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What You Eat Can Reprogram Your Genes – an Expert Explains the Emerging Science of Nutrigenomics
By Monica Dus, University of Michigan People typically think of food as calories, energy and sustenance. However, the latest evidence suggests that food also “talks” to our genome, which is the genetic blueprint that directs the way the body functions down to the cellular level. This communication between food and genes may affect your health, physiology and longevity. The idea that food delivers important messages to an animal’s genome is the focus of a field known as nutrigenomics. This is Healthy
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A Conversation With Janet McUlsky About Patient Advocacy
Janet McUlsky has been working in patient advocacy for more than four decades. She’s a nationally recognized expert and innovator in the field of stakeholder alliance development and programming and is the former senior director of National Alliance Development at Pfizer. McUlsky is this year’s recipient of the Pinnacle Award: Honoring a Career of Outstanding Accomplishments in Advocacy and Alliance, which will be presented at HealthyWomen’s Annual Event on Thursday March 3, 2022. She recently spoke with HealthyWomen’s editor- in-chief Healthy
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After Suffering From Chronic UTIs, One Woman Is Taking Control of Her Urinary Health—Here’s How
On the list of “Things That Suck” getting a UTI is probably in the top three. First of all, they’re extremely painful and while they can be remedied with antibiotics, leaving your UTI untreated should be at the bottom of your to-do list (okay, I’ll stop will all the lists now). UTIs can also have a negative stigma associated with them as they commonly occur from sex. However, there is a lot of misconceptions out there because UTIs can also shek
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#ChangeTheStory: New campaign launches to tackle the stigma around eating disorders
New campaign, #ChangeTheStory, launched today by The Hearts Minds and Genes Coalition Research released today shows that 16% of people think eating disorders are a choice, and that 44% of the population think people develop eating disorders to enable them to look a certain way. You wouldn’t say to those with a physical health issue, ‘you are choosing to be like this’, or ‘you are only breaking your leg so you look a certain way’, and yet with eating disorders happi
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Why Does Nothing Make Me Happy Anymore? What To Do?
Happiness is a feeling that neither can be bought or sold but it can be created or destroyed! Happiness comes from within and sometimes we can’t seem to understand why nothing makes you happy anymore. Have you ever thought of why you feel this lack of happiness? Have you been doing something that’s not right for you or have you left engaging in activities that once made you happy? Whatever it may be, if you feel like you’re not happy calmsage
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Baptist Health Care Tops Out Florida Campus
Nonprofit healthcare organization Baptist Health Care (Pensacola, Fla.) celebrated the topping out of the new Baptist Health Care campus in Pensacola. Situated on 57 acres, the $636 million project comprises a new 602,000-square-foot flagship hospital with 10 floors and 264 beds and a 178,000 square-foot, 162-bed multispecialty center for oncology, infusion, women’s health, and outpatient imaging services. The project team includes Brasfield & Gorrie (general contractor; Birmingham, Ala.). The post Baptist Health Care Tops Out Florida Campus first appeared on healthcare
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5 myths about skin picking disorder
Despite growing numbers of people sharing their experiences of dermatillomania, it’s still shrouded in taboo and shame. It’s time to shine a light on the misunderstood condition I didn’t realise that my secret habit of skin picking had spiralled out of control until one cold, dark night in November, about three years ago. I’d finished my shift at work and had, as I’d been doing every Thursday for several weeks, walked the five minutes it took to get from my happi
mars 1, 2022Like
Lose Control With These Kinky Handcuff Sex Positions
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Technology has made our lives so much better in so many ways — but when it comes to sex, sometimes it’s just better to keep things old-school. That’s right; all you need for some next-level sex is a pair of handcuffs and a couple of basic sex positions. Yup, we saw you perk up in your seat with the shek
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Leg Exercises Real Personal Trainers Recommend For Your Next Workout
Uninspired when it comes to your workouts? If you’re feeling disenchanted with your routine, it might be time to add in some fresh new moves. And if anyone is going to know how to ramp up a workout, it’s going to be a trainer who works out everyday. From strength training to barre to yoga, top trainers shared with SheKnows their workouts for the holy trinity — arms, core and, for today, a workout for your legs. To start, welcome shek
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Could You Hug Me Longer, Please? Reclaiming Touch & Intimacy as a Black Woman With Long COVID
I texted, “So if I show up to the theater five minutes early, would you greet me with a long hug?” He replied, “…absolutely I would.” Standing at the entrance of the movie theater, I thought of the question I posed to Bryan on a popular dating site after we decided we would meet. Did I seem too desperate? What would hugging him feel like? Would he smell nice? Would it feel awkward? Would I ever let go? I hadn’t shek
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Former Funeral Home Transformed Into Health Clinic In Connecticut
Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Conn., has converted a former funeral home into the West Haven Clinic for behavioral health, dental, adult, pediatric, and women’s health services. The 10,000-square-foot facility houses medical and dental offices at street level, while behavioral health programs are located in the newly refinished basement, which also contains an employee break room. The healthcare organization worked with architecture, art, and advisory firm Svigals + Partners (New Haven) on the design, which includes glazed walls healthcare
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A Broken System: There’s A Long History of Healthcare Disparities in the Black Community
Fractured, disjointed, broken, steeped in systemic racism. These are all words used to describe the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the American healthcare system long before the COVID-19 global pandemic. Now entering the third year of pandemic life and an unending public health crisis, the problems that existed before have only been magnified. “Healthcare has always been very disjunctive [and] mental health care has never been involved,” said Irnise Williams a registered nurse and health law attorney. “Everything is very pocketed shek