7 habits that destroy your chances of losing weight

When you want to lose weight, it’s important to know the right steps to take to tip the scales in a favorable direction. It is equally necessary to know what Not Do. Sometimes, you may not even know that the habits you’re following are leading you astray, because it doesn’t necessarily feel like there’s anything … Read more

Unlearning the worry of getting too low on LDL

Source/Disclosures Published by: Source: Martin SS, et al. Session 19 – Dyslipidemia. Presented at: Heart in Diabetes CME Conference; 9-11 June 2023; Philadelphia. Disclosures: Martin reports receiving consulting fees or research support from 89bio, Aetna Foundation, Akcea, Amgen, Apple, AstraZeneca, Bristol Myers Squibb, Chroma, Dalcor, Google, iHealth, Kaneka, Merck, New Amsterdam, Nokia, Novartis, … Read more

Tackling the Youth Mental Health Crisis Head-On – EdSurge News

Sobering statistics about a growing youth mental health crisis have become frequent headlines. In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that as of 2021, more than a third of high school students, including nearly three out of five teenage girls, had lingering feelings of sadness or hopelessness. In a 2022 survey … Read more

A professional swimmer is arguing with a fitness influencer who accused her of making fun of a man at the gym. After being showered with hate, she is clapping.

Joey Swoll has 6.8 million TikTok followers.Joey Swoll via TikTok Fitness influencer Joey Swoll has accused a competitive swimmer of making fun of a man at the gym. Swoll’s post led to hundreds of social media users directing hatred at the athlete, Nika Godun. Godun responded by saying Swoll took his original video out of … Read more

Inside the feud between a pro swimmer and fitness influencer Joey Swoll

Joey Swoll has 6.8 million TikTok followers. Joey Swoll via TikTok Fitness influencer Joey Swoll has accused a competitive swimmer of making fun of a man at the gym. Swoll’s post led to hundreds of social media users directing hatred at the athlete, Nika Godun. Godun responded by saying Swoll took his original video out … Read more

Unlocking the Key to Healthy Aging: The Influence of Vitamin K on the Diet-Microbiome-Health Axis

In a recent narrative review published in the Nutrients Journal, researchers explored how dietary vitamin K supplementation might promote healthy aging. Study: Vitamin K and hallmarks of aging: attention to diet and the gut microbiome. Image Credit: ratmaner/Shutterstock.com Background Dietary vitamin K is a modulator of the diet-microbiome-health axis; therefore, researchers are looking for evidence … Read more

Adapting workplaces to protect workers’ mental health is both easier and more difficult than one might think

US employees are increasingly grappling with work-related mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety and burnout. They were professors researching how employees interact and well-being in the workplace. After noting that occupational and mental health research had not kept pace with the growing prevalence of mental health problems, we reviewed existing mental health findings and … Read more

Worker deletes thousands of files he created after discovering company that fired him for ‘incompetent’ still uses his work

annoyed man deleting files Most companies make new employees well aware that everything they create during working hours is no longer their intellectual property but belongs to the organization they work for. That doesn’t take the sting out of relinquishing rights to anything you’ve spent time on when you leave your job as a terminated … Read more

Doubtful claims about the autonomic nervous system

The realm of personalized medicine, functional medicine and, of course, integrative medicine remains filled with pseudoscience and dubious claims. Claims are often phrased in scientific terms, as if this were the next step in scientific medicine, just a little ahead of its time. This is especially dangerous, as non-experts will have a hard time analyzing … Read more