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Study: Plant-based diet leads to healthier microbiome, life

Health News // 3 years ago

Study: Plant-based diet leads to healthier microbiome, life

A plant-based diet is linked to healthy gut microbes that could lower your risk for conditions like obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease, a new study finds.

Skipping breakfast won't ruin efforts to lose weight

Health News // 5 years ago

Skipping breakfast won't ruin efforts to lose weight

For years, you've probably heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day if you're trying to maintain a healthy weight. But new research suggests that's not true.

Scientists might have found 'virginity genes'

Health News // 8 years ago

Scientists might have found 'virginity genes'

Genetic makeup may help determine when people lose their virginity, according to a new study.

Health News // 1 decade ago

Some foods may protect against type 2 diabetes

Certain foods such as blueberries, celery and grapes may reduce the risk of diabetes, researchers in Britain say.

Health News // 1 decade ago

Consortium discovers obesity gene

The KLF14 gene, linked to type 2 diabetes and cholesterol, is a "master regulator" of fat in the body, researchers from Britain and Switzerland said.

Health News // 1 decade ago

1 in 7 men have genetic risk of balding

Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, King's College London and the British drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Inc. say 1 in 7 men have genetic risk of balding.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Study: Poorer Britons age faster

British scientists say poor people live shorter lives, partly because greater stresses cause their cells to age more quickly.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Fat, cigarettes make women age faster

Obesity and cigarettes accelerate the aging process - an average nine years for obese women and seven years for heavy smokers, London researchers say.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Genetics dictate ease of female orgasm

Researchers in London have determined arousal and orgasm in women depends largely on genetic factors, the same as migraine and depression.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Science: infidelity is genetically based

A London researcher says he has found evidence women who cheat on their mates may be genetically disposed to infidelity, the BBC reported Monday.

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We've known obesity increases your risk of many diseases, and of dying early. What's novel here is that it seems that fat itself actually accelerates the aging process
Fat, cigarettes make women age faster Jun 14, 2005

What these results show ... is clear evidence that biology is an underlying influence here
Genetics dictate ease of female orgasm Jun 08, 2005