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• When it comes to how pizza looks, cheese matters
• Potential risk factors for urinary tract infections in young girls
• Reading 'Fifty Shades' linked to unhealthy behaviors
• Feeling bad at work can be a good thing (and vice versa)
• Smartphone-loss anxiety disorder
• Learning to play the piano? Sleep on it!
• ADHD children make poor decisions due to less differentiated learning processes
• Exercise may protect older women from irregular heartbeat
• Scaling up health innovation: Fertility awareness-based family planning goes national
• Good neighbors, friendly local community may curb heart attack risk
• Dress for success: Research examines male influences on 'looking' middle class

When it comes to how pizza looks, cheese matters Posted: 21 Aug 2014 12:38 PM PDT Most consumers have an idea what they want their pizza slice to look like. Golden cheese with that dark toasted-cheese color scattered in distinct blistery patches across the surface with a bit of oil glistening in the valleys. A new study evaluated the pizza baking performance of different cheeses (mozzarella, cheddar, colby, Edam, Emmental, Gruyere, and provolone) in conjunction with a new quantifiable evaluation technique to see how their composition and functional differences affected browning and blistering.

Potential risk factors for urinary tract infections in young girls Posted: 21 Aug 2014 09:47 AM PDT Young girls with an intense, red, itchy rash on their outer genital organs may be at increased risk of developing urinary tract infections (UTIs). The treatment may be as simple as better hygiene and avoiding potential irritants such as bubble baths and swimming pools.

Reading 'Fifty Shades' linked to unhealthy behaviors Posted: 21 Aug 2014 08:59 AM PDT Young adult women who read 'Fifty Shades of Grey' are more likely than nonreaders to exhibit signs of eating disorders and have a verbally abusive partner, finds a new study. Further, women who read all three books in the blockbuster "Fifty Shades" erotic romance series are at increased risk of engaging in binge drinking and having multiple sex partners.

Feeling bad at work can be a good thing (and vice versa) Posted: 21 Aug 2014 07:24 AM PDT Contrary to popular opinion, it can be good to feel bad at work, whilst feeling good in the workplace can also lead to negative outcomes, researchers say. The commonly-held assumption that positivity in the workplace produces positive outcomes, while negative emotions lead to negative outcomes, may be in need for reconsideration.

Smartphone-loss anxiety disorder Posted: 21 Aug 2014 07:23 AM PDT New research outlines the possible coping mechanisms that might be needed following loss or theft of one's smart phone or other digital devices and the security problems that the user might face.

Learning to play the piano? Sleep on it! Posted: 21 Aug 2014 07:15 AM PDT According to new research the regions of the brain below the cortex play an important role as we train our bodies' movements and, critically, they interact more effectively after a night of sleep. While researchers knew that sleep helped us the learn sequences of movements (motor learning), it was not known why.

ADHD children make poor decisions due to less differentiated learning processes Posted: 21 Aug 2014 06:00 AM PDT Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common psychiatric disorders among school children. Pupils with ADHD often make poorer decisions than their unaffected classmates. Researchers have now discovered that different learning and decision-making mechanisms are responsible for these behaviors, and localized the underlying impairments in the brain.

Exercise may protect older women from irregular heartbeat Posted: 20 Aug 2014 01:44 PM PDT Increasing the amount or intensity of physical activity can cut the chances of older women developing a life-threatening irregular heartbeat, according to new research. Researchers found that post-menopausal women who were the most physically active had a 10 percent lower risk of developing atrial fibrillation (AF), compared to women with low levels of physical activity, even if they were obese. Obesity is an important risk factor for atrial fibrillation.

Scaling up health innovation: Fertility awareness-based family planning goes national Posted: 19 Aug 2014 08:30 AM PDT A new study reports on the results of the successful large-scale implementation, in a low resource environment, of the Standard Days Method, a highly effective fertility awareness-based family planning method. Lessons learned from making this family planning method available on a national level in a low resource environment may help in scaling up health innovations of many types in the United States and around the world.

Good neighbors, friendly local community may curb heart attack risk Posted: 18 Aug 2014 04:26 PM PDT Having good neighbors and feeling connected to others in the local community may help to curb an individual's heart attack risk, concludes research. "Perceived neighborhood social cohesion could be a type of social support that is available in the neighborhood social environment outside the realm of family and friends," authors write. And tight-knit local communities may help to reinforce and 'incentivize' certain types of cohesive behaviours and so exclude antisocial behaviours, they suggest.

Dress for success: Research examines male influences on 'looking' middle class Posted: 18 Aug 2014 10:52 AM PDT A national presentation takes a unique look at how family, identity and culture influence appearance.

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