A 2017 study discovered that approximately 41 percent of adults reported eating or drinking a food or beverage containing a non-nutritive substance (including, but not limited to, aspartame).... Read More
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Lower Your Hip Fracture Risk
Keeping a healthy weight can help support bone health. Underweight individuals put themselves at risk of osteopenia and osteoporosis. Postmenopausal women — who have lost some of the bone protection of higher estrogen levels — can be at particularly high risk.... Read More
Breast Cancer and Genes
Not all who have a BRCA mutation will develop cancer, but having such a gene mutation increases the cancer risk. For example, about 50 percent of women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation will be diagnosed with breast cancer by age 70, compared with seven out of 100 in the general USA population.... Read More
Drop Your Breast Cancer Risk
Higher physical activity levels appeared to lower breast cancer risk by nearly one-quarter (a drop of 22 percent in relative risk). This risk reduction appeared similar in pre-and postmenopausal women and for high- versus light-intensity movement.... Read More
Surgical versus N95 masks
MEDICAL MASKS ARE NOT INFERIOR TO N95 RESPIRATOR MASKS in protecting healthcare workers against COVID-19. That sounds like good news. Today we look at surgical versus N95 masks. The study results... Read More
Voice Is A Health Indicator
High levels of stress affect our verbal interactivity. When cortisol levels are high (as is more common among those with depression), voice symptoms are more common. We can use voice characteristics to suggest a diagnosis of depression.... Read More
