Yankees’ Pinstripes May Be Slimming, but a Nutritionist Helps

The ash left behind by the Los Angeles wildfires might be toxic, experts warn

Yankees’ Pinstripes May Be Slimming, but a Nutritionist Helps
What checking your phone first thing in the morning does to your brain
Yankees’ Pinstripes May Be Slimming, but a Nutritionist Helps
U.S. Surgeon General Calls for Cancer Warnings on Alcoholic Beverages
  • Yankees’ Pinstripes May Be Slimming, but a Nutritionist Helps

    The ash left behind by the Los Angeles wildfires might be toxic, experts warn

    “We know it’s a lot of emotions and feelings going on that you can put down your guard, but you shouldn’t do that. Just be safe. Be careful. Put all the gear you can — at least an N95 mask, gloves — and stay safe. Because you lost your property. But you don’t want to damage also your health in the longer run.” Mohammed Baalousha, professor, environmental health sciences, University of South Carolina.

  • Yankees’ Pinstripes May Be Slimming, but a Nutritionist Helps

    What checking your phone first thing in the morning does to your brain

    “Grabbing your phone and flooding your brain with notifications, social media feeds, or emails overstimulates your prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for decision-making and impulse control. This barrage of information can lead to mental fatigue before you’ve even gotten out of bed, making your mind feel cluttered and less focused for the rest of the day.”

  • Yankees’ Pinstripes May Be Slimming, but a Nutritionist Helps

    U.S. Surgeon General Calls for Cancer Warnings on Alcoholic Beverages

    “Alcohol is a well-established, preventable cause of cancer responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States. Yet the majority of Americans are unaware of this risk.” Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. surgeon general.

Health & Healing

  • Study links common food additives to Crohn’s disease

    The next time you purchase packaged bread, processed foods, ice cream, candy, cream cheese, salad dressing, mayonnaise or margarine, take a look at the ingredients on the label. These products may contain emulsifiers like polysorbate 80 or carboxymethyl cellulose, which are added not only to extend their shelf life, but to improve the texture.

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  • Our Amazingly Plastic Brains

    If one day there was a drug on the market that could decrease your chance of developing dementia by 60%, would you consider taking it? But there is something we can all do right now, which is one of the interesting points made by Dr. Norman Doidge, author of The Brain’s Way of Healing.

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  • How much sleep do you need? An expert panel releases its recommendations.

    Are you getting enough sleep? Did you know that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers insufficient sleep a public health epidemic? For this reason, The National Sleep Foundation recently updated its recommendations on how many hours of shut-eye each age group needs.

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  • Toddler food often has too much salt, sugar, CDC study says

    Do you check the nutrition labels before buying packaged meals and snacks for your young children? Would it surprise you to know that a majority of cereal bars, snacks and dinners for toddlers and infants contain way too much sugar and salt?

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  • The Battle Against Misdiagnosis

    How is it possible that several different doctors in the emergency room of a major New York City hospital could misdiagnose what was wrong with 12-year-old Rory Staunton? The symptoms and subsequent lab tests should have indicated the presence of a serious streptococcal bacterial infection, but that’s not what he was immediately treated for. As a result, the infection traveled into his bloodstream. Rory went into septic shock and died.

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  • When health care kills

    Medical mistakes are a leading cause of death in America. What’s changed in the last 15 years since a major study found that 100,000 patients died each year in hospitals from mistakes that were preventable?

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  • Eye test may be able to detect Alzheimer’s decades before onset

    Could an eye exam one day be used to determine who is at risk for Alzheimer’s? Beta amyloid proteins are usually found in the brain and can be an indicator of the disease, but a new study discovered that they also show up as bright dots during an eye exam.

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  • Shorter sleep may speed brain aging

    Are you getting enough sleep? A new study once again shows just how important sleep is for your memory and cognitive functioning. Lack of sleep can actually cause structural changes in the brain, which may accelerate a little faster with age.

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  • A Web Design Entrepreneur Has a Hit with Health Care Consumers

    Imagine being on the operating table and about to drift off from the anesthesia, when you hear your surgeon comment: “I’m excited I get to do this operation. I don’t get to do many of them.” It’s not exactly a confidence inducing moment. But that’s exactly what happened to Mitch Rothschild when he went in for surgery on his Achilles tendon.

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  • The Natural Ingredient You Should Ban from Your Diet

    Did you know that carrageenan, which is sometimes used as a thickener in yogurt, ice cream and cottage cheese, may cause inflammation and digestive problems? Lots of companies even use it in their organic and reduced fat products. But just because it’s a natural ingredient made from seaweed doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good for you.

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  • Eye Protection From the Sun Especially Important for Kids

    Are you protecting your child’s eyes from the sun’s ultraviolet rays? Vision experts say that children’s sunglasses are an important protective measure, particularly because their young eyes are still developing and have a harder time filtering UV light. When young eyes are overexposed to the sun, the damage is cumulative and also permanent.

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  • The dangers of junk sleep

    Do you use your smartphone as your alarm clock? If so, you may be hurting your chances of getting a good night’s sleep. Clinical psychologist, Michael Breus, makes this point: Using electronic devices before bed, whether it’s your phone, laptop or the TV playing in the background, can affect your body’s natural sleep cycle.

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  • We Kill Germs at Our Peril

    Antibiotics have been helping to cure bacterial infections since the 1940s, but could overusing them do more harm than good? In his book “Missing Microbes,” Dr. Martin J. Blaser, a New York University School of Medicine professor, cautions that the overuse has led to an increase in infections that are resistant to antibiotics, and that in turn has serious health consequences.

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  • PulsePoint notification app helps off-duty firefighter save Milwaukie man’s life

    There is a life-saving app that is worth knowing about. It’s called PulsePoint. What it does is alert people who have signed up and are trained in cardiac pulmonary resuscitation (CRP) that someone in their nearby vicinity is having a medical emergency.

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  • White bread is a ‘bomb of sugar’ that can make you fat

    How much white bread do you eat each day? Could it be causing you to pack on extra pounds? A new study by Spanish researchers found that consuming 6 or more slices daily can contribute to becoming overweight and even obese.

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