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At a Glance A sophisticated model estimated that healthy food subsidies could save billions in health care costs and prevent hundreds of thousands of heart disease deaths and diabetes cases. The findings suggest a cost-effective way to improve health. Your diet plays an important role in your health. An unhealthy diet is one of the leading risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Eating a healthy diet can lower your risk for some of these conditions. A healthy eating plan includes vegetables, fruits, whole grains, fat-free or low-fat dairy products, lean meats, poultry, fish, beans,…
Image Source: Dr. Ann McKee/Boston University One of the biggest hurdles in identifying chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in living people has always been distinguishing the condition from Alzheimer’s disease. Both conditions are characterized by large numbers of tangled tau proteins or plaques which are seemingly indistinguishable between CTE and Alzheimer’s. However, a new breakthrough may have uncovered a subtle difference which could differentiate the protein tangles in these conditions and could potentially lead to effective diagnostic methods for people living with CTE. Using cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), an international team of researchers examined the tau tangles from three individuals who…
For years, I lived completely consumed by my illness and unable to make any recovery progress. If anyone had of asked me during this time if I wanted to recover I would have said a huge YES, however I honestly didn’t think it was possible for me to do what I needed to do in order to recover so I didn’t really try. At the time, I told people around me and even myself that I was trying to recover but looking back, I know I wasn’t trying, not really. I was eating enough to keep myself out of hospital…
New updates from head injury lawyer located in Orange County who have helped victims for medical claims, suggests that concussions in veterans can cause neuromuscular changes which could leave military personnel at risk for physical injuries after a brain injury. To get to know injury lawyer costs in Tampa area, people can click here. “Similar to findings of research in athletes, neuromuscular differences are detectable in military personnel following concussion compared to those with no concussion history,” Shawn R. Eagle, a doctoral research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, told Reuters Health by email. Here are the dog…
Source: Stuart Seeger/Flickr Nearly 2 million American children and teenagers were treated for traumatic brain injuries and concussions in emergency rooms between 2010 and 2016, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report. That averages to 283,000 every year. Sports and recreational activities were the leading causes for childhood brain injuries, with football, bicycling, basketball, playground activities, and soccer being the leading causes for TBI-related emergency room visits. The most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report says that childhood traumatic brain injury rates have largely leveled off since 2012, although sports continue to drive hundreds of…
Physical inactivity is a common factor in lifestyle diseases — and one that is often linked to the excessive consumption of fatty and/or sugary foods. The opposite scenario of excessive physical activity at the expense of caloric intake can also be harmful, as cases of anorexia nervosa illustrate. These data therefore point to the crucial need to research the neurobiological processes that control the respective motivations for exercise and food intake. A study by Inserm and CNRS researchers published on March 7, 2019 in JCI Insight reveals that the cannabinoid type 1 (CB1) receptors play an essential role in the…
Kelly Catlin (left) at the UCI Track World Championships 2018Source: Wikimedia Commons/Nicola Last week, Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin – who helped lead the U.S. women’s pursuit team to win the silver medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games – committed suicide just months after experiencing a debilitating concussion. Now, her family says they are donating her brain to the Veterans Affairs-Boston University-Concussion Legacy Foundation Brain Bank in the hope of getting answers about the brain injury they believe led to her death. “Our family decided to have a neuropathologic examination performed on Kelly’s brain to investigate any possible damage…
Research coordinator Sarah Randall assesses a child after concussion.Credit: McMaster University The developers of new comprehensive guidelines for helping children recover from a concussion got inspiration from a surprising place – a famous childhood board game. “For children, recovering from a concussion is like a snakes and ladders game, as there are times where they may have rapid improvement and climb through the steps more quickly, and other times where returning symptoms mean they have to take a slide back,” said author Carol DeMatteo, professor of rehabilitation science and a researcher at CanChild. CanChild is a research institute which is…
One of the most difficult parts of treating concussions is predicting how long it will take an individual to recover after their injury. While most people will recover from a concussion within approximately seven-to-ten days, others can take several weeks or even a couple months before they are ready to fully return to school and sports. This is particularly tough for athletes, who tend to be strongly focused on how soon they can return to the game after a concussion. Now, a team of researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science and SIOTEC Analytics believes they…
A history of repeated concussions has long been tied to an increased risk of developing depression, but a new study suggests the relationship may not be so simple. Instead, researchers from the Vanderbilt Sports Concussions Center and Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) say physical symptoms after concussions may be the key indicator of whether a person is likely to develop depression after a brain injury. “While it often gets portrayed that sustaining sport-related concussions while playing contact sports at any level will increase the risk of future mental health problems in former athletes, clinicians who are in the field treating…