Shorter chain omega-3 Alpha Linolenic Acid (ALA) from flaxseed oil and walnuts may help decrease bone loss.
Penn State - Plant-based omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) may have a protective effect on bone health, according to a team of Penn State researchers who carried out the first controlled diet study of these essential fatty acids contained [...]

Newswise — Children who are physically active during the school day are more likely to be better focused and more on-task than their more sedentary peers, an East Carolina University researcher has found. The beneficial effect of exercise on attention was even more pronounced for children who initially had greater problems staying on task in [...]

iHealthBulletin News - Some consumers may become confused after reading a recent press release about a review of omega-3 supplements in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin associated with the British Medical Journal.  The review looked at several high-quality research studies of omega-3 fatty acids in depression, and found most of them to be helpful when [...]

Over 80% of blood sugar after meals goes into your muscles, so strengthen your muscles to improve your insulin sensitivity.
University of Missouri-Columbia - One in three American children who were born in 2000 will develop type II diabetes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A new study at the University [...]

Northwestern University - Research indicates that getting inadequate sleep has negative effects on children’s social and emotional well-being and school performance. Now a Northwestern University study finds it also increases their risk of being overweight.
The study - conducted in two waves of data collection approximately five years apart - is the first nationally representative, longitudinal [...]

UCSD - Two new vitamin D studies using a sophisticated form of analysis called meta-analysis, in which data from multiple reports is combined, have revealed new prescriptions for possibly preventing up to half of the cases of breast cancer and two-thirds of the cases of colorectal cancer in the United States. The work was conducted [...]