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According to a scientific review in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Antidepressant medications represent the best established treatment for major depressive disorder, but there is little evidence that they have a specific pharmacological effect relative to pill placebo for patients with less severe depression...

Steve Marsh is an organic farmer in Kojonup, four hours south-east of Perth. Or that's what he thought he was. So did the certifiers. Then, last December, the nightmare came true. Marsh's wheat and oats began testing 70% positive for novel DNA and he was stripped of certification. A year earlier, following approval by the Gene Technology Regulator, the WA government approved commercialisation of GM, or ''Roundup Ready'', canola - although their own fact sheet at the time cited a United Nations report that "since the advent of GM canola in Canada farmers can no longer grow organic canola in western Canada."

One day a son tells his father: "Papa, do you want to run a marathon with me?" And the father said "Yes". They run their first marathon together. Another time, the son asks: "Papa, do you still want to run a marathon with me?" And the father says "Yes, my son". One day, the son asks his father: "Papa, do you want to run the Ironman with me?" The Ironman triathlon is the most difficult: To swim 4km, bike for 180 km and to run 42 km... And dad says "Yes". The story seems simple. Until, you watch the video... There is only one word to say: RESPECT

In a newly published study, scientists that the same molecular mechanisms that drive people into drug addiction are behind the compulsion to overeat, pushing people into obesity, supporting the point obese patients have been making for years - that, like addiction to other substances, junk food binging is extremely difficult to stop...

There is renewed controversy surrounding influenza vaccines, with some studies showing people immunised against the seasonal flu might have been at greater risk during the swine flu outbreak...

Well-documented evidence links bone cancer to fluoride exposure...

"We've got to let the people know that there is a necessity, it's not even an option, it's a necessity to have a chiropractor. As much as it is a necessity to have a dentist, if you have a dentist for the family, you should have your chiropractor for the family."

THOUSANDS of people are likely to be dying every year as a result of preventable hospital errors, a health economist says...

Dr Nick Hodgson continued his domination of the horizontal jumps on the Australian Masters Athletics circuit with Gold Medals in both the Long Jump and Triple Jump at the recent Pan Pacific Masters Games on the Gold Coast...

I know that there are three rules to winning – preparation, preparation and preparation. And I have journeyed the road of over training to the point of chronic fatigue and paradoxical personal bests. So I’m not going to tell you the secrets to being able to train more – I’d like to share with you the secrets to training smarter!..

What goes on inside your brain when you exercise? That question has preoccupied a growing number of scientists in recent years, as well as many of us who exercise. In the late 1990s, Dr Fred Gage and his colleagues at the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute in San Diego elegantly proved that human and animal brains produce new brain cells (a process called neurogenesis) and that exercise increases neurogenesis. The brains of mice and rats that were allowed to run on wheels pulsed with vigorous, newly born neurons, and those animals then breezed through mazes and other tests of rodent I.Q., showing that neurogenesis improves thinking...

Think exercise is all about toned abs and weight loss? It also makes you happier and smarter

Maybe you exercise to tone your thighs, build your biceps, or flatten your belly. Or maybe you work out to ward off the big killers like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. But how about sweating to improve your mind? Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning...

A recent report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, adds to the growing evidence that fish oil supplements may play a role in preventing chronic disease...

What will you learn at this Free Workshop?

1. Dietary guidelines for detoxing and three stages of cleansing
2. How exercise, diet, attitude and chiropractic can benefit the brain
3. What recovery methods will help you gain optimal health
4. The fastest way to improve your fitness

Gardening activities, Popeye cartoons, tasting parties and junior cooking classes can help increase vegetable intake in kindergarten children, according to new research published in the journal Nutrition & Dietetics...

The key question when contemplating the clinical usefulness of Auriculotherapy is does it change internal physiology and chemistry? The model of Auriculotherapy is of a microsystem – that reflex points on the ear correspond with anatomical or functional parts of the body, and that stimulating particular points will result in predictable internal changes...

The stimulatory effects of caffeine may be nothing more than an illusion, according to research that shows there is no real benefit to be gained from the habitual morning cup of coffee.

Tests on 379 individuals who abstained from caffeine for 16 hours before being given either caffeine or a placebo and then tested for a range of responses showed little variance in levels of alertness...

More than 7,000 runners who raced in a half-marathon in London in October 2008 were under the influence of a scientifically derived and powerful performance-enhancing stimulant – pop music.

The dance-able, upbeat music at London's "Run to the Beat" race was selected on the basis of the research and consultation of sport psychologist Costas Karageorghis of Brunel University in England. He has learned how to devise soundtracks that are just as powerful, if not more so, as some of the not-so-legal substances that athletes commonly take to excel.

Women often wear high heels in pursuit of longer, sleeker and sexier looking legs. There has always been conjecture as to just how much damage high heels do but this has now been quantified.

Women will usually heave a sigh of relief when they are able to take the heels off at the end of the day and since high heeled shoes lift the wearers heels up, it has been thought they may cause problems for the calf muscles.

To test this some researchers compared a group of women aged between 20 and 50 who had regularly worn five centimetre heels for two years or more, to a group of women who never wore high heels...

New research suggests that drinking lots of artificially sweetened beverages may be linked with an increased risk of premature births.

Women who had at least one serving of artificially sweetened soda a day while they were pregnant were 38% more likely to deliver preterm than women who drank no diet soda at all, the researchers report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Women who had at least four diet sodas a day were nearly 80% more likely to deliver preterm. The association was the same for normal-weight and overweight women.