Just 12 minutes of exercise can improve attention and reading comprehension in low income adolescents, says a new study, suggesting that schools serving low income populations should work brief bouts of exercise into their daily schedules.
Do you get lured by healthy words such as 'antioxidant-rich', 'whole grain', 'organic' and so on into buying more packaged food? Be cautious, as these may actually lead you to put on extra kilos.
If you often feel sleepy during the day, chances are that your bones may also be fragile. Researchers have found that orexin proteins - blamed for spontaneous daytime sleepiness - also play a crucial role in bone formation.
In what could pave the way for new pharmaceutical drugs and therapeutic options that reverse the alterations produced by alcohol, researchers have identified, for the first time, the damages caused by chronic excessive abuse of alcohol to the brain at a molecular level.