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THURSDAY, Jan. 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Hope may help prevent you from doing things that aren't good for you, a new study claims.The investigators wanted to find out why some people are more likely to fall into risky behaviors, such as gambling, drinking too much, taking drugs and overeating.To do this, the team at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom focused on something called relative deprivation, which is when a person feels that other people have things better in life."I think most people have experienced relative deprivation at some point in their lives. It's that feeling of being unhappy with your lot, the belief that your situation is worse than others, that other people are doing better than you, " said researcher Shahriar Keshavarz, from East Anglia's School...

THURSDAY, Jan. 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- If you want to burn fat this winter, take your exercise outdoors, researchers say.A Canadian study suggests that vigorous exercise in cold weather may burn more fat than working out indoors.Regular physical activity speeds metabolism and helps regulate fat in the blood ("lipids"), and high-intensity training is better for burning fat than moderate-intensity exercise, the researchers said. Temperature also plays a role in metabolism during exercise.In the study, a group of moderately fit, overweight adults participated in two high-intensity exercise sessions. In both, they completed 10 one-minute cycling sprints at 90% effort. A 90-second recovery period of cycling at 30% effort followed each sprint.In one session, the temperature was about 70...

THURSDAY, Jan. 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who suffer from acute heart failure may be nearly twice as likely to die if they get COVID-19, a new study finds."Our results support prioritizing heart failure patients for COVID-19 vaccination once it is available," said researcher Dr. Amardeep Dastidar, a consultant interventional cardiologist at North Bristol NHS Trust and Bristol Heart Institute in England. "In the meantime, heart failure patients of all ages should be considered a high-risk group and be advised to maintain social distance and wear a face mask to prevent infection."Heart failure is the progressive weakening of the heart's ability to pump blood and can cause breathlessness, ankle swelling and fatigue. Sudden and severe worsening of symptoms is a medical emergency...

THURSDAY, Jan. 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- One in four doctors has been personally attacked or sexually harassed on social media, a new study finds.Women are more likely to be sexually harassed, while both men and women are attacked based on religion, race or medical recommendations, researchers say.Doctors received negative reviews, coordinated harassment, threats at work, public exposure of their personal information and threats of rape and death. Distressingly, this was reported before the 2020 pandemic.The survey of 464 U.S. physicians was conducted before the COVID-19 outbreak and highlight the intensity of online harassment of doctors. The situation has only gotten worse since the spring, the authors noted."If anything, our data is likely an underestimate of the true extent of...