Making small changes to promote healthy sleep can dramatically improve your health and longevity, including leading to a 42 percent lower risk of heart failure, finds a new study. The new findings add to growing research linking sleep habits with heart health. A healthy sleep pattern for most people, at least in terms of heart…
Prioritizing Balance Is an Essential Component of Bone Health
You might think you’re doing the most for your bones if you’re getting enough calcium and vitamin D. And while it’s a great start, there is still a lot more to do. Nutrition helps feed bones and prevent bone loss. But even strong bones can break. That’s why working on balance is one of the…
How to Eat a Little Better Right Now
Let’s face it; if you’re like most people, you want to be as healthy as you possibly can. Chances are that if you’re trying to get healthier, one of the first areas you think about is your diet. What you eat has a huge impact on your overall health, how you feel, your mood, energy…
Get Healthier With Bite-Sized Exercise Breaks
The new Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour published by the World Health Organization are notable for what is missing: the minimum time for an exercise session. Similar to previous guidelines, these recognize the importance of regular activity on physical and mental well-being. The guidelines recommend a target of 150 to 300 minutes per week of…
60 Percent of Americans Will Be Obese by 2030
In the United States, 42.5 percent of adults 20 and over are obese, while another 31.1 percent are overweight.(1) While these statistics are already alarming, the American Obesity Association suggests that by 2025, 50 percent of Americans may be obese—and this will jump to 60 percent by 2030.(2) What’s behind this ongoing rise in Americans’…
Pandemic-Fueled Alcohol Abuse Creates Wave of Hospitalizations for Liver Disease
As the pandemic sends thousands of recovering alcoholics into relapse, hospitals across the country have reported dramatic increases in alcohol-related admissions for critical diseases such as alcoholic hepatitis and liver failure. Alcoholism-related liver disease was a growing problem even before the pandemic, with 15 million people diagnosed with the condition around the country, and with hospitalizations doubling…
Consuming Mediterranean Diet Can Benefit Your Thinking Skills Later in Life
A new study from the University of Edinburgh has found that people who consume a Mediterranean-style diet have better thinking skills when analyzed. The diet includes a proportionally high amount of olive oil, unrefined cereals, fruits, and vegetables, with relatively little non-fish meat, and a moderate amount of dairy products and wine. The new findings add…
Feelings Make People Pass Up Perfectly Tasty Brown Fruit
Emotions play an oversized role in our shopping decisions, according to a new study. This is what makes most people skip the bananas with brown spots in favor of perfectly yellow ones. “We choose food based upon an expectation of what it will taste like that is bound to our feelings. So, if we expect…
Older Adults With Pre-Diabetes Seldom Get Full-Blown Version
Older adults classified as having prediabetes due to moderately elevated measures of blood sugar usually don’t go on to develop full-blown diabetes, according to a new study. Doctors still consider prediabetes a useful indicator of future diabetes risk in young and middle-aged adults. However, the study, which followed nearly 3,500 older adults, of median age…
Could a Too-Clean Society Trigger a Rise in Food Allergies?
Rising rates of food allergies may be the result of environmental factors and a misfiring protection system, propose four immunobiologists from Yale University. A paper published by the scientists in the journal Cell suggests an exaggerated activation of the body’s toxic food protection system in response to environmental factors is behind the increase.(1) They write…
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