The Top Sleep Apps To Start Your Bedtime Tracking Journey
Instead of angels, dragons or unicorns, trackers may guard your dreams in the 21st century – which at least gives you a chance to gain more insight into your sleep data and actually improve your bedtime. If you want to become the master of sleep tracking, start with an app. Here, we collected the top sleep apps to choose from!
With data for a better bedtime
Research shows that humans spend one-third of their lives with sleeping or at least attempting to do so. If you have trouble with the snooze, there have been many traditional and non-traditional, legal and illegal methods to help: sleeping pills, booze, marijuana, inh...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 10, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Medical Professionals Patients android app apps fitness future iphone Personalized medicine sleep sleep app sleep sensor sleep tracker smartphone technology wearables Source Type: blogs
With rising obesity, microbiomes tip the scale
Human beings have grappled with obesity for thousands of years.
Greek philosopher and physician Galen described “bad humors” as the cause of obesity and prescribed low-calorie foods, massages, baths, greens and garlic to his patients to help them slim down. In the 18th century, William Banting successfully lost weight following a low-carb diet and spread his mantra to the public in a pamphlet called a “Letter on Corpulence,” which sold faster than chocolates. In June 2013, the American Medical Association passed a Resolution 420 declaring obesity as a disease, paving the way for treatment reimbursement.
All the whi...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 5, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mitra-rangarajan" rel="tag" > Mitra Rangarajan, ANP-BC, MPH < /a > Tags: Conditions Gastroenterology Source Type: blogs
Challenges Faced by Blended Families at End of Life
This article, however, is addressing situations in which the family system is not working smoothly and is an attempt to explore how we, as professionals, approach these situations.Alternatively, in some blended family situations, it is one or more of the children who are the primary caregivers and the second spouse is the one who is the reluctant caregiver.While you want to have an awareness of family dynamics, you do not want to have a position on them. It would be very easy to side with the caregiver who is involved and complaining about others who are not involved. But you don ’t know the history of the family and the...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - October 1, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: communication documentation family goals of care hospice language miles social work stepfamily Source Type: blogs
To Be Healthy Is to Be Loving
I went for a run because I had eaten a small, organic, dark chocolate cookie the day before and I felt that I had to punish myself. It was habitual for me to punish myself with strenuous, caloric compensation cardio whenever I felt guilty for enjoying life by eating tasty foods.
When I placed first in a fitness competition, my fitness goals went up a notch. Winning the competition was one thing, but people complimenting me on my extra lean body pressured me to stay that way. I couldn’t allow myself to look “bigger” again, and “bigger” really meant not seeing my defined ab muscles.
It was a sunny Sunday afternoon...
Source: World of Psychology - September 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Valeria Teles Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Mindfulness Personal Spirituality Fitness Loving Kindness Meditation self-compassion Source Type: blogs
The Wheat Belly One-Way Street
There’s a practical reality to the Wheat Belly grain-free lifestyle, one that I believe some followers of the lifestyle fail to recognize. Understand these simple facts that I’ve discussed in the Wheat Belly books and your life will be simplified.
By living the Wheat Belly grain-free lifestyle, you will find that:
You cannot consume grain-containing foods without becoming ill. Many of you have learned this lesson the hard way and found, for instance, that eating a handful of French fries fried in oil also used to prepare fried chicken will have you sitting on the toilet while your gastrointestinal tract forcefu...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 16, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates gluten gluten-free grain-free grains Inflammation wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Hot chocolate for skin, joint, and brain health
Here’s a variation on the High-Fat Hot Chocolate recipe I’ve posted previously, this version replacing coconut oil with medium-chain triglycerides (MCT) oil and adding collagen hydrolysates. (I used the Great Lakes brand sourced from pasture-raised, grass-fed livestock.)
MCT oil reduces appetite, accelerates loss of visceral inflammatory fat, and improves energy and cognition (though we don’t know whether MCTs and ketones yield a nootropic or a neurotrophic effect). Recall that collagen hydrolysates gradually increase dermal collagen, thereby smoothing skin and reducing wrinkle depth, while also increasi...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 14, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates coconut oil cognition dementia gluten-free grain-free joint joint pain mct mcts medium chain triglycerides skin undoctored Weight Loss wrinkles Source Type: blogs
Listen To Your Gut – What Stress Is Doing To Your Digestive Health
You're reading Listen To Your Gut – What Stress Is Doing To Your Digestive Health, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Stress can wreak havoc on your digestive system, with common—and uncommonly uncomfortable—symptoms including stomach-ache, constipation, diarrhea, cramps, nausea and acid indigestion.
Left unchecked, stress can lead to serious gastrointestinal issues. Chronic upset and anxiety may also exacerbate pre-existing ailments like celiac and Crohn’s diseases, stomach ulcers and inflammat...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kevin Jones Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement gut health pickthebrain side effects of stress Source Type: blogs
I want to learn how to love medicine
“Tell me something you love.”
I love warm chocolate chip cookies — straight out of the oven.
“Thank you. Tell me something you love.”
I love to read, to write, to dance. I don’t know yet if I love medicine.
We were gathered in a ballroom, a group of doctors and dancers, to explore the art of medicine through movement. I sat cross-legged, looking into the eyes of a person I did not know, struggling to remember what to say after “I love …” It had become all too easy to think about the things that I did not love. Only recently did I first think to myself that I hated the person medicine had made me becom...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 7, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/trisha-k-paul" rel="tag" > Trisha K. Paul, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Medical school Source Type: blogs
Endometriosis , infertility, laparoscopic surgery and IVF.
Endometriosis is a very common finding in infertile women and is one of the most controversial topics. This is true for multiple reasons. For example, lots of patients with endometriosis have no symptoms at all, and this is an incidental finding either on a vaginal ultrasound scan, which picks up a chocolate cyst, or on a diagnostic laparoscopy done for checking infertility. Now, on an ultrasound scan or a laparoscopy, once the diagnosis is made, then doctors usually get itchy fingers and want to treat it. The treatment is usually doing an operative laparoscopy to remove the lesion, but whether this actually helps the pati...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - August 23, 2018 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
The Connection Between Mental Health and Food
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For people who struggle with mental illness, food can have all sorts of positive and negative meanings. Certain foods can help or hinder maintaining a healthy emotional state, others can trigger unhealthy spirals: They can contribute to specific mental health issues that can cause dramatic changes in eating habits — which can further exacerbate those psychological problems.
It’s important to mention that food...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Noah_Rue Tags: diet featured health and fitness self improvement awareness clarity food mental health Source Type: blogs
Word APP! Use Apps to Build Vocabulary Interactively
Students with language disorders may struggle to learn, retain, describe and connect vocabulary words, causing them problems with functional and academic communication. Apps to the rescue!
Clinicians can tap a number of app- and web-based tools to help students connect vocabulary to material in and beyond the classroom.
Picture power
Photos, semantic maps and other visual supports can be key to bolstering word learning. Quickly create photo arrays to define words using the app Pic Collage (free for iOS/Android). You can do this via the app’s precise, relevant web search (using a restricted, kid-friendly version of Micros...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - August 20, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Sean Sweeney Tags: Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Early Intervention Language Disorders Source Type: blogs
Health benefits of walnuts
This study did not determine the ideal “dose” or duration of walnut consumption. In one of the best studies, a mix of about nine hazelnuts, 12 almonds, and six walnuts were consumed daily. That might be more than some people are willing to eat!
A study of this type cannot prove that walnuts were the reason a person’s cholesterol improved with a walnut-enriched diet. It’s possible that those who like walnuts also tend to exercise more, smoke less, or have more favorable genes than those who don’t eat walnuts.
No single food in your diet can make you healthy. It’s the big picture that matters most. A healthy diet...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Health Healthy Eating Heart Health Prevention Source Type: blogs
Second Edition of Principles and Practice of Big Data now on Science Direct
The Second edition of my bookPrinciples and Practice of Big Data has just been released and is available for purchase at many sites, includingAmazon.For those of you fortunate enough to have access to Science Direct, you can download chapters of my book at:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128156094TABLE OF CONTENTS Author ' s Preface to Second Edition Author ' s Preface to First Edition Chapter 1. Introduction Section 1. Definition of Big Data Section 2. Big Data Versus small data Section 3. Whence Comest Big Data? Section 4. The Most Common Purpose of Big Data is to Produce small data Section 5. Big Dat...
Source: Specified Life - August 4, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: big data data analysis data sharing science direct Source Type: blogs
6 Natural Remedies to Help Overcome Depression
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When you hear the word ‘depression’ the first thing that may come to your mind is sadness.
In reality, depression is different to and much more than sadness. Sadness is normal and is a part of human behavior whereas depression is a mental health issue.
Various factors can cause depression including deprived sleep and a feeling of overload.
University students undergo depression because of the transition c...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: arkyadey Tags: depression featured pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs
End-of-Life Learning from the Philosophy of Ninjas
The objectives of the ninjas are: first, to use ninjutsu to infiltrate the enemy’s camp and observe the situation.” (Hatsumi, 1988 p. 111).How it applies to hospice: Everyone involved in a hospice situation, including the patient, their loved ones, and the staff, are observing everyone else.* The patient often can be stuck in a role of observation whether they chose to or not because they may be too tired to interact, or the family will talk in front of them to staff.* The family is often on high alert, watching the patient for symptoms or watching the staff and timing our responses.* The staff members are observing th...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - July 30, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: hospice miles ninjutsu perseverance social work social worker spiritual Source Type: blogs
