That’s the premise of a recent study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, that suggests sugary and starchy foods could contributing to depression. Previous long-term studies have shown that people who eat pastries, sugary drinks and other refined carbohydrates have a higher risk of depression, but didn’t determine what is it, exactly, about […]
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Kat Gal WRITES: Chronic pain is something I’ve lived for years, chronic headaches, chronic hip pains and related chronic back pain, chronic neck aches and chronic muscle pain… not to mention the emotional pain that came with it. I’ve healed from my non-stop, 24/7 chronic headaches and running happily without chronic hip pains again. I
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Scientists researching the potential connections between deep, restorative sleep and the protein fragment beta-amyloid recently found that poor sleep not only hinders the brain’s ability to save new memories, but also creates a channel through which this Alzheimer’s-triggering protein is able to travel and attack long-term memory storage. “Over the past few years, the links
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One nerve connects your vital organs, sensing and shaping your health. If we learn to control it, the future of medicine will be electric. ………………………….. However the technology develops, our understanding of how the body manages disease has changed for ever. “It’s become increasingly clear that we can’t see organ systems in isolation, like we
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Artificial lights can wreak havoc on us. Fluorescent office lights can make us work far longer—but not always better—than we would naturally be able, and the LEDs illuminating our mobile devices can disrupt sleep if we spend time with them before bed. Now science is telling us that our biological clocks may be responding not
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As M. Katherine Shear, MD, professor of psychiatry at the Columbia University School of Social Work, puts it: “Grief is not one thing. It is a shorthand word for a complex, time-varying experience that is unique for each person and each loss.” There is no timetable for the healing process. “In general, grief usually evolves
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