Nutrition

8 Habits That Might Add Decades to Your Life

I AM MORE INTERESTED IN HEALTHSPAN than lifespan. I wouldn’t like to live too long with severe dementia. Today’s essay explores…

3 years ago

Why I Stopped Drinking Diet Coke

For more than a year, I have stopped consuming diet soda. My go to drink was Diet Coke, and it…

3 years ago

Psychiatry Is Turning to Nutrition in a New Appreciation of Food as “Medicine”

What was once “old” is now “new” again, and that includes food-related remedies for illness, both physical and mental.

3 years ago

Hair Loss: The Hidden Toll of Stress

I LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND SEE A YOUNGISH FACE. I turn a bit to discover a bald patch on the…

3 years ago

Surprising Link Between Probiotics, Anxiety, and Depression

MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER (MDD) IS A PREVALENT mental health condition. While clinicians commonly prescribe antidepressant medications for MDD, many do…

3 years ago

Longer Breastfeeding Results in Better School Achievement: Why Might That Be?

Long Term Breastfeeding - Intriguing results require careful examination, as in this case.

3 years ago

Study Reveals Staggering Toll of Being Black in America: 1.6M Excess Deaths Over 22 Years

Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people.

3 years ago

Health Care and Its Deadly Biases Toward Women

In 2020 in the U.S., the maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women was 55.3 deaths per 100,000 live births,…

3 years ago

Nine Blue Zone Habits to Optimize Your Life and Health Span

BLUE ZONES ARE AREAS IN WHICH PEOPLE live longer, more active, and healthier lives than anywhere else.

3 years ago

Weight Management During Fertility Treatment: A Challenge But Not a Lost Cause

Since hormones affect weight, hormonal therapy to enhance ovulation (whether pills or the multiple shots that the in vitro fertilization…

3 years ago

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