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Meat and dairy belong in a healthy diet, experts say — Diet Doctor
A group of Canadian health professionals has taken strong exception to Canada’s federal health agency’s growing advocacy of a “plant-based diet.”
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Eating well to help manage anxiety: Your questions answered - Harvard Health Blog
Paying closer attention to diet is important for people with anxiety. Making dietary changes in favor of a balanced diet that emphasizes whole, unprocessed foods and minimizes added sugars helps smooth out the highs and lows that can contribute to anxiety.
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The video game that helped me understand my grandma's dementia
When my friend Kenny's nana died of dementia, he'd already mourned her twice. The first time, he was shopping for her birthday present. He'd settled on a watch, but didn't know what kind, what brand or how much he should spend. He considered the expensive option, the watch he thought she deserved, but then he remembered: His nana had dementia. Usually she'd try and return presents, convinced others had left them behind.
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Medieval Wellness Tips
Whether the problem was an arrowhead, a beating, or being visible, Middle English manuscripts from the fifteenth century offered solutions.
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Is Your Gut Making You Depressed or Anxious?
Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen goes straight for the gut with three surprising mind-gut connections.
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Which Water Is Best For Health? Hint: Don't Discount The Tap
Scientists weigh in on whether Americans really need to pay for alkalinized, mineralized, or purified water from filters or bottles.
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The Worst Mistake You Can Make When Dealing With Your Emotions | Design Epic Life
Most people are good at ignoring or hiding their emotions but they have no clue about how to deal with emotions. It's time you stop suppressing and start managing your emotions.
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How clean eating became a way of judging 'bad' people
If health is a choice, then are sick people bad? Blaming people for their own ill-health ignores the real causes, experts say.
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Normalisation of 'plus-size' risks hidden danger of obesity, study finds
New research warns that the normalisation of 'plus-size' body shapes may be leading to an increasing number of people underestimating their weight - undermining efforts to tackle England's ever-growing obesity problem.
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Study casts doubt on 'healthy obesity'
Fat but otherwise healthy women are still likelier to have a stroke or heart attack, a study says.
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What makes us well? Diversity, health care, and cycling to work matter
Diverse neighbors. Health centers. Commuter trains. These community attributes, and other key factors, are linked to well-being and quality of life, according to Yale researchers. In a new nationwide study of more than 300,000 adults, the Yale-led team found that people who live in communities that offer racial diversity, access to preventive health care, and public transportation, among other elements, are more likely to report high levels of well-being, the researchers said.
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Academic’s meat-only diet ruffles feathers
Psychology professor and daughter credit carnivorous diet with curing autoimmune illnesses and depression
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High carb diet may hasten menopause
A study finds a diet rich in oily fish may help to delay natural menopause, while carbs hasten it.
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Carrageenan: Studies Reinforce Link to Inflammation, Cancer, and Diabetes - Cornucopia Institute
April 2018 NOSB Vote to Remove Carrageenan from Organic Food Overruled by Trump USDA USDA Sec. Sonny Perdue Source: USDA After eight years of Cornucopia’s research, advocacy, and petitioning, the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) voted in November 2016 to remove carrageenan, a potent inflammatory agent and possible carcinogen, from the National List for use in organics.
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Sitting is bad for your brain -- not just your metabolism or heart
Studies show that too much sitting, like smoking, increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes and premature death. Researchers found sedentary behavior is linked to thinning in regions of the brain that are critical to memory formation.
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The Diet That Might Cure Depression
Several studies show that healthy eating is connected with better mood.
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How your next meal could help fight depression, stress
Do you find that food deeply affects your mood? Science is beginning to back up such gut feelings. The link between poor diet and mood disorders has been long known, but what has been less clear is the direction of causality. When we're depressed, we tend to reach for lower-quality comfort foods, but can more comfort foods contribute to depression? And if we're depressed, can improving our diets improve our symptoms?
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Taste Buds Dull As People Gain Weight. Now Scientists Think They Know Why
Doctors have known that as people pack on the pounds, their sense of taste diminishes. New research in mice helps explain what's going on: Inflammation brought on by obesity may be killing taste buds.
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50 Best Vegan Protein Sources
"But where do you get your protein from?" Sound familiar? We've decided to lay this question to rest once and for all by creating our list of the 50 best vegan protein sources.
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U.S. Right to Know Sues CDC for Documents about Its Ties to Coca-Cola
The public records requests are part of an investigation USRTK is conducting into Coca-Cola’s influence at the CDC and the company’s impact on public policy.
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