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Verily’s New Smart Shoe Tracks Weight and Falls

CNBC reports that Google’s sister company Verily wants to make a smart shoe that can track weight and monitor falls. The company has allegedly been looking for partners to develop this shoe and bring it to market, but it’s very early in the process. Fall detection, as in, automatically alerting people when you've "fallen and I can't get up," seems to have become an increasingly popular feature for wellness gadgets. […]

todayFebruary 6, 2019

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Vape Now, Smoke Later

A new study published in the JAMA Network Open Journal, has found that teens who start vaping are nearly three times more likely to go on to smoke cigarettes than their peers who don’t use any type of tobacco product. The results are alarming for both medical experts — who would rather kids not smoke — and for the e-cigarette industry, which is increasingly marketing its products as smoking-cessation tools […]

todayFebruary 5, 2019

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Baby, It’s Extremely Cold Outside

Extreme Cold means below normal temperatures combine with strong winds (wind chill) that result in the thermostat falling below -27 °C. Brr! Of course temperatures this extreme come with more health risks, such as: Windburn - Skin becomes very dry, red, sore and itchy. Frostbite - Skin of the extremities (hands, feet, nose) turns yellowish or white. Respiratory Tract Irritation Hypothermia - Body temperature drops below 35 °C, causing shivering […]

todayFebruary 4, 2019

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Salt’s Bad Shake

For years, health experts have been hammering home the notion that we need to cut back on salt to improve our heart health.  The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a daily consumption of less than 2,000 mg of sodium, that’s just one teaspoon of salt, to keep our hearts healthy.  And the American Heart Association (AHA) is even more strict with the salt shaker, limiting people at risk for heart […]

todayJanuary 30, 2019

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Could Graphic Food Labels Make You Eat Healthier?

Do you think graphic health messages on food and beverage packaging like those that scare the bejeezus out of you on cigarette boxes could steer people towards better eating habits? Some researchers in Australia seem to think so.  A recent Australian Study published in the journal “Appetite” asked participants to rate healthy and unhealthy foods and choose which they would like to eat at the end of the experiment.   Next […]

todayJanuary 29, 2019

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Next Level Hemp

Hemp hearts, seeds and oils are nothing new to food and body care lovers — they’re in everything from waffle mix to dried pastas. Heck, even baby hemp leaves have had their moment in the microgreens trends. But a new interest in the potential benefits stemming from other parts of hemp plants has many brands looking to explore the booming cannabis biz. While CBD oil is still technically taboo (prohibited […]

todayJanuary 28, 2019

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Fit Body, Fit Brain

University of California, Irvine and Japan’s University of Tsukuba recently combined efforts to study whether lower-intensity exercise would be enough to stimulate parts of the brain involved with memory, as well as determine whether physical activity improves cognitive functioning in general.   In the study, researchers used magnetic resonance imaging to examine brain activity in 36 healthy young adults both before and after just a single 10-minute round of light […]

todayJanuary 25, 2019

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The Dementia-Fitness Factor

Women: if you want to stave off dementia in your later years, researchers say you should get moving now. The medical journal Neurology recently reported findings from a study that revealed middle-aged women with high cardiovascular fitness levels were almost 90% less likely to develop dementia in older age than women with just moderate degree of aerobic fitness.   “These findings are exciting because it’s possible that improving cardiovascular fitness […]

todayJanuary 24, 2019

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Healthy Moms, Healthy Kids

Did you know that children of fit mothers are 75% less likely to develop obesity? It’s a startling statistic that the researchers at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health recently found when they gathered data from monitoring almost 25,000 kids and almost 17,000 Moms. The study’s analysis focused on the association between a mother’s lifestyle habits and the incidence of childhood obesity between the ages of 9 and […]

todayJanuary 23, 2019

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