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Tips and Twists for Your Healthiest Thanksgiving Yet

November 18, 2016

Thanksgiving: a time to celebrate with friends and family. A time to figure out how to sneak in extra helpings of Grandma’s buttermilk pie. With a health-conscious America on the rise, planning...

Why are Some Obese People at Higher Risk for Diabetes Than Others?

November 15, 2016

Buildup of “Toxic Fat” Building Block Could be to Blame For years, scientists have known that someone who is thin could still end up with diabetes. Yet an obese person may be surprisingly...

Hate Exercise? It May Be in Your Genes

November 13, 2016

Genes that control drive, pleasure and reward may contribute to propensity to exercise Genes, specifically those that modulate dopamine in the brain, may play a role in a person’s propensity to embra...

Odds of Having Asthma 53 Percent Higher in Food Deserts

November 11, 2016

Living in a food desert – an urban area where it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food – means you’re at increased risk to have asthma. Children who were studied who did not have ...

Microbes in Your Gut Influence Major Eye Disease

November 8, 2016

Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the industrialized world, affecting over 10 million individuals in North America. A study lead by Dr. Przemysl...

Eating Dinner Early Or Skipping It May Be Effective In Fighting Body F...

November 6, 2016

The first human test of early time-restricted feeding found that this meal-timing strategy reduced swings in hunger and altered fat and carbohydrate burning patterns, which may help with losing weigh...

Rutgers Study Finds That Generation X at Greater Risk of Stroke Than B...

November 2, 2016

Older baby boomers—those born between 1945 and 1954—can proudly boast a new label: the “stroke-healthiest generation,” according to a Rutgers study that found the lowest incidence of ischemic stroke ...

What’s In My Gym Bag?

October 30, 2016

Whether you’re just getting into this fitness thing or you’ve been at it for years, I have a couple of tips to make this habit just a bit easier and more fun. Who are we kidding? I have a ton of tips...

Why Are You Avoiding the Doctor?

October 26, 2016

Most Americans want to stay healthy and prevent disease and illness. For many, this means getting regular check-ups and using their health plan benefits. For others, it seems that ignorance is bliss....

Top 3 Reasons Not to Waste Food

October 20, 2016

More than one-third of all food produced in the United States goes uneaten, according to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. This waste contributes to problems ranging from hunger and malnutritio...

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Study finds vitamin D alters mouse gut bacteria to give better cancer immunity

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Aalborg University in Denmark, have found that vitamin D encourages the growth of a type of gut bacteria in mice which improves immunity to cancer. [...]

Food in sight? The liver is ready in minutes: Study shows how adapting sugar metabolism starts in the brain

What happens in the body when we are hungry and see and smell food? A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research has now been able to show in mice that adaptations in the liver mitochondria take place after only a few minutes. [...]

Three more African nations roll out malaria vaccine

Three more African countries have joined a rollout of malaria vaccines targeting millions of children in a continent that accounts for 95 percent of malaria deaths, the UN said Thursday. [...]

Q&A: To protect human health, we must protect the Earth's health

Human activities have transformed and degraded Earth's natural systems. But it's not just the planet that endures the harms of things like pollution and climate change. Changes like rising ocean temperatures and CO2 levels have cascading effects that threaten the future of humans. [...]

Intensive blood pressure treatment may help some middle-aged women with type 2 diabetes, early-onset hypertension

Investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai and colleagues report that women with type 2 diabetes diagnosed with hypertension before age 50 may benefit from intensive blood pressure treatment. [...]

Better heart health at midlife linked to less cognitive decline in Black women

Better heart health may mean middle-aged Black women are less likely to show cognitive decline than those with poor heart health, a study has found. [...]

Perinatal substance use may shape how strongly mothers feel toward infants

Substance use during pregnancy and postpartum may impact areas of the brain associated with what psychologists and neuroscientists call "affective empathy," or the emotional response experienced as a result of others' emotions, a new study suggests. [...]

AI-powered 'deep medicine' could transform health care in the NHS and reconnect staff with their patients

Today's NHS faces severe time constraints, with the risk of short consultations and concerns about the risk of misdiagnosis or delayed care. These challenges are compounded by limited resources and overstretched staff that results in protracted patient wait times and generic treatment strategies. [...]

Holdout states consider expanding Medicaid—with work requirements

In Humphreys County, Mississippi—about 70 miles north of the state capital, in the heart of the fertile Delta region—a third of the residents live in poverty. In Belzoni, the county seat, there are just a handful of health care clinics. The town's only major hospital closed more than a decade ago, around the same time its catfish industry collapsed. [...]

Research finds physical activity in nature helps prevent several diseases, including depression and type 2 diabetes

Physical activity in natural environments prevent almost 13,000 cases of non-communicable diseases a year in England and save treatment costs of more than £100m, new research from the University of Exeter has found. [...]