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Issue: June 17, 2011 (Archive)

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Cry for help
Why do children grow up crying "Mommy" more often than "Daddy?" The National Institutes of Health in the United States has an answer: the wailing of a hungry infant is less likely to bother a man than a woman.

DHA works on infants too
A new clinical trial has shown that pregnant women taking algal DHA - docosahexaenoic acid - show significant improvements in infant birth weight, length and head circumference.

Brain food
Kids love burgers. It might help if it's a fish burger. If you don't eat enough fish, two experts argue that fish oil supplementation is the way to go, especially for children with attention deficit hyperactive disorder-related symptoms or learning difficulties.

Scary spice
Health experts have warned about serious risks from the "Cinnamon Challenge," a game popular with teens, who ingest a spoonful of the pungent spice, then try to refrain from drinking water.

Running start
How does Ronhill compare with more famous sporting goods brands? "We're better," brand manager Graham Richards says simply.

HAPI eating
An electronic fork that vibrates when you eat too fast has gone on sale on crowd- funding website Kickstarter, with its French inventors claiming it can help combat obesity and digestive issues.

In the genes
A decade after the completion of the Human Genome Project, a top official of the US National Institutes of Health surveyed the rarefied view from that mountaintop. Admitting "we have a long way to go to deliver on the promise of genomic medicine," Eric Green, director of the institute devoted to this research, stressed that progress in some areas has been "amazing."

Pain affects the mind too
Mental defeat is most closely related with post-traumatic stress disorder but a new study of Hong Kong patients, published in the Clinical Journal of Pain has found that it is also present in those experiencing chronic pain.

Go Med!
Despite a growing consensus that cardiovascular disease is a "food-borne" illness, many physicians are ill-prepared to advise patients on what they should eat to best protect them from heart attack or stroke.

From farm to face
Given Hong Kong's pollution levels, you don't want to give your skin extra stress by putting even more chemicals on it. That probably explains why UK brand Herbfarmacy is selling so well in the city.

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