It probably wouldn't surprise anyone to hear about an experiment that proves eating yogurt makes you slimmer. But how about yogurt making you sexier? Yup. Science just proved that.

Or anyway, they proved yogurt makes mice sexier. There's a phrase you probably didn't think you'd read today: Sexy mice. SEXY MICE! So nice I had to write it twice. So how exactly does yogurt make mice sexy? And will this sexy yogurt trick work on us humans, too? I'm dying to find out.

So I don't know about you, but I'm thinking of going on an all-berry diet. Okay, not really.

But man!

It seems like every other day strawberries and/or blueberries and/or blackberries are in the news because some expert-type people discovered yet another antioxidant-related magical power.

Today in miraculous berry power news: Apparently eating blueberries and strawberries can the prevent the "cognitive decline and memory loss that comes with aging."

Well, these are truly happy tidings, my friends. Because I am sooo sick of losing my keys. And I'm still in my 30's! I better start pounding the berries asap or I'm not going to remember my own name by the time I'm 50.

I can't say I was particularly surprised to hear the latest research on over-the-counter insect bite ointments and creams: Most of them don't work. I wasn't surprised because as someone who's super-allergic to mosquito bites, I've tried pretty much every anti-itch/pain/swelling product out there -- and the amount of "relief" they offer is, well, not much of a relief.

I know this is dismal news for my fellow mosquito magnets, but don't despair!

Because I have, over the years, discovered a few remedies that really do help soothe the sting.

But you probably won't find any of them at the pharmacy ...

It's like something you'd see on an infomercial: Tired of wasting your whole summer applying and re-applying sunblock? Want to get rid of those unsightly crow's feet? Thanks to new miracle pill Colladeen Visage, you can say good-bye to wrinkles AND sunscreen -- forever!

But Colladeen Visage isn't the next ShamWow -- not exactly, anyway.

The pill, now for sale in the UK, has apparently been "proven" to both diminish signs of aging AND help the body produce its own shield against the sun's harmful rays.

Guess it really is a miracle pill ... unless ... hey, does this sound a little too good to be true to anyone else?

No matter when it hits you -- whether you're in middle school or middle-aged -- there's nothing about acne that doesn't suck. It's just plain lame. Especially because there's never really been anything on the market that gets rid of zits without making you feel like you inadvertantly got rid of the rest of the skin on your face, too.

"May cause burning and irritation" does NOT begin to warn a girl about the red-faced nightmare hiding in that little tube of prescription cream.

And of course the milder stuff has been as ineffective as the stronger stuff is harsh ... until now, possibly! 

Leave it to Oprah: Transcendental Meditation has been around for decades, attracting such famous followers as The Beatles and David Lynch, but now that Winfrey practices TM ... well, people are really paying attention.

Hey, after hearing Winfrey talk about her own experience with TM on last night's episode of Oprah's Next Chapter -- she even visited a town in Iowa where an estimated third of the population practices -- I'm paying attention, too. Transcendental Meditation has been known to reduce anxiety and even blood-pressure (which makes sense, considering the link between stress and cardiovascular disease), promote feelings of well-being, and improve self-image.

None of this is news. But now that Oprah says it's true ... well, I'm sold. (Come on, how often is the woman wrong?)

Here are the basics of Transcendental Meditation ...

Suzanne Somers might be an actress, an activist, and natural health guru. But did you know she's also a self-confessed, lifelong cat lover? Ha, well, no, she's not quite what you envision a stereotypical "cat lady" being, but Somers has always had feline friends in her life. And as much as she swears by bioidentical hormones and banking your stem cells, she also believes cats hold the key to bolstering our well-being.

That's why she invited Sandra DeFeo, a representative from the New York Humane Society, on her CafeMom YouTube channel show, Suzanne Somers Breaking Through, this week to talk about how cats are good for our health.

Every month, for about a week, millions of women cope with debilitating menstrual cramps. Whenever they strike, most of us reach for NSAIDs, maybe some caffeine, and sometimes a heating pad -- rinse, repeat. But that routine can get old, sometimes it doesn't even help, and who knows what kind of toll it might be taking on your long-term well-being? Plus, wouldn't it be so much better to preempt the cramps before they begin?

Enter a new, small study from Italy, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, that found a single, high-dose (300,000 IU -- whoa!) of cholecalciferol -- aka vitamin D3 -- was linked to a marked reduction in menstrual cramps. (In two months, the average pain scores dropped 41 percent for women on vitamin D vs. no difference in pain for a placebo group.) Also interesting: All the women in the study had blood levels of vitamin D measuring in the lowest 25 percent of normal at the study's outset. A clue, perhaps?