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Drinking a pint of milk a day keeps your heart healthy

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Drinking a pint of milk a day helps make your heart healthier, say researchers.
While dairy products have long been seen as bad for the health, their study claims they can actually help protect against a range of serious conditions, including heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes.
It found regular consumption of any […]

China finds problems with kids’ snacks

BEIJING (AP) Chinese inspectors found excessive amounts of additives and preservatives in dozens of children’s snacks and seized hundreds of bottles of fake human blood protein from hospitals, officials said Tuesday.
China’s dismal health and safety record Д both within and outside its borders Д has increasingly come under the spotlight as its goods […]

Recoveries at military burn unit bring stresses, deep bonds

SAN ANTONIO The five badly burned soldiers arrived around 11 p.m., sedated and swathed in bandages from head to foot Д the screech of the plane’s wheels on the tarmac and waiting ambulances marking the end of a 7,500-mile journey.
Dr. Kevin Chung waited inside Brooke Army Medical Center as the ambulance convoy zipped […]

The research is in: Women don’t really talk more

Women don’t talk more than men. Really, they don’t.
Really.
Popular wisdom would have it that women are much chattier than men, speaking 20,000 words a day, vs. the average man’s 7,000.
But a study being published Friday debunks that stereotype. Both men and women use about 16,000 words a day, says the new research, […]

Planting Trouble in Your Garden

By CERI AU
If you thought composting your organic waste and planting greenery in your garden were enough to earn you a gold star in environmental responsibility, think again. Those sweet-smelling blooms in your backyard patch may brighten the yard, but they could actually be doing much more harm than good to the local ecosystem. […]