Having Kids After Age 30 May Lower Cancer Risk

 Posted on June 14, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  394 words  |  Patria Henriques

Women who have children in their 30s and 40s may have a decreased risk of endometrial cancer, which develops in the lining of the uterus, according to a new study.  Women who give birth over age 40 were 44 percent less likely to have the cancer than women whose last birth occurred at or before age 25, the researchers found. For women whose last birth occurred between ages 35 to 39, the risk decreased by 32 percent, and for women who last gave birth between ages 30 and 34, their risk decreased by 17 percent, compared to those who delivered their last baby by age 25. [Read More]

Is the 17 Day Diet Just Another Weight-Loss Gimmick?

 Posted on June 14, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  503 words  |  Fernande Dalal

First it was the Atkins and South Beach diets, and then it was the Dukan Diet. But now, "The 17 Day Diet" (Free Press, 2011), created by California family practice physician Dr. Michael Moreno, is making the rounds as the newest diet trend. The diet has four stages (similar to the Dukan Diet), where dieters vary their fruit, vegetable, protein and carbohydrate intakes to minimize calories. Each stage is 17 days because that is when the body begins to treat the diet as a dietary habit and metabolism slows, Moreno told ABC News' Good Morning America. [Read More]

LED Night Lights Recalled by Camsing Global

 Posted on June 14, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  214 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, incooperation with Corvest Acquisition Inc. (now Camsing Global LLC), of Largo, Fla., announced a voluntary recall of about 10,000 LED night lights. Hazard: The LED night lights can overheat, smolder, and melt which may cause minor burns to consumers. Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received five reports of the recalled LED night lights overheating, smoldering or melting. No injuries have been reported. Description: The LED night light contains flame retardant elements, plugs into an electrical outlet, has a white or blue LED bulb, and a clear bulb cover. [Read More]

Love and Lust Are Seasonal, Google Study Finds

 Posted on June 14, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  494 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Real-time tracking by researchers has identified a risqué trend in winter and early summer — people on the Internet looking for love — or at least sex.  In a new study published this month in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior researchers tracked Google keyword searches in the United States for pornography, prostitution and dating sites between January 2006 and March 2011. Researchers wanted to gauge the real-time mood of the nation and found that online interest in the mating game peaked around Christmas and early summer. [Read More]

New Therapy Helps You Lose Weight Despite Feeling Tired & Hungry

 Posted on June 14, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  643 words  |  Patria Henriques

A new weight loss therapy that involves, in part, teaching people how to accept feelings of discomfort may help patients shed more pounds than standard therapies, a new study finds. The therapy, called Acceptance-Based Behavioral Treatment (ABT), teaches people skills to help them better adhere to their diet and exercise goals. These skills involving learning to accept the uncomfortable feelings and unpleasurable situations that inevitably arise when trying to lose weight, such as urges to eat, feelings of fatigue, and having to go for a jog instead of sitting on the couch watching TV. [Read More]

Photos: Weird Yellow Fluff Balls Wash Up on French Beaches

 Posted on June 14, 2023  |  1 minutes  |  205 words  |  Patria Henriques

Yellow blobsStarting on July 14, thousands of yellow blobs started washing ashore on French beaches. Foamy materialThe blobs looked a bit like foam, yellow earwax or mousse. Mysterious originThe yellow blobs washed ashore over the course of several days, along several beaches in the tourist heavy portion of North France. Not quite foamThe balls have a slightly brittle texture and don't really resemble foam, but though they seem like paraffin, they don't smell like it and don't melt in the sun. [Read More]

Rare Dinosaur Find: Fossil Covered in Feathers, Skin

 Posted on June 14, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  550 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

The skeleton of a heavily feathered, ostrichlike dinosaur has "unparalleled" fossilized feathers and skin — anatomical features that aren't usually preserved in dinosaur remains, a new study reports. The remains indicate that the dinosaur — an Ornithomimus, a fast-moving theropod (bipedal, mostly meat-eating dinosaurs) with an uncanny resemblance to an ostrich — sported a feathery coat during the Late Cretaceous, more than 66 million years ago. Study lead researcher Aaron van der Reest found the partial skeleton in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park in 2009, during his first undergraduate year at the University of Alberta. [Read More]

Towering Ancient Tsunami Devastated the Mediterranean

 Posted on June 14, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  413 words  |  Patria Henriques

A volcano avalanche in Sicily 8,000 years ago triggered a devastating tsunami taller than a 10-story building that spread across the entire Mediterranean Sea, slamming into the shores of three continents in only a few hours [image]. A new computer simulation of the ancient event reveals for the first time the enormity of the catastrophe and its far-reaching effects [video]. The Mt. Etna avalanche sent 6 cubic miles of rock and sediment tumbling into the water—enough material to cover the entire island of Manhattan in a layer of debris thicker than the Empire State Building is tall. [Read More]

Viruses May Cause More Cancer than Previously Thought

 Posted on June 14, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  789 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Viruses may be causing more cancers than previously thought, according to a new study. Scientists know that a few cancers, such as cervical cancer, are caused by viruses, because researchers have isolated the viral genomes from the cancerous cells. But some viruses may take a "hit and run" approach — inducing cancer and then vanishing before the disease is caught, the researchers say. The new study, performed in mice, showed that a particular mouse herpesvirus could trigger cancer but then practically disappear from the cancer cells. [Read More]

Why Raccoons Didn't Cut It as Lab Rats

 Posted on June 14, 2023  |  5 minutes  |  884 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Lab rats may have won the cage fight to become model animals for research, but psychologists once looked to raccoons as the stars for studying intelligence. Black-masked raccoons served as favored test subjects for several U.S. psychologists during the early 20th century, because their supposed curiosity and intelligence was considered just shy of that found in monkeys. Yet the furry scoundrels proved tricky to maintain in large numbers, as opposed to the smaller rats that became the darlings of labs. [Read More]