Illustration: Asia Wójtowicz Reboot your immune system with intermittent fasting. Help your ‘good’ bacteria to thrive with a plant-based diet. Move over morning coffee: mushroom tea could bolster your anticancer defences. Claims such as these, linking health, diet and immunity, bombard supermarket shoppers and pervade the news. Beyond the headlines and product labels, the scientific...
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A healthy diet with less sugar linked to younger biological age
July 29, 2024 by University of California, San Francisco Credit:Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainResearchers at UC San Francisco have found a link between following a diet that is rich in vitamins and minerals, especially one without much added sugar, and having a younger biological age at the cellular level. They looked at how three different measures of...
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Healthy diet helps obese people with chronic inflammation and skin wound healing
UNIVERSITÄT LEIPZIG Image: Anja Saalbach Credit: Photo: Leipzig University In everyday clinical practice, it has been observed that chronic inflammatory diseases like psoriasis occur earlier and more severely in overweight people. In addition, they are more difficult to treat in patients with obesity. Experts at Leipzig University Hospital therefore wanted to find out why chronic...
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Exercise, healthy diet in midlife may prevent serious health conditions in senior years
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, March 31, 2021 — Following a routine of regular physical activity combined with a diet including fruits, vegetables, and other healthy foods may be key to middle-aged adults achieving optimal cardiometabolic health later in life, according to new research using data from the Framingham Heart Study published today in the Journal...
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People learn about low-carb diets online and don’t know the risks
People want to look good and be healthy. In order to achieve both of these goals you have to maintain a healthy diet. Low carbohydrate diets are very popular right now, because they are highly recommended on the internet. Now a new study led by the University of Glasgow revealed that low-carb diets do not...
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Non-fasting blood test can help screen youth for prediabetes and diabetes
Study suggests the hemoglobin A1c test can identify youth at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes and associated cardiovascular problems JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH A simple blood test that does not require overnight fasting has been found to be an accurate screening tool for identifying youth at risk for type...
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Fitness watches generate useful information, but increase patient anxiety
How does measuring our sleep, exercise and heart rates using various apps and fitness watches affect us? Self-quantifying may better the understanding of our individual health, but according to a new study, it also gives rise to anxiety. The researchers h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN PRINT E-MAIL Is my heart beating slightly fast? Is a heart...
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If relaxed too soon, physical distancing measures might have been all for naught
by Stuart Wolpert, University of California, Los Angeles If physical distancing measures in the United States are relaxed while there is still no COVID-19 vaccine or treatment and while personal protective equipment remains in short supply, the number of resulting infections could be about the same as if distancing had never been implemented to begin...
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New CDC report on US COVID-19 cases affirms seriousness for the young
By Rich Haridy March 19, 2020 A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers the first analysis of COVID-19 cases in the United States. While patient ages and fatalities so far seen in the US do resemble data from other countries, the numbers are a reminder the disease can be...
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5 things you can do to make your microbiome healthier
by Connie Rogers and Darrell Cockburn, The Conversation Fresh fruits and vegetables are good for you and your gut microbes. Credit: Teri Virbickis/Shutterstock.com It’s common for people to focus on their health at the start of the year. But few consider the well being of the microbes that live inside the human gut—the microbiome—which are vital to...
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