Junk food refers to ultra-processed foods that are low in nutrients but high in calories, added sugars, unhealthy fats, and sodium. Research links frequent consumption with increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and cancer.
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Recent research has uncovered alarming connections between regular heavy alcohol consumption and serious brain damage. Scientists have found that drinking eight or more alcoholic beverages weekly significantly increases the risk of developing brain lesions and can potentially shorten lifespan by over a decade. Read More.
A new oral drug, daraxonrasib, more than doubled median survival for patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer in a phase‑3 trial, prompting an FDA‑approved early‑access program and raising hopes for later approval this year.
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Research suggests that phytic acid, a natural compound present in plant-based foods such as beans, lentils, nuts, seeds, and whole grains, plays a critical role in maintaining the integrity of the intestinal barrier. Read More.
Adults accept it as conventional health wisdom that we require eight hours of sleep each night in order to be healthy. Yet an expert on human evolutionary biology recently argued that this might actually be misleading.
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In a recent study published in npj Women’s Health, researchers investigated whether the timing of a woman’s COVID-19 vaccination within her menstrual cycle is associated with self-reported side effects and exploratory measures of subsequent infection timing.
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A review of 22 studies found no clear evidence that naturally occurring trans fats in dairy products increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, cardiovascular death, or type 2 diabetes.
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Researchers followed more than 1,47,000 adults for up to 30 years and found that people who included both resistance training and aerobic exercise in their routine had the lowest risk of death from all causes. Read More.
Most people blame loneliness on their circumstances—their schedule, their relationships, or the way life has shifted over time. What rarely gets blamed is sleep, even though it plays a much larger role than most people realize.
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A new preclinical study in mice suggests that estrogen loss, aging, and being female are linked to issues in the extracellular matrix (ECM), a network that fills the spaces between brain cells. Read More.
