Link Between Short Sleep & Sugary Drinks
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Not getting enough sleep? Maybe you're drinking too many sugar-sweetened drinks.
Do you find yourself craving sugar-sweetened drinks? Maybe you're not getting enough sleep.
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FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE
Healthy Food Improves Kids' Reading
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Do you want your child to have academic success? Here’s a simple solution - throw out the sweets and junk food and serve more healthy foods to make it happen.
Read MoreGood Fats Linked With Longer Life
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It’s time to ditch unhealthy food fats once and for all. A large cohort study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that different types of dietary fat have different effects on mortality.
Read MoreHelping Teens to Eat Better
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It’s no secret that the adolescent years can be challenging: young teens have a heightened sensitivity to perceived injustice and react against authority.
Read MoreAmericans still having trouble keeping weight off
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It should come as no surprise that as a nation, we are still having difficulty slimming down. In fact, we keep getting heavier.
Read MoreNew Hope Against Alzheimer's
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A new protein which will help scientists to understand why nerve cells die in people with Alzheimer's disease has been designed in a University of Sussex laboratory.
Read MoreFoods influence on affecting cancer risk
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Not only do our daily food choices play a substantial role on the influence and specific type of cancer that may develop but our food choices may also provide a protective role in reducing our risk of this deadly disease.
Read MoreNutrient-drug interactions concerns
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Drugs can interact with foods, nutrients, and herbs in a number of ways. Each may affect the absorption, actions, metabolism, or excretion of the others.
Read MoreTeen’s sweet spot for soda has fizzled
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A recent government survey revealed teens are turning away from soda and switching instead to bottled water.
Read MoreThe Best Drinks for Hydration
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We Americans, never without our water bottles, are probably the most hydrated population on earth. But how much of what we drink is retained?
Read MoreThe Five Basic Keys to Living Healthy
/There are hundreds of articles published everyday, in everything from scholarly medical journals to teen websites, that aspire to tell you how to live a healthier life. But analyze them closely, break them down into their component bits, and the “secrets” they all feverishly purport to reveal come down to five very basic behaviors that have long been known to reduce the risk of chronic diseases:
- Maintaining a healthy body weight
- Exercising regularly
- Not smoking
- Avoiding alcohol consumption or only drinking in moderation
- Getting a sufficient amount of sleep
These chronic diseases – for example, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease - are perennially among the most common and costly health problems in the United States.
Now, here's the kicker: according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only 6.3 percent of American adults adhered to all five healthy behaviors!
Dr. Yong Lu, of the Division of Population Health at the CDC, led the team who analyzed data from the 2013 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) - a system of telephone surveys that gathers health-related information from residents across all U.S. states. They published their results in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy. The data included almost 400,000 adults aged 21 and older, and the team looked at what proportion of these individuals adhered to five health behaviors known to reduce the risk of death from chronic disease.
How do you stand compared to your fellow Americans? Here's the breakdown:
- 8.4 percent of the adults engaged in one of the health behaviors
- 24.3 percent engaged in two
- 35.4 percent engaged in three
- 24.3 percent engaged in four
Of the only 6.3 percent of the adults who engaged in all five behaviors, women, older adults, college graduates, and Asians were the most likely to report doing so. And adults who lived in the Pacific and Rocky Mountain states were more likely to adhere to all five health behaviors.
On the cheerier side, only 1.4 percent of the adults failed to engage in any of the five health behaviors whatsoever.
Based on their results, Dr. Lu and his team believe there needs to be increased focus on strategies that encourage more Americans to engage in all five health behaviors, which may reduce their risk of cancer and other chronic diseases.
Does Someone You Know Have an “Alcohol Identity?”
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You're not the only one who has wondered whether these seemingly random pictures were a silent cry for help. A team of researchers from North Carolina State University and Ohio University discovered that having an "alcohol identity" puts college students at greater risk of having drinking problems - and that posting about alcohol use on social media sites is actually a stronger predictor of alcohol problems than having a drink.
Read MoreStudy finds the surprising real cause of GERD
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The true cause of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) has been turned upside down.
Read MoreFeel The Burn: How “Hot Fat” Can Melt Calories
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Medicine has just forged a brand new, if unlikely, weapon in its continuing war on obesity: hot fat.
Read MoreCoping With An Eating Disorder
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Eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia are common in western countries, with between 1 and 3% of young women meeting the criteria for diagnosis and up to 10% having some form of eating problem.
Read MoreHow Your Gut Bacteria May Relieve Your Stress
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It is certainly not the most obvious connection, but two Canadian researchers believe they have found a link between the bacteria in your gut and neurological conditions.
Read MoreIs Fish Oil the Answer for Heart Health?
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Omega-3’s are essential fatty acids necessary for human health but the body cannot make them, meaning you have to get them through food.
Read MoreRed Wine vs Heart Disease?
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Red wine is often brought up as one of those foods that, counter-intuitively, might actually be good for you.
Read MoreAre There Plastics in Your Fast Food?
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As if you needed further incentive to avoid eating fast foods, researchers have just discovered a link between that burger-to-go and phthalates.
Read MoreWhey protein may help manage type 2diabetes
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Several studies have shown over the years whey proteins ability to play a key role in stimulating insulin release in order to reduce blood glucose levels.
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