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When is the worst time to eat?
Scientists are getting closer to understanding why people indulge after dark and to determining whether those nighttime calories wreak more havoc than ones consumed earlier in the day.
Scientists are getting closer to understanding why people indulge after dark and to determining whether those nighttime calories wreak more havoc than ones consumed earlier in the day.
There's one food that has almost nothing going for it. It occupies precious crop acreage, requires fossil fuels to be shipped, refrigerated, around the world, and adds nothing.
Couples who indulge in extra nights of passion end up feeling more miserable.
Checking emails, googling on the move... smartphones have made us dumb, says Maria Lally, but we can break the spell.
Here's some celebrities who have gone public with their battle in the bid to save others.
A study found expectant mothers do just as well on memory tests as other women - and in many cases, they actually do better.
"Making normal sexuality into a medical problem is an easy PR task with enduring serious consequences for the health of NZ women."
"Without it, we wouldn't have been able to come out with the studies as quickly as we did."
She saw the words "no sugar" and logically thought she was buying something that was not sweetened. Now she knows that that is not necessarily the case.
Ever wondered why parents pile on the pounds? A new book reveals the truth about their bad habits.
Molecular biologist David Sinclair wants to revolutionise the way people age. Sinclair is 46, but he's been obsessed with what he calls "the gravity of life" since he was four-years-old.
A review of almost a decade of studies found that exposure to violent video games was a "risk factor" for increased aggression.
Yoga has become one of the most fashionable practices in the world. Yet a number of myths have grown up around it. Andrea Jain debunks five of the biggest.
They've paid people's tolls, hidden scratchie tickets inside library books and left coins at laundromats and vending machines.
It's the fact so many Americans are happy to accept his descriptions of women as "dogs", "slobs" and "pigs", because he defends himself by blaming political correctness, Jack Tame writes.
A NZ-born Brooklyn-based food photographer has set out to show the world what the sugar found in popular soft drinks really looks like.
A BBC local radio DJ sparked an outcry after claiming unattractive mothers should be banned from breastfeeding in public.
Our eyes move while we are asleep because we see images just as when we are awake, according to a study.
"I'd previously done juicing in the past and I could never make it through a whole day, let alone a whole week. I could soup for five days and when I'm done I want more."
After a cancer diagnosis left her identical twin unable to carry another child, one woman offered up her own body for the job in the ultimate act of sisterly love.
Canavero is adamant that the technology exists, but just how well do his claims stand to scientific scrutiny? Below are just three of the many important issues.
A group of Australian women - including Tony Abbott's sister - have made a real song and dance about the tax on tampons.
It turns out that having a child can have a pretty strong negative impact on a person's happiness, according to a new study published in the journal Demography.
After Fox host Megyn Kelly pressed him about sexist comments during the debate, Donald said she had "blood coming out of her wherever".
Three years after her son had a life-saving kidney transplant, Joanna Ewing, 62, decided to become an altruistic donor herself.
"I do come across children who for one reason or another spend a lot of time with TV and DVDs. They start to assume the character."
The drug, Pravastatin, has been shown to reduce the effects of compounds that drive pre-eclampsia, which affects about five per cent of pregnant women.
A hallucinogenic drug derived from magic mushrooms is being given to human guinea pigs in a controversial experiment aimed at curing schizophrenia.
Eating fruit and vegetables or taking antioxidant supplements may combat one of the most harmful aspects of ageing by protecting a vital immune system organ, research suggests.
There is very little evidence a Australian diet for those with irritable bowel syndrome works, a new study has found.