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Grandmas around the world were validated when scientific research confirmed that chicken noodle soup really does help us get over colds faster. But chicken soup isn’t the only meaty concoction that comes with a health bonus. These days, carnivores in the know are all about bone broth, a liquid made by simmering bones with water and varying spices or vegetables for up to 24 hours. The idea isn’t new by any means....

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that since the 1970s, rates of advanced breast cancer have increased around 2% per year among women aged 25 to 39. More specifically, rates of diagnosis among women in this demographic were around 1.53 per 100,000 in 1976. In 2009, those rates had increased to 2.9 per 100,000 women, the study found. “People I knew, or friends or friends, were coming out of the woodwork with a breast cancer diagnosis,” says study author Rebecca Johnson, MD, a pediatric cancer specialist at Seattle Children’s Hospital and herself a breast cancer survivor....

The research: Nearly 300 Chinese men and women residing in one of China’s most polluted regions were asked to drink half a cup of a mixture of sterilized water, pineapple, and lime juice either with or without broccoli sprout powder every day for 12 weeks. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health collected urine and blood samples to measure levels of the pollutants. Beginning on the first day and continuing through the study period, researchers noticed that participants consuming the beverage with the broccoli sprout powder experienced an uptick in pollutant excretion rates—increases of 61% and 23% of the human carcinogen benzene and of the lung irritant acrolein respectively....

The research: Researchers from Northwestern University recruited 54 participants with an average age of 30 and, using wrist monitors, kept tabs on their light exposure, activity, and sleep patterns for seven days. They also followed participants’ eating patterns via food logs. The findings: Even after controlling for all non-light exposure factors, the influence of morning light on weight was considerable—it accounted for roughly 20% of the subject’s BMIs, meaning those with earlier light exposure weighed less....

I think of: “Come Together” As gobblygoo as it sounds – it’s their one song that is most poetic. It begs for subjective interpretation. It has mood, atmosphere, attitude and style. It keeps people guessing. I see it as a translation of love and sorrow, heartache and dependency. It’s own language. Collectively it’s what the Beatles did with their music. They brought people together in a world where circles of inclusion were trying to form, but it was their music that had the power to join us all in spirit....

Ab crunches Lie on your back with knees bent, feet flat on floor, and hands behind head, elbows pointing out to sides. Contract your abs and curl head, shoulders, and upper back off floor, pulling your rib cage toward your pelvis as you roll up. Hold for a second, then slowly lower. Do 10 to 15 crunches. Straight leg lifts Sit with your back and tailbone against a wall, bend right leg so foot is flat on floor, and extend left leg in front of you with toe pointing toward the ceiling....

Researchers from Columbia University and the University of Miami looked at the soft drinking habits of more than 2,000 men and women ages 40 and over, and then compared their beverage habits with the number of vascular events that occurred over a 10-year period. After factoring in pre-existing conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure, those who consumed diet soda more than once a day were 43 percent more likely to have suffered a vascular event than those who didn’t....

Q: I just started working out and taking ibuprofen for muscle aches. Could that be giving me headaches? –Robyn Aurnou, 46 Dublin, OH A: Possibly. You may be experiencing what are known as rebound or medication overuse headaches. I know it seems ironic that the very thing you’re using to relieve pain can cause it, but it’s not uncommon. Using too much of any of a class of OTC painkillers called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs, which also include aspirin and naproxen) can cause these headaches....

Then he decided to conduct an experiment: What would happen if he drank 10 cans of Coca-Cola every day for 30 days—without changing any other part of his diet or lifestyle? “I was talking to my brother, and he and I were joking around about how we saw an actor who drank 10 Cokes a day to gain weight for a role,” Prior says. But the joke became real inspiration when he read the USDA’s report that the average American eats about 156 pounds of added sugar each year....

That is, if you have a healthy lifestyle. “As many as 70% of known causes of cancers are avoidable and related to lifestyle,” says Thomas A. Sellers, PhD, associate director for cancer prevention and control at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa. Diet, exercise, and avoidance of tobacco products are, of course, your first line of defense, but recent research has uncovered many small, surprising ways you can weave even more disease prevention into your everyday life....

“If I Can Get in Shape, Anyone Can.” “If I don’t do something now, I’m never going to do it.” That was the thought that propelled Sue Nealy, then 44, from standing on the scale at her doctor’s office—with the number 299 staring back at her—to a kickboxing class. “That first workout was so hard that I ended up back at the doctor’s office the next day because I thought I must have had a heart attack—that’s how out of shape I was,” Nealy says....

Researchers looked at the dietary habits of more than 170,000 women for three decades to reach this conclusion. Their coolest finding: Just a couple of cups of black tea every day was associated with a whopping 31% reduction in risk for this deadly cancer. So how do these flavonoids work? “The mechanisms aren’t completely understood, but a number of flavonoids are anti-inflammatory and have effects on cell signaling pathways,” says Aedin Cassidy, PhD, study author and professor of nutrition at the University of East Anglia’s Norwich Medical School....

While you were hastily baking cookies and celebrating the holiday season, chemical companies were quietly asking the government to approve a dangerous new genetically engineered crop designed to withstand heavy sprayings of an old chemical used in warfare decades ago. Despite the big push for organic, Dow Agrosciences is asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to allow farmers unrestricted use of a new genetically engineered corn seed created to withstand heavy sprayings of the herbicide 2,4-D, an ingredient in Agent Orange, the toxic compound used to defoliate forests and croplands during the Vietnam War....

Products that color hair make up a billion dollar industry, according to the Wall Street Journal, though not all those purchases are to cover the gray. But for those who are trying to hide the tell tale sign of aging, this research suggests an actual treatment. The scientists report in the journal Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology that if a topical cream containing “pseudo-catalase” is applied and activated by sunlight, pigment can return to the hair…and to the skin....

Develop a meditation practice, already! It’s getting harder and harder to avoid the cold hard truth: If you aren’t meditating, you’re missing out on one of the cheapest, most life-changing, and most health-affirming habits out there. Heck, it can even get rid of your hot flashes. Yup, you read that right. Meditation can help menopausal women reduce their hot flashes by 40%. Still not convinced? Take a look at the three other reasons you should give this technique a shot....