How Supplement Stores Are Trying to Tap Into the Ozempic Boom
GNC and the Vitamin Shoppe are redesigning displays and taking other steps to appeal to people who are taking or are interested in drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jordyn Holman Tags: Semaglutide (Drug) Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Ozempic (Drug) Dietary Supplements and Herbal Remedies Diet and Nutrition Vitamins Shopping and Retail Weight Telemedicine Customer Relations GNC Holdings Inc Vitamin Shoppe Industries Uni Source Type: news
The 5 best supplements for healthy aging, according to a longevity expert
If you’ve ever walked down the supplement aisle in a pharmacy, you’ve seen the overwhelming abundance of options available for your medicine cabinet. According to the 2022 Council on Responsible Nutrition Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements, 75% of Americans use dietary supplements, most on a…#karaburnstine #kefir #kombucha #kimchi #tempeh #magnesium #usp # #michaelpollan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘Obese people should opt for a structured programme of diet, exercise & medication’
"Nothing comes without a downside. These molecules do produce significant nausea and vomiting in some people — to the extent that they have to discontinue the medication. Some may develop diarrhoea, some may have severe constipation. Others may not like the way they lose weight—they may feel very shrunken or their face may seem very thinned out. That’s another sort of downside," says Dr Ambrish Mithal, chairman, endocrinology & diabetes, Max Healthcare, Delhi. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - April 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Foods to Keep You Healthy as You Age
Staying healthy as you enter your golden years has a lot to do with your diet. Here are some foods that are good for your heart, your brain, your bones, and your muscles. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - April 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How'Challengers' turned Zendaya and the cast into tennis stars, from strength training to 10,000-calorie diets
None Zendaya, Josh O'Connor, and Mike Faist star as tennis players in Luca Guadagnino's movie "Challengers." • None Tennis coach Brad Gilbert served as a consultant on the film and trained the stars. • None The actors spent hours playing tennis, watching tapes, and putting on muscle to look like…#nonezendaya #joshoconnor #mikefaist #challengers #nonetennis #bradgilbert #arrakis #tashiduncan #tashi #artdonaldson (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nutritionist reveals the 15 'superfoods' to eat to slash risk of silent killers
We could lower our risk of blood pressure, heart disease, cancer and dementia with these dietary changes. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What Do Weight-Loss Drugs Mean for Diet Industry Built on Eating Less and Exercise?
(MedPage Today) -- Ever since college, Brad Jobling struggled with his weight, fluctuating between a low of 155 pounds when he was in his 30s to as high as 220. He spent a decade tracking calories on WeightWatchers, but the pounds he dropped always... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - April 25, 2024 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Why Is It So Bad to Pop a Pimple?
It’s tough to resist squeezing a juicy pimple. You probably want to get rid of it quickly and may feel like you know exactly how to do it after having watched hundreds of pimple-popping videos online. Dermatologists get the temptation, but say you should leave your zits alone.
“As a general rule, you shouldn’t pop your pimples,” says Dr. Jody Alpert Levine, a dermatologist and director of dermatology at Plastic Surgery & Dermatology of NYC.
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Pimples form when excess oil, bacteria, and dirt clog hair follicles. When the trapped follicles s...
Source: TIME: Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erica Sweeney Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
What do weight loss drugs mean for a diet industry built on eating less and exercising more?
Ever since college, Brad Jobling struggled with his weight, fluctuating between a low of 155 pounds when he was in his 30s to as high as 220. He spent a decade tracking calories on WeightWatchers, but the pounds he dropped always crept back onto his 5-foot-5-inch frame. A little over a year ago,…#bradjobling #weightwatchers #manhattan #leancuisine #ozempic #mounjaro #glpt1 #simasistani #mayoclinic #mayoclinicdiet (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What do weight loss drugs mean for a diet industry built on eating less and exercising more?
New weight loss drugs are reshaping a dieting industry built on eating less and exercising more (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
CT reveals influence of diabetes on COVID-19 severity
CT imaging reveals the influence of blood glucose levels on the severity of COVID-19, researchers have reported.
A team led by Dan Lu, PhD, of Kunming Medical University in Yunnan, China, found that the quality of blood glucose control significantly correlated with patients' CT severity score, with higher blood glucose measured translating to higher severity of COVID-19's lung effects. The results were published April 23 in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition.
"Previous research has shown that, compared with normal infected individuals, patients with diabetes exhibit more severe conditions in terms of clinica...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: CT Chest Radiology Source Type: news
FNS: Child Nutrition Programs: Meal Patterns Consistent With the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Notice of final rule from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) finalizing long-term school nutrition requirements based on the goals of theDietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025, stakeholder input, and lessons learned from prior rulemaking. Among other things, this rule phases in added sugars limits for the school lunch and breakfast programs and in the Child and Adult Care Food Program, implements a single sodium reduction in the school lunch and breakfast programs, and establishes long-term milk and whole grain requirements for school meals. Program operators will not be require...
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - April 25, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Revealed: The diet to eat just before you have a flu shot...as study suggests nutrition change could makes vaccines more effective
Obese people are more likely to develop severe flu complications, even with vaccines. Researchers found that dieting before getting vaccinated make mice better at fighting off the virus. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Scientists repot flowering plants ’ tree of life—and find it has tangled roots
About 150 million years ago, life on Earth began a complete revamp, thanks to the rapid rise of one giant group: the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The more efficient photosynthesis of magnolias, waterlilies, as well as many early lineages now extinct pumped oxygen into the atmosphere, and their nectar and fruits provided new types of food for insects and other animals, fueling new, more complex ecosystems that still dominate the planet today.
The sprouting of angiosperms happened so fast that the origins of certain groups has long been mired in mystery. Now, almost 300 plant biologists have banded together to r...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 24, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Dietary Interventions Beat Medication in IBS Treatment
(MedPage Today) -- Two dietary interventions were more effective in reducing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptom severity compared with pharmacotherapy, a randomized controlled trial showed.
After 4 weeks of treatment in the modified intention... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - April 24, 2024 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
