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Researchers say that in only fourteen days your consumption of sugary beverages that contain high levels of fructose corn syrup you can increase your risks for cardiovascular disease.

A study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine’s April 30^th issue states that improving the knowledge about prenatal care, and engaging hospitals in a review of the number of caesarean section births that were performed, greatly improved the health of the mothers and the babies.

Knowing that four out of every ten Americans live in a location where the air they breathe is polluted is scary, but believe this or not, these statistics are lower than they have been at times in the past.

Many patients say that they do not feel the same connection to their doctors that their parents, and their grandparents, felt with their physicians. The biggest reason stated for the change in attitude towards physicians is the age of technology.

Physical activity is touted as being the number one cure for obesity in children, but when a group of impoverished children from Quebec were studied the results revealed that children living in poverty are at a greater risk of becoming obese, even though they have a higher level of physical activity.

The majority of heart surgeries performed on children less than 2 years of age use blood components instead of whole blood. Whole blood is now being recommended rather than these components by researchers from the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia.

According to a study published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders children who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are twelve times more likely to suffer from eating disorders such as binge eating, or loss of control eating syndrome, than their peers who do not have attention deficit hyperactivity disorders.

Research shows that women who are middle-aged, or older, will have a sixty five percent higher chance of having a heart attack after they experience traumatic life events such as major illness, the death of a loved one, a natural disaster, or severe financial difficulties.

A recent study indicates that women who breastfeed their babies, and develop breast cancer later in life, are more likely to see that cancer go into remission with no recurrence.

Imagine that you see someone crying and you cannot tell if that person is happy, sad, hurt, or scared. The Big Bang Theory has the character Sheldon often feel confused because he cannot tell when others are being sarcastic. Imagine that you could not empathize with others because you simply had no idea what they were feeling unless they told you.