How to Talk to Your Family About Their Heart Health History
Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is the most common genetic heart disease, affecting about 1 in every 500 people, according to the American Heart Association (AHA). In people with HOCM, genetic variants cause the heart’s walls to thicken and stiffen, blocking blood from flowing freely from the left ventricle to the aorta. This, in turn, results in shortness of breath and chest pain (especially during physical activity), abnormal heart rhythms, lightheadedness, dizziness, and fainting, and can worsen over time.
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If a parent has HOCM, offspring have a 50% ch...
Source: TIME: Health - April 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sarah Klein Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
D-Mannose as UTI Treatment Offers No Benefit D-Mannose as UTI Treatment Offers No Benefit
The dietary supplement D-mannose performed similarly to a placebo among women with recurrent urinary tract infections.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - April 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Clinical Summary Source Type: news
Why a New Study Dubbed India the ‘Cancer Capital of the World’
A new study has unveiled an alarming picture of declining overall health in India. The report, released by the Indian multinational healthcare group, Apollo Hospitals, found that skyrocketing cases of cancer and other non-communicable diseases across the country have now made it “the cancer capital of the world.”
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Despite reporting more than a million new cases every year, India’s cancer rate has not yet surpassed countries like Denmark, Ireland, and Belgium, which record some of the highest cancer rates in the world. It is also currently lower than the U.S....
Source: TIME: Health - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Astha Rajvanshi Tags: Uncategorized India Source Type: news
M & S spending $1.3M on diet plan for cows to reduce methane farts and burps
U.K. food retailer M&S is looking in every possible direction to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions and hit its ambitious net-zero targets. Its latest target? The much-aligned flatulent dairy cow. The retailer announced a £1 million ($1.3 million) initiative to work with its 40 partnered dairy…#stuartmachin #stephenporder #brownuniversity #newzealand #jacindaardern #billgates #breakthroughenergys (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Is taking statins making my diabetes worse? Dr Rosemary Leonard reveals answer
A reader with type-2 diabetes is no longer able to control her blood sugar through diet alone and asks the Express GP if statins may be the reason for this (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Infant Microbiome Development Minimally Affected by Diet Infant Microbiome Development Minimally Affected by Diet
The randomized, controlled interventional trial also showed that circadian rhythm of the gut microbiome develops early and is detectable in vitro.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines - April 10, 2024 Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Gastroenterology Source Type: news
Professor Tim Spector says cutting out two food groups lead to significant health impacts
Making this vital change to your diet, which can include de-prioritising these two food groups can also benefit the environment, he said. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What Experts Really Think About Diet Soda
Growing up, Olivia Dreizen Howell, 39, “lived on” diet soda. So did her family. At a family reunion in 1996, everyone sported T-shirts with their shared surname in Diet Coke-can font. “We drank Diet Coke, Diet ginger ale, and Diet Sprite like water—there was no difference in our household,” she says.
Like many, Howell believed that sugar-free soda was a benign choice. But the latest research casts doubt on that assumption, linking diet drinks to mood disorders, fatty liver development, autoimmune diseases, and cancer, to name a few.
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Source: TIME: Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perri Ormont Blumberg Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Can Short Cycles of a Fasting-Like Diet Reduce Disease Risk? Can Short Cycles of a Fasting-Like Diet Reduce Disease Risk?
Monthly cycles of a 5-day FMD (plant-based, low-calorie, and low-protein) followed by a normal diet appeared to improve markers of prediabetes and immune system aging.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Diabetes Headlines)
Source: Medscape Diabetes Headlines - April 9, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Diabetes & Endocrinology Source Type: news
Swapping red meat for herring/sardines could save up to 750,000 lives/year in 2050
Swapping red meat for 'forage fish', such as herring, sardines, and anchovies, could save up to 750,000 lives a year in 2050 and significantly reduce the prevalence of disability as a result of diet-related disease, suggests a data analysis published in the open access journal BMJ Global Health.
Adopting this type of diet would be especially helpful for low and middle income countries, where these fish are cheap and plentiful, and where the toll taken by heart disease, in particular, is high, say the researchers. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - April 9, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Tanzania: Diet and Nutrition - How Well Tanzanians Eat Depends Largely On Where They Live
[The Conversation Africa] Cities are growing faster in sub-Saharan Africa than elsewhere, with an annual urban population growth rate of around 4% compared to the world average of 1.5%. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 9, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Nutrition Tanzania Source Type: news
Poop Doesn't Lie: What Fecal'Forensics' Tells Us About Diet Poop Doesn't Lie: What Fecal'Forensics' Tells Us About Diet
Innovative work from Duke University could change how scientists conduct nutritional research and how clinicians assess their patients ' diets.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - April 8, 2024 Category: Cardiology Tags: Gastroenterology Source Type: news
‘Vital for looking after the soil’: fears as UK earthworm population declines
Keystone species has potentially enormous effects on above-ground wildlife and ecosystem functioningInvertebrate of the year 2024: all hail Earth ’s spineless heroesNominate your UK invertebrate species of the yearIn 2019, 15,000 children from primary schools across the UK went out to their local playing field. Instead of kicking a ball around, they dug up worms, looked out for birds, and counted them both.“The kids were just so enthusiastic about it. It was incredible,” said Blaise Martay, lead researcher from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). Martay had worried about the data quality – she thought children...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Phoebe Weston Tags: Animals Wildlife Soil UK news Environment Source Type: news
Actually, It ’ s OK to Slouch
One of the latest and surprising findings in the field of physical therapy is that slouching is not as bad as we think it is. Certain researchers have gone so far as to say that the conventional fear mongering regarding poor posture can actually be more harmful than slouching itself. Undoing over a century’s worth of public health messaging about the evils of poor posture—let alone the custom of elders telling youngsters to “sit up straight”—will be a monumental task.
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I know because I’ve spent the better part of a decade researching ...
Source: TIME: Health - April 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Beth Linker Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Homicide or happiness: did folate fortification and public health campaigns influence homicide rates and the Great American Crime Decline? - Schoenthaler SJ, Prescott SL, Logan AC.
The last several years have witnessed a remarkable growth in research directed at nutrition and behavior, with increased interest in the field of nutritional criminology. It is becoming clear that dietary patterns and specific nutrients play an important r... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Egress, Escape, Evacuation, Crowds Source Type: news
