Synthetic Cannabinoids Linked to Severe Bleeding

Synthetic Cannabinoids Linked to Severe Bleeding

Five people have died and more than 202 people have developed severe bleeding linked with the use of synthetic cannabinoids found to be laced with rat poison. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a warning saying these drugs, sold under...
A Blueprint to Beat Cancer

A Blueprint to Beat Cancer

Recently, the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Fund released the newest edition of Diet, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Cancer: A Global Perspective. While this authoritative report is over 12,000 pages, the recommendations are summarized...
Inhaled Cannabis Transfers to Breast Milk

Inhaled Cannabis Transfers to Breast Milk

A small study of breastfeeding mothers suggests that breastfed infants would consume about 2.5% of the inhaled cannabis dose. Well-intentioned parents might choose to smoke marijuana away from their infants to minimize exposure, but this study indicates the breastfed...
Egg Farm in Salmonella Outbreak Identified

Egg Farm in Salmonella Outbreak Identified

FDA inspectors found an egg farm in North Carolina that is responsible for an outbreak of salmonella illness that sickened at least 35 people in a several state area. Upon inspection, dozens of live and dead rodents were found inside the hen houses and insects hovered...
Frequent Consumption of Fruit Improves Female Fertility

Frequent Consumption of Fruit Improves Female Fertility

Women who ate fruit less than three times per day, when compared to those who consumed three or more servings, had a significantly increased risk of infertility. This retrospective study from Australia also found women who consumed no fast food had a 41% reduced risk...
5 Lifestyle Factors Can Add 10+ Years to Life Expectancy

5 Lifestyle Factors Can Add 10+ Years to Life Expectancy

The evidence continues to accumulate—a healthy lifestyle in middle-age improves the length and quality of life. Using data from two very large cohorts, researchers looked at the associations between five low-risk lifestyle factors and mortality over 30 years. A...
Too Good to be True

Too Good to be True

A large, geographically diverse study using a simple food frequency questionnaire found those consuming more Mediterranean foods experienced a lower risk of major adverse cardiovascular events than those reporting fewer such foods. However, contrary to many headlines,...
Fresh Fruit Daily Lowers Cardiovascular Risk

Fresh Fruit Daily Lowers Cardiovascular Risk

Researchers in China followed almost a half-million people for seven years finding when they consumed more fresh fruit they had lower risk of heart attack and stroke. Cardiovascular deaths were 40% lower in those who consumed fresh fruit daily compared to those who...
Women Reaching Equality with Men in Drinking

Women Reaching Equality with Men in Drinking

Researchers have found women have all but caught up with men in their alcohol drinking habits. During earlier decades men were far more likely to drink so much that it affected their health than women. That gap has closed. Women around the world are now nearly as...
Health-related Anxiety Increases Risk of Heart Disease

Health-related Anxiety Increases Risk of Heart Disease

Researchers in Norway studied 7000 adults and found about 10% had health-related anxieties. Those anxious individuals were 70% more likely to develop heart disease in the next 12 years, even after adjusting for cardiovascular and other confounders, compared to those...
“Lose-Lose” Together!

“Lose-Lose” Together!

In a poster session (T-OR-2014) at ObesityWeek 2016 Amy Gorin, Ph.D. reported her team found when one spouse lost weight the other one frequently did, too! Participants were randomized to Weight Watchers or a self-guided program to lose weight. Both participants and...
Kids, Smartphones, and Sleep

Kids, Smartphones, and Sleep

Two-thirds of high schoolers sleep next to a phone or tablet—and 47% awake at least once per night to respond to messages! A meta-analysis of 17 studies finds the use of smartphones and tablets at night are a significant problem for the amount and quality of sleep...

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