It’s one of the most common New Year’s resolutions: to go on a diet, but we need to get rid of the term ‘diet’, according to GP Dr Jill Gamberg of Double Bay Doctors. “Diets do not work,” something you’ll already likely know if at the start of each new year you’re back on the… Read More: Ditch the diet and change your lifestyle »
Blockchain, like other young and disruptive technologies, offers wide opportunities to impact healthcare, an industry that is primed for disruption. Despite being the largest sector of the U.S. economy, healthcare is plagued by slow systems, wasteful financing, and resource utilization and operational inefficiencies. To address these issues, innovative solutions like blockchain can alter the arithmetic… Read More: How blockchain could make an impact in healthcare »
The daily recommended fiber intake for males is 38 grams and 25 grams for females. But new findings published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition show that a majority of teens are eating far less fiber than they should, which may increase their risk in adulthood for diabetes and hypertension, reports Reuters. For the… Read More: Are Teens Consuming Enough Fiber? »
(Reuters Health) – Kids may be more likely to develop depression and anxiety when their parents are regular drinkers, even when neither parent drinks enough to be considered an alcoholic, a Norwegian study suggests. Researchers studied 8,773 children from 6,696 two-parent families who participated in a health survey when the kids were 13 to 19… Read More: Even `non-problem' drinking by parents tied to mental health problems… »