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Improve Your Life With Yoga

The most significant and life-altering gift yoga can give you is a deep sense of yourself. But you may ask yourself: What does that mean? It sounds like a good thing to do — get a deeper sense of yourself — but what does that really feel like and look like?
In our society, we […]

Lessons that can be learned from patients with diabetogenic mutations in mitochondrial DNA: implications for common type 2 diabetes.

Lessons that can be learned from patients with diabetogenic mutations in mitochondrial DNA: implications for common type 2 diabetes.
Nutrition and physiological function Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care. 10(6):693-697, November 2007.
Maassen, Johannes A; ‘t Hart, Leen M; Ouwens, D Margriet
Abstract:
Purpose of review: To discuss the role of mitochondria in the development […]

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, […]

The STEP Procedure: Defining Its Role in the Management of Pediatric Short Bowel Syndrome.

The STEP Procedure: Defining Its Role in the Management of Pediatric Short Bowel Syndrome.
Editorials Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition. 45(2):174-175, August 2007.
Dutta, Sanjeev

China plans new oral care regulations

BEIJING (AP) China is crafting new safety rules for oral care products, state media reported Wednesday, apparently propelled by international alarm over toothpaste producers’ use of a potentially toxic chemical found in antifreeze.
Numerous countries have stopped imports of Chinese-made toothpaste in recent months for containing diethylene glycol, or DEG, which is also used […]