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Protecting yourself from air pollution

Every day, you breathe in around 2,000 gallons of air, enough to fill an average swimming pool. And when it is polluted with particulate matter, it increases inflammation throughout your body, increases your risk for respiratory and cardiovascular disease, worsens asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and leads to premature death.

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Coffee can reduce your risk of heart and metabolic diseases

It's increasingly common for folks ages 60 and older to have more than one cardiometabolic (CM) disease, such as diabetes plus kidney dysfunction and coronary heart disease. In fact, around 34 million folks contend with the complications of multiple CM diseases, which can dramatically reduce their quality of life and longevity.

Now, a new study...Read more

A new way to reduce diabetes' risk for dementia

Type 2 diabetes is associated with a 60% increased risk of dementia -- and the younger you develop Type 2 diabetes, the greater the risk. Around 18% of folks who've had diabetes for 10-plus years have dementia, while it's 10% for those who have had it for fewer than five years. In contrast, only about 9% of folks without diabetes up to age 70 ...Read more

High blood pressure spells trouble for kids and young adults

High blood pressure (HBP) can come from lack of sleep or sleeping too much, eating too much or not eating enough healthful foods, and from being sedentary. But whatever the cause, the consequences are increased cardiovascular woes. And that's true for anyone of any age.

These days, nearly 14% of kids ages 8-18 have elevated or high blood ...Read more

The benefits of taking the new diabetes/weight loss medications

John Lennon sang: "You say you want a revolution/Well, you know/We all want to change the world." Well, you could say the revolutionary new weight loss and diabetes management medications semaglutide (Ozempic) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro) are doing just that: Changing the world of disease management in ways that weren't imagined when semaglutide ...Read more

Stressing the importance of de-stressing

True, we're stressing that anxiety and stress are major health concerns. But it's not to add stress to your life but to help you manage it.

Recently, the surgeon general issued a public health advisory highlighting the damaging emotional and physical effects of chronic parental stress, fueled by long working hours, financial pressures, and the ...Read more

Give a whooping to the increasing risk of whooping cough

Whooping cough, AKA pertussis, was first described during an epidemic in Paris in 1578 and up until the 1940s when the vaccine was developed, it was a major cause of infant death. This "cough of 100 days" affected more than 180,000 Americans in 1940, but the number plummeted to around 3,000 by 1991. Since then, cases have crept back up and this ...Read more

Yoga and urinary incontinence

Let's pose a question: What could yoga poses (called "asanas") have to do with managing urinary incontinence? Quite a bit according to a new study that found that both general physical conditioning and doing pelvic floor yoga (yes, that's a thing) reduce urinary leakage significantly. FYI: Pelvic floor muscles control the flow of urine and the ...Read more

Managing allergic reactions to foods

There are nine major food allergens -- milk, egg, peanut, tree nuts, wheat, soy, sesame and fish and crustacean shellfish -- that cause about 90% of serious food allergy reactions in the U.S. They affect about 33 million Americans, including almost 6 million children, and cause around 500 deaths annually.

The treatment for a severe allergic ...Read more

 

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