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Go Nuts! Heart Superfoods That Keep You Slim

A handful of nuts a day really does keep the heart doctor away – as ‘tree nuts’ help prevent heart disease, obesity and diabetes, a…

How Anxiety Affects Your Sense Of Smell

By Cynthia Graber (Click here for the original article and podcast) When an animal faces a predator, its senses go into overdrive. So scientists wondered,…

Scientists Link Excessive Worrying To Intelligence

A new study by researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in the US suggests that excess worrying could be a sign of intelligence. Scientists found…

Origins Of Nodding Disease Remain Unexplained

By Katherine Harmon (Click here for the original article) A strange illness has been killing thousands of young people each year, and recently it has…

Which Is Easier, A Puppy Or A Baby?

I had always assumed that following the birth of our third child, and my subsequent session with a man with a scalpel and some sterile…

Friday the 13th…the origins

So where does Friday the 13th get its bad name?  Here’s what Wikepedia tells us.. In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve hours of the clock, twelve gods…

Scarlet Johansson not over Ryan Reynolds

Scarlett Johansson says she’s not completely over her divorce from Ryan Reynolds. The actress says she’s ‘not on the other side of it’ yet – the pair split at the end of 2010. In an interview with Vogue magazine, The Aveng…

Madonna releases first fragrance

Madonna has officially released her first fragrance, “Truth or Dare.” The star’s attended a special red-carpet event at Macy’s in New York – and says her goal was to create a scent that reminded her of her mother, who alw…

On-screen kiss led to off-screen passion

Coronation Street veteran Bill Roache has revealed how an on-screen kiss for Ken Barlow led to real-life off-screen passion. The 79-year-old, who recently claimed to have bedded hundreds of women, appears on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories tonight on…

Whitney Houston 911 call released

The recording of the 911 emergency call when Whitney Houston was found unconscious has been released. The singer was discovered in a bath on the eve of the Grammy Awards on the 11th of February earlier this year. A final coroner report issued last week…