COVID-19 Podcast: Mom Driven, Doctor Aligned & HeyMama Join Forces
Transcript [00:00:00] Agatha: Hi!  It’s Agatha Luczo.  Welcome to “Mom Driven, Dr. Aligned”.  Dr. Alan Greene and I were just on with the HeyMama Community doing a Q&A about COVID-19.  Dr. Greene gave us such amazing advice and tips about how to deal with immunity health and how to take care of ourselves during this time. And some advice I haven’t heard anywhere else. I’m excited to bring all of the conversation to our family and friends.  [00:00:36] Dr. Greene:  Wonderful to get to be with the HeyMama Community. I’ve gotten a bunch of questions already ...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - April 16, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Uncategorized COVID COVID-19 Parenting Source Type: blogs

Home-cooked meals with less salt
With more people staying at home these days, there’s more opportunity to prepare homemade meals. Although home-cooked meals tend to be much lower in salt than what you’d get from a restaurant, you still need to be careful, says Liz Moore, a dietitian at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Why worry about salt? Most Americans consume far too much sodium, which raises blood pressure and the risk of heart disease. On average, we consume around 3,200 milligrams (mg) per day. That’s about 30% more than is recommended by the federal dietary guidelines, which advise people to limit their dai...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julie Corliss Tags: Cooking and recipes Health Healthy Eating Hypertension and Stroke Source Type: blogs

How minor fixes can help with resident burnout
“How did you like it there?” I ask, sitting down next to a new fellow (between bites of a plump sandwich, hoping there is no spinach in my teeth). I expect to hear the standard resident talking points — long hours, frequent call, and ballooning student loans. Instead, she surprises me. “D o you know how much they charged us […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 12, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/daniel-orlovich" rel="tag" > Daniel Orlovich, MD, PharmD < /a > < /span > Tags: Education Hospital-Based Medicine Medical school Residency 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

Plant-based diets are best … or are they?
This study is also a reminder that the health impact of a particular intervention (such as diet) may not be easy to predict or explain. In most cases, the risk of stroke and heart disease tend to rise or fall together, but that wasn’t the case in this research. Beware the study’s limitations This study linking a vegetarian diet with a higher risk of hemorrhagic stroke has a number of important limitations that should temper the concerns of vegetarians. The study was observational. That means it simply observed what happened among different people who followed different diets over time, without being able to account fo...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 31, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Healthy Eating Heart Health Hypertension and Stroke Source Type: blogs

Try These 6 Vegetables for Ultimate Body & Mind Health
It seems unlikely that our digestive tracts would be a major intersection of body and mind—but recent research has shown that they are. The makeup of the microbiome in your gut—all the bacterial flora in your digestive tract—turns out to be a major player in overall health. And when we say health, we mean everything, from cognition and emotional wellbeing to cardiovascular fitness and the prevention or reduction of chronic disease. It’s thought that your body’s microbiome is largely established in the first thousand days of life. But because this system gets so much input every day from you—and because differe...
Source: World of Psychology - October 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Health-related Publishers Spirituality & Health Cognition digestive tract Emotional Wellbeing gut bacteria Inflammation microbiome Source Type: blogs

Lepidoptera first showing 2019
First appearances in 2019 of various moth species to the scientific trap. Some of these were new for the year (NFY) as I’d seen them in 2018. Some were NFM, new for me. 15 Sep Clepsis consimilana 15 Sep Beautiful Hook-tip 13 Sep Brown-spot Pinion 13 Sep Barred Sallow 10 Sep Common Marble 7 Sep Centre-barred Sallow 4 Sep Feathered Gothic 4 Sep Eudonia angustea 3 Sep Yellow-line Quaker 25 Aug Frosted Orange 25 Aug Jersey Tiger 7 Aug Straw Underwing 6 Aug White-spotted Pinion 5 Aug The Lychnis 5 Aug Rosy Rustic 5 Aug Wax Moth 4 Aug Twin-spotted Wainscot 4 Aug Pale Prominent 4 Aug Flounced Rustic 4 Aug Red Underwing 30 J...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - September 16, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs

Spinach and Raw Potato Salad with Avocado-Lime Dressing
The post Spinach and Raw Potato Salad with Avocado-Lime Dressing appeared first on Dr. William Davis. (Source: Wheat Belly Blog)
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 28, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Prebiotics Recipes bowel flora grain-free wheat belly Source Type: blogs

7 Foods That May Help Your Productivity
You're reading 7 Foods That May Help Your Productivity, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. 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

Is it SAFE to be grain-free?
Listen to critics of the Wheat Belly lifestyle and you’d think that, by banishing all things wheat and grains from your life, you will be excommunicated from your church, tossed out of your club, ostracized by friends and family, and suffer dire health consequences like heart disease and colon cancer. After all, they say that you are eliminating an entire food group and will be crippled by lack of fiber and nutrients. Worse, our focus on increasing our intake of fats and oils will get you a heart attack, three stents, or bypass surgery and you’ll be obliged to take Lipitor and Repatha for a lifetime. First of a...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 25, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle grain-free Weight Loss Source Type: blogs

Chorizo, Pepper, and Avocado Skillet
Here’s a recipe from the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox menu plan that helps you navigate the tricky first 10 days of being wheat/grain-free. We no longer confine breakfast dishes to breakfast, but have them for lunch or dinner, too. Breakfast skillets are almost always exploding with potatoes, but we don’t want the blood sugar problems of the excessive starch. In this variation of a traditional skillet, we use roasted radishes in place of potatoes. Don’t be turned off by the radishes, as their taste and texture change substantially with roasting, yet they fill out your skillet just like potatoes with none of th...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 15, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Detox grain-free Source Type: blogs

Why is quinoa getting a free pass?
A day doesn’t pass that I don’t see some new “healthy” recipe for quinoa, or a dietitian or nutritionist gushing about the health benefits of this seed. Many make the claim that quinoa is high in protein and is gluten-free. Clearly, the gluten-free movement is fueling some of this excitement over  this seed. But how much truth are there in these claims? And just how healthy is quinoa as a replacement for grains? Let’s tackle these claims one by one: Quinoa is not a grain and is gluten-free This is absolutely true. While all grains, or seeds of grasses, are members of the family Poaceae, quino...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 5, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar carbohydrates carbs gluten-free quinoa Source Type: blogs

12 Depression Busters for New Moms
It’s supposed to be the most exciting time of your life … and everyone is telling you how lucky you are to have a beautiful baby, but all you can do is cry. You’re pretty sure none of your new-mom friends are feeling this way. But they might be. Because 15 to 20 percent of new moms, about 1 million women in the US each year, experience some form of postpartum depression. Truth be told, my baby days were the most difficult and painful hours of my life. I was a hormonal and stress train wreck. Looking back now–my youngest is five–I see that a few alterations in my lifestyle might have helped ma...
Source: World of Psychology - May 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Personal Psychotherapy Relationships Self-Esteem Sleep Stress Treatment Women's Issues Baby Blues Baby Days Beautiful Baby Brooke S Source Type: blogs

Measles: The forgotten killer
As a medical student, the place I dreaded most was the ward at the children’s hospital where they kept the chronic ventilator patients. Unlike the other floors, where there was shouting and laughter and tears, and all the commotion and turbulence of youth, here it was dark and lifeless and eerie, with no sound except the hum of the ventilators, and the rattle of air being forced through plastic tubes. It was a place of failure and defeat, the desolate aftermath of some vast and tragic battle. An unexpected aftermath of measles My patient was a teenager who had been in a coma for years. His limbs had stubbornly twisted up...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Ross, MD, FIDSA Tags: Children's Health Infectious diseases Men's Health Vaccines Women's Health Source Type: blogs