Eating 7 or More Servings of Fruits & Vegetables Lowers Your Death Risk

Everyone knows that fruits and vegetables are an important—if often neglected—part of the modern diet. Just how important, though? Well, a recent study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has found that eating seven or more servings of fruits and vegetables lowers a person’s risk of death … Read More

What’s Really Living In Your Water Bottle?

You thought you were saving the environment with your trendy new water bottle, which is true, but it may be at the risk of your health. It all comes down to the question of how often are you washing your water bottle. If you can’t remember the last time, that says … Read More

Men have bigger brains than women—who’s smarter? Science weighs in

According to a recent study at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, men are more intelligent than women as a result of their larger brain size. On average, men’s brains are approximately 14 percent larger than women’s. The study used MRI scans to identify the brain size of 875 volunteers between the … Read More

Video Games Make You Violent—If They Suck

Ah, that old “violent video games make for violent kids” canard—between cable news who won’t quite bringing it up and gamers who won’t quite whining about it, it’ll never die. In the mean time, scientists have found that a better way to make a gamer violent isn’t to give them … Read More

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