Category archives for: Environment

The Best Apps For Your New Android Phone

Humin acts like your very own digital butler. 1. Humin is an app that remembers all the tiny details about how and where you met someone, so you can focus on the moment rather than remembering logistics. All you need is someone’s number, and Humin will do the rest. You’ll then be able to search […]

19 Tips And Tricks To Get You Started With Your New iPhone 6

1. If you’re stuck in a group text message thread and you want to stop receiving alerts, tap “Details” on the top right of the screen. The tap “Leave this Conversation” at the bottom of the next screen. 2. To access your recent contacts, press the home button twice quickly. You’ll see a list of […]

Smartphones Ruin More Than Your Sleep — They May Also Be Destroying Your Vision

Kevin Loria If you are buying a new iPhone, don’t use it in bed — and not just because nighttime smartphone use messes up your sleep cycle. The blue light from personal electronic devices has also been linked to serious physical and mental health problems. Blue light is part of the full light spectrum, which […]

9 Surprising Signs Of Depression

By Aviva Patz Most of us would recognize classic depression, with its heavy veil of sadness and hopelessness. But what if you just started getting stomachaches or were suddenly very snappy? Could you be depressed without knowing it? “Depression doesn’t always look like debilitating sadness,” says Richard Kravitz, MD, MSPH, a professor of internal medicine […]

Short men more likely to die from dementia, Edinburgh University finds

By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor The University of Edinburgh has found that height is linked to the risk of death from dementia. Short men are more likely to die from dementia than taller men, scientists have found, in the first ever study to link height with mental decline in old age. Researchers at the University […]

Cancer Vaccine Exists, Goes Unused

by James Hamblin The HPV vaccine could prevent thousands of people every year from getting cancer. But a new CDC report says most children still do not receive it. Every 20 minutes a person in the U.S. is diagnosed with with a human-papilloma virus-associated cancer. Most of those cancers could be prevented with an HPV […]

Nutrition Program Proves Vital to Lower-Income families, But Many Miss Out

Andrew Kitchenman Health commissioner promotes WIC as way of reaching 40,000 potential clients currently outside of program For Trenton resident Linda Bailey, the vouchers for fresh food and baby formula that she receives from a federally funded nutrition program are essential to making ends meet. “It’s very expensive nowadays,” Bailey said, adding that she spent […]

USB ‘critically flawed’ after bug discovery, researchers say

By Dave Lee Technology reporter, Cyber-security experts have dramatically called into question the safety and security of using USB to connect devices to computers. Berlin-based researchers Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell demonstrated how any USB device could be used to infect a computer without the user’s knowledge. The duo said there is no practical way […]

The top 10 powerhouse vegetables

by: Rebecca Sullivan WHEN it comes to fruit and vegetables, it seems not all are created equal. With a different vegetable hailed as a superfood every week, it can be difficult to decide which vegies to stock your fridge with. But a new study from US researchers has set the record straight, identifying the top […]

What Your Body Odor Says About Your Health

Most Americans spend at least a portion of every day trying to prevent body odor—showering, applying deodorant and even sniffing their armpits to detect any trace of an off-putting smell. For most people, body odor is completely normal; it’s the simple result of the interaction between sweat and bacteria on a person’s skin. “Body odor […]

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