Category Archive: Health

Why do Women Menstruate?

Not that this makes Menstruation any more fun to deal with, but as always, now that I know the scientific reason behind the function, I feel better about this monthly ordeal.  From Pharyngula: Menstruation is a peculiar phenomenon that women go through on a roughly monthly cycle, and it’s not immediately obvious from an evolutionary …

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Mothers Stop Breastfeeding Too Soon in Baby’s Life

From ScienceDaily.com  More mothers are breastfeeding their newborns, but for too short a duration to gain the maximum benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and infants. New observations and a variety of strategies for encouraging women to breastfeed longer are presented in a collection of articles in Breastfeeding Medicine, the Official Journal of the Academy …

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Babies Know Who is Trustworthy, Studies Show

From Science Daily: “Babies love to imitate. Ask any parent and they’ll report how infants mimic sounds, facial expressions and actions they observe. Now new research from Concordia University, published in the journalInfant Behavior and Development, has found that infants can even differentiate between credible and non-credible sources. Simply put, most babies won’t follow along …

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Super Market Honey isn’t real: the scoup

The FDA studied honey from major food chains and found that about 75% of honey sold in supermarkets has been super-filtered to remove all pollen traces, which makes the source of the honey untrackable.

Don’t stay up late studying! Sleep and Learn:

People Learn While They Sleep, Study Suggests ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2011) — People may be learning while they’re sleeping — an unconscious form of memory that is still not well understood, according to a study by Michigan State University researchers. The findings are highlighted in theJournal of Experimental Psychology: General. “We speculate that we may be …

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Breastfeeding Mothers Defend Baby like Mama-Bears

From Science Daily.com ScienceDaily (Aug. 30, 2011) — Women who breast-feed are far more likely to demonstrate a “mama bear” effect — aggressively protecting their infants and themselves — than women who bottle-feed their babies or non-mothers, according to a new study in the September issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. …

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