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Researchers asked 68 people to avoid food for five hours. They then served half of them crackers to eat until they felt satisfied. Finally, all of the participants shopped at an online grocery store. The result: The hungry shoppers chose more high-calorie foods than their just-fed counterparts. In a follow-up study, researchers tracked people’s food purchases in a brick-and-mortar grocery store at two different times: right after lunch, when they were most likely to be full, and right before dinnertime, when they were likely to be hungry....

Your body is a complicated network of interconnected structures and systems. And when something goes wrong, problems can pop up in places or ways you’d never suspect. From hiccups to criminal behavior, here are 9 weird signs you may be suffering from a hidden health condition. Gnarly Nails If your nails have little white nicks and gouges—almost like an icy surface that’s been scraped up—those “pits” may be a sign of the skin disease psoriasis....

I still struggle with it. Never thinking there is enough. At the same time, if we take on too much - there may not be enough. I’ve taken time away from my humble posts to this blog from once weekly to monthly—for a while. Entering graduate school has shifted my perspective on time and what is manageable and what is not. It’s like a freight train, and so far I am still able to look up every once in a while and be in the beautiful scenery of my life along the way....

And this isn’t the stuff of late-night infomercials. A few years ago, British researchers started using a part-time diet to help women at higher-than-average risk of breast cancer lose weight. (Obesity is a risk factor for breast cancer, and body chemicals associated with extra weight, such as the hormones insulin and leptin, can help fuel tumors.) The scientists first tested an ultra-low-calorie plan 2 days a week and found that it worked: The women lost weight and reduced levels of leptin and insulin; plus, they experienced a drop in levels of inflammation-boosting proteins that can also increase cancer risk....

The mayor of Dallas, Texas, just declared an emergency, after 10 confirmed deaths in his city were attributed to West Nile, and the Texas Department of State Health Services has confirmed 17 deaths across the state. Further north, a few cases of the rare eastern equine encephalitis, another mosquito-borne disease that can be fatal, have been found in mosquitoes in Massachusetts. MORE: Why Mosquitoes Bite You More Than Your Friends But before you grab the nearest mosquito fumigants, stop!...

One woman vowed to leave her makeup on for an entire month and illustrating the possible effects of what sleeping like a beauty can do to your skin: Clogged pores, dry, irritated skin, and redness. Even worse, her skin reportedly aged 10 years by the end of that month: wrinkles were deeper and her skin tone was less even. Should you worry about hitting the sack sans cleanser and night cream?...

I was told that if it didn’t clear up, I might need treatment with methotrexate, a serious drug used for cancer chemotherapy. “Thanks, I’ll try something a little more low-tech first,” I replied. As I headed out the door, I felt a little quiver of fear in my belly. The rash was a wake-up call. Something was deeply wrong with me that needed to be put right. Whatever medical treatment might have been necessary, I knew I needed to focus first on the cause of the killer-cell invasion so that the cure could be effective....

Ingredients: 1 large heirloom tomato, large dice1/4 cup shredded basil1/2 cup white beans1 clove garlic, minced1 tbsp lemon juice1 tbsp white wine vinegar1 tsp salt1/2 tsp pepper3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil1/4 cup crumbled Ricotta SalataToasted ciabatta bread What to do: Mix together the ingredients from garlic clove to pepper in a small bowl. Let this mixture sit for about 5-10 minutes. This allows the garlic to “cook” a bit and the flavors soften a bit and won’t be as pungent....

It was the summer of 2012, and Lisa trudged from one doctor to the next—11 in 1 month—to find out the elusive source of the pain. But the doctors—urologists, gynecologists, the emergency room doctor she saw when she thought her insides were imploding—found nothing wrong. Tests for infections came back negative. Rounds of antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungal drugs were useless. A psychiatrist hinted at hidden marital discord (“So not true,” she says); a gynecologist speculated about genitalwarts (“I’ve been faithfully married for 15 years, so imagine what I said to my husband after that misdiagnosis—I’m still apologizing”)....

Julie Nelson, chairwoman of the university’s economics department, set out to question the conclusions of earlier research on risk-taking among the sexes. She reviewed 24 published studies that explored risk-taking in financial and economic settings. According to those studies, women were more risk-averse than their male counterparts. But not so fast. Upon further review, Nelson says, “instead of difference, similarity seems to be the more prominent pattern.” In other words, at least in financial settings, women and men exhibit relatively similar risk-related behavior....

In a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE, University of Florida researchers had a group of older male and female participants cycle in a quiet room while performing 12 different cognitive tasks which included saying “go” whenever a blue star appeared on a screen, naming different colors, memorizing patterns on tic-tac-toe boards, repeating long lists of numbers backward, and solving math problems. Aside from the hardest task—the math problem—the participants actually improved their thinking and cycled 25% faster once they completed the easier tasks....

The Center for Food Safety says the new Bayer CropScience genetically engineered (GE) soybean crop, called FG72, will likely cause a fourfold increase in the use of isoxaflutole, or IFT, a toxic herbicide. The chemical triggers liver and thyroid tumors in animal tests. Although you might not eat soybeans directly (unless you’re an edamame fan), you’re likely eating soy almost every day, since soybeans are used as an ingredient in a vast array of processed foods....

“Yoga is beneficial for all your joints, but particularly for your knees, because the poses bring the entire body into balance,” says Sandy Blaine, author of Yoga for Healthy Knees. Many poses strengthen and stretch your inner and outer quadriceps as well as your hamstrings, calves, and ankles, which collectively keep your kneecaps stable and strong. Sustaining poses during your practice sends blood rushing through your muscles and connective tissues, delivering nourishment and oxygen to those areas....

Here, 10 mistakes you frequently make on the elliptical and how to fix them so you maximize calorie burn while adding fun to your ho-hum routine. Your resistance is zero You might feel like a million bucks stepping a mile a minute, but without resistance, you’re not going to see results, says Röbynn Europe, a personal trainer at Chelsea Piers in New York City. Make sure that you’re using enough resistance to push and pull through the stride....

Why it happens"The muscles in your colon that squeeze to push stool through malfunction," says Philip Schoenfeld, MD, associate professor of medicine at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. The muscles either contract too quickly, giving you diarrhea (IBS-D), or too slowly, so you’re constipated (IBS-C). People may develop irritable bowel syndrome after a GI illness, a course of antibiotics, or emotional trauma, says Christine L. Frissora, MD, associate professor of gastroenterology at Weill Cornell Medical Center....

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Even though summer’s almost over, I still like to enjoy a cold treat after work or on the weekends. These pops are super creamy and have just the right touch of sweetness to satisfy my craving for a decadent treat. (Note: If you want your blueberries to be spread evenly throughout each popsicle, use half the blueberries and fill the mold half way. Place in freezer for an hour and repeat with the remaining blueberries and the remaining milk....