Why You Should Worry About Your Waist More Than Your Weight
We keep hearing about the food that goes to waste, but what the food that goes to our waists? Neither is a good thing. And just as food waste has been increasing for decades,…
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Hristina Byrnes
College Students Are So Bad With Money, the Government Says Financial Literacy Should Be a Required Course
College graduates in America are saddled with a mind-boggling $1.5 trillion in student-loan debt. Not only do these obligations haunt former students for years after they have entered the workforce, influencing employment decisions and…
Can This Pill Stave Off Alzheimer’s While Lowering Blood Pressure?
A blood pressure medication widely used in Europe and Japan might have potential to slow down the progress of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study appearing in Hypertension, a journal published by the…
Want to Make Money? Buy Whisky
Diamonds, art, classic cars, and rare stamps and coins are all very well and good, but according to a new report by the London-based international financial consulting firm Knight Frank, smart investors should probably…
You May Never Have to Wait in a Supermarket Checkout Line Again
The supermarket checkout line — with its grocery-cart traffic jams and checkers who never seem to know the PLU code for jalapeños — may soon be a thing of the past. The international real…
This Is How Much Child Support Varies From State to State
Sometimes it seems as if almost every regional statistic these days can be color-coded red or blue, with sharp divides according to the states’ voting patterns. But that’s not the case with average child…
What Americans Die From, What They Search For, and What the Media Covers Are Completely Different
Heart disease is by far the leading cause of mortality in the United States, but it’s not the one that Americans are most interested in learning about, or the one most often reported in…
Study: Whether You Eat Meat Before or After Veggies Can Dramatically Cut Type 2 Diabetes Risk
Switching to a diet based mostly on fruits and vegetables — but still including some lean meat and low-fat dairy — could reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by as much as…
Three Simple Steps Could Prevent About 100 Million Deaths Worldwide, Study Says
Three key strategies could prevent almost 100 million premature deaths worldwide between now and 2040, according to a new study conducted by scientists at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and…
Researchers Discover a Breakthrough Drug That May Significantly Delay Type 1 Diabetes
A monoclonal antibody called teplizumab has been shown to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes for as long as two years. About 1.25 million Americans suffer from the disease, a form of diabetes…
Shoplifters and Dishonest Employees Steal Fewer but More Valuable Things
Shoplifters stole — or attempted to steal — more than $75 million worth of merchandise in 2018, across 13,674 stores across the country representing 20 large retail companies in the department store, mass merchant,…
Number of Tornadoes to Hit the US in May Highest in Years
Tornadoes and related severe weather events across many regions of the U.S. in May will cost insurers billions of dollars, according to the Global Catastrophe Report for May 2019, issued by Aon, a professional…
People at Risk of Heart Disease May Want to Stock Up on This Juice
The song says a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, but it may be time for songwriters to begin penning paeans to tomato juice. A recent study indicates that drinking 200 ml…
We Eat, Drink, and Breathe at Least 70,000 Particles of Plastic Every Year
“There’s a great future in plastics,” Mr. McGuire (Walter Brooke) told young Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) in “The Graduate,” in one of the most often-quoted exchanges in 20th-century movies. He presumably didn’t mean ingesting them…
The World’s Most Often Prescribed Drug Might Be Killing Us
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) — a widely prescribed group of medications that combat heartburn, GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease), and ulcers — are the most widely prescribed class of drugs worldwide, with annual global sales…
Prices for Many Very Popular Prescription Drugs Have Soared Since 2012
Prices for dozens of popular prescription drugs increased, sometimes doubling in cost, over the five-year period from 2012 to 2017, according to a new study published on the American Medical Association’s JAMA Network Open…
These Are the Most Wanted Wines in the Last 20 Years
The most sought-after wine in the world for the past 20 years is Château Lafite-Rothschild (average current vintage list price $933 a bottle), a world-renowned red Bordeaux officially classified as a Premier Cru (First…
This Insulin ‘Tea Bag’ May Be a Game-Changer for Diabetics
A researcher at the University of Arizona, working in collaboration with other scientists across the country and in Canada, has been developing new technology that might mean diabetics will no longer need multiple daily…
India’s Trash Mountain Will Soon Be Taller Than the Taj Mahal
“Most polluted capital city” isn’t exactly an in-demand title. According to a study by Greenpeace and Swiss-based IQ AirVisual, New Delhi, India’s capital, seems to have a lock on that dubious distinction, thanks in…
Air Pollution Kills Somebody Every 5 Seconds
Air pollution stings our eyes, burns our lungs, and turns our skies murky brown or yellow. It is also responsible for the early deaths of some seven million people every year — almost one…