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Beauty products are supposed to make you, well, beautiful, not sick. But you better be careful with certain nail polishes, hair sprays, soaps, and fragrances. These products can contain chemicals called phthalates, which may increase a woman’s risk of diabetes, according to a new study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives . We know that unhealthy diets and lack of exercise can boost your chances of developing type 2 diabetes, but now recent studies have found a correlation between high levels of phthalates and diabetes. The chemicals may hurt your endocrine system by interrupting normal hormone processes necessary for regulating blood sugar. In this particular study, researchers analyzed urine samples of 2,350 women who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. After analyzing the amount of phthalates in the samples, they found that women with the highest levels of phthalates were nearly twice as likely to develop diabetes a...

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Thursday, August 21, 2008 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer of Natural News.com Athletes who took probiotic supplements suffered fewer infections and recovered more quickly than those who did not, in a study conducted by the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra and published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Researchers studied 20 top-level, long-distance endurance runners for two months, assigning them to take either a placebo or a supplement of the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus fermentum. During that time, the athletes recorded any day on which they experienced symptoms of winter illnesses, including coughs and runny noses. The researchers added together the total symptom days of both groups, and found that while the placebo group experience symptoms for a total of 72 days, the probiotic group experience only 30 days' worth of symptoms. In addition, blood tests revealed that the athletes who were taking probiotics had twice the levels of an immune che...