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02/09/2022

National Toothache Day on February 9th is a not so subtle reminder of the importance of dental care. Also known as odontalgia, a toothache is pain generating from a tooth or multiple teeth. Routine dental care is an essential first step. Avoiding sugary foods and acidic drinks and daily brushing and flossing are important, too. Even so, we can still develop cavities, have accidents that break or chip at a tooth, or find ourselves with an infection. Teeth can also become sensitive to heat or cold.
Treating a toothache in the short term may be simply handled by over-the-counter treatments, but seeing a dentist may still be required to resolve the issue. Some toothaches are so severe as to require emergency intervention, thus treating the early signs of a mild toothache is important.

02/06/2022

The link between obesity and cancer risk is clear. Research shows that excess body fat increases your risk for several cancers, including colorectal, post-menopausal breast, uterine, esophageal, kidney and pancreatic cancers.

What’s less clear is exactly how being obese increases that risk. Experts believe it’s largely due to the inflammation caused by visceral fat – the fat that surrounds your vital organs.

“The problem with excessive visceral fat is that it affects certain processes in your body. This includes how your body manages hormones, like insulin and estrogen,” says Karen Basen-Engquist, Ph.D., professor in Behavioral Science at MD Anderson.

“All of this can lead to an increased cancer risk by affecting how and when cells divide and die,” she says. 🌳💰💯

01/28/2022

We know changes in the weather and seasons can affect mood, causing run-of-the-mill rainy-day blues and seasonal affective disorder. Now, it's also important to recognize the harmful mental and physical health effects of long-term climate change.

In her book, "Taking the Heat: How Climate Change Is Affecting Your Mind, Body, and Spirit and What You Can Do About It," author and former CNN meteorologist Bonnie Schneider documents these challenges and shares experts' advice on how to cope. 🌳

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Happy new year dear friends

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11/13/2021

Researchers have discovered the best time for you to fall asleep to protect your heart and rest is between 10  and 11 p.m.
A peer-reviewed study published in the European Heart Journal analyzed the sleep and heart patterns of about 88,000 adults for six years.
The data revealed a 12% greater risk for developing cardiovascular disease among those who went to sleep between 11  and 11:59 p.m. and a 25% higher risk among people who fell asleep at midnight or later. Adults who fell asleep earlier than 10 p.m. had a 24% increase in risk.
Researchers factored in the individuals' age, gender, sleep duration, sleep irregularity, being an early bird or a night owl, smoking status, body-mass index, diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol levels and socioeconomic status. Overall, they found consistent sleeping at or after midnight increased the person's risk of heart disease. 
“The body has a 24-hour internal clock, called circadian rhythm, that helps regulate physical and mental functioning,” David Plans, a neuroscientist and experimental psychologist and co-author of the study, said in a statement to NBC News. “While we cannot conclude causation from our study, the results suggest that early or late bedtimes may be more likely to disrupt the body clock, with adverse consequences for cardiovascular health.”
A common habit of falling asleep after midnight after, say, deciding to stay up longer to binge-watch your favorite streaming show, is called revenge bedtime procrastination, and experts say this decision to sacrifice sleep for leisure time is actually doing more harm than good. And yes, you can die if you don't get enough sleep, since it's vital to your brain functions. As we sleep, various parts of our brain shut down, and that reduced power consumption reduces the swelling across our neurons. Without any sleep, toxins build up in our brain and can kill us within 200 hours.