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• New vaccine for nicotine addiction
• Kids who cook are hungrier for healthy food choices
• Ability to estimate quantity increases in first 30 years of life
• Significant cardiovascular risk with low carbohydrate-high protein diets, experts warn
• How much would our health benefit from leaving the car at home?
• DVDs and computer games rated for adult use may damage children's mental health

New vaccine for nicotine addiction Posted: 27 Jun 2012 11:24 AM PDT Researchers have developed and successfully tested in mice an innovative vaccine to treat nicotine addiction. A single dose of their novel vaccine protects mice, over their lifetime, against nicotine addiction. The vaccine is designed to use the animal's liver as a factory to continuously produce antibodies that gobble up nicotine the moment it enters the bloodstream, preventing the chemical from reaching the brain and even the heart.

Kids who cook are hungrier for healthy food choices Posted: 27 Jun 2012 07:33 AM PDT Children who help cook at home are more likely to enjoy fruits and veggies than kids who don't cook, according to a new study.

Ability to estimate quantity increases in first 30 years of life Posted: 27 Jun 2012 07:33 AM PDT One of the basic elements of cognition -- the ability to estimate quantities -- grows more precise across the first 30 years or more of a person's life, according to researchers. This intuitive grasp of numbers, also called an approximate number sense, or ANS, is tied to concrete math skills at every stage of life, the researchers found.

Significant cardiovascular risk with low carbohydrate-high protein diets, experts warn Posted: 27 Jun 2012 06:22 AM PDT Women who regularly eat a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet are at greater risk of cardiovascular disease (such as heart disease and stroke) than those who do not, a new study suggests.

How much would our health benefit from leaving the car at home? Posted: 27 Jun 2012 06:17 AM PDT Walking to get around is considered a moderate physical activity and meets WHO exercise recommendations. A new study confirms that doing short journeys on foot rather than taking the car or motorbike would avoid the death of 108 men and 79 women a year in Catalonia alone. This would imply annual savings of more than 200 million euros.

DVDs and computer games rated for adult use may damage children's mental health Posted: 26 Jun 2012 05:08 PM PDT Media violence does have an effect on children's behavior and a concerted public health response involving parents, professionals, the media and policymakers is needed to reduce its effects, experts say.

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