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• Nutritional supplement improves cognitive performance in older adults, study finds
• Valentine's Day advice: Don't let rocky past relations with parents spoil your romance
• Heart disease risk linked with spouses' social support
• Why do young people fail to find stable jobs and thrive?
• Will your child be a slim adult? Crowdsourcing novel childhood predictors of adult obesity
• Detection of Down Syndrome during pregnancy improves for younger women
• Get tough! How Outward Bound adventures increase teenage resilience
• Evangelical Christians have higher-than-average divorce rates, new report shows
• Public divided on genetic testing to predict cancer risk: American national poll
• Genetics impact risk of early menopause among some female smokers
• Links explored between physical activity, learning
• New kinds of maths skills needed in the future – and new educational practices
• The skinny on teen obesity surgery
• Wider-faced dates more attractive as short-term mates, study suggests
• Mediterranean diet linked with lower risk of heart disease among young U.S. workers
• Time to act on mobile phone use while driving, say experts
• Clearer labels needed on drugs containing animal products
• Higher blood pressure in early adulthood predicts risk of heart disease

Nutritional supplement improves cognitive performance in older adults, study finds Posted: 06 Feb 2014 10:39 AM PST A neuroscientist and gerontologist team up to investigate the effects of a antioxidant-rich nutritional supplement on the mental performance of older adults without impaired memory. An initial clinical trial indicates that the supplement, including blueberries and green tea extracts, improves cognitive processing speeds.

Valentine's Day advice: Don't let rocky past relations with parents spoil your romance Posted: 06 Feb 2014 07:11 AM PST The love between parents and teens -- however stormy or peaceful -- may influence whether those children are successful in romance, even up to 15 years later, according to a new study.

Heart disease risk linked with spouses' social support Posted: 06 Feb 2014 07:10 AM PST Matters of the heart can influence actual heart health. A new study published shows that the ways in which your spouse is supportive -- and how you support your spouse -- can actually have significant bearing on your overall cardiovascular health.

Why do young people fail to find stable jobs and thrive? Posted: 06 Feb 2014 07:10 AM PST Around the world, more and more young people are failing to find stable jobs and live independently. A new study explains why.

Will your child be a slim adult? Crowdsourcing novel childhood predictors of adult obesity Posted: 05 Feb 2014 03:47 PM PST This novel study asked 532 international English speaking adults to submit or crowd-source predictors of whether a child is going to be an overweight or a slim adult. The results indicate that crowd-sourced information could be used to identify new predictors that may, after further study, be useful in understanding and reducing obesity. Furthermore, the trends in BMI obtained through this study provide insights into behaviors that should be encouraged to help children maintain a healthy BMI into adulthood.

Detection of Down Syndrome during pregnancy improves for younger women Posted: 05 Feb 2014 07:35 AM PST New figures from the National Down Syndrome Cytogenetic Register in England, reveal the proportion of Down Syndrome cases diagnosed antenatally has increased in younger women. Furthermore, Down Syndrome diagnoses are occurring earlier in pregnancy for women of all ages.

Get tough! How Outward Bound adventures increase teenage resilience Posted: 05 Feb 2014 07:33 AM PST Today's youth face many debilitating situations in their lives such as depression, suicide, poverty, and physical issues. In this environment how can they develop coping strategies for life and personal resilience? How can we support them to do this?

Evangelical Christians have higher-than-average divorce rates, new report shows Posted: 05 Feb 2014 07:32 AM PST Despite their strong pro-family values, evangelical Christians have higher-than-average divorce rates -- in fact, being more likely to be divorced than Americans who claim no religion, according to a new study.

Public divided on genetic testing to predict cancer risk: American national poll Posted: 05 Feb 2014 07:31 AM PST An American national poll shows 34 percent of respondents would not seek genetic testing to predict likelihood of developing a hereditary cancer. The poll shows 35 percent of respondents would be extremely or very likely to seek aggressive prophylactic or preventive treatment.

Genetics impact risk of early menopause among some female smokers Posted: 05 Feb 2014 07:31 AM PST New research is lighting up yet another reason for women to quit smoking. In a study published, researchers report the first evidence showing that smoking causes earlier signs of menopause – in the case of heavy smokers, up to nine years earlier than average – in white women with certain genetic variations.

Links explored between physical activity, learning Posted: 05 Feb 2014 06:15 AM PST The association between physical activity and learning has been evidenced in many studies. The results have suggested that being physically active produces positive effects on many cognitive functions, such as memory, attention, information processing and problem solving. Unfortunately, these previous studies have used fairly small datasets and have yielded fairly little information on the actual underlying mechanisms.

New kinds of maths skills needed in the future – and new educational practices Posted: 05 Feb 2014 06:15 AM PST The nature of the mathematical skills required from competent citizens is changing. Gone are the days of inertly applying and performing standard calculations. The mathematical minds of the future will need to understand how different economic, social, technological and work-related processes can be mathematically represented or modeled. A project is exploring new pedagogical practices and technological environments to prepare students for the flexible use of their math skills in future environments.

The skinny on teen obesity surgery Posted: 05 Feb 2014 06:15 AM PST Some 17 percent of children and adolescents -- or 12.5 million -- are obese, increasing the likelihood that they will become adults with even more serious weight problems. Unlike adults, though, kids might not be physically or emotionally ready for weight-loss surgery as a potential solution.

Wider-faced dates more attractive as short-term mates, study suggests Posted: 05 Feb 2014 05:00 AM PST Women may perceive men with wider faces as more dominant and more attractive for short-term relationships, according to a new study.

Mediterranean diet linked with lower risk of heart disease among young U.S. workers Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:56 PM PST Among a large group of Midwestern firefighters, greater adherence to Mediterranean-style diet was associated with lower risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

Time to act on mobile phone use while driving, say experts Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:56 PM PST It's time to act on mobile phone use while driving, say two senior Canadian physicians. Although there is still some uncertainty about the association between mobile phone use and risk of crashes, given the proliferation of mobile phones, the prevalence of distracted driving is undoubtedly increasing, they write.

Clearer labels needed on drugs containing animal products Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:56 PM PST Patients with specific dietary restrictions may be unwittingly taking medicines containing animal products, suggests an article published.

Higher blood pressure in early adulthood predicts risk of heart disease Posted: 04 Feb 2014 01:22 PM PST Elevated blood pressure as young as age 18 is a warning sign of heart disease developing later in life and the time to begin prevention, according to a large American national study. That's decades earlier than clinicians and patients generally start thinking about heart disease risk. The 25-year study is the first to identify different long-term patterns of blood pressure levels from ages 18 to 55 and resulting cardiovascular risk.

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