Body-Mind-Spirit News

• New Study: Handwashing impacts health in the home
  A new study suggests that even long after an infection has passed, it still has the capability to spread throughout a house--by means of water splashing on the toilet lid, for example...
• Music Therapy Shows Promise in Treating High Blood Pressure
  If you have hypertension, listening to soothing music for a half hour a day while breathing deeply can significantly reduce your blood pressure without drugs. That's the conclusion of a new study..
• Ocean Water Spray Halts Children's Cough and Cold Symptoms
  A nose spray made from ocean water provides more symptom relief and lasting improvement in children than over-the-counter cough and cold medications...
• Coffee Could Lower Death Risk
  Having that morning cup of coffee every day could help protect you from heart disease. New research finds drinking coffee regularly--up to six cups a day--actually reduces your risk of dying from heart disease...
• More Vitamin D benefits studied
  People with a vitamin D deficiency are as much as twice as likely to die compared to people whose blood contains higher amounts of the so-called sunshine vitamin, Austrian researchers said on Monday...
• Making Old Muscle Young
  Researchers found that old muscle produces elevated levels of a molecule called TGF-beta, which is known to inhibit muscle growth. The researchers then showed that the muscle-deteriorating effects of TGF-beta can be reversed by blocking its pathway in old mice....
• Change Your Lifestyle, Change Your Genes
  If you change your lifestyle, you change your genes. You can't get different genes, but how you act can change how your genes act, report Dean Ornish, MD, and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)...
• Biological Reason Found Why Girls Like Bad Boys
  New research suggests that bad boys might actually be attracting more women than their "nicer" counterparts...