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By Dr. Caroline Cederquist Do you know one of those people who never seems to eat -- no breakfast, no lunch, little snacking throughout the day? Maybe you are one of these people who's always declining the lunch invitation, and all day long, you're never really hungry, or not so hungry that you feel you need to respond to it. But perhaps over the years, you have nevertheless accumulated Read more...

A milk drink before retiring has long been regarded as an excellent way to get you off to sleep easily and quickly. But for best results, Finnish scientists say, use milk taken from cows before dawn. Also, say researchers at the University of Kuopio, the pre-dawn stuff promises to keep your sleeping hours free of nightmares. The Finnish dairy company Maitomaa has already started supplying a Read more...

We tend to think of it as just a case of midnight munchies -- but that late-night bowl of cereal or dish of ice cream may be signs of a medical disorder. A study in the issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association says people who consume little or nothing all day and then eat all night suffer from "night-eating syndrome." Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Read more...