Written by Christine Giordano, MD | Reviewed by Patricia Pinto-Garcia, MD, MPHPublished on April 15, 2024 Key takeaways: What you eat and drink affects the size, shape, and consistency of your stool. Certain drinks can make it easier to poop when you’re constipated. Water helps keep stool soft so that it can easily pass through...
Written by Christine Giordano, MD | Reviewed by Patricia Pinto-Garcia, MD, MPHPublished on April 15, 2024 Key takeaways: What you eat and drink affects the size, shape, and consistency of your stool. Certain drinks can make it easier to poop when you’re constipated.Water helps keep stool soft so that it can easily pass through the...
Written by Christine Giordano, MD | Reviewed by Patricia Pinto-Garcia, MD, MPH Key takeaways: UTIs (urinary tract infections) are a bacterial infection of the bladder, urethra, or kidneys that usually need antibiotic treatment.Drinking fluids helps people recover from a UTI. The best things to drink when you have a UTI are water, electrolyte drinks that...
By Lois Zoppi, BAReviewed by Kate Anderton, B.Sc. (Editor) The war on plastic is gaining traction worldwide, and a huge number of households are trying to reduce their reliance on plastic. A recent YouGov poll showed that the areas in which people in the UK are trying to reduce their plastic consumption include fresh fruit and vegetables (81 percent), household and cleaning...
Posted Yesterday Summer is time for travelling and there is nothing more fun than having a long road trip. However, driving for extended period of time might be excruciating, which is why you should prepare your body appropriately. But how? SEAT shares some advices of what you should eat during the days of driving. You are what you eat....
Juice and soda lovers might have been concerned this week to see the release of a study in the British Medical Journal which found the consumption of sugary drinks to be “positively associated with the risk of overall cancer and breast cancer.” The study, which spanned over 100,000 people in France, included both sugary sodas and 100 percent fruit juice. Mathilde Touvier, PhD, principal investigator of the study, and...
by Monica H. Swahn, The Conversation The news about the tragic deaths of several American tourists in the Dominican Republic in May 2019 has created an outcry and a media frenzy. As of June 30, there were at least nine deaths with similar circumstances in the past few months. The FBI and Dominican authorities are...
A study at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) of alcohol’s effect on rhesus macaque monkeys has shown nasty effects on developing brains. Each gram of alcohol per kilogram of body weight (the human equivalent of four beers a day) reduced the rate of brain growth by nearly 47 percent per year. The researchers noted a significant decline in the rate of growth of the brain, cerebral...
Findings of a new research have suggested that switching to diet drinks to reduce calorie intake may come with health risks. Researchers found that women who consume a lot of artificially sweetened beverages increase their risk for stroke by 23 percent. Two Diet Sodas Daily Linked To Increased Stroke Risk In the study, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller,...
