Does your brain take out the trash while you sleep?

Ultraprocessed foods linked to heart disease, diabetes, mental disorders and early death, study finds

Does your brain take out the trash while you sleep?
Cannabis use associated with higher risk of heart attack and stroke, study finds
Does your brain take out the trash while you sleep?
Death by junk food? Ultra-processed foods becoming the new ‘silent killer’

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  • Parents of Queens boy who died from undiagnosed infection urges Senate panel: ‘No more Rorys’

    Rory Staunton was 12 years old when he died from an undiagnosed case of sepsis, after having scraped his elbow in gym class. Rory had gone to the hospital after waking up on the day after the gym class incident with a high fever, leg pain, high blood pressure, high heart rate, and vomiting, but doctors had assumed the boy just had a stomach flu.

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  • Healthy diet may reverse aging, study finds

    Making simple lifestyle changes such as staying active, eating a healthy diet, and working to reduce stress can reduce aging at the cellular level, according to a new study published in Lancet Oncology. While the study focused on men with prostate cancer, researchers say the findings apply more broadly. Dr. Dean Ornish, advocate of the

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  • Helping Others Helps You Live Longer

    Volunteering allows you to do good for other people, but it turns out it’s good for you as well. Participating in activities like feeding the hungry can reduce the risk of early death by 22%, a review published in BMC Public Health has found. The review covered 40 different studies, and it found that volunteering

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  • We’ll soon be able to bring dead back to life, says heart specialist: He claims he could have saved Sopranos star James Gandolfini

    Dr. Sam Parnia, author of a book on resuscitation science titled Erasing Death, says his research shows that death can actually be reversed in some cases.  Dr. Parnia, who is also head of intensive care at the Stony Brook University Hospital in New York, says, “In the past decade we have seen tremendous progress. With today’s

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  • ‘Fat shaming’ actually increases risk of becoming or staying obese, new study says

    A new study has found that trying to make obese people feel badly about their weight doesn’t actually motivate these people to lose weight, since many simply interpret these kinds of comments as discrimination. “Weight discrimination, in addition to being hurtful and demeaning, has real consequences for the individual’s physical health,” explains Angelina Sutin, lead

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  • Tips On How To Remember Dreams For Better Health

    Do you ever wake up wishing you could remember what you were dreaming about? You don’t remember 99% of your dreams, but many times they address aspects of your physical and mental well-being. Kelly Sullivan Walden, author of It’s All in Your Dreams, believes that you can actually control your dreams and allow them to

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  • Nightmares After the I.C.U.

    After a stay in the intensive care unit (I.C.U.) because of abdominal infections, Lygia Dunsworth began having hallucinations and even showing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which still haunt her years later. Research shows that patients who have longer stays in the I.C.U. can experience these kinds of symptoms for up to two years

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  • Sick before their time– more kids diagnosed with adult diseases

    Why are more children today diagnosed with adult diseases? A new report from Harvard Medical School found that kids are increasingly suffering from chronic diseases that traditionally impact adults, including type 2 diabetes, obesity, elevated blood pressure, sleep apnea and more. Researchers say obesity may be to blame for the increase. As Dr. Pamela Singer,

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  • Addiction: The disease that lies

    If you knew something would harm you, would you still do it? Those who suffer from addiction may not have a choice. The disease impacts the part of your brain that rewards or reinforces your actions, or the reward center, which ultimately prioritizes the addiction as most important for survival. Dr. Marvin D. Seppala, the

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  • Dr. Oz Helps Make Apple Juice Safer

    Back in 2011, Dr. Mehmet Oz found himself in the center of a controversy. After the staff of his TV show had an independent laboratory test five different brands of apple juice, Oz sounded the alarm on the high levels of arsenic. Several samples had considerably more than the ten parts per billion that the

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  • U.S. sicker than other developed nations

    People in the U.S. are living a little longer, but that doesn't mean they are living longer in good health. According to a University of Washington survey by Dr. Christian Murray and his colleagues, our bad dietary habits, obesity and smoking are more a cause for alarm than even pollution or radiation. Dr. Murray explains,

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  • Dr. Oz on the Real Threat to the Sopranos

    Dr. Mehmet Oz reflects on the untimely death of actor James Gandolfini, reminding us not to ignore the most obvious risk factor that may have caused the actor to have a heart attack at the age of 51: obesity. More than two-thirds of people in the U.S. are overweight, but many are hesitant to address

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  • More women opting for preventive mastectomy – but should they be?

    Angelina Jolie's announcement that she had both breasts removed- after finding out she had an 87% chance of getting breast cancer due to the BRCA1 gene- has brought much attention to the procedure. Apparently, rates of women opting for preventive mastectomies have increased by an estimated 50 percent in recent years. Since genetic tests for breast cancer risks have

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  • A “fountain of youth” for hearts?

    Doctors Rich Lee and Amy Wagers have honed in on a hormone called GDF-11, which declines with age in mice. "When old mouse hearts are exposed to this hormone at the levels the young mice have, then their hearts go back quite dramatically to the appearance of the young mouse heart in just a few

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  • The Talking Cure for Health Care

    Improving the ways doctors communicate with their patients can lead to better health care — and lower costs. Robin Diamond, chief safety officer for Doctors Co., a malpractice insurance company, explains, "If a doctor and a patient have a strong relationship, even if something goes wrong, they are less likely to sue for it." The

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