Skipping workouts Monday through Friday and working out only on weekends isn’t just practical for those leading busy lives, it also works. A new study of more than 350,000 adults comparing mortality rates in so-called weekend warriors to regularly active people found no significant differences. The study was published on July 5 in “JAMA Internal…
Does Sunscreen Use Contribute to Vitamin D Deficiency?
Australia is well known for its harsh sun and high rates of skin cancer, but there are questions over whether the regular use of sunscreen may interfere with vitamin D production and deficiency. This is what new research from the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute will attempt to get to the bottom of, particularly in…
Science Confirms Turmeric as Effective as 14 Drugs
If ever there were a spice that puts existential fear into the bottom line of pharmaceutical companies, it’s turmeric. Turmeric is one of the most thoroughly researched plants in existence today. Its medicinal properties and components (primarily curcumin) have been the subject of more than 12,000 peer-reviewed and published biomedical studies. In fact, GreenMedInfo (GMI) has run…
Live With an Inner Scorecard and Become the Best Version of Yourself
Would you rather live a life where everyone around you saw you as far more successful and generous than you really were or a life where your many accomplishments and good deeds were credited to others? What if those closest to you knew the real you? If you would choose the path of higher achievement…
The Energy Preservation of Introverts
The world is made up of introverts, extroverts and people that fall someplace in between. For some, being one or another doesn’t make a big difference in their lives. However, for introverts like me, it explains a lot. I grew up in a family with a lot of kids, and was labeled sensitive because I…
Socializing Gives Older Adults a Healthier Sense of Purpose
Having positive social interactions is associated with a sense of purpose for older adults, which can fluctuate from day to day, according to new research. And although these findings apply to both working and retired adults, the research found that for better and for worse, these interactions are more strongly correlated to purposefulness in people…
Tips to Lower Your Grocery Bill and Stay Healthy
It was a cold Saturday afternoon earlier this year as I was unpacking our weekly haul of groceries. My husband, the keeper of our finances, was analyzing our spending habits from the past month. “Do you realize how much we’ve spent on groceries the past four weeks?” he asked me. I hadn’t, but was shocked…
Staying Cool Is All about Blood Flow
Oppressive summertime heat gets everybody talking about the importance of staying cool. But a regular summer day can also put your body at risk if you’re not taking care of yourself. Hot weather, in a way, is like a stress test for your body. Some people will respond poorly. Hot temperatures could lead to heart…
Taking a Mental Health Day Can Be Good for You
When you’re feeling sick, you know it’s probably best to take the day off from work in order to recover and feel better. But while we may know how important it is to take care of our mental health, many of us may still hesitate to take time off work in order to do this….
Psychoactive Drugs Often Linked to Mass Shootings
We do not know if Robert Crimo III, the confessed Highland Park Fourth of July parade shooter, was on psychoactive drugs when he murdered but we do know that police were called to his home for suicidal behavior and that he was remanded to the psychiatric system. Mass shooters in the U.S. tend to be…
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