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- Mass participation experiment reveals how to create wonderful dreams
- No correlation between medical marijuana legalization, crime increase: Legalization may reduce homicide, assault rates
- Don't shop for travel at work
- Cereal flake size influences calorie intake
- Exercise training improves health outcomes of women with heart disease more than of men
- Secret to cutting sugary drink use by teens found by new study
- Mosquito season unpredictable; year-round heartworm prevention is best
- Last drinks: Brain's mechanism knows when to stop
- Beer marinade could reduce levels of potentially harmful substances in grilled meats
- An answer to the perennial question: Is it safe to pee in the pool?
- Sugary drinks weigh heavily on teenage obesity
- Knowing true age of your heart key to curbing lifetime heart disease risk
- Building to take note of individual human thermal comfort: Women feel the cold more than men
- Fundamentals of facial recognition: Specialized brain mechanisms for recognizing faces?
| Mass participation experiment reveals how to create wonderful dreams Posted: 26 Mar 2014 06:27 PM PDT Psychologists have announced the results of a two-year study into dream control. The experiment shows that it is now possible for people to create their perfect dream, and so wake up feeling especially happy and refreshed. Researchers also discovered that people's dreams were especially bizarre around the time of a full moon.  |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2014 03:20 PM PDT A professor of criminology found that legalization of medical marijuana is not an indicator of increased crime. It actually may be related to reductions in certain types of violent crime. The study tracked crime rates across all 50 states between 1990 and 2006, when 11 states legalized marijuana for medical use: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. Since the time period the study covered, 20 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized marijuana for medical use.  |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2014 11:22 AM PDT It is probably not a good idea to shop for leisure travel from the office during business hours, according to a new study. Using data from a major online hotel reservation site, the study examined the quality of the hotel that consumers chose for their vacations and subsequently how satisfied they were with their stay. They found that consumers who traveled farther and made reservations during business hours were more likely to select higher quality hotels but were less satisfied after their stay. More than 35 percent of those studied made purchases during business hours.  |
| Cereal flake size influences calorie intake Posted: 26 Mar 2014 08:46 AM PDT People eat more breakfast cereal, by weight, when flake size is reduced, according to researchers, who showed that when flakes are reduced by crushing, people pour a smaller volume of cereal into their bowls, but still take a greater amount by weight and calories.  |
| Exercise training improves health outcomes of women with heart disease more than of men Posted: 26 Mar 2014 08:43 AM PDT In the largest study to ever investigate the effects of exercise training in patients with heart failure, exercise training reduced the risk for subsequent all-cause mortality or all-cause hospitalization in women by 26 percent, compared with 10 percent in men. While a causal relationship has previously been observed in clinical practice between improved health outcomes and exercise, this trial is the first to link the effects of exercise training to health outcomes in women with cardiovascular disease.  |
| Secret to cutting sugary drink use by teens found by new study Posted: 26 Mar 2014 08:43 AM PDT A new study shows that teenagers can be persuaded to cut back on sugary soft drinks -- especially with a little help from their friends. A 30-day challenge encouraging teens to reduce sugar-sweetened drink use lowered their overall consumption substantially and increased by two-thirds the percentage of high-school students who shunned sugary drinks altogether.  |
| Mosquito season unpredictable; year-round heartworm prevention is best Posted: 26 Mar 2014 08:43 AM PDT Mosquito season is as unpredictable as Kansas's weather. A veterinarian warns that year-round heartworm prevention is only safe way to protect pets. It only takes one or two worms to cause significant harm to a cat and unlike dogs, there is no treatment for heartworm once cats are infected, the veterinarian states.  |
| Last drinks: Brain's mechanism knows when to stop Posted: 26 Mar 2014 07:27 AM PDT Our brains are hardwired to stop us drinking more water than is healthy, according to a new brain imaging study. The study found a 'stop mechanism' that determined brain signals telling the individual to stop drinking water when no longer thirsty, and the brain effects of drinking more water than required.  |
| Beer marinade could reduce levels of potentially harmful substances in grilled meats Posted: 26 Mar 2014 07:27 AM PDT The smells of summer -- the sweet fragrance of newly opened flowers, the scent of freshly cut grass and the aroma of meats cooking on the backyard grill -- will soon be upon us. Now, researchers are reporting that the very same beer that many people enjoy at backyard barbeques could, when used as a marinade, help reduce the formation of potentially harmful substances in grilled meats.  |
| An answer to the perennial question: Is it safe to pee in the pool? Posted: 26 Mar 2014 07:27 AM PDT Sanitary-minded pool-goers who preach 'no peeing in the pool,' despite ordinary and Olympic swimmers admitting to the practice, now have scientific evidence to back up their concern. Researchers are reporting that when mixed, urine and chlorine can form substances that can cause potential health problems.  |
| Sugary drinks weigh heavily on teenage obesity Posted: 26 Mar 2014 07:26 AM PDT New research shows sugary drinks are the worst offenders in the fight against youth obesity, and recommends that B.C. schools fully implement healthy eating guidelines to reduce their consumption. "This study adds to the mounting literature that shows the high concentration of sugar in soft drinks contributes to obesity in adolescents," says the lead author.  |
| Knowing true age of your heart key to curbing lifetime heart disease risk Posted: 25 Mar 2014 06:06 PM PDT Understanding the true age of your heart is key to curbing the lifetime risk of developing -- and dying from -- heart disease, say new consensus recommendations on how best to stave off the worldwide epidemic of cardiovascular disease. Heart disease deaths have almost halved over the past 40-50 years, particularly in high income countries, thanks largely to the identification of the common risk factors involved and national public health initiatives, say the authors.  |
| Building to take note of individual human thermal comfort: Women feel the cold more than men Posted: 25 Mar 2014 06:58 AM PDT Because people in developed countries spend about 90 percent of their time indoors, their sense of warmth becomes one key comfort factor for interior spaces. Scientists have now developed a new method for assessing the individual thermal comfort experienced by different user groups.  |
| Fundamentals of facial recognition: Specialized brain mechanisms for recognizing faces? Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:40 PM PDT Scientists showed that participants suffering from face blindness performed as well as the average person in training measuring their ability to learn a set of computer-generated objects called greebles. The findings undermine the leading alternative to the idea that prosopagnosia is the result of damage to brain mechanisms specifically devoted to processing faces, and thus indicate that people recognize faces using face-specific brain mechanisms.  |
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