Health and Fitness

There are many health benefits associated with cherries. Cherries have often been part of a growing campaign toward healthy eating but now they have become part of the “super fruit” category. Many people want to know from where their food comes so that they can enjoy natural, homegrown, and local foods. Cherries, now more than ever, are a part of that.

The health benefits of cherries are applicable in any form. Cherry juice, dry cherries, frozen cherries, fresh cherries, all have some of the highest levels of antioxidants which fight off diseases. They have more than any other fruit. Cherries also have beta carotene, folate, fiber, magnesium, vitamin C, iron, and potassium. The

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WHAT: HIV is coated in sugars that usually hide the virus from the immune system. Newly published research reveals how one broadly neutralizing HIV antibody actually uses part of the sugary cloak to help bind to the virus. The antibody binding site, called the V1/V2 region, represents a suitable HIV vaccine target, according to the scientists who conducted the study. In addition, their research reveals the detailed structure of the V1/V2 region, the last part of the virus surface to be visualized at the atomic level.

The study was led by Peter D. Kwong, Ph.D., chief of the Structural Biology Section of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.

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Nov. 16, 2011 — The Kimberly-Clark Corp. says it has ordered a limited recall of 1,400 cases of tampons contaminated with a bacterium that could cause serious infections and, according to the FDA, could be life threatening.

“We have so far recovered 98% of the product — Kotex Natural Balance Security Unscented Tampons Regular Absorbency,” Kimberly-Clark spokesman Bob Brand tells WebMD. “We are looking for about 300 boxes, each containing 36 tampons.”

He tells WebMD the company has not received any reports of injury to date.

The recall, which began Nov.

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Have you ever wondered where the phrase “sleeping like a baby” comes from? We’re not sure either, but let’s venture a guess and say it came from someone who has never tried to help a fussy baby fall asleep.

Of course, babies sleep a lot. Newborn infants average anywhere from fourteen to eighteen hours of sleep per day. Still, that sleep comes in brief two to four hour spurts, so it can feel like a lot less to parents who have spent the majority of their lives sleeping for eight hours at a time.

Of course, newborns have a very good reason for waking up so often. Their little tummies just can’t hold very much. Combine t

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