Could dairy protect against diabetes and hypertension?
A study including almost 150,000 participants has found that a higher intake of dairy products, particularly whole fat varieties, is linked with a lower risk of high blood pressure and diabetes. Rates of type 2 diabetes and hypertension, or high…
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Who created the polio vaccine?
In the early 1950s, two prominent medical researchers each found a way to protect the world from poliomyelitis, the paralysis-causing disease commonly known as polio. The vaccines created by Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Albert Sabin resulted in the near-global…
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What you should know before doing Pilates for the first time
If you’re looking for a new, low-impact fitness class to try out, and you have already done yoga, swimming, and weight training, look no further than Pilates. “Pilates is a full-body exercise method that will help you do everything better,” Sonja Herbert,…
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Dementia care: A sudden liking of this kind of food could be an early warning of condition
According to research, early dementia patients began to crave more seasoning on their food and that their taste in food had changed in some ways. Described as wanting more strong-tasting foods, the other unusual changes in eating for early dementia…
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7 Bad Habits That Can Ruin Your Relationship
When you’re in a relationship, you’re more often than not always trying to do what you can to keep it relatively healthy and happy. And of course, unless you’re a complete masochist, you’d never do anything to deliberately sabotage it. …
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Social significance of dining out explored in new book by Alan Warde
Alan Warde is co-author of the newly published book: Alan Warde, Jessica Paddock and Jennifer Whillans, “The Social Significance of Dining out: A Study of Continuity and Change,” (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020). Dining out used to be considered exceptional;…
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Diet: These five vitamins in many of the short – Naturopathy naturopathy specialist portal
Of these five vitamins you might need more Unlike our ancestors, most people need to do nowadays, no serious Worry more about drastic vitamin deficiency diseases. For one thing, we are better informed about nutrition, and on the other we…
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Thyroid dysfunction in pregnancy being overdiagnosed, overtreated
The current practice of testing most pregnant women for thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) may be leading to overdiagnosis and overtreatment, according to new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). The study of more than 188 000 women in Alberta…
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Dementia warning – five of the earliest warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease
Dementia is the name given to a group of symptoms linked to an ongoing decline in brain function. You could be at risk of the neurodegenerative condition if you develop any of these five early warning signs, it’s been revealed….
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High cholesterol foods: One food staple you need to stop eating
High cholesterol can develop when Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors on the liver aren’t functioning properly. Eating foods full of saturated fats have been proven to disrupt these receptors, thus cholesterol builds up in the bloodstream. The charity Heart UK explained…
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