

-- Frequent ...Read more

In a recent poll by The Physicians Foundation, more than six in 10 doctors surveyed said their patients were influenced by misinformation and/or disinformation at least a moderate amount over the past year.

Rural physicians appeared to experience the phenomenon more often than urban doctors.

Nine out of 10 doctors said the problem is that ...Read more

New research suggests your quality of sleep can be measured through metabolic changes in your saliva.

Swiss scientists studied 20 healthy young men who normally sleep seven to nine hours a night. The men underwent three experimental conditions in random order: one night without any sleep, four consecutive nights of six hours' sleep, and a ...Read more