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How fish is cooked affects heart-health benefits of omega-3 fatty acid
Baked or boiled fish is associated with more benefit from heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids than fried, salted or dried fish. Caucasian, Japanese-American and Latino men may be more likely to get the health benefits of fish than African-American or Hawaiian men, perhaps because of how their fish is prepared or genetic predisposition. Omega-3s from plant sources such as soy may do more to improve women's heart health than fish sources. Assessing Levies For By-catch Could Fund Conservation Measures
Fishing industry lines accidentally catch so many seabirds and turtles that their populations are being threatened. One solution offered is to assess fines when threatened species are caught and killed. In Children And Adolescents, Low Self-esteem Increases Materialism
One of the first studies to focus on materialism among children and its development reveals a strong connection between an increase in materialism during adolescence and a decline in self-esteem. Indeed psychologists show that the relationship appears to more than just a correlation, but a causal relationship -- low self-esteem causes increased materialism and raising self-esteem decreases materialism. Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Information about this annual Smithsonian Institution festival "asserting the ability of people to converse with and understand each other."The festival typically includes "programs of music, song, dance, celebratory performance, crafts and cooking demonstrations, storytelling, illustrations of workers' culture, and narrative sessions for discussing cultural issues."Features descriptions of programs at the current year's festival, and archives of festivals back to 1997. From the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Sleep Apnea Patients At Higher Risk For Deadly Heart Disease; Arrhythm
People with sleep apnea could also be at risk for a particular kind of deadly heart arrhythmia, finds Saint Louis University researchers. Reduced Fish Stocks Linked To Increased Bushmeat Trade, Wildlife Decli
Declining fish stocks are fuelling a multibillion-dollar bushmeat trade in West Africa. It's a trend that is threatening the survival of dozens of wildlife species, and EU fishing agreements with African nations may be part of the problem, says a group of international researchers. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. One Hit Of Crystal Meth Causes Birth Defects, Affects Fetuses At All S
A single prenatal dose of methamphetamine -- commonly known as speed -- may be enough to cause long-term neurodevelopmental problems in babies, say University of Toronto researchers. All Male or All Female Litter? Sex-ratio Meiotic Drive System Identifi
If you met a person who had 10 children, all of whom were girls, you would probably find this surprising. Yet this kind of distorted sex ratio does occur in groups as diverse as mammals, insects, and plants, where some parents consistently produce litters in which the sex ratio is dramatically skewed. Researchers have identified both a fly gene that can create these skewed ratios and the counter-gene, found in most of the fly population, which suppresses such distortion. Moviemakers Use Brain Scan to Test-Screen Scenes
A company called MindSign Neuromarketing is using MRI machines to help moviemakers test the emotional impact of scenes they've filmed.
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