Want a sharp mind, strong memory? Ramp up activities
We all want to keep our minds sharp and our memories strong as we get older. So, what can we do right now to prevent cognitive decline in later years? Engaging in regular aerobic exercise for at least 30 minutes a day, five days a week, probably has the biggest effect on people of many ages (see here and here). Convincing evidence also suggests that a Mediterranean-style diet of fish, olive oil, avocados, fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, and whole grains is beneficial. But what about social and mental activities — do they help at all?
Social activities, a positive attitude, and learning new things
Previous research convi...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew E. Budson, MD Tags: Healthy Aging Memory Men's Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Ottolenghi Hummus
This hummus recipe from Yoman Ottolenghi and Sami Tamini’s Jerusalem cookbook is hands down the best, creamiest hummus I’ve ever made or eaten.
The recipe uses dried chickpeas – which require an overnight soak – so you’ll need to plan ahead, probably the only downside to this amazing recipe. Lest you try to shortcut it, know that I’ve made this recipe with both canned and cooked chickpeas, and can attest that starting with dried chickpeas makes a superior hummus. It’s a lighter color and flavor, much softer and just plain better.
You can tweak the recipe to your taste by ma...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - August 8, 2019 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized Chickpeas hummus Source Type: blogs
7 Foods That May Help Your Productivity
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Food is fuel to your productivity. Understanding this should revolutionize the way we eat. How often do you ask yourself “Am I eating what my body needs, or what my tastebuds want?”
When it comes to achieving productivity in your workday, the importance of eating well cannot be overemphasized. Here are 7 suggestions for healthy meals/snacks to improve your health and productivity at the same ti...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: BenTejes Tags: featured productivity tips food for brain food for the mind Source Type: blogs
The DASH diet: A great way to eat foods that are healthy AND delicious
The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet is an eating plan based on eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and choosing lean proteins, low-fat dairy, beans, nuts, and vegetable oils, while limiting sweets and foods high in saturated fats.
A recent study published the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that men and women younger than 75 who most closely followed the DASH diet had a significantly lower risk of heart failure compared to study participants who did not follow the DASH diet. Currently, about 5.7 million adults in the United States have heart failure, and about half of those who d...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Food as medicine Health Healthy Eating Heart Health Source Type: blogs
Those Digital Health IPOs —Flipping the Stack & Filling the Gap
By MATTHEW HOLT
I’ve been driven steadily nuts by a series of recent articles that are sort of describing what’s happening in health tech or (because the term won’t die) digital health, so I thought it was time for the definitive explanation. Yeah, yeah, humility ain’t my strong suit.
It won’t have escaped your attention that, after five years during which Castlight Health more or less single-handedly killed the IPO market for new health tech companies, suddenly in the middle of July 2019 we have three digital health companies going public. While Livongo, (FD-a THCB sponsor) Phreesia and Health Catalyst a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Technology Matthew Holt Digital health investing Health Catalyst IPO Livongo Phreesia venture capital Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 22nd 2019
This study elucidates the potential to use mitochondria from different donors (PAMM) to treat UVR stress and possibly other types of damage or metabolic malfunctions in cells, resulting in not only in-vitro but also ex-vivo applications.
Gene Therapy in Mice Alters the Balance of Macrophage Phenotypes to Slow Atherosclerosis Progression
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/07/gene-therapy-in-mice-alters-the-balance-of-macrophage-phenotypes-to-slow-atherosclerosis-progression/
Atherosclerosis causes a sizable fraction of all deaths in our species. It is the generation of fatty deposits in blood vesse...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 21, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Common Dietary Supplements Have Little to No Effect on Mortality
Yet another sizable study has shown that common dietary supplements have little to no effect on late life mortality. This finding of course has to compete with the wall to wall marketing deployed by the supplement market. Researchers have been presenting data on the ineffectiveness of near all supplements of years, but it doesn't seem to reduce the enthusiasm for these products. In the past it was fairly easy to dismiss all supplements as nonsense, or at the very least causing only marginal effects that were in no way comparable to the benefits of exercise and calorie restriction, but matters are now becoming more complex....
Source: Fight Aging! - July 19, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Advancing Trainee Leaders and Scholars (ATLAS): A New Initiative From Academic Medicine
Academic
Medicine recently launched the Advancing Trainee Leaders and Scholars
(ATLAS) initiative, which I
will oversee as the journal’s inaugural Assistant Editor for Trainee
Engagement. So, you might be wondering, who am I and why ATLAS? I hope this
blog post will help answer those questions!
Who am I?
I’m a 3rd-year internal medicine resident at NYU Langone Health in
New York City, and am planning to pursue a career as an academic hospitalist. As
mentioned above, I
will serve as the inaugural Assistant Editor for Trainee Engagement, overseeing
the ATLAS initiative. My term will last until summer 2020, when we ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 9, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: ATLAS Featured learners Source Type: blogs
13 Techniques for Self Development Everyone Should Adopt
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In Everybody’s Life, there Comes A Phase When We Ask God, “ Why Me, God?”. Right?
Everybody faces bad times, there’s nothing abnormal about it. They teach you new lessons. You can’t blame God for developing you, nor you should!!!
There
comes a time when we start to think,” What am I doing with my life?” or “Why
I’m lacking behind others?”
These
kinds of thoughts come when ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: davidjohnn51 Tags: featured self improvement good habits pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Digesting the latest research on eggs
Eggs are back in the news — again. A study from the March 2019 JAMA found that higher intakes of cholesterol and eggs were associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death.
The researchers reported that ingesting an additional 300 milligrams of cholesterol per day raised this risk, as did eating an average of three to four eggs per week.
Should we finally resign ourselves to taking our toast without a sunny-side-up yolk? Not so fast.
What did the study find?
Human diets are complex and notoriously hard to study. This is one reason why health headlines are often maddeningly contradictory.
For the J...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 3, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Gelsomin, MLA, RD, LDN Tags: Health Healthy Eating Heart Health Source Type: blogs
Should you eat cholesterol lowering foods?
The short answer: No, absolutely not.
You’ll find no lack of conversations, however, that tell you to consume more oatmeal, nuts, garlic or soy to reduce total and LDL cholesterol, perhaps thereby avoiding statin drugs. Or add more fiber to your diet or take red yeast rice.
These foods and supplements do indeed reduce total and LDL cholesterol . . . but who cares? Don’t waste your time and energy on this useless exercise, especially efforts to reduce the absurd, outdated, imprecise calculated LDL cholesterol.
But doesn’t reducing LDL cholesterol, the “bad,” in particular reduce risk for cardio...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 28, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Cholesterol wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Eat, Pray, Push
Here’s an excerpt from chapter 4 of Wheat Belly Total Health, Your Bowels Have Been Fouled: Intestinal Indignities From Grains:
“A condition as pedestrian as constipation serves to perfectly illustrate many of the ways in which grains mess with normal body functions, as well as just how wrong conventional ‘solutions’ can be. Constipation remedies are like the Keystone Kops of health, stumbling, fumbling, and bumping into each other, but never quite putting out the fire.
“Drop a rock from the top of a building and it predictably hits the ground—not sometimes, not half the time, but every time. That’s how the b...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 25, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates Gliadin gluten grain-free wheat belly Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Fiber-full eating for better health and lower cholesterol
The American Heart Association and the FDA recommend that we all eat at least 25 grams of dietary fiber per day. But what is it, how do we know how much we’re eating, and where did that number come from, anyway?
What are the types of fiber?
Dietary fiber is a good carbohydrate, also known as roughage, found in plant foods (not supplements). There are two kinds, soluble or insoluble, and both are really good for us. Soluble fiber becomes a thick gel in our intestines, which slows digestion (which keeps blood sugars from spiking) and traps fats so they can’t all be absorbed (which lowers cholesterol levels). Sources of s...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Food as medicine Healthy Eating Heart Health Source Type: blogs
