Tag Archives: Health

DIY Health Care and Self-Care Accelerating in the Pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has spawned many side-effects re-shaping consumers’ everyday lives. Among them, more time at home, DIY life-flows, and financial well-being are driving growth of self-care health care. An article in the latest Drug Store News talks about consumers growing more health-conscious, adopting natural, homeopathic products. “It’s about more than washing your hands,” David Salazar explains.… Read More »

A Global Health Star Under Fire

The leader of a global campaign to prevent tuberculosis has been accused of bullying and harassing employees, and creating a poisonous work environment especially for people of color, according to interviews with current and former staff members and internal documents obtained by The New York Times. Since 2011, at least seven employees have filed formal… Read More »

Dash and mediterranean diet cardiovascular health nih

Omnivore Entomophagy Pescetarian Diet. The NHLBI provides sample plans with specific number of servings based on mediterranean, or calories per day. The report also found that people who started out with the highest blood pressure readings experienced the greatest benefits. Andersson J. The higher the BP, the greater is the chance of heart attack, heart… Read More »

Rude health: A big wave

Aussie flu Recent advice from the World Health Organisation suggests the coronavirus pandemic will not hit seasonally like the influenza virus, but is a one-off wave of human illness. One only has to look at the two countries worst affected to see this pronouncement in action. America is in the middle of high summer. Brazil endures its pandemic in winter.… Read More »

Health risks of too much diet soda

Large studies have linked diet soda to preterm delivery. Artificial sweeteners definitely get a bad rap, but a lot of people still turn to them to help them stop consuming so much sugar. Those who drank diet soda even had a higher BMI than their counterparts. However, the authors admitted that the study may not… Read More »