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Thousands of cancer diseases caused by these foods

What is the role of our diet in the development of cancer? According to a new study, our diet may have a greater influence on our risk of cancer than previously thought. Researchers found that every year thousands of people get cancer because they eat unhealthy. In a recent study by Tufts University in Boston, […]

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Is Porn Addiction Real? Here’s What Experts Have To Say

Actress Jada Pinkett Smith recently revealed she’s struggled with “an unhealthy relationship” to porn in her past. On Monday’s episode of her Facebook Watch series “Red Table Talk,” Pinkett Smith said she had a “little porn addiction” back in the day but later clarified: “I actually feel like I was using ‘addiction’ a little lightly. […]

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Children of both young and old parents share risk for certain neurodevelopment disorders

Results of a new study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), published by Elsevier, reports that parental age is linked to the risk for the development of neuropsychiatric disorders in children, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD); attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD); and Tourette’s disorder/chronic tic disorder (TD/CT). […]

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Exercise may help teens sleep longer, more efficiently

Getting more exercise than normal—or being more sedentary than usual—for one day may be enough to affect sleep later that night, according to a new study led by Penn State. In a one-week micro-longitudinal study, the researchers found that when teenagers got more physical activity than they usually did, they got to sleep earlier, slept […]

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Women’s wellness: Menopause misconceptions

Menopause marks the end of a woman’s fertility. By definition, it occurs one year after a woman’s last menstrual period. While menopausecan happen in a woman’s 40s or 50s, the average age is 51 in the U.S. Jacqueline Thielen, M.D., a women’s health expert from Mayo Clinic, says menopause is a journey that occurs over […]