For decades, we have heard the suggestion that a glass of wine each night is good for our heart, and our health. Recently, studies have called into question that assumption, showing that it was based on flawed research studies. A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that having even one alcoholic […]

A new study by Mornings.co.uk shows how well each city and state sleeps, as well as countries across the world. Researchers used Twitter, searching for tweets containing the hashtags #goodmorning and #goodnight, to determine the average wake-up times and bedtimes of people in over 130 countries, then calculating the average night’s sleep in each country. […]

A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports offers a surprising way you might lose weight – chewing your food more slowly. Researchers studied 11 healthy men and had them consume the same amount of food in three different ways. When they chewed the food for 30 seconds before swallowing, they had increased diet-induced […]

If you work or study a lot, you might be resistant to taking a break, whether it’s watching TV, going out with friends, or any other leisure activity. But those relaxing activities can be good for your mental health – depending on how you look at it. In a new study published in the Journal […]

We have discussed links between frequent social media use and worse mental health, but a new study suggests it might be bad for our physical health too. Researchers at the University of Buffalo surveyed over 250 college students about their social media use and physical health. They also took blood samples. They found that the […]

I bet most of us have reached for comfort foods to try to get us out of a bad mood at some point in our lives. But that cheeseburger or ice cream often makes us feel even worse, not just physically, but worse mentally as well. A series of studies and a recent article in […]

It appears that your eyes could help determine your risk of early death. Researchers in the U.K. have developed a machine learning model that can accurately predict a person’s remaining years of life simply by looking at their retina, the tissue at the back of the eye. They determined that using these scans could predict […]

If you worry that your teenage kids don’t get enough sleep, here is another cause of concern. It affects what and how much they eat. In a new study published in the journal Sleep, researchers analyzed the sleep patterns and eating habits of 93 14-to-17-year-olds over three weeks. Then one group was given six and […]

If you have suffered an injury or battled bone or joint pain for a while, you might want to think twice before choosing to undergo surgery. According to a study just published in the BMJ, researchers at the University of Bristol in England reviewed ten of the most common elective orthopedic surgical procedures and compared […]

Here’s a scary forecast for healthcare in this country. A new survey of more than 20,000 respondents at 124 institutions across the country, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, found that one in every five physicians in this country plans to leave his or her current practice in the next two years. Even worse, one of […]