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Food Journal: Write It Down, Shed More Pounds Food Journals Help Dieters Lose Weight, Study Shows July 13, 2012 -- If you want to lose weight, you need to eat less -- and if you want to eat less, it helps to write it down.

Sugary Drinks and Weight Gain Linked Sept. 21, 2012 -- If you're at risk of obesity because of your genes, you may also be more at risk for weight gain from sugary drinks. That's according to new research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Breast Cancer: Are Yearly Mammograms Worthwhile? Nov. 21, 2012 -- Women over age 40 are often urged to get yearly mammograms with the promise that early detection is their best hope for beating breast cancer. But a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that mammograms may not save as many lives as doctors once thought.

Fructose May Effect Hunger Cues Jan. 2, 2013 -- All sugars are not created equal, at least when it comes to the brain, a new study shows. For the study, which is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers asked 20 healthy men and women to sip a cherry-flavored drink sweetened with either pure glucose or pure fructose.

Exercising regularly in old age may better protect against brain shrinkage than engaging in mental or social activities, according to a new study published in the October 23, 2012, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology . Research suggests that brain shrinkage may lead to problems with memory and thinking.

Migraine Guidelines Focus on Prevention Key Medications Listed to Help Prevent Migraine Headaches April 23, 2012 -- New guidelines may help people with frequent migraine headaches get their lives back on track. The migraine prevention guidelines will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting in New Orleans and published simultaneously in the journal Neurology.

ONE lesson I've learned while writing about fitness is that few things impinge on an active life as much as writing about fitness - all that time spent hunched before a computer or puzzling over scientific journals, the countless hours of feckless, seated procrastination. While writing about the benefits of exercise, my muscles slackened.

Fish Oil Doesn't Cut Diabetes Patients' Heart Risk Supplements Did Not Improve Heart Health in Large Study July 25, 2012 -- If you have diabetes or prediabetes, fish oil supplements might not be so helpful after all in cutting heart disease risk. That's the conclusion of a large study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

High Blood Pressure a Rising Risk for Kids, Teens Could Lead to Greater Health Risks When Young and as an Adult By Eric Metcalf, MPHWebMD Health News June 18, 2012 -- The number of young people sent to the hospital for high blood pressure rose steeply during a recent 10-year period, according to a new study published online in the journal Hypertension.

Vitamin D With Calcium May Boost Survival Findings Add to Confusion About Benefits of Supplementation June 15, 2012 -- Older people who take vitamin D with calcium may have lower death rates than those who don't. That finding comes from a new study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

There is a substantial reduction in breast-cancer risk among women with a high intake (as measured by excretion) of phyto-oestrogens-particularly the isoflavonic phyto-oestrogen equol and the lignan enterolactone. These findings could be important in the prevention of breast cancer.