Month: June 2021

Having a fruit-based lunch, vegetables for dinner and not snacking on starchy foods like crisps is the key to warding off cancer and heart disease, a study has claimed. Researchers from China's Harbin Medical University looked for associations between dietary habits and health among more than 21,500 US adults.  They found that eating starchy snacks between meals increased the risk of death by 50 per cent and death from cardiovascular disease by 44-57 per cent. However, the consumption of fruit, vegetables and dairy products at specific meals was found to help lower the risk of premature death from various conditions. Having a fruit-based lunch, vegetables for dinner (like the platter pictured) and not snacking on starchy foods like crisps in the key to warding off can...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Tami Chappell | Reuters A CDC safety group said there's a "likely association" between a rare heart inflammatory condition in adolescents and young adults mostly after they've received their second Covid-19 vaccine shot, citing the most recent data available. There have been more than 1,200 cases of a myocarditis or pericarditis mostly in people 30 and under who received Pfizer's or Moderna's Covid vaccine, according to a series of slide presentations published Wednesday for a meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Myocarditis is the inflammation of the heart muscle, while pericarditis is the inflammation o...

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The coronavirus pandemic is crawling to an end, experts hope, with a new variant threatening to undo progress. But for a large part of Americans, COVID may never end. "While not everyone with COVID-19 may require hospitalization at the time of their infection, one of the unfortunate outcomes from COVID-19 is something known as 'post-COVID conditions' or 'long COVID,'" said CDC Chief Rochelle Walensky yesterday at the White House COVID Press Briefing. "Post-COVID conditions are an umbrella term for the wide range of physical and mental health problems that occur four or more weeks after being infected with COVID-19. Current research suggests that up to 20 percent of people are reporting post-COVID condition symptoms, but additi...

Starting your morning with a good cup of coffee can be a great way to get an energy boost. But besides helping you get over your grogginess, it turns out it might also be boosting your brain, too. A study out of the Krembil Brain Institute in Toronto, Canada, has found that drinking your coffee a certain way can actually slash your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. "Coffee consumption does seem to have some correlation to a decreased risk of developing Alzheimer's," Donald Weaver, PhD, co-director of the Krembil Brain Institute and the study's co-author, said in a statement. "But we wanted to investigate why that is—which compounds are involved and how they may impact age-related cognitive decline." Wha...