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• Healthy living into old age can add up to six years to your life: Keeping physically active shows strongest association with survival
• Chemical exposure in the womb from household items may contribute to obesity
• Overwhelmed by instant access to news and information? Most Americans like it
• People merge supernatural and scientific beliefs when reasoning with the unknown, study shows
• Does wisdom really come with age? It depends on the culture
• Bitter tastes quickly turn milk chocolate fans sour
• What babies eat after birth likely determines lifetime risk of metabolic mischief and obesity, rat studies suggest

Healthy living into old age can add up to six years to your life: Keeping physically active shows strongest association with survival Posted: 30 Aug 2012 04:10 PM PDT Living a healthy lifestyle into old age can add five years to women's lives and six years to men's, finds a new study.

Chemical exposure in the womb from household items may contribute to obesity Posted: 30 Aug 2012 10:53 AM PDT Pregnant women who are highly exposed to common environmental chemicals -- polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFCs) -- have babies that are smaller at birth and larger at 20 months of age, according to a new study. PFCs are used in the production of fluoropolymers and are found widely in protective coatings of packaging products, clothes, furniture and non-stick cookware. They are persistent compounds found abundantly in the environment and human exposure is common. PFCs have been detected in human sera, breast milk and cord blood.

Overwhelmed by instant access to news and information? Most Americans like it Posted: 30 Aug 2012 10:53 AM PDT "Information overload" may be an exaggerated way to describe today's always-on media environment. Actually, very few Americans seem to feel bogged down or overwhelmed by the volume of news and information at their fingertips and on their screens, according to a new study.

People merge supernatural and scientific beliefs when reasoning with the unknown, study shows Posted: 30 Aug 2012 10:53 AM PDT A new psychology study finds adults are more likely than children to find supernatural explanations for existential questions.

Does wisdom really come with age? It depends on the culture Posted: 30 Aug 2012 10:04 AM PDT It's certainly comforting to think that aging benefits the mind, if not the body. But do we really get wiser with age? Research suggests that having wisdom means includes being good at resolving conflict, but conflict is not handled the same way across cultures. A new study examines how the resolution of conflict and, by extension, wisdom differ between Japanese and American cultures.

Bitter tastes quickly turn milk chocolate fans sour Posted: 30 Aug 2012 10:00 AM PDT Dark chocolate lovers can handle a wider range of bitter tastes before rejection compared to milk chocolate fans, according to food scientists.

What babies eat after birth likely determines lifetime risk of metabolic mischief and obesity, rat studies suggest Posted: 30 Aug 2012 07:27 AM PDT Rats born to mothers fed high-fat diets but who get normal levels of fat in their diets right after birth avoid obesity and its related disorders as adults, according to new research. Meanwhile, rat babies exposed to a normal-fat diet in the womb but nursed by rat mothers on high-fat diets become obese by the time they are weaned.

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