If you’re a daily caffeine drinker, you may not be all that interested in giving up your ritual. You might even argue that little extra help waking up your brain or maintaining energy in the afternoon is healthy in and of itself (including for the people who interact with you!). But the question “Is caffeine healthy?” is certainly a classic topic of debate: with caffeine being a central nervous system stimulant and considered a psychoactive substance, there’s the argument that consuming too much of it can affect your health negatively. So how much caffeine can you consume safely? Here’s what health authorities…
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Dive Brief: Giant Food has teamed up with Boston-based About Fresh, which allows participants of its Fresh Connect program to use prepaid debit cards to buy “prescribed” fresh food by healthcare providers, About Fresh announced Tuesday. Starting this week, all of the grocer’s locations in Washington, D.C., will launch Fresh Connect. Participants of the program will be able to access free classes, consultations and additional resources offered by Giant Food’s Healthy Living Team, the announcement noted. The tie-up comes at a time when grocers are increasingly focused on food insecurity and comes just weeks after the historic White House Conference on…
Space tomatoes, portable diagnostic kits and yogurt bags growing beneficial microorganisms are just a sample of the innovations that will ride aboard SpaceX’s 26th commercial resupply mission, which is scheduled to take off for the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday.NASA scientists from across the country — including those based at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View — are preparing to launch their experiments into space, conducting research that will support long-duration missions in the future and allow humans to go deeper into space than ever before.John Hogan, chief of the Bioengineering Branch…
Gout is a type of arthritis that affects approximately 9.2 million people in the US. This condition can cause intense swelling and inflammation of the joints. Fortunately, gout can be managed with the right medication and a gout-friendly diet! What is Gout? Gout is a type of arthritis that affects millions of people. Anyone can develop gout, however, it often occurs after menopause in women and occurs earlier in men because they generally have higher levels of uric acid in their blood. Gout can be described as unexpected and intense bouts of pain and swelling in joints. Commonly, the big…
Hunger, Nutrition, and Health: Stepping Up to the Plate Medscape
Kappa Bioscience AS (Oslo Norway), recently acquired by Balchem Corp. (New Hampton, NY), is unveiling the first cardiovascular-health clinical study on its K2Vital Delta vitamin K2 ingredient investigating coronary artery calcification (CAC). The two-year study was conducted by Odense University Hospital in Denmark, with results recently shared at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Barcelona, Spain, this August. At November’s SupplySide West trade show in Las Vegas, Nutritional Outlook caught up with Kappa representatives to discuss the company’s landmark study.The two-year, double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled multicenter trial was conducted on 304 male participants with an average age of 71 who did not…
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, Janet Bush talks with Jessica Fanzo. Fanzo is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food Policy and Ethics at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. From 2017 to 2019, Fanzo served as the co-chair of the Global Nutrition Report and the UN High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition. She was the first laureate of the Carasso Foundation’s Premio Daniel…
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Scrolling through TikTok, you may fall down a certain algorithm rabbit hole that leads to “health coaches” and “nutritionists” making splashy declarations about the health habits that will make us live forever or push us into early mortality. It seems the more sensational the claim, the more traction the videos get.One topic of those videos is glyphosate and the hypothesis plastered on some influencers’ videos that your Cheerios contain glyphosate and therefore, cause cancer. Before you go ditching your cereal, we spoke with experts to find out what to know about glyphosate, including if it’s really dangerous for humans, and…
The debacle between UCLA and the University of California Board of Regents may be nearing its conclusion.Ahead of the UC Regents’ upcoming meeting on Thursday, a letter was addressed to the board making the Bruins’ impending move from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten a discussion item at said meeting. The agenda was then revised to make it an action item.The move has faced plenty of scrutiny since it was first announced nearly five months ago, with prominent figures such as Governor Gavin Newsom, Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff and Bill Walton all coming out against it.The regents held a special…