Step aside Vitamin C!  New research suggests that it’s a daily Vitamin D supplement that may help prevent the flu, particularly in kids and teens.

We know that we’re more likely to get sick in the winter, and we also know that we get Vitamin D primarily from sun exposure. Is this a coincidence?  One theory behind the seasonality of the flu is that lower levels of vitamin D during the winter leads to lower immunity.  Indeed, research has shown at least two ways in which Vitamin D boosts our immune systems.  First, it enhances the strength of our white blood cells, whose primary function is to fight off invaders– such as flu viruses.  Second, it has anti-inflammatory properties, which means that it can lessen symptoms when you have been infected with a virus.  Children are especially at risk for seasonal flu because their immune systems are less mature, and because flu can spread around a crowded classroom with ease....

If we can stop the physical deterioration that comes with age, molecular biologist Aubrey de Grey sees no reason why human beings shouldn't live to be 1,000

With his beard and robust opinions, there's something of the Old Testament prophet about Aubrey de Grey. But the 47-year-old gerontologist (who studies the process of ageing) says his belief that he might live to the very ripe old age of 1,000 is founded not on faith but science. De Grey studied computer science at Cambridge University, but became interested in the problem of ageing more than a decade ago and is the co-founder of the Sens (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) Foundation, a non-profit organisation based in the US....

HD 209458b, shown in red in an artist's conception, is the first confirmed "cometary planet," experts say.

An alien planet orbits so close to its star that its atmosphere is being blasted away, forming a gaseous, comet-like tail, astronomers announced Thursday....

Old wives’ tales are little more than super-circulated rumors. Never proven to be true, they’re sayings and adages that generations of women have passed down to one another regarding family health (eating carrots improves your vision), safe parenting (wait an hour after eating before swimming), and—most popularly—pregnancy....

If you pick the right personal trainer?you'll most definitely see faster results. If the personal trainer is registered with a governing body, it's likely the personal trainer would have gone through the proper training and education process. A personal trainers job is to motivate and inspire a client to push far beyond the boundaries of what they would normally do if they were exercising by themselves....