Intermittent Fasting: Unlocking the Secrets to Weight Loss and Longevity
The Power of Intermittent Fasting: Unlocking the Benefits
Intermittent fasting, a phenomenon that has been rapidly gaining popularity worldwide and in the United States, is revolutionizing the way we approach dieting. By restricting our eating windows and embracing periods of fasting, individuals have discovered a myriad of health benefits. However, it’s important to navigate this trend with caution as new studies have raised concerns about its potential risks.
A New Way to Eat
Intermittent fasting involves dividing our day into specific time frames for eating and abstaining from food for the remainder. The most widely adopted model is the 8-16 hour program, allowing individuals to eat during an 8-hour window while fasting for 16 hours.
In order to fully understand intermittent fasting’s impact on human health and well-being, Dr. Christopher Hine from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute has dedicated over a decade to studying dietary interventions like intermittent fasting. His research has offered promising results.
Dr. Hine explains:
“What we’ve seen is prior to surgery caloric restriction is quite beneficial,” he said, “The outcomes are better; there’s bet
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Intermittent Fasting: Unlocking the Secrets to Weight Loss and Longevity
Kissing, a love ritual that reduces stress and anxiety
Kissing has many health benefits. Passionately, this emotional expression exercises more than 30 facial muscles and keeps them toned, it also reduces the appearance of expression lines, helps you lose weight, and reduces stress and anxiety.
The dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy defines the word kiss as touching or pressing someone or something with a movement of the lips as an expression of love, desire or reverence, or as a greeting.
The researcher at the Iztacala Faculty of Higher Studies, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Nélida Padilla Gámez highlights that in Western culture, in Latin America and in particular Mexicans, we have this behavior a lot, we even greet each ot
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Anxiety, depression, addiction… A psychiatrist reveals how to regain control of your mind
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Anxiety, depression, burn-out, addictions… Never has our mental health been put to the test so much. Faced with this observation, Dr. Paul Conti, an eminent psychiatrist and professor at Stanford, developed an innovative approach to help us regain control of our minds. His secret? Four fundamental pillars – structure of mind, function of self, empowerment and gratitude – to build the foundations of lasting psychological well-being. Decryption of a method that is as simple as it is powerful.
Structure of the mind: diving into the depths of our psyche
First pillar of the Conti method: understanding the intimate architecture of our mind. Far from clichés about the brain, it is about exploring the different layers that shape our psychological life:
- The unconscious mind, a true “supercomputer” which conditions our thoughts and behaviors without our knowledge
- The conscious mind, the tip of the iceberg, the seat of our “self” and our apparent free will
- Defense mechanisms, these unconscious “tentacles” which protect our self from external attacks
- The structure of character, this “shell” forged by our experiences which determines the way we interact with the world
Far from being a simple reading grid, this model of the mind is a powerful tool for introspection. By exploring these different “cabinets”, we can identify the thought patterns and automatisms that harm us, to better overcome them.
Self-function: the 5 keys to a fulfilled mind
But it is not enough to dissect the workings of our psyche. We still need to understand how it “
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Anxiety, depression, addiction… A psychiatrist reveals how to regain control of your mind
Upsurge in whooping cough in Europe, call for increased vigilance in France
Whooping cough is a highly contagious bacterial infection whose transmission occurs mainly within the family or in communities through contact with a sick person with a cough. Even though the number of cases of whooping cough has decreased significantly since the introduction of the vaccine, the bacteria continues to circulate. Infants too young to be vaccinated and adolescents and adults who have lost vaccine protection are the most affected populations. Outside our borders, Europe is currently experiencing an upsurge in cases of whooping cough with significant epidemics in Croatia, Denmark and the United Kingdom and significant increases in Belgium, Spain and Germany. In France, since the start of 2024, around twenty grouped cases (or clusters) have been reported to Public Health France in 8 French regions versus 2 grouped cases in a single region (Ile-de-France) for throughout 2023. Given this clear increase in the number of cluster cases reported, Public Health France remains vigilant and recalls the importance of vaccination to protect people at risk of serious forms.
A resumption of the circulation of whooping cough begins in France
Whooping cough progresses in cycles of recrudescence every 3 to 5 years. In France, surveillance data from the RENACOQ network (the hospital pertussis surveillance network) have shown six epidemic peaks in recent years: 1997, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2012-2013 and 2017-2018. Since the last peak of whooping cough (162 cases reported), the number of cases has continued to decrease to reach 34 cases in 2020 and 4 cases in 2021 in infants under 12 months. Same observation regarding the data from the Sentinelles network (the research and monitoring network in primary care general medicine and pediatrics in mainland France) reporting 1 case per year in the general population over the same period. Even if a rebound in the disease could be expected in France in 20
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Upsurge in whooping cough in Europe, call for increased vigilance in France
«States responsible for damages». Ursula’s buck-passing on vials
Alexander the Great brought it from the Far East to the Mediterranean. Since then he has entered our kitchens. Its medicinal virtuesAlexander the Great brought it from the Far East to the Mediterranean. Since then he has entered our kitchens. Its medicinal virtues help against nausea, vomiting and poor digestion. But it is not a panacea that is good for everyone.
beautiful gum galls.” One might not recognize it, since the poet, as we have just seen, calls it gengiovo. But it is not poetic license: gengiovo was the name of ginger at that time and, in general, in ancient times. The history of the name of this spice over time and around the world is as fascinating as discovering its merits. The botanical name of ginger is Zingiber officinale: it is a herbaceous plant originally from the Far East but now very familiar to us too. It belongs to the Zingiberaceae family, genus Zingiber, species, precisely, Zingiber officinale. Officinal because ginger is a plant used not to feed, but to heal. The original name, singivera, belongs to the Middle Indian language, now extinct. At a certain point, the plant arrived in the Mediterranean with the soldiers of Alexander the Greatreturning from the Asian military campaigns, and with it came the original name that each territory remodeled in its own way. For example, in French it is gingembre, in English ginger, in Dutch gember, in Romanian ghimbir, in Spanish jengibre. In current Italian ginger, with dialectal variations always relevant to the original name, such as the Friulian zenzevar, the Sardinian zìnzalu, the Sicilian gènciru, the Venetian xènxaro (or denèver).
Moving from the name to the thing that the name denotes, we see that the ginger plant is composed of a beautiful plump and lumpy root on which, above the level of the earth in which the root is buried, stems with lanceolate leaves and small yellowish-greenish flowers stand out which then evolve into fruits. Each fruit is a capsule divided into three lodges, but ginger flowers are unknown: we only use the root. The root, also called rhizome, contains the active ingredients that we exploit for our health and which are also responsible for the strong, almost spicy flavor of our ginger: active ingredients such as gingerols, then derivatives of gingerols such as zingerone and shogaoli and the volatile elements of the essential oil i.e. sesquiterpenes, such as zingiberene and B-bisabolene, and other monoterpenes. The fresh root must be peeled and the remaining pulp cut into small pieces as is done with garlic cloves. Or cut into thin slices. Another form, in addition to these, in which you may find ginger, is the powder, which is made by drying and then pulverizing the root. In both cases, we use ginger as a flavoring or as a spice, it is clearly not the case to consume ginger roots in bites as if they were aspa
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«States responsible for damages». Ursula’s buck-passing on vials
New Study in Nature Medicine Shows Homozygous APOE4 Gene Carries Near 100% Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease: Implications for Genetic Understanding of the Disease
Nature Medicine published the impact paper
Those who are homozygous for the APOE4 gene are
Nearly 100% say they have Alzheimer’s disease
Confidence that Alzheimer’s is a genetic disease
Enlarge photo A researcher is examining a patient’s brain at the Alzheimer’s Research Center at Geneva University Hospital in Switzerland. [사진=로이터연합]
“People with this gene are guaranteed to develop Alzheimer’s as they age.”
“There is no evidence that having the gene in question shows a ‘specific gene expression’ unique to Alzheimer’s.”
An article on Alzheimer’s published in Nature Medicine, a renowned academic journal in the life sciences and medical fields, is causing a stir in the academic world.
According to Reuters, on the 6th, a research team led by Dr. Juan Forte of the University of Barcelona published an article claiming that people carrying the gene ‘homozygous for the APOE4 gene’ are actually destined to develop
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Prescriptive appropriateness. Smi writes to the Benevento Local Health Authority: “It is regulated by clinical indications, not by averages and algorithms”
Doctors in Benevento Challenge Evaluation of Prescriptive Activity by Health Authority
In response to findings from the Local Health Authority (ASL) of Benevento regarding the prescriptive activity of general practitioners, doctors in the area have raised concerns about the evaluation methods being used. The ASL has been using abstract financial averages to assess the work of doctors, which the doctors argue is unsuitable and unjustified.
In a letter sent to ASL leaders, Carlo Iannotti, company secretary of ASL Benevento of the SMI, emphasized that financial parameters unrelated to clinical results are inappropriate for eva
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‘Health tech’, such as robots that help the elderly walk, will become a 666 trillion won market in 4 years
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Wearing a sleep-exercise prescription ring
AI-based lip diagnosis-management, lip cure beam, etc. Cognitive-sensitivity care centered on muscle strength support
“Personalized customization is common… “Information needs to be protected”
Last month, Korean startup Wibotics introduced ‘Wim’, a wearable robot that helps the elderly walk and strengthens lower body muscles. It works by wearing a rectangular box containing a battery and motor on your waist and fastening the belts attached to the ends of the two bars connected to the box to each leg. ‘Assistive mode’ makes your steps lighter to help you walk, while ‘exercise mode’ makes your steps heavier to strengthen your leg muscles. Artificial intelligence (AI) estimates walking speed, stride length, and balance to evaluate walking ability and recommends the mode to use. Upobotics won the Innovation Award at ‘CES 2024’, the world’s largest information technology (IT) and home appliance exhibition.
As interest in healthy living increases due to low birth rates and aging population, ‘health tech’, which improves health and overcomes disabilities through technolog
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Preventing Viral Hepatitis: Information and Tips from Doctors Association in Lebanon
The Health, Cultural and Media Committees and the Citizen Education Committee of the Doctors Association in Lebanon distributed a short health bulletin on Viral Hepatitis of the Millennium in all governments, especially in towns and cities.
The leaflet contained the following information:
Pathogen: Hepatitis A virus
Modes of transmission: through contaminated water, contaminated drinks, contaminated food, eating raw or undercooked meat and fish, or contaminated hands. The incubation period of the disease extends from 28 to 30 days after infection.
Symptoms of the disease: high temperature (fever), malaise, loss of appetite, diarrhea, nausea, abdominal discomfort, da
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Preventing Viral Hepatitis: Information and Tips from Doctors Association in Lebanon
Suryakumar Yadav’s Century Leads Mumbai Indians to Victory Over Hyderabad in IPL 2024 – Match Highlights and Analysis
2024-05-06 18:11:24
Hyderabad’s chances of reaching the IPL 2024 playoffs were dashed with a 7-wicket win over five-time champions Mumbai at the Wankhede Stadium on Monday (May 6). Captain Hardik Pandya and Piyush Chawla shone with the ball. Suryakumar Yadav scored 102 runs in 51 balls and became the backbone of the team.
Chasing 174 with a pitch that sustained the bowlers for most of the match, MI were reduced to 31 for 3 after their best batsmen, including Rohit Sharma
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