If you want to put some sizzle back into your sex life, food can help you set the mood. There’s nothing better than a romantic, home-cooked dinner, featuring some R-rated foods to help turn up the heat. “There’s a growing body of evidence that some of the vitamins and components in foods can enhance sexual function and sexual experience,” says Jennifer R. Berman, MD, the director of the Berman Women’s Wellness Center, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Here are some of the food ingredients (and my own favorite recipes) that have …

Britons, infamous for their binge-drinking, broke tradition last year with less alcohol consumption in the country, showing the biggest fall since 1948, according to industry figures Friday.
Health concerns and the recession brought on a six percent decline in 2009, becoming the fourth annual drop in five years, figures released by the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) showed.
Consumption of alcohol remained below the European Union average in Britain, BBPA said, which relied mainly on statistics from Britain’s taxes and customs agency.
The BBPA added, however, that 39 percent of British men …

A report said Thursday that over 49 million people in the U.S. do not have regular access to nutritious meals, putting them at risk for a raft of physical, psychological and social problems.
The report published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association says that about 15 percent of households in the U.S. experienced food insecurity sometime during 2008.
The report warned that the number of Americans who have trouble getting a nutritious meal is likely to rise.
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Over a third of 17.3 million food-insecure people in …

As anyone who has ever struggled to keep his or her eyes open after a big meal knows, eating can induce sleepiness. New research in fruit flies suggests that, conversely, being hungry may provide a way to stay awake without feeling groggy or mentally challenged.
Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis found that starvation allows the need for nourishment to push aside the need for sleep. Like humans and rats, fruit flies cannot survive without sleep. But in a line of flies engineered to be sensitive to sleep deprivation, starvation …

* There’s a good amount of stigma around calling in sick, but now that a new study confirms that stress makes PMS symptoms worse, taking a personal day because Aunt Flow’s on her way just got a whole lot more legit. [Vitamin G]
* In order to ward off all the damage you do to your pearly whites—whether it comes from drinking coffee, eating candy, or even taking the birth control pill—you’re a regular brusher, right? Well, that handy-dandy toothbrush dates back to 5,000 B.C! [HuffingtonPost]
* We’d love to look like …