Avoiding holiday excess (and what to do if you overdo it)
The holidays are famously a time of celebration, and where there is celebrating, there is usually too much alcohol, too many rich foods, and not enough sleep.
Here are some basic tips on not overdoing it — and how to manage when you have.
Common sense rules
You know the saying “Don’t go to the grocery store hungry”? The reason is pretty obvious. If you’re famished, you may not make the best food choices. Well, the same applies to holiday parties. If you are truly hungry, have something healthy and filling beforehand, like a beautiful salad. Pressed for time? Eat an apple.
Already there? Look at the appetizers. Is...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - December 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Behavioral Health Healthy Eating Prevention Source Type: blogs
What Spirits Are Safe?
Spirits are a mixed bag, but you are likely to find at least several that you can enjoy without provoking health problems. Beware of flavored varieties of vodka or rum, as they are loaded with sugar and/or high-fructose corn syrup. In general, simple unflavored spirits are safest.
Here’s a short list to help you navigate through your holiday cocktail parties and toasts without exposing yourself to the harmful effects of grains.
Vodkas brewed from nongrain sources, including Chopin (potatoes; outside of North America you will have to ask or examine the bottle for the source as there are also wheat and rye vodkas from ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 7, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Alcoholic beverages Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar Dr. Davis gluten-free grain-free grains Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
I Think I Have Been Making This Point For Years - The myHR Does Not Know What It Wants To Be!
This appeared a few days ago.A GP diagnoses My Health Record's ills21 November 2017 COMMENTThe main problem is that it's a bureaucrat's solution which tries to be all things to all people, an anonymous GP writes.The MyHealth Record is like my garden. You can stick fancy plants in, ask people the flower they want to see blossom and plant those too. It needs money, too, but then it will look very pretty. Then, no matter what you do, the plants suddenly wilt and die and the garden is left barren.There is an alternative to health IT horticulture: you spend your time fertilizing the soil, digging it, nurturing the local ec...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 29, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Reclaiming Ancient Wisdom
This article originally appeared in the Q3 2017 Regenerate Magazine.
Photo Credit
VacTruth.com (Source: vactruth.com)
Source: vactruth.com - November 22, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Phil Silberman Tags: Logical Phil Silberman Top Stories health Skeptics vaccine choice Source Type: blogs
The cost of chronic pain
There is a saying that being poor is expensive. From personal experience, I know this to be true. But I think it also needs to be said that, especially in the United States, chronic illness can be quite expensive as well. In fact, there is a huge intersection between poverty and disability/illness. As with many intersections, it is a chicken-or-egg scenario, difficult to determine which is begetting which. But one thing is clear: there are often blind spots about these expenses in the medical community and how they can impact chronically ill people already struggling with finances.
Recently I attended a seminar on the topi...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 10, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Laura Kiesel Tags: Health Health care Health policy Pain Management Source Type: blogs
How to Help a Partner Struggling With Clinical Depression
You're reading How to Help a Partner Struggling With Clinical Depression, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
When I first met my wife, I had no idea that she had a history of clinical depression. Of course, she had told me about it before we were married, but I did not really know what that meant. I had not had any previous exposure to serious depression in people. By the time we were dating, she was already on a mix of anti-depressants. At the time, the effects of depression were not immediately obvi...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: José Tags: featured happiness health and fitness motivation psychology relationships anxiety clinical depression how to help pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs
Advisory Board on the Registration of Homeopathic Products and Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee annual reports 2016
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) - This annual report outlines the work of both the Advisory Board on the Registration of Homeopathic Products and the Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee during 2016/17 and also provides a record of members' interests in the pharmaceutical industry.ReportMHRA publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 3, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Need to ward off vampires?
The master gardener of the NLM herb garden has a trick: Grow garlic. It must work. There haven’t been any vampires in the garden in decades. Montgomery County master gardener Mary Musselman, one of several dedicated volunteers who tend the National Library of Medicine’s colorful herb garden, says this is a great time of year… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - October 31, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Places Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 16th 2017
In this study, we have shown that the lipid chaperones FABP4/FABP5 are critical intermediate factors in the deterioration of metabolic systems during aging. Consistent with their roles in chronic inflammation and insulin resistance in young prediabetic mice, we found that FABPs promote the deterioration of glucose homeostasis; metabolic tissue pathologies, particularly in white and brown adipose tissue and liver; and local and systemic inflammation associated with aging. A systematic approach, including lipidomics and pathway-focused transcript analysis, revealed that calorie restriction (CR) and Fabp4/5 deficiency result ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 15, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Alternative medicine for cancer: Greater scrutiny is needed
As the calendar turns to early October, I’m reminded that this is the 6th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death. At the time of his death, I was a medical student and my wife had just completed six months of chemotherapy. I was surprised to learn that Jobs had died from complications of cancer and shocked to discover that he had initially refused conventional cancer treatment in favor of alternative medicines. At first, I found it difficult to understand how someone with the intellectual and financial resources of Steve Jobs could make such a decision — but I was quickly reminded of the massive amounts of misinformati...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 14, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/skyler-johnson" rel="tag" > Skyler Johnson, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Endocrinology Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
Ada Lovelace Day: Nature Research editors celebrate leaders in their fields – Part 2
You can read part 1 of this blog series here and read more about Ada Lovelace’s legacy here.
Mary Elizabeth Sutherland, Associate Editor, Nature Communications
Brenda Milner was 89 years old when I started my PhD at McGill University, and now, ten years later, she is still actively contributing to our understanding of how the human brain shapes cognition.
This field, neuropsychology, became widely recognized mainly because of Brenda’s work with a patient known as HM. Due temporal lobe surgery (to cure his epilepsy), HM had lost the ability to convert short-term memories into long-term memories.
Through her ex...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - October 12, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Davy Falkner Tags: Publishing Ada Lovelace Day Source Type: blogs
The Genre of Popular Science Articles on Treating Aging that Fail to Mention SENS Rejuvenation Research Programs
This popular science article on efforts to treat aging as a medical condition is a particularly good example of the type that fail to mention SENS rejuvenation research and any related efforts that involve repair of the cell and tissue damage that causes aging. This one even omits any mention of senolytics, the rapidly broadening efforts to clear senescent cells that are supported by increasingly robust evidence, which has to be a deliberate omission in any overview of the current state of the field. The rise of senolytics and the current enthusiasm for study of senescent cells is very hard to miss. Why do authors do this?...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 10, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
7 Things a Person with a Mental Illness Doesn ’t Want to Hear
You're reading 7 Things a Person with a Mental Illness Doesn’t Want to Hear, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
In the United States alone, nearly one out of every five people is suffering with one or more mental illnesses. That means that when a person passes you by on the street, they have a better chance of having a mental illness than of having green eyes.
Yet, why are so many people struggling with knowing what to say, or maybe what NOT to say, when they are talking to a person with anxiety, depressio...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 9, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela Tags: depression featured psychology self confidence self improvement mental health mental illness pickthebrain relationships Source Type: blogs
Mossy rose galls
I talked about oak apples at the end of the May, on Oak Apple Day by no coincidence, as it happens. But there are other kinds of galls. Here’s a mossy rose gall growing on a dog rose (Rosa canina) on the edge of local woodland.
As with oak apples, these growths (a mossy rose gall, rose bedeguar gall, Robin’s pincushion gall, or moss gall) are the result of a type of wasp, in this case the tiny Diplolepis rosae, laying its eggs (approximately 60 of them) in an unopened leaf axillary or terminal bud. There is a chemically induced distortion of the bud, which triggers the rose to generate what is essentially a...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 3, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
