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Every day, approximately 153 people in America die from injuries related to traumatic brain injury (TBI). Yearly, brain injuries account for more than 2,500,000 emergency room visits and 282,000 hospitalizations. Even the slip, trip, and fall injury cases can cause damage which needs proper legal care. However, if you’ve involved in an auto accident, you may need to hire an auto accident attorney to help you with your accident claims. These motor vehicle accident lawyers brisbane may be all you need! While many will quickly recover from the most common form of TBI – frequently referred to as a concussion…
Hope Virgo knew something was wrong. She also knew that if she didn’t get help, her condition would worsen. But when she went to the doctor to ask for help, she says she was refused treatment.”I developed anorexia when I was about 12 years old,” says Virgo. “I really struggled with my emotions and I was sexually abused when I was 12 and I was left with all this guilt and shame around it and didn’t know what to do about it.”After her heart almost stopped due to malnutrition and low potassium levels, she spent a year in a mental…
Image Source: Chris Humphreys/USA TODAY Sports Chris Borland is a former NFL player who retired in 2015 after his rookie season because of concerns about the risk for long-term brain trauma and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Since then, he has been an outspoken critic of the NFL and NCAA’s handling of brain injuries in football. This week, he was invited to speak to the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources’ Subcommittee on Oversight Investigations as one of four witnesses to discuss how large corporations can use disinformation to mislead the public about issues of significant public interest such as public health.…
I’ve written about this before, but it’s so important that I decided that it is time for a refresher. It’s important because if you are following the recommended daily allowance of calories, or advice you’ve read on the internet, or used a calorie calculator to try and work out how much your body needs, then you are almost certainly not getting enough energy for your body. So we all know that currently the RDA is 2000 calories for women, and 2500 for men, but what most people don’t know is that number is too low. Especially if you are under…
Infamous YouTube personality Logan Paul’s career has been marked by tasteless stunts, shameless pandering, and controversial events – such as filming a dead body in Japan, speaking about the belief the earth is flat, and announcing he would “go gay” for a month. Now, he is claiming all of his antics and controversy may be the result of a brain injury much earlier in his life. In his latest video titled “I have holes in my brain…” Paul undergoes a brain scan hoping to find an explanation for all of his troubles. As he explains, he decided to get a…
This week I have commenced my final year of university study. Although I am exciting to be nearing the end of my university degree, I really am not feeling motivated to be back studying again as I was really enjoying my summer break. Overall, this summer has been a really enjoyable one. Here in Tasmania really hot days are usually quite rare, even in summer however this year we have had continuous weeks of hot weather which I have really enjoyed.Christmas and New years was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed getting to spend heaps of time with…
2011 vs 2018 I’m having a moment y’all. I have something that I’m itching to write. PRAISE BE!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I could figure out how to insert emoji prayer hands in this post, I would. But instead, I’ll just use an excessive amount of exclamation points and hope that you choose to keep reading and forgive me. It’s been over a month since I wrote anything that just “came to me.” Sometimes, I sit in front of these WordPress blank posts and stare and stare…. and then stare for another hour and switch between tabs. Then, I come back to it.…
AnorexiaAnorexia is the easiest eating disorder to recognize since its sufferers tend to be thin. They may have outwardly apparent habits, like not eating very much, pushing food around and cutting it up, food hoarding, or a general preoccupation with food. People with anorexia may have learned to publicly announce they need to gain more weight to convince others that they are eating regularly, Dr. Hedrick says. “If they’ve been told by 50 different people they’re too skinny, they won’t tell their loved ones they want to lose more weight,” Dr. Hedrick says. “Anorexia is often intertwined with one’s identity,…
” I binge a lot. Sometimes I wonder if I’m going to die from how I abuse my body with food. I hate the way I eat. I have a bad relationship with food.” Elizabeth I hear you Elizabeth. I’m sorry you are having this experience. It’s a truly AWFUL place to be. I had very similar feelings in my late teens. I couldn’t believe I didn’t burst or die. Part of me wanted to do both. I hated myself so much. My binges reflected both a desperate hunger to feel okay about myself and extreme self-punishment for not being…
For Ernest Hemingway, it was oysters. For Nora Ephron, it was mashed potatoes. For countless recently dumped film and television characters, it’s ice cream.Humans have been eating our emotions for as long as we can remember. But that doesn’t make it a good idea. There’s a science behind emotional eating and comfort food ― the factors that cause cravings and the ways that giving in to those cravings affects us.The big three hormones: cortisol, dopamine and serotonin.Cortisol is our main stress hormone, triggering our fight-or-flight instinct. It also regulates how our bodies use carbohydrates, fats and proteins. So if we’re stressed or…