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Prevention Science Should Be a Higher Federal Funding Priority
This study highlights inadequate investment of federal funding for science that will help us better prevent chronic disease. Investing in prevention -- and prevention science -- should become a much higher priority for federal research. It's essential if the United States is to improve the health of our population and save future generations of Americans from the burden of preventable disease.
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Surprising Connection Between Problem Drinking And Working Too Much
If you're always working late, your job could be taking a toll on your health in more ways than you may realize, new research suggests.
Publishing in the British Medical Journal Tuesday, a systematic review and meta-analysis explored the potential link between the number of hours a person works and their alcohol consumption arrived at a startling conclusion: people who work more than 48 hours each week are 13 percent more likely to drink a risky amount of alcohol than those who work 35 to 40 hours each week.
The analysis, which was completed by a team of researchers in Finland, included 81 studies representing more than...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Phoenix Woman Dies After Giving BIrth To Quadruplets
Jan 17 (Reuters) - Thousands of dollars of donations have poured in from around the world to help pay for the care for newborn quadruplets of a Phoenix mother who died after giving birth to them, a fundraising website set up in the woman's name announced on Saturday. The story of Erica Morales drew international attention when the 36-year-old died shortly after giving birth to three girls and a boy on Thursday, according to a report on television station KSAZ in Phoenix. "She never got to hold them; she never got to see them," Morales' cousin, Nicole Todman, told the station. "It is so hard to know she fought...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 17, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Scary Way Excessive Salt Intake May 'Reprogram' The Brain
There are many health reasons to lay off the salt, from fluid retention to an increased risk over time of developing high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke.
While the link between sodium and hypertension is nothing new (thought some scientists say it is overstated), the precise mechanisms by which sodium can raise blood pressure have been less clear.
According to new research from McGill University, too much sodium may actually "reprogram" the brain in a way that interferes with a process that normally keeps the body's arterial blood pressure at a healthy level.
"We found that a period of high dietary salt inta...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 24, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
4 Simple Things You Can Do to Improve Your Mental Wellness
I previously wrote about the symptoms of depression and provided a guide to treat depression. However, many of the same behavioral activation techniques that are used in the treatment of depression can improve your mental wellness even if you do not suffer from depression. Changing your habits and daily routine to include activities that are known to improve mood, energy and physical and mental health is easy and can be very enjoyable. You do not need to buy anything, you do not need to take medication, and you can start feeling better today!
These are four easy things you can do to make yourself more mentally and physica...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How to Get Over Abandonment -- a Fast Track
When something triggers our primal abandonment pain -- like a breakup, getting fired or rejected by school admissions, or dissed by a friend -- it can be so ferocious and debilitating that we'd do almost anything to get past it.
Some people have been know to fly across country to attend an abandonment workshop, arriving haggard, jet lagged, and desperate to wrest themselves from abandonment's death grip as fast as possible.
Although the magic bullet they are hoping for does not exist, abandonment workshops, both peer or professionally led, accelerate forward movement, in part by providing people the opportunity to shar...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Power of Touch Between Mom And Baby
There is something about seeing a mom hold her baby for the first time that never gets old. Everything about that moment, from the way she's cuddling her baby, to seeing her stroke his or her head -- you just know she wants to do what's best for her baby.
As a nurse and through my work with the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), I have been very fortunate to meet moms and babies all over the world. Most recently, on a trip side by side with JOHNSON'S®, I traveled to China and India, where I learned more about their people's customs and practices, including how women touch and hold the...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ebola Epidemic Takes a Toll on Sierra Leone's Surgeons
This article originally appeared here on ScientificAmerican.com.
Thaim Kamara is 60 years old and would like to retire this year. But he is one of only eight remaining surgeons in Sierra Leone, a west African country of about 6 million people. Kamara lost two friends to Ebola in 2014 -- Martin Salia and Thomas Rogers, fellow surgeons at Connaught Hospital in the capital, Freetown. In light of the dire circumstances, Kamara has postponed his plan to retire.
Although the rate of new Ebola infections in Sierra Leone, along with neighboring countries Guinea and Liberia, is finally falling, more than 800 health care personnel...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Moon Really Could Not Be More Obvious About This
Sometimes you lay awake thinking about all of the things.
It's 1 a.m. and your eyes snap open because your brain simply could not wait one more second to tell you: WHAT ABOUT THESE (MOSTLY IMAGINARY) PROBLEMS??
Had you thought about THOSE THINGS?
You kick the sheets, trying to kick the thoughts. No go.
Night follows night. You are no stranger to the darkness.
But then one night you lay awake thinking about none of the things. Ambivalence -- the most insidious emotion -- skewers its claws into your ribcage.
It's too exhausting to care. What's the point?
At 3:26 a.m. that night, just as you are finally drifting off to...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Traumatic Brain Injuries, Stem Cells and Children: A Conversation With Dr. Charles Cox
One of the world's leading experts on cellular therapies for traumatic brain injury (TBI), Dr. Cox directs the Pediatric Surgical Translational Laboratories and Pediatric Program in Regenerative Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, as well as the Pediatric Trauma Program at the University of Texas-Houston/Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. He is the author of over 120 scientific publications and 20 book chapters and has served on scientific study sections/review groups for the NIH, American Heart Association, Veterans Affairs MERIT Awards, Department of Defense and C...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Can a Broken Heart Really Break Your Heart?
Is there anything more soul-crushing than losing someone you love? Whether it be the end of a romantic relationship or the death of someone you care about deeply, a broken heart is one of the most emotionally intense experiences any of us will ever go through. There is no doubt that losing a loved one can greatly affect your emotional and mental state, but what are the physical effects on the body? And can a broken heart actually break your heart?
Studies show that emotional distress does indeed affect the physical body in a number of different ways. First of all, emotional pain causes blood to flow to regions of the brai...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Many African Americans Still Only Dream of High Quality Health Care
Recently, AARP conducted a study to determine how perceptions of key social issues ranked in importance to African Americans age 50 and over. Ninety-one percent gave the answer "high quality health care." Eighty-nine percent gave the answer, "Access to high quality health care information."
We were not surprised at the high percentage of either response. Why wouldn't the foremost issue on the minds of African Americans be the key issue that would prolong, enhance or save lives? Why wouldn't the dominant issue on the minds of Black people age 50 and over be their health; even more so than education, employment and access t...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cholesterol, Unscrambled
There seems to be a whole lot of passion in response to the recent disclosure that this year's Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is recommending we stop fretting about cholesterol. Note that the committee merely advises, so these are not yet the official dietary guidelines for Americans. Famously, the politicians have the final say there.
That passion over cholesterol runs in both directions, with enthusiasts of more animal food intake -- Paleo, dieters, for instance -- feeling vindicated; and my vegan friends contending that an excess of cholesterol must have scrambled the brains of the Advisory Committee members, a...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 17, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Weekly Rune -- Ingwaz
For the week of 15 February 2015
With bright Sowilo guiding our half-month, this week's stave, Ingwaz, brings our attention to community, and how we're situated in it. All signs point to this as a time of movement, of interconnection with others and self, and of the tending required to spark new creative territory. Sowilu warms us through 27 February, granting us a boost of inspiration. With Ingwaz at the helm this week, we have a focus to which we can direct that inspiration.
Learn more about the half-month rune's influence.
Read right to left in the image is Sowilu, then Ingwaz.
Buckeye Runes by S. Kelley harrellWith...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 17, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
9 Ways To Fall Asleep Faster (Without Counting Sheep)
By Alex Orlov for Life by DailyBurn
If you feel wide awake when your head hits the pillow at night, you're not alone. Approximately 60 million Americans report having experienced insomnia in any given year, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Even worse, 40 million Americans suffer from long-term sleep disorders.
Missing sleep is nothing to yawn about. "Chronic sleep deprivation has lots of negative consequences," says Sonia Ancoli-Israel, fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. She not...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
