Why Maintaining a Schedule During COVID-19 is Important for Your Mental Health
In a time of considerable anxiety and personal disruption, there’s not a lot individuals can do to change elements out of their control. Government mandates to remain in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, are not something to flout, as they’re for public safety and efforts to control the spread of the virus. Yet, stuck at home, unable to go to regular workplace, school, and other places as normal doesn’t mean you should vegetate on the couch. Indeed, maintaining a schedule is important for your mental health. Here’s why.
This is one area of your life over which you have some control.
An element of cog...
Source: World of Psychology - April 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Habits coronavirus COVID-19 Source Type: blogs
Eating during COVID-19: Improve your mood and lower stress
My patients these days are expressing more angst and fear, and looking to find ways to cope with the pandemic and the “new normal.” With children and entire families home together all day, and work and school schedules disrupted, loss of a daily routine can increase anxiety and disrupt healthy eating. One of the drivers for this increase in anxiety seems to be uncertainty, which can throw plans for healthy eating out the window.
Meal planning for a family, a challenge on its own, can be more so now with seclusion at home, more people to feed with different tastes, and more food stores with limited groceries and shoppin...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Uma Naidoo, MD Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Food as medicine Healthy Eating Prevention Probiotics Source Type: blogs
Have a headache? The top 7 triggers
“Headaches aren’t welcome here” — that’s the sign you have hanging on your brain’s front door, but the pain is barging right in. You can chalk it up to stress from world events or something you ate or drank, and you might be right. But there are a number of common triggers for migraines, tension headaches, or cluster headaches. The faster you identify them, the quicker you can boot headache pain off the property.
What are the triggers for your headaches?
Take note of your circumstances when a headache starts. Keep a diary to track the day, time, symptoms, and circumstances surrounding the pain (what had you eat...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heidi Godman Tags: Headache Health Men's Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Go figure: A healthy eating approach helps people be healthy
This study was not perfect. You could argue, as these authors do, that the fact that participants chose their preferred diet is a good thing, as it could theoretically improve adherence. However, it also resulted in very different-sized groups to start with. The varying adherence and exercise option choices were adjusted for as well as possible. And the study relied heavily on self-reporting, which is always iffy.
Healthy eating patterns have benefits beyond weight loss
But we can still learn a great deal here. The Mediterranean approach to eating (which can be easily modified to suit any country or cultural food preferenc...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Cooking and recipes Diet and Weight Loss Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
The scoop on protein powder
Eating enough protein is not just for athletes or would-be Schwarzenegger types. It is necessary for a healthy immune system and required for organs like your heart, brain, and skin to function properly. The nutrient is also touted for its ability to help control appetite and enhance muscle growth.
How much protein you need typically depends on your exercise routine, age, and health. And whether to supplement protein intake with a protein powder has become a common query.
A closer look at protein powder
To make such supplements, protein is extracted from animal or plant-based sources, which range from cow’s milk and eggs...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Gelsomin, MLA, RD, LDN Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Drugs and Supplements Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Poem
CabinI dream lately of a cabin in the north woods.Somehow I had built it myselfUnskilled as I am;Modest, humble, unadorned.Gray slatted wood, shingled roof,A helix of smoke from the chimney,My dog half awake on the narrow front porch.I ’d have my books, my papers, my pens.All the time I had left, simply unspooledIn a repeat loop of sighs and shivers.There was a mountain stream down the hill in backAnd plenty of berries and nuts.One day I ’d see her coming through the treesNot some random hiker buther.For she had been searching for me.She had pieced together the route from Scraps of poems and fragments of lifeI ’...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - February 28, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Five healthy habits net more healthy years
Are healthy habits worth cultivating? A recent study suggests healthy habits may help people tack on years of life and sidestep serious illnesses, such as diabetes and cancer. After all, if you’re going to gain an extra decade of life on this earth, you want to enjoy it!
What did this research focus on?
Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health looked at data from more than 73,000 women enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) who were followed for 34 years, and more than 38,000 men enrolled in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS) who were followed for 28 years.
In a previous study usi...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Exercise and Fitness Health Healthy Aging Healthy Eating Men's Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Anxiety and Anger: A One-Two Punch
Do you struggle with anger? Did you know that some of our most hot-headed moments are actually rooted in anxiety? In today’s podcast, Jackie openly shares her own fuse-blowing moment when her husband’s keys were (gasp!) missing from the hook, and now she must face being late for therapy and perhaps even lie dying on the side of the road. How did she handle this catastrophic situation her mind so graciously forewarned her about?
Does this sound familiar? Join us as we discuss anxiety-driven anger and explore ways to minimize and possibly even prevent it.
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Source: World of Psychology - February 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: Anger Anxiety and Panic Disorders General Not Crazy Podcast Psychology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 17th 2020
Discussion of the Evolutionary Genetics of Aging
Thymic Involution Contributes to Immunosenescence and Inflammaging
The Potential for Exosome Therapies to Treat Sarcopenia
Correlations of Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number and Epigenetic Age Measures
Evidence for PASK Deficiency to Reduce the Impact of Aging in Mice
The Aging Retina, a Mirror of the Aging Brain
Evidence for Loss of Capillary Density to be Important in Heart Disease
Aspects of Immune System Aging Proceed More Rapidly in Men
Deacetylation of the NLRP3 Inflammasome as a Way to Control Chronic Inflammation
Transplantation of Senescent Cel...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 16, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Notes on the 2020 Longevity Therapeutics Conference in San Francisco
I recently attended the 2020 Longevity Therapeutics conference in San Francisco. I presented on the work ongoing at Repair Biotechnologies, but as is usually the case the more important parts of the visit took place outside the bounds of the conference proper. Longevity Therapeutics is one of the four or five core conferences for the longevity industry, at which you'll meet many of the early participants - a mix of scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors, and patient advocates. As such, most of the conference goers have already seen my updates, or are otherwise aware of the Repair Biotechnologies programs aimed at thymic ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 10, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
With a little planning, vegan diets can be a healthful choice
Recently there has been much discussion and many questions about vegan diets. Are vegan diets — which exclude meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, and dairy — healthful? Do they provide complete nutrition? Should I try one? Will it help me lose weight?
Many people around the world eat plant-based diets for a variety of reasons, some because meat is not readily available or affordable, others because of religious convictions or concerns about animal welfare. Health has become another reason people are moving to plant-based diets. And research supports the idea that plant-based diets, including vegan diets, provide health benef...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Using Ultrasound for Paracentesis
Paracentesis can be a quick and simple procedure with the right equipment and a well-rehearsed approach. It's important to practice this skill in the procedure lab and to familiarize yourself with the kit in your department a few times a year. This month, we focus on paracentesis set-up and basics, and next month we will review the nuts and bolts of completing the procedure.Important equipment for paracentesis: Five or six collection bottles, antiseptic prep, and a paracentesis kit. Consider longer needles for abdominal walls thicker than 2.5 cm.Grab the ultrasound and a pen. Position your patient at a 45-degree ang...
Source: The Procedural Pause - February 3, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
How Your Gut Health is Affecting Your Mental Health
You're reading How Your Gut Health is Affecting Your Mental Health, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Do you doubt the power of the gut?
Having often been overlooked, the gut is quickly becoming recognised as an organ of equal importance to the brain and the heart.
Just as we once believed that the earth was flat, we were also unaware - up until recently - of the impact that our gut has on our overall health.
A healthy (or unhealthy) gut contributes to the operation of a huge variety of bodily ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - February 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement diet gut health mental health microbiome Source Type: blogs
One more reason why libertarianism is nuts
As I have said, it ' s not clear yet how serious the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak really is, because we don ' t yet know what percentage of the time it causes serious illness. Maybe the Chinese have overreacted by their draconian isolation measures, on the other hand as I have said I wouldn ' t want to be the guy who made the decision to react too conservatively. That said, if we do get a serious epidemic here, of that particular virus or anything else, we are screwed, lassoed and tattooed.Here ' s Laurie Garrett in Foreign Policy:It ’s impossible to watch [the Chinese] without wondering, “What would we do? How would my ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 1, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How to Improve Your Health on a Budget
You're reading How to Improve Your Health on a Budget, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Are you ready to make a lifestyle change but you’re worried
about breaking the bank while trying to make healthier changes? The good news
is that you don’t have to worry about spending a ton of money to become
healthier, but rather make small lifestyle
changes that will make a big impact on your overall health. Here are a few
ways you can improve your health on a budget.
#1 Stop Eating Out
Stop eating out. Not...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: featured health and fitness money and finance budget health tips self improvement Source Type: blogs
