Washington, Oct 31: Kids who avoid peanut in infancy and early childhood are 10 times as likely to develop peanut allergy as those who are exposed to the groundnut, according to a new study.

The study has been published in the November issue of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

To reach the conclusion, researchers measured the incidence of peanut allergy in 8,600 Jewish school-age children in the United Kingdom and Israel.

They compared these results with data on peanut consumption collected from mothers of infants age 4 to 24 months.

Washington, October 31: University of Illinois researchers have found that measuring the quality of romantic relationships is more complex than previously conducted personality studies suggest.

Psychology professor Glenn Roisman and graduate student Ashley Holland say that while personality has been found to be predictive of perceived relationship satisfaction and success, other measures of relationship quality may offer additional insight into how a romantic relationship is functioning.

Washington, Oct 31: No matter when babies start talking, a new study has claimed that infants'' brains become acquainted with hundreds of words much before they start uttering them.

The report, published in the October issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, describes an increasing emphasis among researchers in studying vocabulary development in infants.

Washington, Oct 31: Women who gain more than 40 pounds (18 kg) during their pregnancies are nearly twice as likely to have a heavy baby, suggests a new study.

The study was conducted by the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, which included more than 40,000 women and their babies.

The study has been published in the November issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Washington, Oct 31: A new research has suggested that the 5,300 year old human mummy – dubbed ‘Oetzi’ or ‘the Tyrolean Iceman’ – is highly unlikely to have modern day relatives.

Oetzi’s mummified remains were discovered in September 1991 in the Eastern Alps near the Austro-Italian border.

He was approximately 46 years old when he died, and examinations revealed that he had been severely wounded by an arrow and possibly finished off with a mace blow to the face.

Washington, Oct 31: Vigorous exercise – from running, to chopping firewood or scrubbing floors – can reduce the risk of breast cancer by almost a third, a new study has found.

The study of more than thirty thousand postmenopausal American women, reported in BioMed Central''s open access journal Breast Cancer Research, has revealed that a sedentary lifestyle can be a risk factor for the disease – even in women who are not overweight.