The antioxidant levels in watermelons are 140 percent higher when it’s left at room temperature.

-U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

According to a new meta-analysis of previous studies, Philippe Grandjean, of Harvard, and Richard Clapp, of the University of Massachusetts, concluded that DuPont Teflon, used for 50 years to make frictionless cookware, is much more dangerous than previously thought, causing cancer, birth defects and heart disease, weakening the immune system.
Even though Teflon’s harmful perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is no longer produced or used, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has found it in the blood of more than 99% of American studied, because it can be passed from mother to unborn child in the womb. The researchers say that the federal government’s recommended “safe” level, set in 2009, is as much as 1,000 times too high to fully protect people’s health. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has yet to set a legal allowable limit for its presence in drinking water.

-Environmental Health News

After reviewing 59 previous studies on cocoa flavanols, researchers reporting in the Journal of Clinical Hypertension concluded that daily intake of 6.3 grams of dark chocolate for 18 weeks reduced systolic blood pressure (the top number) by 3mmHg enough to significantly reduce heart diseased risk. Cocoa flavanols also were found to prevent blood clots linked to stroke and heart attack, and to restore healthy blood sugar levels. Credit goes to the flavanols’ ability to ease the oxidative stress linked to inflammation, artery plaque buildup and an impaired ability to process blood sugar.

According to recent research by Harvard Medical School, your brain recalls new stuff better if, after learning it, your get a good night’s sleep or grab a nap.