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Study Shows Stress Affects Women More Than Men
BOSTON (CBS) – New research appears to show that stress at work takes a disproportionate toll on women.
Scientists have known that excessive stress at work can increase an employee’s risk of heart disease but a new study from China looked specifically at stroke.
Researchers found that workers with high-demand jobs but little control over their work, like restaurant servers or nursing aides, had a 22% higher risk of stroke than those in low-pressure jobs.
The researchers also found women suffered more. Women in the same positions were at a 33% higher risk of stroke.
One theory is that high-stress jobs lead to po...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: rachelrmcknight Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen Dr. Mallika Marshall Stress Women's Health Source Type: news
Can Pet Affection Improve Heart Health?
by Mimi O' Connor An energetic-looking young woman came bouncing down the aisle of the airplane so quickly that I barely had time to read the message on her T-shirt before she plopped down in the seat next to me. It read in bold letters "I LOVE ANIMALS," and underneath in smaller italics, "humans not so much." Being an animal lover myself, her shirt made me smile. I felt compelled to ask her about it. She told me that she was a veterinary medicine student and has cared for an expansive menagerie of critters since she was a little girl. My exposure to animals was modest by comparison. I've lived with and loved just two dogs...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 29, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
South Carolina Is FED UP
When asked to speak for a group of third and fourth graders about making "healthy choices," I picked the topic that most children have in common ... sugar! I began our discussion with one simple question.
"If your parents came into the room and saw you eating out of the sugar bowl, what would they say?"
One young man stated it best. "Are you crazy? Put that spoon down!"
"Why would your parents say that?" I asked.
Another little girl could barely contain herself. Waving her hand furiously she blurted out, "Because all that sugar is bad for you!"
Out of the mouths of babes. When I talk to children, teens or adults,...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 17, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
6 Expert Tips on Rethinking Nutrition and Heart Health
Have kids, they said. Along with all the vomit and tears they will bring you joy, hilarity and fierce amounts of love (true, true.) But nobody ever mentioned they might concoct a "potion" that sits fermenting in an overlooked thermos for five days. Oh and that it might detonate in the kitchen in the dead of night. Have you ever cleaned out your toaster with a cotton bud? I have. It's hard. Especially when you really should be in bed and your heart is still somewhere outside your chest cavity.
A few days previously I'd given the girls some random kitchen and craft ingredients to make their own potions -- magic medicine to...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Hacking The Nervous System
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One nerve connects your vital organs, sensing and shaping your health. If we learn to control it, the future of medicine will be electric.When Maria Vrind, a former gymnast from Volendam in the Netherlands, found that the only way she could put her socks on in the morning was to lie on her back with her feet in the air, she had to accept that things had reached a crisis point. “I had become so stiff I couldn’t stand up,” she says. “It was a great shock because I’m such an active person.”It was 1993. Vrind was in her late 40s and working two jobs, athletics coach and a carer for disabled ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Media hypes molecular blood pressure regulation discovery
ConclusionThis animal research has identified a role for certain proteins in controlling blood pressure. Studies like this give clues as to how human biology works and how it can be fixed when it goes wrong. While the researchers suggest drugs targeting the proteins identified could help develop drugs to treat abnormal blood pressure, these drugs have not yet been developed. Researchers will need to develop such chemicals and thoroughly test their effects in animals first before they can be tested in humans. As such, this is early stage research, and there has not been a "treatment breakthrough" yet, because no t...
Source: NHS News Feed - May 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Source Type: news
Rethinking Retirement in the 21st Century
Conclusion
In the 21st century, many seniors are not retiring from something. Instead, retirement is an opportunity for reinventing, reimagining and reconnecting to one's self, family, friends and community. Robert Browning once wrote, "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be." By investing in your physical, mental and financial health today, you can help ensure that your best years are just ahead.
Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A. (ret.) is the Public Health Editor of The Huffington Post. She is a Senior Fellow in Health Policy at New America and a Clinical Professor at Tufts and Georgetown University Sc...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UK life expectancy expected to rise to late 80s by 2030
Conclusion
This analysis of population data provides some fascinating information about how life expectancy has changed over the past 30 years, and how it may change in the future.
It found life expectancy for men and women will continue to rise. However, it also found the existing trends of the difference in life expectancy between different districts will continue to rise, which is of concern.
Although the data shows more deprived areas have seen less of an improvement in life expectancy, the study cannot inform us what factors are responsible for the differences in life expectancy.
There is one big limitation of any s...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Medical practice Older people Source Type: news
Middle age 'starts at 60' claims media
Conclusion
This study is an interesting analysis of population data, which shows how looking at figures from a different perspective can change our view. We are used to hearing about "ageing Britain" and how the increasing numbers of older people could be a drain on the country's resources. This study considers whether our definitions of old age are too rigid and need to be revisited.
In the paper, the researchers focus on results for Germany, but they have done calculations for 40 European countries, including the UK. This shows that the proportion of people in the UK aged 65 or over, given expected improvement...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Obesity 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
Why pregnant women SHOULDN'T eat for two
Babies born to overweight mothers were more likely to develop depression, heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes in later life, research from the European-wide 'Dorian' study found.
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 17, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Flu and freezing weather may be driving up winter death rates
Conclusion
There are always more deaths in winter than other seasons, particularly among elderly people. But why these fairly dramatic spikes in the death rate have occurred is still not understood.
It should be noted these figures are provisional, as there can be a delay in the ONS receiving the data.
Although the media has focused on the likely cause being flu, the numbers provided are for all respiratory conditions. Cold weather can exacerbate many of these conditions, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
For most fit and healthy people, flu is not a serious threat, but the elderly and those with...
Source: NHS News Feed - February 4, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Lifestyle/exercise Medical practice QA articles Source Type: news
Why Having a Happy Vegan Holiday Matters
I love this time of the year because, to me, the holidays really emphasize how important it is to be kind to one another. With every email that ends "Have a Happy Holiday!" I'm reminded that during the rest of the year we often let the busy-ness of our lives overtake our sense of humanity and kindness.
At the end of the year we change: Charities report higher donations, we remember the family member or friend we haven't spoken to all year, and we take the time to smile at strangers. This year I would like us to consider extending that kindness to all creatures -- those we share our couches with and those we share the plan...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 25, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CDC's Mission: Protecting the Health of Americans
There is no doubt Ebola will rank as the biggest public health story of 2014, both here in the United States and around the world: more people sickened by Ebola than ever before in history, more people dying, and more understanding of how the health of one nation affects the health of us all.
Today, more than 170 of CDC's top health professionals are in West Africa working to stop the current Ebola epidemic and leave behind stronger public health systems. Many hundreds more support their work at home.
Leaving behind better capacities to find, stop, and prevent health threats in affected countries will help prevent the ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 24, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
10 Good Reasons To Get A Flu Shot
By Melaina Juntti for Men's Journal
How many times have you heard you should get a flu shot? There's good reason for the hype: Over the past few years, the influenza vaccine has prevented millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Although an increasing number of people are getting vaccinated every year, more than half of American men still aren't doing it, for a variety of reasons, most of which aren't backed by science. "Men have this macho sense that if they do get the flu, they can tough it out," says William Schaffner, M.D., chair...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 29, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
