A new analysis from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, published in Frontiers in Nutrition, reports that people who follow a vegan diet tend to eat more plant-based foods, even those labeled as “unhealthy” by the plant-based diet…
Category: 5. Health
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Scientists find hidden switch that lets tumors shapeshift and evade treatment
Some tumors remain extremely difficult to treat, and carcinomas are among the most challenging. Unlike many other cancers, these tumors can behave unpredictably. Some even shift their appearance and begin to resemble entirely different types of…
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3,000 steps per day might slow Alzheimer’s disease
In people at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, researchers linked minimal to moderate physical activity to a 3-to 7-year delay in cognitive symptoms.
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We created health guidelines for fighting loneliness
Social isolation kills. It increases your risk of death by 30% — roughly the same as smoking cigarettes and much worse than factors such as obesity and sedentary living.
Americans are living through what researchers call a friendship…
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Hope For People With Chronic Pain – Coping Skills Training
A breathing technique to relieve stress and pain
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Chronic pain often depends as much or more on the brain’s response to pain signals as it does on any bodily damage responsible for those signals. Thus, effective pain treatment could hinge on…
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Global surge in ultra-processed foods sparks urgent health warning
Experts from around the world are raising alarms about the rapid global rise of ultra-processed foods, warning that UPFs are reshaping diets and driving a surge in chronic health problems.
- A major three paper Series in The Lancet finds that…
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New obesity discovery rewrites decades of fat metabolism science
Our fat cells, known as adipocytes, do far more than store extra body weight. They serve as an important energy reserve for the body. Inside each adipocyte, fat is packed into lipid droplets that can be tapped when fuel is needed — for example,…
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First Reported Alpha-Gal Syndrome Death, Meat Allergy From Tick Bite
The lone star tick, seen here in a vial, can transmit alpha-gal sugar and thus alpha-gal syndrome. (Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
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Tick. Tick. Tick. It was only a…
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Just How Different Are Women’s And Men’s Brains? It’s Complicated
How many times have we heard the argument repeated, that women and men are different because our brains are different? Smaller or larger brain areas associated with certain behaviors, the argument commonly goes, puts the sexes at odds on…
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A tiny enzyme may hold the key to safer pain relief
Researchers at Tulane University, working with teams from eight additional institutions, have identified a previously unknown way that nerve cells send messages. This discovery could change how scientists understand pain and may guide the…
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