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Eating a Mediterranean-Style Diet May Equal Taking 4,000 More Steps

  • New research is suggesting that what we eat can also help contribute to our daily step goals by as much as 4,000 additional steps.
  • People who had a healthier, Mediterranean-type diet were found to have better physical fitness.
  • Eating healthily was associated with better metabolic health, as well.

For many people getting enough “steps in” has become part of a daily fitness goal.

So much so that everything from Google Maps to Apple Watches helps us keep track of how many steps we’ve taken in a day. But new research is suggesting that what we eat can also help contribute to our daily step goals by as much as 4,000 additional steps.

The study, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, suggests that a healthy diet is associated with greater physical fitness in middle-aged adults. Study authorDr. Michael Mi box Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston says

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CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) Has A Pretty Healthy Balance Sheet

Legendary fund manager Li Lu (who Charlie Munger backed) once said, ‘The biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital.’ When we think about how risky a company is, we always like to look at its use of debt, since debt overload can lead to ruin. importantly, CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS) does carry debt. But is this debt a concern to shareholders?

What Risk Does Debt Bring?

Debt is a tool to help businesses grow, but if a business is incapable of paying off its lenders, then it exists at their mercy. Ultimately, if the company can’t fulfill its legal obligations to repay debts, shareholders can walk away with nothing. However, a more common (but still painful) scenario is that it has to raise new equity capital at a low price, thus permanently diluting shareholders. Of course, plenty of

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Lucid-21-302 MS clinical trial doses 1st group of healthy volunteers | FSD Pharma testing safety, tolerability of therapy dubbed Lucid-MS

FSD Pharma has completed dosing in the first group of healthy volunteers enrolled in its Phase 1 clinical trial testing Lucid-21-302, an oral medication candidate for all types of multiple sclerosis (MS).

The medication, also known as Lucid-MS, was first given to a sentinel subject — one individual in advance of the first full group — to determine if there might be any unexpected side effects that might harm participants all dosed at the same time. The group now tested consisted of eight healthy volunteers, six of whom received the lowest dose of the medication and two who were given a placebo.

Based on the data obtained with this group, the trial’s safety review committee has recommended that the second group of volunteers begins dosing.

“Our clinical development team and international advisory committee are delighted at the progress of this milestone and completing dosing the first cohort,” Lakshmi Kotra, CEO

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FSRA Takes Action to Protect Consumers of Life and Health Insurance

Annual report highlights examinations of high-risk agents

TORONTO, May 2, 2023 /CNW/ – Through market conduct supervision and enforcement activities, The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of ont (FSRA) is working to ensure life and health insurance agents are compliant with legislation, regulations, and that they are working to achieve fair outcomes for customers.

FSRA logo (CNW Group/Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario)

FSRA logo (CNW Group/Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario)

In 2021-22, the FSRA reviewed 115 higher-risk life agents and the results are included in the first Life and Health Insurance Agent Supervision Report which is being released today. Annual reporting of life agent supervision contributes to public confidence through promoting transparency, disclosure of information, and deterring deceptive or fraudulent conduct, practices, and activities.

“Insurance provides critical protection for individuals, families, and businesses and these customers deserve insurance that meets their needs,” said Huston Loke, Executive Vice President, Market Conduct. “Through our supervision and enforcement efforts we

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Tuberculosis rising after COVID-19 pandemic redirected services, say Canadian health officials

Canada’s longstanding efforts to reduce and eliminate tuberculosis suffered a setback as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Canadian health officials.

The ability to offer crucial services such as contact tracing, prevention, early diagnosis, treatment and care for tuberculosis were reduced as resources were redirected to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, said Dr. Tom Wong, chief medical officer of public health for Indigenous Services Canada.

“All of those have contributed to, in some areas, stalling of the progress made or in some cases reversing the downward trend of TB,” Wong said.

Tuberculosis is a treatable and curable disease caused by bacteria that frequently affect the lungs, but can also live in other parts of the body. In Canada, it kills about five per cent of those infected. In 2020, 10 percent of active TB cases were resistant to TB drugs.

Across the country, several areas have seen recent increases

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I Don’t Have an Estate Plan…Right?

Whether or not you have a written estate plan, you do have an estate plan. The laws of the state in which you reside will make decisions about your estate if you do not have a written plan.

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If you don’t have a written estate plan, it is essential to know what the intestacy laws of your state are so that you know what will happen to your assets if you die.

Most people prefer to make their own choices about their assets than let the state decide for them.

Why should you have a written estate plan?

Even if you do not have significant assets, you might want documents in place to protect your wishes, in the event you

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The Evolution Of The Health Tech: Positive Change Through Interoperable Solutions

The American Healthcare Industry has experienced many large-scale changes in the past few decades. This timeframe has afforded us many drastic reforms in the industry such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or the widespread shift towards Value-Based Care. However, the most noteworthy and significant change is the gradual adoption of software solutions into the healthcare industry. The digitization of healthcare has brought numerous benefits to healthcare organizations that are able to streamline their day-to-day operations. More importantly, these solutions have made life easier for care providers and patients by simplifying the delivery of care. In order for these complex systems to operate, they need to display competency in interoperability.

How Interoperability Ties It All Together

Interoperability in the context of healthcare refers to the use of many complex systems and information technology (IT) to exchange and interpret health-based data. As many software systems were designed for specific tasks, the

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The Diet Strategy Proven To Slow Aging in Healthy Adults

Anti-Aging Rejuvenation Concept

Caloric restriction has been shown to slow aging in a groundbreaking study, with effects similar to smoking cessation interventions. The CALERIE™ trial found a 2-3% slowing in aging pace in healthy adults, suggesting that slowing human aging may be possible through interventions such as intermittent fasting or time-restricted eating.

Calorie restriction, a proven intervention to slow aging in animals, showed evidence of slowing the pace of biological aging in a human randomized trial.

In a first-of-its-kind randomized controlled trial, an international team of researchers led by the Columbia Aging Center at[{” attribute=””Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health shows that caloric restriction can slow the pace of aging in healthy adults. The CALERIE™ intervention slowed the pace of aging measured from participants’ blood DNA methylation using the algorithm DunedinPACE (Pace of Aging, Computed from the Epigenome). The intervention effect on DunedinPACE represented a 2-3 percent slowing in the pace

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NUH’s healthy keto diet leads to weight loss without increasing bad cholesterol levels

SINGAPORE – Weighing 115kg and standing at 1.74m, Mr Tan Ban Thong had trouble buying clothes. Walking a short distance left him breathless and flying was tough as airplane seats were often not wide enough.

The 60-year-old deputy director of human resources is in a much better place today after he shed 25kg last year.

The breathlessness has gone away, and he has better control of his health issues, including diabetes, hypertension and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

The secret to his success is the Healthy Ketogenic diet developed by Dr Lim Su Lin, the chief dietitian at the National University Hospital (NUH).

The key feature of the diet is keeping to a net carbohydrate level (carbohydrates minus fiber) of 50g or less a day to induce ketosis, where stored fat (instead of glucose) is broken down to provide energy.

That works out to three or 3½ slices of white bread,

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Healthy Lifestyle Linked to Slower Memory Decline in Older Adults

Brain Connections Neural Networks

The researchers found that each individual’s healthy behavior (healthy diet, regular exercise, active social contact, cognitive activity, non-smoking, and never drinking alcohol) was associated with a slower-than-average decline in memory over 10 years after accounting for other health, economic, and social factors. The strongest effect on slowing memory decline is a healthy diet, followed by cognitive activity and then physical exercise.

Even those with genes linked to Alzheimer’s disease see benefits.

According to a decade-long study of older adults in China, recently published in The BMJa healthy lifestyle, particularly a healthy diet, is linked to slower memory decline.

The study found that even carriers of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene, which is the strongest known risk factor for[{” attribute=””Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, can benefit from a healthy lifestyle.

Memory continuously declines as people age, but evidence from existing studies is insufficient to assess the effect of a

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