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More from Prevention: The Vitamin That Won’t Cure Your Cold These three supplements are among those with great potential. In their various ways, they’ve been effective against multiple health problems, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and even depression. One may help you shed body fat. Another may help you have smarter children. Researchers studying them use the words “incredible,” “extraordinary,” and “exciting” when reporting their results. As a consumer, you’re wise not to get as carried away....

More from Prevention.com: Get 5 Time-Saving Beauty Products AVONTry the Ideal Flawless Invisible Coverage Liquid Foundation ($11; avon.com). “The formula is full coverage, but it’s also really easy to blend,” says Turnbow. “That means you can spot-apply for concealer-like results or spread a small amount over your whole face for a natural, even finish.“2. ARBONNEEvery woman can benefit from the Sheer Glow Highlighter ($40; arbonne.com), says Turnbow. Smooth just a drop or two of the pearly lotion all over for a luminescent effect that makes imperfections less noticeable....

What? You’ve never heard of tiger nuts? Most people haven’t. These slightly sweet, slightly chewy tubers (yes, they’re tubers, not even nuts) with a mild nutty, earthy, vanilla flavor look like shriveled chickpeas and come from northern Africa. So are they really the stuff dieters’ dreams are made of? We investigate. For starters, tiger nuts are superhigh in fiber, which has been getting for its weight loss benefits, says Gina Consalvo, RD....

But it doesn’t stop there: a new study from Arizona State University has discovered a link between gut bacteria and autism. In the study published in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers checked out the populations of healthy gut bugs in 40 kids between the ages of 3 and 16, half with autism and half without. After sequencing bacterial DNA in stool samples from the participants, researchers found that autistic subjects had less diverse gut microbes than their neurotypical peers....

I don’t think he needed a machine to tell him what I was feeling right then. While the research is far from creating a pocket-sized device for spouses, researchers in CMU’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences successfully developed a computer model that can read and identify a person’s emotions more accurately than when those feelings are self-reported. It uses a combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and machine learning to measure brain signals triggered by emotional stimuli....

Cordain, an anthropologist, tells me later that his skin obsession started with an article about Canadian Inuit in a 1971 issue of Nutrition Today. One observation arrested his attention: The Inuit population started getting acne only when they began eating processed foods. But why? He’d clung to that question, letting it take over his research. Diet, he decided, irrefutably affects acne. He knew it wouldn’t be an easy sell to that night’s audience, Cordain says....

For instance, researchers found nonorganic green beans to be among the riskiest produce picks you could eat. In the report, veteran researcher Charles Benbrook, PhD, a collaborator on the Consumer Reports report and leader of the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University, had this to say: “Acephate, and its breakdown product methamidophos, on green beans was the No. 1 risk driver in 2013. That use accounted for around one-half of total risk across all pesticides and food....

Scientists at Columbia University and the University of Pittsburgh found that when making choices between a right and wrong answer, people’s accuracy in making the right decision increased dramatically when they gave themselves a small amount of time. Without the added time, their choices were no better than chance. It’s all about giving our attention enough time to sort out the relevant information from the distractors, says one of the study’s co-authors, Vincent Ferrera, an associate professor of neuroscience at Columbia University Medical Center....

But the good news is you can put a stop to a sodium overdose by cooking quick and easy meals at home. Try out these 8 recipes, taken from The Salt Solution, that use fresh herbs and spices to make the flavor-packed meals you’ll love. Egg, Arugula, and Tomato Sandwich Prep time: 5 minutes Cook time: 3 minutes Total time: 8 minutes Makes 1 serving 1 light multigrain 100-calorie English muffin, split horizontally 1 large egg 1 slice 25% less fat, 53% less sodium Swiss cheese 1 tomato slice 1/4 cup baby arugula 2 teaspoons unsalted ketchup...

These findings come from personal health questionnaires completed by more than 90,000 postmenopausal women, all of whom were taking part in a cancer screening trial. Of those 90,000+ women, roughly 1,000 developed breast cancer, according to the UK study team. After adjusting for other risk factors like family history of cancer, the study team linked a growing waist circumference to a greater risk for the disease. MORE: The Breast Cancer-Fighting Fruit For women who went up two skirt sizes per decade, the picture gets bleaker: A two-size increase increased their breast cancer risk by 77% compared to women who did not experience this level of mid-body weight gain....

• Processing food removes all its fiber and destroys nutrients. • Processed food has preservatives and other dangerous chemicals. • Processed foods are created with GMO ingredients. • Processed foods are too acidic. • Processed foods have too much sugar. • Processed foods have too much gluten. • Our bodies can’t handle unnatural ingredients. The number of these theories scientists actually agree on: zero. Any or all of these factors may contribute to the unhealthfulness of processed foods, but none of them alone can explain why processed foods are so unhealthy....

A team of New York-based researchers analyzed national data on more than 2,500 people age 50 and up. Here’s what they discovered: Diabetics—including those with type 1 and type 2 diabetes—were missing an average of nearly 10 teeth at the time of oral examination compared to non-diabetics, who were short fewer than seven teeth. And that’s not all: Diabetics were also twice as likely to suffer from edentulism, a complete absence of teeth; twenty-eight percent of diabetes sufferers were toothless, compared to just 14% of those without diabetes....

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Experts analyzed data from about 45,000 participants, 34% of whom were vegetarian (this study defined vegetarianism as individuals who eschewed both meat and fish). Participants were tracked for over a decade, with researchers amassing information on their dietary choices, alcohol consumption, exercise habits, and other variables that might impact heart disease risk. Even after controlling for those other factors, researchers found that vegetarians were significantly less likely to develop heart disease or succumb to the illness....

Dreams can rock us, scare us, and in some cases, inspire us. But is listening to our dreams right up there with calling a psychic hotline? Not at all, say leading experts. “People are now using their dreams as tools to make their lives better,” comments Marcia Emery, PhD, a psychologist at Holos University. This is relatively newfound respect. Many researchers used to believe that dreams simply reflected the random firing of nerve signals while we sleep....

…Oh, you haven’t thought about this? Well, don’t worry. Canadian personal trainer and medical non-expert Cole Robinson has. And he wants you to give eating like a snake a try. The Snake Diet promises not only to help you lose weight, but also cure everything from diabetes to herpes. Robinson also claims the Snake Diet will “challenge everything you thought you knew about food and the limits of the human body....

BJ Dowlen, 48 Media Platforms Design Team Photo by The Morrisons “I’ve always had a gift for relieving pain. When I was a kid, my family members would say, ‘Ouch! My neck! Send BJ over,’ and I’d work out whatever was bothering them. As an adult I worked in a corporate environment and felt satisfaction at the end of the day, but not joy. So I left to start my own sports-performance business full-time at age 47....