Maybe you don’t want to know. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has just released the shocking truth about the calories and fat grams you’ll find in a menu’s worth of popular restaurant dishes.

Brush your teeth and you’ll cut your risk of heart disease, concludes a new study published in the British Medical Journal.

Researchers have long known that gum disease is associated with increased risk of heart problems. The link appears to be inflammation, which plays a role in the buildup of cholesterol in arteries. In this new study, published on the British Medical Journal’s website at BMJ.com, researchers examined whether the number of times people brush their teeth has any bearing on heart disease risk.

It does.

Got milk? Researchers find that exercisers who drink milk after a resistance workout are more likely to gain muscle and lose fat.

For the study, a team at Canada’s McMaster University asked one group of women to drink a tall glass of nonfat milk immediately after doing a resistance workout and then another glass an hour later. A second group of women drank a look-a-like sugar-based energy drink after their strength-building workout.

Twelve weeks later, the milk drinkers showed better changes in body composition than the non-milk drinkers.

A pot full of recent findings suggest that caffeine can keep our brains active and prevent age-related decline. Indeed, rresearchers now think that the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world normalizes brain function and prevents neurological degeneration.

Erectile dysfunction drugs may cause hearing loss, according to new research by University of Alabama epidemiologist Gerald McGwin, PhD.

New mothers have long been known to suffer depression after the birth of a baby. New research shows that more than 10 percent of fathers also suffer prenatal or postpartum depression, according Virginia Medical School researcher James F. Paulson, PhD.

The findings come from a meta-analysis of 43 studies involving 28,004 men. According to the data, depression among new fathers seems to be at its worst three to six months after a baby is born. If mom suffers postpartum depression, dad is more likely to, as well. American fathers were among the most troubled, with a 14 percent rate of depression, compared to only 8 percent internationally.

Organic vs. conventional? New findings link food pesticides to attention-deficit/hyperactivity in children.

The study, conducted by scientists at Harvard University and the University of Montreal, measured pesticide levels in the urine of 1,139 children across the U.S. Kids with higher levels of organophosphate pesticides were more likely to be diagnosed as having ADHD. For the most commonly-detected chemical, for instance, higher levels were associated with a two-fold increase in risk of ADHD.

Did the defeat of smallpox open the door to HIV/AIDS? George Mason University scientist Raymond Weinstein reports that smallpox vaccine reduces HIV replication by a factor of five. It may not be a coincidence, he speculates, that as smallpox vaccination programs ended during the 1960s and 1970s, thanks to the eradiation of the virus, HIV began its deadly spread around the world.

Asthma sufferers, it’s time to lighten up. Rich, high-fat meals appear to increase airway inflammation, University of Newcastle researchers report. High-fat meals may also inhibit the asthma medication albuterol (Ventolin).

For the study, scientists offered a randomly selected group of asthmatics burgers and hash browns (1,000 calories, 52 percent from fat). The remaining subjects ate a meal containing reduced fat yogurt (200 calories, 13 percent from fat).

Within hours, the fast food group saw a significant increase in markers for inflammation, as well as reduced bronchodilator effect from the drug. Research has previously shown a link between high fat foods to inflammation, This was the first study to look specifically at asthma. The drug effect was a surprise and remains unexplained.

House-hunting? Try walking around the neighborhood before you sign on the dotted line.