Eating more fruit and vegetables may make young people calmer, happier and more energetic in their daily life, new research from New Zealand's University of Otago suggests. Department of Psychology researchers investigated the relationship between day-to-day emotions and food consumption. The results showed a strong day-to-day relationship between more positive mood and higher fruit and vegetable consumption, but not other foods.
The U.S. teen birth rate in 2009 fell to its lowest point in almost 70 years of record-keeping — a decline that stunned experts who believe it's partly due to the recession. It was a 6 percent decline from the previous year, and the lowest since health officials started tracking the rate in 1940.
Rather than the traditional, honorary trip to the White House this year, the 2010 World Champion Los Angeles Lakers teamed up with NBA Cares and President Obama last week to join members of The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washingon for an afternoon of education and service projects.
People in the audience listened with rapt attention at the White House last week during the signing ceremony for repealing the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. The entire event was profound, but perhaps the most moving part was when President Obama told a dramatic rescue story from WWII.
The Spanish airlines, Spanair, created a memorable holiday evening for passengers traveling on Christmas Eve to La Palmas. After arriving from Barcelona to collect their baggage, 190 people found a stream of colorful gift packages flowing out onto the conveyor belt delivering presents for each and every traveller.
When the microphone failed during her stellar rendition of the national anthem last week, the crowd came to her aid, jumping in without missing a beat. Watch the video.
The Chesapeake Bay's beleaguered oyster population spawned a bumper crop of babies last year, Maryland officials announced Monday, and there are signs that the diseases that have ravaged the bay's bivalves for more than two decades might have loosened their stranglehold.
Across the state of Missouri, dog rescue programs set up by the state's Department of Corrections are thriving in prisons, creating a more humane inmate population while getting shelter dogs ready for adoption. As the program evolved, the idea of removing from shelters the dogs that were deaf, and thus hard to adopt, and teaching them sign language, has led to dogs being delivered to a school for deaf children.
According to conventional medical wisdom, three-year-old Chase Britton shouldn't be able to walk. He shouldn't be able to stand, let alone balance himself as he puts one foot in front of the other. The fact that he even breathes on his own is nothing short of remarkable. He is, quite simply, a medical miracle.
Monarch butterfly colonies in Mexico more than doubled in size this winter after bad storms devastated their numbers a year ago, conservationists said on Monday.
In a sign that Egypt's people are ready to rebuild, thousands filled Cairo's Tahrir Square, carrying brooms, shovels, and trash bags Saturday. They're removing barricades, burned out cars and debris from the 18 days of protests that toppled Mubarak.
A new clinical study found that playing casual, non-violent video games reduced depression symptoms in study participants. People who played the games daily for an average of 40.7 minutes, had a 57% reduction in their depression symptoms. Their mood improved, while anxiety, tension, anger and fatigue was more than cut in half.
What do the Trevi Fountain in Rome, India's Charminar monument, and the New York Stock Exchange building have in common? Each of these iconic landmarks will provide a dramatic backdrop for a Celebratory message about the eradication of Polio this week on the occasion of the Rotary organization's 106th anniversary. End Polio Now. Those three words – representing Rotary's pledge to rid the world of this crippling childhood disease – will be projected onto each structure this week accompanied by speeches announcing the exciting news: 99% of the world has become a polio-free zone, and the disease's final days are near.
Forty-three years ago this month, a U.S. Army soldier vanished during a fierce battle at Lang Vei, South Vietnam. Now, his remains positively identified using DNA from five family members, the Green Beret medic is coming home. His sisters and brother are relieved, grateful, tearful.
A province in southern China has decided that GDP is not the only indicator of success for its citizens, and income, not the only definition of well-being. Happy Guangdong is the new slogan for the Five-Year Plan, launched by Wang Yang, secretary of the Communist Party in the wealthy Guangdong province.
ToysRUs yesterday announced the launch of its nine-week in-store fundraising campaign to benefit Autism Speaks, North America's largest autism science and advocacy organization.The company will collect donations in its stores through April 30 and provide a $400,000 grant to kick off its fifth annual campaign.
Middle-aged adults who are more optimistic about their future tend to have higher antioxidant levels than their less optimistic peers, according to new research out of Harvard.
Family, friends and even strangers are giving an Iowa City boy dozens of reasons to smile during a tough period of going through cancer treatments.
Where a string of robberies in local shops might have made Lexington, Kentucky a more sad place, one coffee shop has conjured up a few pay-it-forward Christmas miracles. After thieves broke into A Cup of Common Wealth, the coffee shop's owners were blown away by the outpouring of love and support. Reports of additional robberies inspired the owners to rally the community, and give a free beverage to whoever spends money in those affected businesses. They also started a Community Christmas Tree that is spreading gifts to any in need -- even the burglars.
It is a popular adage that good news doesn't sell for the mainstream media where the motto seems to be, if it bleeds, it leads. Why then, are we seeing some of their most popular stories trumpeting triumphs of the heart? In the cases of the Chilean miners and the man with the golden voice, happy feelings of success have trumped every other news story around.
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