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- Pain relievers could be spiking your blood pressure
- Feeding your baby on demand 'may contribute to higher IQ'
- Watching Harry Potter films enhances creativity in children
- Exercise can lead to female orgasm, sexual pleasure
- Seeing pictures of food affects taste perception
| Pain relievers could be spiking your blood pressure Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:21 AM PDT Both doctors and patients should be aware that many common over-the-counter and prescription medications can be the underlying cause of hypertension, one researcher says. He warns that while many of the chemicals in these drugs can raise blood pressure, both patients and doctors remain dangerously uninformed.  |
| Feeding your baby on demand 'may contribute to higher IQ' Posted: 20 Mar 2012 08:51 AM PDT A new study suggests that babies who are breast-fed or bottle-fed to a schedule do not perform academically as well at school as their demand-fed peers. The finding is based on the results of IQ tests and school-based SATs tests carried out between the ages of five and 14, which show that demand-feeding was associated with higher IQ scores. The IQ scores of eight-year-old children who had been demand-fed as babies were between four and five points higher than the scores of schedule-fed children, says the new study.  |
| Watching Harry Potter films enhances creativity in children Posted: 20 Mar 2012 08:51 AM PDT Parents who feel guilty about letting their young children watch too many fantasy movies on TV can relax. Researchers have discovered that youngsters who watch films like Harry Potter improve their imagination and creativity. This is believed to be the first attempt to study whether there any educational benefits in exposing children to magical content like witches and wizards, Santa Claus, the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy.  |
| Exercise can lead to female orgasm, sexual pleasure Posted: 19 Mar 2012 06:50 AM PDT Findings from a first-of-its-kind study confirm anecdotal evidence that exercise -- absent sex or fantasies -- can lead to female orgasm. "These data are interesting because they suggest that orgasm is not necessarily a sexual event, and they may also teach us more about the bodily processes underlying women's experiences of orgasm," said a researcher involved in the study.  |
| Seeing pictures of food affects taste perception Posted: 14 Mar 2012 02:22 PM PDT Just looking at images of food can change our taste experience, according to new research.  |
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