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Flossing and Going to Dentist Regularly Decrease Pathogen in Your Mouth
Looking at microbes in people’s mouth, researchers find that flossing and regular dentist visits decrease a pathogen that causes periodontal disease. The findings were from Colorado State University microbiome researchers in conjunction with a crowd-sourced, citizen science-driven study at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The study was published in the journal Scientific Reports.…
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Brushing Your Teeth More Can Lower the Risk of Diabetes
Brushing your teeth three times or more a day can lower your risk of developing diabetes by 8 percent. However, if you have dental disease or are missing 15 or more teeth, you risk of developing cancer increases by 9 percent. These findings were by researchers from Seoul Hospital and Ewha Womans University College of…
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Coral Gardens Discovered in Deep Sea Canyons Off Australia
A recent deep sea expedition has revealed diverse ecosystems in the Bremer Canyon Marine Park off the coast of southwest Australia. Bremer Canyon Marine Park is already known as a calving area for whales, as well as foraging areas for sea lions, albatrosses and great white sharks. The researchers from University of Western Australia (UWA)…
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COVID-19 is a Challenge for the Entire World
The emergence of COVID-19, which started in China and is now spreading globally, is now a challenge for the entire world, when it comes to the threat of emerging infectious diseases. Infectious diseases like COVID-19 “pose complex challenges to the global public health, research and medical communities,” write federal scientists from NIH’s National Institute of…
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Omega-3 Fats Do Not Protect Against Cancer, Say UK Researchers
Omega-3 fats are widely promoted as protecting people against cancer, but two recent papers dispute this notion. Researchers at the University of East Anglia in the UK found that increasing the consumption of omega-3 fats can slightly reduce deaths from coronary heart disease but also slightly increases the risk of prostate cancer. In the study,…
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Why the Universe Didn’t Cancel Itself Out After the Big Bang?
A property of the neutron particle may help clarify why matter and anti-matter didn’t cancel themselves out after the Big Bang that lead to the creation of the universe. Researchers at the University of Sussex are measuring the “electric dipole moment” (EDM) to explain why there is matter left after the Big Bang and why…
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When You Eat Can Determine if Your Body Burns or Stores Fat
The timing of WHEN you eat can determine how much calories your body burns. Subjects who eat a late evening snack in place of breakfast actually burned less fat. The results were from a study by researchers at Vanderbilt University and published in the January 27, 2020 edition of the journal PLOS Biology. Your body…
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Eat Less and You’ll Live Long, Be Healthier
Eating less food helps you live longer, decrease inflammation in your body and delay the onset of age-related diseases, according to a study published in the journal Cell on February 27, 2020 by researchers of the Salk Institute. Low calorie diets have been shown to increase the life span of lab animals in multiple previous…
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Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Quarantine Caused More COVID-19 Infections
More COVID-19 infections occurred because the cruise ship Diamond Princess was quarantined for two weeks, compared to if the passengers were allowed to disembark immediately. The quarantine, in effect, had the opposite and resulted in more infections. The conclusion came from a study by researchers at Umeå University in Sweden. The researchers said because the…
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Slot Machines Can Entice You to Gamble With Sounds and Visual Effects
Those familiar sounds and visuals on slot machines can increase your desire to play them, and also increase your memories of winning big, according to a recent psychology study. University of Alberta scientists published these recent findings in the journal Addiction. The researchers found that virtual slot machines with cues such as the sound of…