HEALTH & WELLBEING

The turkey is more important than you think. There's more to the average turkey than being dinner chow. It's contributed to medical knowledge.

As is often the case, what is best for you doesn't always taste or look great.

Recently, researchers have developed a new way to measure the body fat (Sun Mar 6, 2011). The new obesity scale is offered due to the flaws of the BMI. For example, BMI calculation cannot be generalized across men and women, athletes and different ethnic groups.

Professor Sean Davison, who fulfilled his mother's wish for voluntary euthanasia, was recently sentenced to five months home detention.

It is common knowledge that vitamin D is good for the body. But for most of the people, when they think about the vitamin, the only source they can think of is the sun. Now the sun is all good and well, and it's free, but researchers have found a better source - vitamin D fortified yoghurt.

Here's what you need to know about colic, swaddling — and retaining your sanity.

Avoid wasting food between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day with these ideas.

One man in China thinks he can make a fortune by selling tea fertilized by one of the world's most cherished endangered species.

The holidays are fast approaching and along with the good cheer the season brings is the good food that will inevitably bloat your stomach past its bursting point. But can you really eat so much that your stomach bursts?

When people are asked: exercise or going on a diet, which should come first? People will respond by saying exercise, some say diet, while some say both at the same time. Asking that question is like asking which comes first between a chicken and an egg. But an expert found an answer to this debate.

Dreaming has always been a mystical affair with people; letting them travel and experience things that may be foreign to them. But in addition to giving people a sense of exploration, new research found that dreams may also take away some of the hurt when it comes to emotionally painful experiences.

If you want to completely eliminate caffeine from your diet, you will have to add green tea to your list of forbidden foods. However, if you merely want to reduce your caffeine intake, you may want to substitute green tea for coffee as your morning pick-me-up beverage.

A double-drug therapy tested in mice confirmed that the effects of high radiation doses can be prevented. Researches claimed that these drugs are known to be safe in people and because of that, they can easily be used in case of emergency like a terrorist attack or a nuclear accident.

Type-2 diabetes, the most common form of diabetes, has afflicted thousands, if not millions, of people around the world. But thanks to modern medicine, a drug called metformin was created to control the effects of the disease. Now, new research shows that not only does metformin control a person's blood sugar, but it also prevents cancer from growing.

The Australian Government has today announced changes to food store and alcohol licensing in the Northern Territory. Under the changes, areas outside of major centres in the Northern Territory will be defined as a 'food security area'.

International research body, Innova Market Insights, has identified five key trends that it claims will impact the Australian food and beverage market through 2012 and beyond.

Reading email and text messages on your smartphone? Soon even the most advanced smartphone could be out dated when you could directly read your e-mail through your bionic eye.

A new study where embryonic stem cells were turned into functioning neurons and successful implanted into the brains of laboratory mice represents a crucial step toward deploying customized cells to repair damaged or diseased brains.

If you're one of those people who scoff at the saying, "the early bird catches the worm," you might want to take a look at these examples.

Psychopaths are the stuff of suspense movies. Painted as cold and calculating, they can dispatch people without any trace of remorse. But that depiction in the movies may not be purely fictitious as research finds evidence inside the brains of psychopaths.

Thanksgiving is already here, and right this very moment people are all busy grabbing a turkey, getting ingredients, and of course, looking for stretchable pants to wear for dinner. It's no secret that almost everyone indulges a little too far every year in this joyous holiday. But like a hangover, people live to regret the fact that they overate the next day.

Some people cannot stand coffee. They're either not used to its taste, or didn't form the habit of drinking it to begin with. However, with new research arising, some people, more specifically women, might want to pick up a cup and start the habit.

Eating soft food can increase the possibilities of having too many teeth that a normal human mouth can handle. UK researchers found out that as time goes by, people’s lower jaws have become smaller that teeth are most of the time compressed. But it was also said that soft food can affect the formation of teeth.

Meditating is a practice that enables people to go to a deeper state of relaxation and awareness. It has been practices for the longest times by monks, and is now fast becoming a way of life for people practicing the peaceful state.

Acne is a problem that most teenagers go through with shame and ridicule. And to treat this problem, teenagers, with their parents, often resort to oral antibiotics - little do they know that that is just the start of another problem.

The AIDS global epidemic is witnessing a dramatic reversal, according to the latest assessment issued on Monday by United Nations AIDS (UNAIDS), which also noted that millions of HIV patients are dealing with the virus successfully.

When people come to see me all clogged up and on eight different pills, and they’ve got chest pain when they walk half a block, they usually don’t need a whole lot of convincing.

Felicity Aston, a 33-year old British adventurer, is attempting to become the first woman to do a successful solo crossing of Antarctica.

The oat is rich in protein, has lots of beneficial minerals such as calcium and magnesium, trace elements like silicon and potassium as well as iron - while also being very high in vitamin content. The presence of these bodybuilding nutrients in the oats makes for strong bones and teeth, most of these vital minerals found in the oats are also necessary for the maintenance of a healthy nervous system in a human being.