Category: Healthy News

Whether it’s a morning cup of tea, a daily meditation, or a call to your closest friend, your daily habits impact your health and happiness. While Dr. Peter Attia, author of New York Times best seller Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, said there’s no “silver bullet” to increase one’s health span and life span, there are still a variety of longevity-linked habits that may work for you to stave off age-related diseases and early mortality. “People have so much more agency over this than they will ever believe if they don’t take the step to educate themselves on…

Are you trying to lose a few pounds? Do you find yourself hungry all the time? Just because you’re trying to lose weight, doesn’t mean you have to deal with a grumbling stomach. Here are some easy tricks to make you feel fuller longer. Tip 1. Eat more whole grainsWhile refined grains, like white flour, white pasta, and white rice will cause you to feel hungry just a short time later; whole grains, like brown rice, oats, millet, and teff will leave you feeling much satisfied longer. When eating pasta, be sure to choose whole-grain pasta, such as brown…

Dozens of Alberta Health Services sites are facing service disruptions. Many rural Albertans are calling it alarming and are demanding help.Oyen, a town of about 1,000 people located 300 kilometers east of Calgary, has no acute care beds in hospitals and limited emergency department services. “It’s pretty dire,” Conny Hertz told Global News. She’s a retired health-care worker in Oyen. She and other area residents are pointing at AHS and say the community isn’t getting enough support.Read more: Elk Point Healthcare Center ER temporarily closed over lack of nursing staff: AHSRead next: How rising food prices make…

St James’ Park in central London. (Getty Images)Tourists have been urged to take care in the extreme heat as the Cerberus heatwave continues to hit parts of southern Europe and north-west Africa. Cerberus – named by the Italian Meteorological Society after the three-headed monster that features in Dante’s inferno – has taken hold across many popular British family holiday hotspots in the Mediterranean. But could the heatwave hit the UK? According to the Met Office, it’s unlikely. Rebekah Sherwin, an expert meteorologist from the Met Office’s global forecasting team, said “unusually high” sea surface temperatures are also occurring across…

Health Canada has approved a new antibody drug to help protect babies from serious illness caused by respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. Nirsevimab, also known by its brand name Beyfortus, was legal on April 19. It was developed by AstraZeneca and Sanofi. Nirsevimab is “a monoclonal antibody to prevent serious lower respiratory tract disease caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in newborns and infants during their first RSV season,” Health Canada spokesman Mark Johnson said in an email to The Canadian Press on Friday. The drug, which is given by injection, is also legal for children up to two…

A new study finds that a type of common sweetener can damage your DNA. The zero-calorie sweetener in question is sucralose, which is about 600 times sweeter than table sugar. The new study found that sucralose may lead to a leaky gut lining, and increase the activity of genes related to inflammation and cancer.A study from researchers at North Carolina State University suggests that a chemical formed from one artificial sweetener might also damage our DNA. The zero-calorie sweetener in question is sucralose, which is about 600 times sweeter than table sugar, The World Health Organization recently recommended against…

Members of Killarney Celtic FC pictured celebrating the Football for All project’s 10th birthday.A cake made to commemorate the 10th birthday of the ‘Football for All’ initiative.A wonderful initiative by Killarney Celtic FC to ensure inclusiveness and to guarantee game-time opportunities for players with intellectual, physical and sensory needs has just celebrated a landmark birthday.The ‘Football for All’ project is one that is aimed at players aged between six and 18 and a special celebration was recently held to mark 10 years of great success for the initiative; it was at the final training session of the…

A new Canadian-led study has found that feeling depressed, along with living in a disadvantaged neighborhood, may lead to premature aging. The peer-reviewed study, published on Monday in The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, points to how depression and living in an urban environment – ​​with greater material and social inequities – can influence how a person ages. Led by researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., the study’s authors say this may occur “even after accounting for individual-level health and behavioral risk factors, such as chronic conditions and poor health behaviors.” “This adds to…