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TUESDAY, April 4, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Figuring out how stress affects your body can be a challenge, because the answer can depend on how stressed out you are, and for how long.For instance, recent research has shown that low-to-moderate stress levels may actually be good for your ability to learn and apply knowledge. High stress levels, on the other hand, can negatively impact your working memory. Likewise, short-term stress can impact your body differently than long-term stress. So, how does stress affect the body when it’s momentary versus chronic? Here, experts break down the most common physical, mental and emotional outcomes for both, and offer some tips on how to manage stress to help prevent long-term health issues.Short-term stress effects on the body Cleveland Clinic...

TUESDAY, April 4, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- If you think of carrots as stodgy old tubers, something more fit for rabbits than healthy humans, you're in for a bunch of surprises.Carrots can be a significant source of crucial nutrients, said Sherry Tanumihardjo, professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These days, they're popping up in a whole palette of colors. They're also convenient and versatile."You can just take them out of the ground, wash them and eat them, just like that, or you can peel them and cut them up," she said. "You can slice them and dice them into all kinds of foods."Carrots have been around a long time, probably originating in central Asia, possibly Afghanistan. Researchers say that by the Middle Ages, purple and white...

TUESDAY, April 4, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For women with "focal breast complaints" -- issues with pain, lumps or discharge -- ultrasound is an effective diagnostic tool, according to new research. These concerns are frequent, and ultrasound is effective as a standalone diagnostic method, researchers report April 4 in the journal Radiology.“The evaluation of breast complaints is a common problem in breast diagnostics,” said study co-author Dr. Linda Appelman, a breast radiologist at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. “Ultrasound as the first imaging method may provide clarity with regard to the focal breast complaint,” Appelman added in a journal news release.About 70,000 women in the Netherlands, many of them between 30 and 50 years old, go to...

TUESDAY, April 4, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Imagine a perfect week at work. Everything runs smoothly, and you love your job. Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it?While those days are possible, work can also be a source of frequent and intense stress. Let’s face it, work stress is unavoidable. In 2022, 83% of U.S. workers suffered from work-related stress and about 1 million Americans missed work each day because of stress, according to the American Institute of Stress (AIS).But what exactly is work-related stress and what can you do about it?Causes of work stressThere are a variety of reasons why work is stressful.“A leader who isn’t empathetic to what’s going on or not connected to the problems in the workplace can result in a stressful work environment,” says Dr. Jessica Gold,...