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Thursday, January 3, 2013

ScienceDaily: Living Well News

ScienceDaily: Living Well News


For those short on time, aerobic, not resistance, exercise is best bet for weight- and fat loss

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 02:29 PM PST

A new study finds that when balancing time commitments against health benefits, aerobics training is optimal for reducing fat- and body mass.

New research helps explain why girls do better in school

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 01:18 PM PST

Why do girls get better grades in elementary school than boys -- even when they perform worse on standardized tests? New research suggests that it's because of their classroom behavior, which may lead teachers to assign girls higher grades than their male counterparts.

Let crying babes lie: Study supports notion of leaving infants to cry themselves back to sleep

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 01:18 PM PST

Waking up in the middle of the night is the most common concern that parents of infants report to pediatricians. Now, a new study finds that a majority of infants are best left to self-soothe and fall back to sleep on their own.

Previous studies on toxic effects of BPA couldn't be reproduced

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:05 AM PST

Following a three-year study using more than 2,800 mice, a researcher was not able to replicate a series of previous studies by another research group investigating the controversial chemical BPA.

If baby's crawling, you'll probably be up more at night, study reveals

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 07:45 AM PST

Infants who have started crawling wake up more often at night compared to the period before the crawling, reveals a new study.

Language learning begins in utero, study finds; Newborn memories of oohs and ahs heard in the womb

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 05:36 AM PST

Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language, scientists have discovered. The study indicates that babies begin absorbing language while still in the womb, earlier than previously thought.

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