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2021

Bingeing, Stress Snacking: How the Pandemic Is Changing Eating Habits

Bingeing, Stress Snacking: How the Pandemic Is Changing Eating HabitsTHURSDAY, April 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Americans' eating habits have changed for the worse during the COVID-19 pandemic, including an increase in eating disorders, researchers say.For their study, the University of Minnesota team analyzed information gathered between April and May of 2020 from participants in a study called Project EAT.The analysis found a link between the pandemic and several unhealthy eating habits. Among them: mindless eating and snacking; increased overall eating; lower appetite or dietary intake; eating to cope; and an increase in eating disorders."The disruptions to daily life associated with the ongoing pandemic may have significant negative consequences for the risk of eating disorders and symptoms," said lead study author Melissa Simone. She is a...

Stress Not Always a Trigger for Relapse in Eating...

15 April 2021
Stress Not Always a Trigger for Relapse in Eating Disorders: StudyTHURSDAY, April 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Stress does not trigger binge eating in people with eating disorders, new research suggests.The findings challenge a common theory that's never been directly tested in patients, according to the study authors.Their research included 85 women (22 with anorexia, 33 with bulimia and a control group of 30 without an eating disorder). The study participants were assessed for two days to determine how stress affected their eating habits.The women also had MRI brain scans to assess brain activity."The idea was to see what happened when these women were stressed. Did it affect key regions of the brain important for self-control, and did that in turn lead to increases in food intake? What we found surprised us and goes counter to the prevailing...

Later School Start Times Mean Better-Rested Kids: Study

15 April 2021
Later School Start Times Mean Better-Rested Kids: StudyTHURSDAY, April 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Starting the school day a little later helps middle and high school students get more and better sleep, according to a new study.The research is based on annual surveys of about 28,000 elementary, middle and high school students and their parents. The surveys were completed before and two years after school start times were changed.Changes to sleep cycles during puberty make it harder for teens to fall asleep. With early school start times, many don't get enough rest.In the study, middle schools pushed their start times back by 40 to 60 minutes; and high schools began the day 70 minutes later. Meanwhile, elementary schools started an hour earlier. Participants were asked about students' typical bedtime and wake time on weekdays and weekends,...

Diabetes Can Lead to Amputations, But Stem Cell...

14 April 2021
Diabetes Can Lead to Amputations, But Stem Cell Treatment Offers HopeWEDNESDAY, April 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- One of the most dangerous complications of diabetes is a foot ulcer that won't heal, but now a preliminary study finds that a type of stem cell found in body fat may be a powerful remedy for these severe foot wounds.The study included 63 patients with non-healing diabetic foot ulcers who were given injections of cells from their own body fat. Over the next year, the treatment healed the ulcers in most patients.Researchers said the study — conducted in Nicaragua — lays the groundwork for a similar trial in the United States, to replicate the findings.Diabetic foot ulcers are open sores or wounds that affect roughly 15% of people with diabetes, according to the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA). For some, the wounds refuse to...

Nurses Are Dying From Suicide at Higher Rates

14 April 2021
Nurses Are Dying From Suicide at Higher RatesWEDNESDAY, April 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Before the pandemic began, suicide risk was twice as high among female nurses compared with American women as a whole, a new study warns.Even within the health care community itself, female nurses were found to be roughly 70% more likely to die by suicide than female doctors.Why? Study author Matthew Davis said that for now, "We don't know for certain what forces are directly responsible for the higher risk of suicide among nurses. It could be related to high job demands, lower autonomy compared to physicians, avoidance of mental health services for fear of stigma, [and] greater access to the means to complete suicide," meaning prescription drugs.Not only that, but the pandemic "has added enormous strain to health care workers, particularly...

One Good Way to Help Beat COVID: Exercise

14 April 2021
One Good Way to Help Beat COVID: ExerciseWEDNESDAY, April 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Exercise guards against a host of chronic diseases that can plague people as they age, but can it also protect against severe cases of COVID-19?New research suggests that's so: Being physically active reduced COVID-19 patients' risk of hospitalization, intensive care unit (ICU) admission and death, and even being just somewhat active provided some protection."This is a wake-up call for the importance of healthy lifestyles and especially physical activity," said study author Dr. Robert Sallis. He's a family and sports medicine physician at the Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center.The "study truly shows how important that is during this pandemic and beyond," Sallis said in a Kaiser Permanente news release. "People who regularly exercise...

America's STD Rate at Record High Again: CDC

14 April 2021
America`s STD Rate at Record High Again: CDCWEDNESDAY, April 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There's another epidemic sweeping the United States: sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).Statistics for 2019 -- the latest data available from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- show that STD rates in the United States hit a new high again for the sixth straight year. In 2019, nearly 2.5 million Americans had an infection of chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis, the CDC said. And early data from 2020 suggest that these trends are continuing.It's a dramatic and unnecessary comeback for illnesses Americans had nearly defeated."Less than 20 years ago, gonorrhea rates in the U.S. were at historic lows, syphilis was close to elimination, and advances in chlamydia diagnostics made it easier to detect infections," researcher Dr....

AHA News: 5 Things to Know This Earth Day About How the Environment Affects Health

14 April 2021
AHA News: 5 Things to Know This Earth Day About How the Environment Affects HealthWEDNESDAY, April 14, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Earth Day on April 22 puts a spotlight on the planet's health – which, doctors say, is closely tied to your own.Here are five things to know about the connection.Pollution is not a small, faraway health issue"The footprint of pollution globally is massive," and air pollution is the biggest danger, said Dr. Sanjay Rajagopalan, chief of cardiovascular medicine for University Hospitals Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute in Cleveland.The World Health Organization estimates 12.6 million deaths a year can be attributed to environmental risks. That's more than a fifth of all deaths, and more than a quarter of deaths in children younger than 5. Air pollution alone contributes to more deaths worldwide than many other...

A Woman's Exposure to DDT Could Affect Her...

WEDNESDAY, April 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A long-banned pesticide may be having health effects that ripple across generations, a new study suggests.At issue is DDT, a once widely used...

Mom and Baby's Tale of Survival After Severe COVID...

WEDNESDAY, April 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The emotional toll of having a baby can be huge under any circumstance, but what if you didn't know you gave birth until two weeks later, and you...
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