Your breath can tell you which foods will give you diarrhea

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February 13, 2017 6:47 PM

Here’s your daily dose of the latest discoveries from journals, research institutions, and news outlets from around the world.

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Welcome to your daily roundup of important health news

Every day, an estimated 6,800 new peer-reviewed academic articles are published. That’s a whole lot of science to wade through—but don’t fret. We’ll do the legwork for you, each and every morning.

Breathe Your Way To a New DietA new Irish innovation called Aire may change the way people plan their diets: This new Breathalyzer-type device can figure out which foods disagree with your gut so you can plan your meals around them, according to Springwise.

You simply breathe into the device, which then analyzes gasses in your breath to determine which foods are causing bloating, abdominal pain, or diarrhea.

Get PrickedKids aren’t the only ones who need their shots: Immunizations are important for adults, too.

The Center for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices just released their updated vaccination guidelines for adults, and there are some crucial changes: People should not use the nasal flu vaccine, people with egg allergy can receive any age-appropriate flu vaccine, HPV vaccinations for adolescents may be completed in just two doses, and people with hepatitis C, cirrhosis, fatty liver disease, and other liver conditions could benefit from hepatitis B vaccines, CBS News reports.

Heat Up Your WorkoutCrank up the heat on your next workout: Hot yoga can help your heart, new research from the University of Texas at Austin discovered.

The researchers discovered that when overweight or obese people completed an 8-week Bikram, or hot yoga, program, their stiffness in their arteries decreased.

Check the Clock When You’re ScrollingIt’s happened to us all: You started scrolling through your social feeds, and next thing you noticed, an entire hour has gone by.

Now, science has an explanation why: Using Facebook can impair your perception of time, researchers from the University of Kent discovered.

While surfing the Internet in general also leads to an underestimation of time spent, the distortion was greater with Facebook. These findings may help us greater understand addictive behavior, the researchers say.

Get Scared For ScienceNow, a scientific use for scary flicks: Watching how people’s brains react to horror movies provides information on how we process fear and anxiety, researchers from the University of California at Irvine discovered.

They found a neural connection between the amygdala to the hippocampus—showing that the amygdala first identifies the stimulus as emotionally relevant, and then sends this information to the hippocampus to be saved as a memory.

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