Book Reviews, Everyday Solutions Improve Your Health, Weight, Fertility, Menopause, and Longevity, and Reduce Stress Cortisol: The Master Hormone is an empowering, informative, and motivational read. Wibe Wagemans and Ioana A. Bina, MD, Ph.D. book, Cortisol: The Master Hormone: Improve Your Health, Weight, Fertility, Menopause, Longevity, and Reduce Stress, provides […]
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10 Impressive Elephant Grass Health Benefits
Move over wheatgrass, there’s a new green drink in town! Elephant grass, also known as miscanthus giganteus, is a giant grass that is native to Asia. It’s been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine and is now gaining popularity as a health food. Elephant grass health benefits include improving […]
Short Run May Improve Brain Function, Study Says
Running is undoubtedly one of the simplest methods to get the benefits of physical exercise since it is inexpensive and readily available. Running promotes cardiovascular health, muscular strength, and bone density. In addition to these physical advantages, running has also been linked to enhanced mental health. A team of researchers […]
The intersections of diet culture, ableism, healthism and anti-fatness
Reading Time: 9 minutes The topic of this blog post is one I only started to explore myself in the past year or so. I was shocked, at first, when it sunk in how ableist diet culture is, with healthism and anti-fatness/sizeism as the links. I realized how ablest (and […]
How To Maintain Physical Fitness? 3 Ways To Stay Active At Home!
1. Eat right and monitor your calorie intake Your diet plays a huge role in determining the extent of your physical fitness. We have all been in that position when all those packets of chips, sugary cereals, soft drinks, and other such sweet and savory items beckon to us from […]
The Year Without Germs Changed Kids
In the spring of 2021, Brett Finlay, a microbiologist at the University of British Columbia, offered the world a bold and worrying prediction. “My guess is that five years from now we are going to see a bolus of kids with asthma and obesity,” he told Wired. Those children, he […]
13 Low-Calorie Cocktails That Are Actually Good
PSA: You don’t have to cut out alcohol entirely in order to reach your fitness goals. We rounded up 13 low-sugar, low-calorie cocktails to help you have fun and stay healthy. Cheers to the weekend (or just making it through the weekday—is it 5 pm yet?)! Any registered dietitian will […]
China’s COVID Wave Is Coming
In China, a dam seems on the verge of breaking. Following a wave of protests, the government has begun to relax some of its most stringent zero-COVID protocols, and regional authorities have trimmed back a slew of requirements for mass testing, quarantine, and isolation. The rollbacks are coming as a […]
Peer Support Interventions for Perinatal Depression
A peer support intervention is defined as “the provision of emotional assistance (e.g., attentive listening), appraisal assistance (communication of information that is pertinent to self-evaluation), and informational assistance (provision of knowledge relevant to problem-solving) by a created social network member who possesses experiential knowledge of a specific behavior or stressor […]
6 Updated Medical Device Marketing Strategies
Over the next seven years, the medical device market will nearly double in size (from USD 495.46 billion in 2022 to 964.90 billion in 2030). There are three main reasons for this: The United States has a large aging population and a long history of chronic disease. The Patient Protection […]