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Asthma Triggered By More Than Pollen
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (UPI) — People with asthma have to watch out for more than pollen — fruit, campfires, weather changes or insect bites can all trigger attacks, U.S. allergists warn. Dr. James Sublett, chairman of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Public Relations Committee, said by planning ahead, seeing an allergist and [...]
Flaxseed, Walnut Oils Highest In Omega-3
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (UPI) — Nut, fruit and seed oils have some of the highest amounts of omega-3s, an essential fatty acid believed to be good for heart health, a U.S. food expert says. Phil Lempert, a food industry analyst, trend watcher and creator of supermarketguru.com, said flaxseed and walnut oils have the highest amounts [...]
Learning To Do New Things Helps Aging
ST. LOUIS (UPI) — Aging adults are often advised to work crosswords or other puzzles to keep their brain sharp but U.S. researchers found learning new things was most beneficial. Josh Jackson of Washington University in St. Louis looked at data on people with an average age of 73 who had 16 weeks of training, [...]
Fructose Diet Hampers Learning, Memory
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — A diet steadily high in fructose slows the brain and hampers memory and learning, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, said. Fernando Gomez-Pinilla of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said high-fructose corn syrup — an inexpensive liquid six times sweeter than cane sugar — is commonly [...]
Those With Dementia Apt To Die At Home
INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — People with dementia are more likely to live in their family’s home than in a nursing home, U.S. researchers said. Dr. Christopher Callahan of Indiana University School of Medicine, who is also Regenstrief Institute investigator, said the finding challenges the commonly held view that most individuals with dementia in the United States [...]
Cosmic Dust Rings No Guarantee Of Planets
PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) — Dust rings around distant stars, considered by many as “smoking gun” evidence of orbiting planets, can form on their own, U.S. research suggests. The finding is possible bad news for those who use the structures to guide them to stars in their search for distant planets, and may raise questions about [...]
Satellite Takes Most Detailed Earth Photo
MOSCOW (UPI) — A Russian weather satellite has taken the highest-resolution photograph ever captured of Earth in its entirety, astronomers say. The Elektro-L is orbiting Earth on a geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles above the equator, sending photographs of the entire planet every 30 minutes, Gizmodo.com reported. The images combine multiple light wavelengths, both [...]
Turtles’ Epic Long-Distance Journeys Eyed
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (UPI) — U.S. scientists say they’ve been studying how baby loggerhead sea turtles embark alone on a migration that takes them around the entire North Atlantic basin. After emerging from their underground nests on the beaches of eastern Florida, the turtles begin an epic migration that eventually returns then to North American [...]
Baby Galaxies Grew Quickly To Sustain Life
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (UPI) — Galaxies in the young universe evolved faster than previously thought, offering the potential for early planet formation and life, Danish researchers say. Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute said up until now it was thought it had taken billions of years for stars to form and create galaxies [...]
People More Truthful In Text Messages
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (UPI) — Text messaging can reveal more truthful responses to sensitive questions as people are more candid in them than in voice interviews, U.S. researchers say. That is the conclusion of a study to be presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. “The preliminary [...]
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