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'Scary' prediction for U.S. kids: 57% could be obese by age 35

Researchers from VU University Medical Centre in the Netherlands unveiled a new study that says being overweight during childhood triples the risk of developing depression in later life. Veuer's Lindsey Granger has details. Buzz60

17 Holiday Health Tips

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indulging Without Overindulging

Nine Year Study Finally Explains The Relationship Between Sugar And Cancer

Scientists have discovered the exact relationship between sugar and cancer by revealing that the way in which cancer cells break down sugar is linked to the stimulation of tumor growth.

Cancer cells tend to produce energy differently from normal cells – they use a process that involves fermentation of glucose into lactate, rather than ordinary respiration.

How To Make Your Safe Drinking Water Even Safer

Here are a few tips about how to make your safe drinking water even safer. Every night in the evening news, there’s yet another story about another contamination in our drinking water across the country somewhere. Under the 1976 Safe Drinking Water Act, only 91 contaminants are mandated to be regulated. That means that the 87,000 chemicals that are on the market and floating in our air and landing in our surface water bodies that become our drinking water, could certainly have many contaminants that we want to avoid.

Why Teens Are the Best Audience for Environmental Health Information! Princeton High School Lecture Series

 

In this Princeton Community Television interview, Dr. Aly Cohen discusses her new 6-lecture environmental health series that she is presenting at Princeton High School. Check out TheSmartHuman.com for more mind-expanding health news.

Why Does My Dentist Give Me So Many X-Rays?

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By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS

Q. My new dentist gave me 22 X-rays yesterday (bitewing and full mouth) plus a panoramic. He says he does this to all patients. This seemed ridiculously unnecessary and dangerous. Could you give me info on this?

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