Tag: health

Studies Highlight Potential Long-term Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Teens

A June study by researchers from the University of Sydney highlighted concerning trends of increased screen time, alcohol use, and poor sleep for teenagers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The increase has implications for teens’ long-term health, said researchers. “We know these lifestyle risk behaviors are common among young people, but we also know they…


The Therapeutic Effects of Houseplants

Just after she had just had a baby, Jennifer Lauck received the gift of an orchid. She was secretly taken aback. “Look lady,” she wanted to tell her friend, “don’t give me an orchid right now.” As Lauck, a bestselling author based in Portland, Ore., described in “Show Me the Way,” her memoir about parenting,…


70 Percent of Tinnitus Cases Are Due to Autonomic Dysfunction—5 Exercises to Improve Tinnitus and Deafness

A 58-year-old woman had been deaf in her left ear for 18 years. And this had greatly affected her life and ability to work. She had consulted many doctors and tried many types of treatment to no avail. Just when she fell into despair, she was referred to Dr. Gwo-Bin Wu, director of Xinyitang Chinese…


CDC Changes Monkeypox Mask Recommendation Amid Criticism

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week changed its monkeypox travel alert web page that had recommended people wear masks while traveling. Earlier this week, the CDC’s monkeypox page had said, “Wear a mask. Wearing a mask can help protect you from many diseases, including monkeypox,” according to a cached version…


Home Fitness Luxury

As the popularity of home fitness products continues to rise, we’ve compiled a selection of luxurious equipment for you to consider, so that exercising can enhance your physical health while the brilliant designs nourish the soul. Four in five people in the United States own at least one home fitness device, according to a 2021…


Labeling Requirements for Bioengineered Crops in US

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) newest food labeling rule regulating the disclosure of genetically modified ingredients in foods went into effect in January and uses the term “bioengineered food.” A bioengineered food “has been modified through certain lab techniques and cannot be created through conventional breeding or found in nature,” according to the USDA…


EXCLUSIVE: Congress Presses FDA on Why COVID-19 Vaccines Would be Authorized for Young Children

A group of members of Congress is pressing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for answers before the regulator decides whether to authorize COVID-19 vaccines for young children. All Americans aged 5 and older can get a COVID-19 vaccine. The FDA is scheduled to meet with its advisory panel on June 15 to discuss…


How to Make Stress a Good Thing, Instead of Something That Damages Your Health

Is stress a friend or foe? Most people believe that stress can harm health, increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, cancers and other chronic diseases, and even shorten life expectancy. However, an important study has shattered this view. Two Groups Under Equally High Stress Have Different Mortality Rates The study, published in the journal Health…


COVID Vaccines Linked to New Type of Incurable, Fatal Degenerative Brain Disorder

Studies suggest a link between an incurable and fatal prion disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and COVID-19 vaccines. Researchers believe the prion region from the original Wuhan COVID-19 variant’s spike protein was incorporated into mRNA vaccines and adenovirus vector vaccines — given to hundreds of millions of humans — and that it can cause a new type of rapidly progressing…


Is It Time for a Mental Health Makeover?

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate…