How Does Low Acid Coffee Help Seniors With Digestive Disorders?
Seniors are prone to many different digestive disorders, but even in spite of these disorders, are probably reluctant to give up their daily caffeine habit. Thankfully, there’s a solution which will allow seniors to retain their coffee habit and its proven benefits while avoiding the downsides: low acid coffee.
Reduced acid coffee or acid-free coffee is a modern chemical marvel which removes one of the least desirable flavor and health elements: acid.
Acid ruins the flavor of many different coffees and also is the source of most (but not all) of the potential health issues caused by coffee consumption. In this article, w...
Source: Shield My Senior - October 7, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Vin Tags: Senior Safety Source Type: blogs
Social norms are not the norm in the ER
. Things that are regarded as gross in the real world are an everyday occurrence. Our ER especially lived in a special universe where all social graces were stripped away, and the rawness of humanity is what remained.
I begin my night shift. I hadn’t taken a solid nap before my shift, and I am now headed into round 3 of 4. Nights like this always start in a haze before the caffeine has a chance to kick in. I drop my stuff off at the doc box and see that there are a couple of patients that need to be picked up.
My first patient is in the middle of the big room bed 7. It’s a woman with a chief complaint of vaginal bl...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 4, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/zahir-basrai" rel="tag" > Zahir Basrai, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs
Dante Labs Full Genome Sequencing: A Medgadget Review
Conclusion
In reading my report I found it was important to be mindful of the complexity of the genome’s effects and the relative infancy of much of the research surrounding this. For instance, I possess gene variants associated with both an increased and decreased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, based on current research. There are a number of more clear-cut aspects to the sequencing, such as drug interactions and carrier status of genetic diseases, which I think do give genuine peace of mind.
The more light-hearted traits around food preferences and lifestyle quirks do appear to have impressive accuracy. And I am sure t...
Source: Medgadget - September 28, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tom Peach Tags: Exclusive Genetics Source Type: blogs
The latest scoop on the health benefits of coffee
In conclusion…
It’s unusual that a food on the “cancer risk list” comes off of it — and it’s even more unusual that such foods then become considered a healthy choice. But, as the millions of people drinking coffee every day will tell you, when it comes to coffee, there’s nothing like it.
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Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
The Power of Sleep: 5 Ways to Improve Your Sleep Patterns for Lasting Mental Health
A full night’s rest is rare these days and when it comes to your mental and emotional health it is critical. Research shows that we can be more irritable and easily frustrated with lack of sleep. We may have a short-temper and perceive our experiences with increased fear and worry. We may also suffer cognitive deficits and memory problems. We suffer and our relationships suffer too.
To help you get more restorative sleep, review these great tips that will help you transition your way into an energizing morning. You may not even need that second cup of coffee!
Start prepping for sleep at least 30 minutes before getti...
Source: World of Psychology - September 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Julie K. Jones, Ph.D., LPC Tags: Exercise & Fitness Habits Happiness Health-related Memory and Perception Sleep Stress Technology blue light Changing Habits Insomnia Relaxation Rest Sleep Disorder Sleep Habits Smartphone addiction stress reduction Source Type: blogs
Driftin ’ Away
“Well, when I graduated from college, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. So what do most reasonably smart, analytical types do after college? They go to law school,” I wryly chuckled to my counselor. “It is a three-year holding pattern for the chronically undecided. It is the new open studies major.”
Unlike some friends (“I knew I wanted to be a pediatric doctor at age four,” a long-time confidante once told me), I drifted into my profession. There was no sense of calling — unless you count my father’s hysterical phone calls about turning down a prestigious law school. Truthfully, law schoo...
Source: World of Psychology - September 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthew Loeb Tags: Anxiety and Panic College Creativity Happiness OCD Personal Success & Achievement career calling Career Change changing expectations Graduate School Law School Personal Growth Perspective Source Type: blogs
Coffee cravings can play havoc with your memory
By Christian Jarrett
Skipping your morning coffee before a lecture or an important meeting is probably a bad idea, according to new research. Of course you will be less alert, but more than that, the research team at the University of Tasmania say that the cravings you experience will impair your ability to memorise new information. Reporting their results in the journal Memory, the researchers also found that their participants were unaware of how caffeine cravings had affected them – suggesting that if we try to learn things when desperate for a coffee we are at risk of being overconfident about what we’ve taken ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - August 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Memory Source Type: blogs
Your brain on chocolate
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Did you know that places where chocolate consumption is highest have the most Nobel Prize recipients? It’s true, at least according to a 2012 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Of course, that could be a coincidence. But is it possible that intelligence or other measures of high brain function are actually improved by the consumption of chocolate? A new review summarizes the evidence and concludes with a resounding “maybe.”
Keeping your brain healthy
When it comes to preserving and improving brain function, let’s face it: we need all the help we can get. With ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Brain and cognitive health Healthy Eating Memory Source Type: blogs
4 Ways to Ease Back-to-School and Autumn Anxiety
Middle schoolers aren’t the only ones who feel the jitters as school reopens every year.
Most people I know have trouble as summer draws to a close and autumn begins. All of the stress and transition required to accommodate new schedules, activities, and schools can throw off the limbic system (your emotional center) of even the most grounded creatures.
In fact, Ginny Scully, a therapist in Wales, said in an interview so many clients with feelings of anticipation and nervousness during the last week of August through the first weeks of September that she coined the term “autumn anxiety,” which I’ve written ab...
Source: World of Psychology - August 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Anxiety and Panic Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Self-Help Alternative Medicine Anxious Thoughts autumn anxiety Back To School Depression Diet Healthy Eating School stress Source Type: blogs
8 Foods that Boost Your Mood
What we eat might not be able to cure us indefinitely from depression. I learned that hard lesson earlier this year. However, researchers are compiling strong evidence that what we eat can influence our risk for developing depression and can keep persons in remission from possibly relapsing.
Eating better foods has certainly helped my mood and allowed me to get by on less medication. A 2014 review published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition examined the link between diet and depression risk and found that a diet consisting mainly of fruit, vegetables, fish, and whole grains was significantly associated with a r...
Source: World of Psychology - July 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Depression Mental Health and Wellness Personal Self-Help Caffeine Depressive Episode Major Depressive Episode Mood Disorder phytochemicals Psychology Psychopharmacology Source Type: blogs
Quick Ways to Relief Muscular Pain at Home
The human body is composed of complex structured muscles, and muscular pain can exist at anywhere in the entire body. Muscle pain usually appears after doing the heavy activity or sometimes pulling off muscles can also result in such happening.It is also possible that muscular pain appears after 20-24 hours. After an operation, the pain will not appear until the muscle goes back to normal temperature. Sometimes, the pain will appear at the run time. Anyhow, muscular pain is absolutely an unwanted experience as it hugely damages the daily routine ’s activities.To overcome such pain, it is ideal to contact any health exper...
Source: radRounds - July 27, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Emma Miah Source Type: blogs
The 12 Health Benefits of Drinking Coffee You Should Know
You're reading The 12 Health Benefits of Drinking Coffee You Should Know, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Morning consumption of coffee aids us going throughout the day and provides us with higher energy levels. But there are plenty more benefits of consuming coffee. Yet there is always a debate: Is coffee good for you or bad for you?? Reading reviews on the coffee maker and wondering if coffee is beneficial for health? Read more for some interesting, scientifically proven, benefits which show that coffee...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Edna Tags: depression diet featured health and fitness benefits of coffee best coffee maker best health blog coffee facts health benefits of coffee live longer new coffee study pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs
High Tech Tuesday!
Photo download via xray delta oneBy Crabby McSlackerShould we be worried about the impact of so much easily accessible technology on our fragile human brains?There is much hand-wringing on the subject, and even a little research out there. Are portable machines turning our minds into mush, screwing with our relationships, infantalizing us, and disconnecting us from reality? Not to mention causing us to walk in front of buses and plunge off piers into large bodies of water?Maybe! But that's not today's post.Today I'm just doing a quick lazy show-and-tell about a couple of recent technological finds. One of them I ...
Source: Cranky Fitness - July 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Crabby McSlacker Source Type: blogs
Suing The Food And Drug Administration To Reform Its Oversight Of Food Additives
On May 22, 2017, several organizations, including the Center for Food Safety (CFS), the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and the Environmental Defense Fund, filed a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to challenge a final rule issued by the agency on August 17, 2016, regarding the use of substances in food that are “generally recognized as safe,” or “GRAS.”
This is not the first time the Center for Food Safety has sued the FDA over its GRAS policy—the organization filed suit against the agency in February 2014, the settlement of which led to the issuance of the final rule challeng...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 7, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Diana Winters Tags: Featured Public Health Center for Food Safety food additives Food and Drug Administration generally recognized as safe Source Type: blogs
Caffeine May Lower Risk for Cognitive Decline
Throughout the last several decades, caffeine has been alternately touted as hero or villain. For a time, caffeine was blamed for birth defects in children, and healthy eating, in general, meant eliminating food or beverages containing caffeine. Still, one of the most explosive new trends Throughout the last several decades, caffeine has been alternately touted as hero or villain. For a time, caffeine was blamed for birth defects in children, and healthy eating, in general, meant eliminating food or beverages containing caffeine. Still, one of the most explosive new trends we’ve seen over the last dozen years has been de...
Source: Minding Our Elders - June 19, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
