(Liz Stinson/ Curbed) — Inside a sprawling beige warehouse in Southern California is what some researchers believe could be the next big thing in dementia care. Town Square, a 9,000-square-foot replica of a 1950s-era town in Chula Vista, California, is designed to jog the memories of people with dementia by surrounding them …
(Sarah Bosely/ The Guardian) —One in two women will develop dementia or Parkinson’s disease, or have a stroke, in their lifetime, new research suggests.
About a third of men aged 45 and half of women of the same age are likely to go on to be diagnosed with one of the conditions, according to a study of more than 12,000 people.
The researchers, …
(Hattie Gladwell/ Metro) — The “you’re not you when you’re hungry” saying from the Snickers campaign has been scientifically proven.
Psychologist Professor Francesco Leri of Guelph University, and his research team, used rats to study how being hungry can affect mood.
They found that becoming angry when you’re hungry …
(Amanda Barrel/ Medical News Today) — Crohn’s disease is a chronic health condition that affects the digestive system. It is one of a group of long-term health conditions, which also includes ulcerative colitis, known as inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD.
Crohn’s disease occurs when the body’s immune …
(CNN) — Limiting kids’ recreational screen time to less than two hours a day, along with sufficient sleep and physical activity, is associated with improved cognition, according to a study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.
The study included about 4,500 US children ages 8 to 11 and measured their habits against …
(Maria Cohut/ Medical News Today) — Lack of sleep is just as dangerous as excessive drinking when it comes to activities such as driving. The breathalyzer can reliably measure a person’s state of intoxication, but there’s currently no way of assessing someone’s tiredness. New research may soon change …
(Amy Norton/ HealthDay) — It’s well-known that regular exercise can help cut your risk for a stroke. Now, new research shows fitness may have an added bonus, cutting the severity of a stroke should one occur.
So finds a study of more than 900 stroke survivors. It found that fitter people were twice as likely as sedentary folk to have …
(Thomson Reuters) — More than three million people died in 2016 due to drinking too much alcohol, meaning one in 20 deaths worldwide was linked to harmful drinking, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
More than three-quarters of these deaths were among men, the UN health agency said. And despite evidence of the …
(Sara Chodosh/ Popular Science) — Health halos are powerful. They convince us that granola laden with maple syrup is healthy and that anything gluten-free must be better for us than the gluten-full version.
It’s fairly easy to cut through these halos by looking at the nutrition label—but let’s be honest, most of us don’t. Yogurt …
(Thomson Reuters) — People who cut back on carbohydrates may end up increasing their risk of premature death if they load their plates with meat and cheese instead of vegetables and nuts, a U.S. study suggests.
While previous research has linked low-carbohydrate diets to better success with short-term weight loss and improvements …