Category: Healthy Life

How To Overcome Jet Lag


Are you preparing for a vacation and traveling by plane? There are ways to shield your body against jet lag and overcome it, reducing the symptoms that can ruin your vacation.

Why do we get jet lag?

Jet lag occurs when we travel by plane and change two or more time zones, this disrupts the body’s circadian rhythm. The symptoms are a result of the circadian rhythm being detuned. The circadian rhythm is the pattern that our body follows within a 24-hour period. This rhythm essentially determines when it’s time to sleep and when it’s time to wake up. It also affects other functions in the body, such as hormone synthesis, digestion and body temperature.

Our body regulates these rhythms, with the guidance of the brain. But of course there are external factors (such as light) that affect these rhythms. For example, when light enters the eyes, a message is

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Cheerios Brings Together Real-Life Best Friends Leslie David Baker and Phyllis Smith to Inspire a Heart-Healthy Lifestyle

For the fourth year in a row, America’s No. 1 cereal brand brings back happy heart-shaped Cheerios to spark meaningful conversations around the topic of heart health

MINNEAPOLIS, February 01, 2023–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In honor of February being American Heart Month, Cheerios is bringing together real-life celebrity besties and former co-stars, Leslie David Baker and Phyllis Smith, to inspire friends and family everywhere to talk to their loved ones ones about heart health in a way that doesn’t have to feel so serious – over a bowl of cereal.

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Cheerios is bringing together real-life celebrity besties and former co-stars, Leslie David Baker and Phyllis Smith, to inspire friends and family everywhere to talk to their loved ones about heart health. (Photo: Business Wire)

With more than 100 million Americans having some form of heart disease, Cheerios understands how important heart

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How Our Body Reacts To A Long-Haul Flight


In a few years, direct flights lasting 20 hours will possibly be a reality. On such occasions, we wonder how we could keep ourselves as healthy and fit as possible on a very long air journey.

The announcement by various airlines that from 2025 they will be able to offer direct flights from Australia to the US and Europe has opened a new debate about how much the human body can withstand in the air – mentally and physically.

In particular, the non-stop flights will last 20 hours and will concern the trips from Sydney to New York and London. The Sydney-London route will be the longest direct passenger flight in the world.

Even if we never have to make such a trip, it is very likely that we will have to make a trip of a few hours, but still a long one. And the feeling of being on

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Our post-pandemic social lives in data

There’s more to a healthy life than workouts and a balanced diet, and that’s something called friends.

Friendships are not just fun and comforting, they’re also fundamental to our wellbeing. Researchers have actually found that the health risks of prolonged loneliness can be as toxic as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

Friendships should be a priority in our lives, but recent data suggests we have fewer close friendships than we once did.

In the United States, for example, the share of people saying they have no close friends at all went up from 3 per cent in 1990 to 12 per cent in 2021, according to surveys by Gallup and the Survey Center on American Life.

Similarly, the number of respondents said they could count 10 people or more as their close friends went down from 33 per cent in 1990 to 13 per cent in 2021.

Interestingly, the

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