Vitamin D Could Improve IBS Symptoms
...findings showed that vitamin D deficiency was higher in patients suffering from IBS, regardless of other factors such as age, sex or ethnicity. They [...]
Red Meat, Dairy Linked to Insulin Sensitivity
...in insulin sensitivity after the high dairy diet as assessed by the homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance. Sex made a difference in [...]
Latest Social Media Dares: Condom Snorting and “Tide Pod Challenge” Are All Very Bad Ideas!
...is at least one case in which a woman inhaled a condom during oral sex which led to pneumonia and subsequent lung collapse.1 Ingestion of latex [...]
It’s About Belly Weight Not BMI
...and sex. Worldwide, around 3 billion people are overweight (BMI = 25 to 29.9 kg/m2) or have obesity obese(BMI ?30 kg/m2). Obesity is a complex [...]
Plant-Based Doesn’t Have to Mean No Meat or Dairy for Hypertension Benefits
...than tobacco use, high alcohol intake, drug use and unsafe sex put together. An increased consumption of whole grains, vegetables, nuts and seeds, [...]
Midlife Weight Gain Linked to Early Mortality
...between BMI change and the likelihood that a participant died over the course of the observed period, controlling for other factors such as participants’ [...]
Common Medications Could Contribute to Alzheimer’s
...in the study Six hundred and eighty-eight adults were involved in the study, evenly divided by sex with an average age of 74. None of the [...]
Kids Who Live Near Convenience Stores Gain More Weight
...other children of the same sex and age at the end of the study. In contrast, exposure to an additional small grocery store within a mile over 24 [...]
Whole Body Spring Cleaning
...fried foods, and drugs. It also stores blood and glucose for when we need extra, creates bile, processes hormones, burns fat, and regulates sex [...]
Shift Work Affects Men and Women Differently
...prepared to produce the pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators needed during an infection. Just as importantly, an individual’s sex impacts the [...]
