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• Dieting youth show greater brain reward activity in response to food
• Muscle adaptation of transition to minimalist running
• Understanding student weaknesses
• Focus on STD, not cancer prevention, to promote HPV vaccine use
• Seat belt research aims to increase child safety on the road
• How to get more followers on Twitter
• Poison lips? Troubling levels of toxic metals found in cosmetics
• Bonding with your virtual self may alter your actual perceptions
• Dustless chalk may cause allergy and asthma symptoms in students with milk allergy, study finds
• Study identifies genes, pathways altered during relaxation response practice
• New brain research shows two parents may be better than one
• Want to slow mental decay? Play a video game
• Growing gap between teens' materialism and willingness to work hard

Dieting youth show greater brain reward activity in response to food Posted: 02 May 2013 11:26 AM PDT Research results imply that dieting characterized by meal skipping and fasting would be less successful than weight loss efforts characterized by intake of low energy dense healthy foods.

Muscle adaptation of transition to minimalist running Posted: 02 May 2013 11:24 AM PDT As barefoot and minimalist running become increasingly popular, a new study is looking at how muscles are affected by the transition from traditional footwear.

Understanding student weaknesses Posted: 02 May 2013 10:19 AM PDT As part of a unique study that surveyed 181 middle school physical science teachers and nearly 10,000 students, researchers showed the science teachers were most successful when they could predict their students' wrong answers on standardized tests.

Focus on STD, not cancer prevention, to promote HPV vaccine use Posted: 02 May 2013 09:04 AM PDT The HPV vaccine can prevent both cervical cancer and a nasty sexually transmitted disease in women. But emphasizing the STD prevention will persuade more young women to get the vaccine.

Seat belt research aims to increase child safety on the road Posted: 02 May 2013 09:03 AM PDT Vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death and injury among children. Researchers have found the most effective strategy to prevent injury and death among children is to use age- and size-appropriate seat belt restraints.

How to get more followers on Twitter Posted: 02 May 2013 08:55 AM PDT What do all Twitter users want? Followers – and lots of them. Looking at a half-million tweets over 15 months, a first-of-its-kind study has revealed a set of reliable predictors for building a Twitter following.

Poison lips? Troubling levels of toxic metals found in cosmetics Posted: 02 May 2013 05:22 AM PDT Researchers found lead, cadmium, chromium, aluminum and five other metals in a sample of 32 different lipsticks and lip glosses commonly found in drugstores and department stores. Some of the metals were detected at levels that could raise potential health concerns.

Bonding with your virtual self may alter your actual perceptions Posted: 02 May 2013 05:22 AM PDT When people create and modify their virtual reality avatars, the hardships faced by their alter egos can influence how they perceive virtual environments, according to researchers.

Dustless chalk may cause allergy and asthma symptoms in students with milk allergy, study finds Posted: 02 May 2013 05:01 AM PDT Many of today's schools and school teachers opt for dustless chalk to keep hands and classrooms clean. But according to a new study, this choice in chalk may cause allergy and asthma symptoms in students that have a milk allergy.

Study identifies genes, pathways altered during relaxation response practice Posted: 01 May 2013 04:32 PM PDT A new study finds that elicitation of the relaxation response -- a physiologic state of deep rest induced by practices such as meditation, deep breathing and prayer -- produces immediate changes in the expression of genes involved in immune function, energy metabolism and insulin secretion.

New brain research shows two parents may be better than one Posted: 01 May 2013 04:32 PM PDT Scientists have discovered that adult brain cell production might be determined, in part, by the early parental environment. The study suggests that dual parenting may be more beneficial than single parenting.

Want to slow mental decay? Play a video game Posted: 01 May 2013 04:29 PM PDT A new study shows that older people can put off the aging of their minds by playing a simple game that primes their processing speed skills. The research showed participants' cognitive skills improved in a range of functions, from improving peripheral vision to problem solving.

Growing gap between teens' materialism and willingness to work hard Posted: 01 May 2013 10:18 AM PDT New research shows a growing gap between materialism and the desire to work hard in young people today. Researchers studied results of surveys of 355,000 US high school seniors from 1976 to 2007, examining the materialistic values of three generations with questions focused on the perceived importance of having a lot of money and material goods, as well as the willingness to work hard.

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