Top 3 reasons to add plant-based proteins into your diet
(Katherine Eckert, Jess Haines, Sarah Wedde/ The Conversation) — Fostering sustainable food systems is an urgent global priority. Sustainable diets are a part of food systems with important implications for human and environmental health.
While definitions of sustainable diets are still evolving, increasing plant-based …
Middle-age obesity shaves five years off life, study suggests
According to the Daily Mail, researchers studied about …
7 must-have superfoods for women’s health
(Sn Rao/ NDTV Food) — Foods with a high nutritional density are known as superfoods. This implies they deliver a lot of nutrients for a small quantity. Calories and minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants are abundant in them. The majority of us are unaware that many superfoods have been around for generations, and …
The end of inflammation? New approach could treat dozens of diseases.
(Connie Chang/ National Geographic) — Growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, Lauren Finney Harden had always had allergies. But after she moved to New York City for her first job in 2007, inflammation “just exploded” throughout her body.
“I had insane full-body rashes and strange gastro issues. I’d get massive burps that made …
Gua Sha: Everything you need to know about this wellness treatment
(Perdita Nouril/ Women’s Health) — ‘The ability to control time’. It’s always my stock answer when anyone asks me what superpower I dream of having most. Whilst I haven’t quite been blessed with said superpower yet (I live in hope), living in lockdown for the past 18 months has meant I’ve acquired bags of time …
Two years later, coronavirus evolution still surprises experts. Here’s why.
(Priyanka Runwal/ National Geographic) — Raul Andino knows his pathogens. For more than 30 years the University of California, San Francisco researcher has studied RNA viruses, a group that includes the virus that causes COVID-19. And yet he never imagined he’d witness a pandemic of this scale in his lifetime.
“The magnitude …
Women with endometriosis in extreme pain due to pandemic surgery delays
(Every morning, Keana Casault wakes up and assesses herself on a personal pain scale.
“If I say I’m at a five out of 10 of pain, that’s probably the average person’s 10 out of 10,” said the 25-year-old university student.
Where she sits on that pain scale impacts …
What do we know about fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccines?
(Jennifer Ferreira/ CTV News) — Those who are over the age of 60 or immunocompromised are especially at risk for severe COVID-19 disease. As provinces across Canada ease more of their pandemic-related restrictions, there are concerns that COVID-19 transmission could increase, which may lead to a rise in …
Colorectal cancer striking more and more women and young people: study
(The Canadian Press/ CTV News) — The incidence of colorectal cancer has been rising in people under the age of 45 for the past 30 years, according to a report released during Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
Experts are at a loss to explain the increase, but diet, inflammation and the microbiome, or a combination of all …