A new paper published by the National Sleep Foundation suggests that while there is no one-size-fits-all answer when it comes to how much sleep adults need, there are ways to tell if you are not getting sufficient sleep.
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Active surveillance for men with localized prostate cancer may offer up some important quality-of-life advantages when compared to other initial prostate cancer treatments.
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Belly fat may be bad for women’s bone health, raising their risk of osteoporosis, researchers report.
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New research linking impaired mitochondrial function to autism appears to support the notion that the cellular irregularity plays a role in the disorder in at least a subset of patients.
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Scientists warn that young adults are likely to keep mixing caffeine and alcohol even though a number of caffeinated alcoholic beverages have been withdrawn from the marketplace under federal pressure.
Continue reading …The Food Safety Bill Passes Senate: What it Means for Eating in America
November 30, 2010 No Comment
Photo: NASA Images , CC The US Senate just passed the first major update to the nation’s food safety policies in decades — the bill gives the FDA the ability to test foods for dangerous pathogens, to issue food recalls, and requires that it do better and more frequent inspections of industrial food production plants. All of that is good news for the nation’s food consumers — namely, us. The stream of cases of tainted peanut butter, eggs, spinach, etc had drastically, and rightfully, weakened our confidence in natio… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …What experts say about the Institute of Medicine’s new recommendations for vitamin D and calcium.
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