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More from Prevention: Is This Why You Can’t Concentrate?[pagebreak]Girls and young women with ADHD are often painfully isolated socially. “It always seemed like everyone else knew how to “be,” and I was a bit clueless, especially when it comes to the female popularity game,” recalls Roxanne Harris, who was diagnosed two years ago, at 33, and today indulges her restlessness by working with endangered sea turtles in Greece. While ADHD symptoms typically first emerge in early childhood, scientists have found that in most cases the disorder persists through adulthood....

Question: How do I know if the pain I am feeling is actually caused by a migraine—and not another type of headache? Answer: You are not alone in your confusion—migraines are often mistaken for other types of headaches. But here are some guidelines for distinguishing between them: A migraine usually gives rise to throbbing that affects just one side of the head. Dull, pounding pain on both sides of the skull often indicates a tension headache (of which stress may be the source)....

MORE: Why The Heck Is My Hair Falling Out? But you don’t have to just soldier through days of constant splitting ends and bone-dry hair—there are steps you can take to decrease the damage to your hair.1. Go easy on coloring Keep hair dye jobs as minimal as possible, sticking to shades that don’t require bleach or opting for partial highlights instead of going light all over. The intense chemical processes it takes to brighten brown hair to, say, platinum blonde, makes it more porous and subject to breakage, says Rogers....

[sidebar]“A few extra gummies now and then won’t hurt you,” says Dr. Reinhold. “But when you start regularly chowing them down in large quantities, you could essentially overdose on fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K, since they can’t be flushed out through your urine like water-soluble vitamin C and the B vitamins.” Not to mention, you’re eating a lot of sugar. (Confused about which vitamins you need? Here’s our definitive guide to the rescue....

The group reviewed 26 studies that looked at the benefits of supplements containing one or more of the vitamins A, C, E, B, or D, as well as magnesium, zinc, iron, calcium, or niacin. Among healthy women, the researchers found no benefit when it comes to heart disease or cancer rates. In fact, supplements containing beta-carotene were actually found to raise lung cancer risk in some situations. The interplay of vitamins, food, and your health is complex and not totally understood, the study authors say....

SquatWatch out for: Make it harder: Stand as tall as you can with your feet spread shoulder-width apart. Lower your body as far as you can by pushing your hips back and bending your knees. Pause, then slowly push yourself back to the starting position. Do three sets of 10 reps.Make sure your front knee doesn’t extend past your toes. Keep your upper body “tall”—don’t lean forward. Turn it into a Jump Squat....

Reptiles and Amphibians If your allergies are severe and your home needs to be completely dander free, consider a reptile or amphibian. Even these scaly or slippery pets can have a therapeutic effect: In one study at Tel Aviv University in Israel, researchers found that holding a turtle reduced participants’ anxiety levels about as much as holding a soft, fuzzy rabbit did—even for people who did not classify themselves as animal lovers....

According to a study published in the International Journal of Cosmetic Science, cherry blossom extract helps prevent the production of nitric oxide. Forty study participants saw skin-calming results using a cherry blossom extract cream; after 9 days, those who treated irritated skin with the cream were markedly less inflamed than those who tried a placebo. Cherry blossom extract can be found in everything from cleansers to facial masks, but products that stay on your skin longer, like creams and serums, may offer more benefits....

The 2013 flu season is one of the worst on record—and according to a new study, you might be able to blame climate change for that. Researchers from Arizona State University analyzed statistics on lab-confirmed flu cases, collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 1997 onward. Then, they compared that data with climactic information from across the country during the same period. “We saw a significant correlation between the temperature of the winter season before and the severity of the flu season that followed for all different types of flu,” says lead study author Sherry Towers, PhD, a research professor at Arizona State University’s Mathematical Computational Modeling Sciences Center....

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Fish You Can Eat Without Eco-Guilt This is your guilt-free, bragging-rights fish list. Read more 3 Simple Rules For Buying The Best Fish Thanks to reasonably tight regulations, seafood from US waters is more likely to be responsibly caught. Read more How To Buy The Freshest Fish In The Market A visual guide to picking like a pro. Read more How To Cook Fish So It Doesn’t Smell Most fish-eating in America happens in restaurants for one stinky reason....

Making summer rolls can be a bit time-consuming, but with a little practice you’ll be churning out these little beauties like a pro. The key to speeding up the assembly process is to have the filling ingredients chopped and arranged in easy-to-access bowls so the rice wrapper can be stuffed as soon as it’s properly moistened. To prevent the rice wrappers from tearing, avoid oversoaking them. They should be pliable but not flimsy—submerging them for about 1½–2 minutes works best....

Sorry, that might actually be wrong. Apparently, the “less you eat it, the less you want to eat it” thing doesn’t really work for sugar, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers divided 29 regular soda drinkers into two groups. The first got to keep on eating (or drinking) as much sugar as they wanted. Those in the second group replaced 40% of the calories they normally got from sugar with calories from fat, protein, and complex carbs....

Timing has a lot to do with it, says Deborah Carr, PhD, chair of Rutgers University’s department of sociology. After interviewing 276 individuals who lost a spouse, she found that dating six months after the death of a spouse puts strain on those parent-child relationships. However, dating after 18 months has a slight positive effect on the connection, barring already-rocky ties. “These children have lost a parent,” says Dr. Carr, who is the author of the study in the Journal of Aging Studies....

How do scientists know this? They followed people into the bathroom! Researchers have tested this in the lab by examining the stools of volunteers after they consumed meals with differing amounts of fiber. The more fiber the participants ate, the more fat the researchers found in their stools. Fiber and other nondigestible carbs are bulky and tend to slow digestion, which, in turn, eases the absorption of glucose into the bloodstream....

Researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand tested to see if, in relationships, depressive symptoms, e.g., “I feel depressed,” or “Everything I do feels like an effort,” were associated with misreading their partners. To start, researchers assessed how often 78 heterosexual couples experienced depressive symptoms. Then, over the course of three weeks, couples recorded their relationship-related feelings on both their personal commitment and their perception of their partner’s commitment....

A recent study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association shows that counting carbs (or any other particular nutrient) may have nothing to do with weight loss. A group from Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, LA, tested this theory by dividing 25 relatively healthy men and women into three high-calorie diet groups, each consuming more than 900 extra calories per day. However, each group consumed a different amount of protein, with some participants consuming 5% of calories from protein, the second group consuming 15%, and the third group consuming 25%....