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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Girls who ate frequent meals and snacks put on fewer pounds and gained fewer inches to their waistlines over the next decade than those who only ate a couple of times each day, according to a new study. Researchers said that one explanation is that smaller, more frequent meals and [...]

Published: Dec. 25, 2011 at 12:19 AM BERLIN, Dec. 25 (UPI) — Germans are eating fewer servings of fruits and vegetables than they were last March, a survey indicates. The overall Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index in Germany deteriorated since last March because of a decline in the percentage of Germans who report eating healthily. About 60 [...]

Published: Dec. 19, 2011 at 12:51 AM WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) — American seniors don’t need as much social time with family and friends as younger people do to be happy, a U.S. survey indicates. Overall, Americans’ self-reported their mood improves with each hour of social time they spend in a day — up to [...]

TUESDAY, Dec. 13 (HealthDay News) — Obese black women have a better weight-related quality of life than white women with the same weight, according to a new U.S. study. The researchers found that black women are more likely to be concerned about possible physical limitations caused by overweight and obesity, rather than the potential psychological [...]

Published: Dec. 12, 2011 at 1:14 AM WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (UPI) — U.S. adults typically exercise less in November and December, but fewer broke a sweat last month than a year ago, a Gallup Poll indicates. In November, 1,000 U.S. adults were asked daily about their exercise habits as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. [...]

Published: Dec. 6, 2011 at 8:35 PM ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Dec. 6 (UPI) — Women who have had at least three screening mammograms cut their chances of dying of breast cancer in half, Dutch researchers found. Suzie Otto, a senior researcher in the department of public health at the Erasmus MC at Rotterdam in the Netherlands, [...]

Published: Nov. 12, 2011 at 1:57 AM CLEVELAND, Nov. 12 (UPI) — The human body is better at fighting gum disease when fat cells, which trigger inflammation, disappear after weight loss, U.S. researchers found. Nabil Bissada, head of the department of periodontics at Case Western Reserve School of Dental Medicine, said inflammation from gum disease [...]

Published: Aug. 23, 2011 at 7:26 PM Washington National Cathedral. UPI/Pat Benic  Advertisement CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 23 (UPI) — Less-educated white Americans are dropping out of the religious sector, similarly to the way they left the labor market, a U.S. researcher says a study shows. Using data from the General Social Survey and the National [...]

Published: Aug. 22, 2011 at 2:06 AM DAVIS, Calif., Aug. 22 (UPI) — Happier adolescents are less likely to be involved in crime or drug use, U.S. researchers say. Study co-author Bill McCarthy of the University of California, Davis, and colleagues analyzed data from 1995 and 1996 from nearly 15,000 seventh- to ninth-grade students in [...]

Published: Aug. 22, 2011 at 2:06 AM DAVIS, Calif., Aug. 22 (UPI) — Happier adolescents are less likely to be involved in crime or drug use, U.S. researchers say. Study co-author Bill McCarthy of the University of California, Davis, and colleagues analyzed data from 1995 and 1996 from nearly 15,000 seventh- to ninth-grade students in [...]