Today’s elderly at greater risk of dementia, delirium from being prescribed too many unnecessary drugs
- Featured, Health & Healing
- March 16, 2022
“Taking six medications or more contributes to challenges with adherence, since more complicated medication regimens require more time and attention, and increase the potential for making mistakes and inadvertent misuse.”
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Americans Are Addicted to ‘Ultra-Processed’ Foods, and It’s Killing Us
- Featured, Health & Healing
- January 6, 2022
“Our food, in other words, is literally killing us. Food companies have tricked our brains into making us complicit, and our elected officials are complicit, too. What’s needed is a better understanding of exactly how processed foods make us sick and a public reckoning with Big Food’s role in the nation’s health crisis.”
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The class of 2000 ‘Could have been anything.’ Until opioids hit
- Headlines & Highlights, Health & Healing
- December 4, 2019
A must read NY Times story: “In all of the interviews, one thing was clear: Opioids have spared relatively no one in Scioto County; everyone appears to know someone whose life has been affected by addiction.”
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Pick Up the Pace: Walking More Quickly May Improve Your Health
- Health & Healing
- October 16, 2019
“Since childhood brain health already at the age of 3 years was associated with walking speed at midlife, it looks like the early life function of the brain could affect the long-term function of the body and thus the walking speed.”
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Stress can make you sick. Take steps to reduce it.
- Featured, Health & Healing
- October 16, 2019
“One of the reasons I wrote this book was to give stress the air time that it deserves. The public needs to be more aware of how prevalent and damaging it is, and doctors need to be aware of some simple things to help people.” That’s what Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, author of “The Stress Solution,” told the New York Times.
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Not exercising worse for your health than smoking, diabetes and heart disease, study reveals
- Headlines & Highlights, Health & Healing
- October 22, 2018
“Cardiorespiratory fitness is a modifiable indicator of long term mortality and healthcare professionals should encourage patients to achieve and maintain high levels of fitness.”
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The Uphill Fight Against Fake Prescription Drugs
- Headlines & Highlights, Health & Healing
- October 10, 2018
“Millennials and those younger rely heavily on social media. Criminal organizations recognize that trend and we’re starting to see advertisements and sales of counterfeit or substandard prescription drugs on social media.”
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Women who drink more water get fewer UTIs
- Headlines & Highlights, Health & Healing
- October 10, 2018
“If a woman has recurrent UTI, she should consider her daily fluid intake and try to increase it to at least two to three liters a day.”
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Here’s how much fast food Americans are eating
- Headlines & Highlights, Health & Healing
- October 3, 2018
“It is funny, when we see news clips of a shark swimming near a beach, it scares us into not going near that beach. However, what we should be scared of is double cheeseburgers, French fries and large amounts of sugary beverages.”
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9/11 hero’s daughter wants to raise awareness for linked cancer deaths
- Headlines & Highlights, Health & Healing
- September 10, 2018
“We thought we were so lucky because nobody died. Now we have to wait until they’re picked off by cancer.”
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An 80-Year Harvard Study Says This 1 Thing Will Make You Happier and Healthier
- Headlines & Highlights, Health & Healing
- August 27, 2018
What does it take to be healthy & happy? Harvard University began a comprehensive study on emotional well-being back in 1938 that included John F. Kennedy, who went on to become President of the United States, and 723 other men.
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Nearly 10K people have gotten cancer from toxic 9/11 dust
- Headlines & Highlights, Health & Healing
- August 23, 2018
“9/11 is still killing. Sadly this fragile community of heroes & survivors is shrinking by the day.” John Feal, advocate for World Trade Center (WTC) responders.
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Weed-killing chemical linked to cancer found in some children’s breakfast foods
- Headlines & Highlights, Health & Healing
- August 15, 2018
“I was shocked. We don’t know a lot about the effect of glyphosate on children. And essentially we’re just throwing it at them.”
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Surgery centers don’t have to report deaths in 17 states
- Headlines & Highlights, Health & Healing
- August 14, 2018
“A Kaiser Health News & USA Today investigation found that surgery centers operate under such an uneven mix of rules across U.S. states that fatalities & serious injuries can result in no warning to gov’t officials, much less to potential patients.”
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Why ‘beauty sleep’ is real, according to doctors
- Headlines & Highlights, Health & Healing
- August 2, 2018
“Sleep is incredibly important for physical appearance. Sleep is a regenerative process where we heal and where our neurons build strong connections. It’s like a fountain of youth that we dive in to every night.”
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