AHA News: She Thought She Had Bronchitis, But the Problem Was Her Heart
Latest Heart News MONDAY, June 13, 2022 (American Heart Association News) Terita Grier has struggled with obesity her whole life. She also has diabetes and high blood pressure, two leading risk factors for heart disease. Her dad died of a massive heart attack a month before she got married in her mid-20s. As she approached […]
AHA News: Take These 7 Healthy Habits on Your Summer Road Trip
Latest Healthy Kids News FRIDAY, June 10, 2022 (American Heart Association News) You’ve spent the past couple of years staying fit and healthy despite the unusual circumstances of mostly staying home. Now you’re packing the car for a well-deserved summer road trip, fraught with fast food, convenience stores and hours of sitting around with unhealthy […]
AHA News: After Stroke at 32, Young Mom’s Small Town Pitched in to Help
Latest Heart News THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (American Heart Association News) Elizabeth Gilberg recently picked up a few new skills. At 50, she’s learned to knit and is relearning how to quilt. She took lessons in cross-country skiing and tried her hand at beekeeping. Bike riding didn’t go so well, but she’s game to keep […]
AHA News: Tiny Sprouts Provide Big Nutrition
Latest Nutrition, Food & Recipes News TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (American Heart Association News) Move over baby carrots and petite peas. Even tinier vegetables are catching on as go-to healthy foods. Microscale vegetables, a growing food category that includes sprouted seeds, are miniature in size yet big in nutrition. Eating sprouts well before they become […]
AHA News: Gender Gap in Some Heart Risk Factors Widens Among Young Adults
Latest Heart News THURSDAY, June 2, 2022 (American Heart Association News) Gender gaps in blood pressure, physical activity and smoking have widened among young adults in the United States, new research finds, suggesting that prevention approaches should be carefully tailored to help people achieve ideal lifelong cardiovascular health. Overall heart health stayed about the same […]
AHA News: Her 2-Year-Old Niece Noticed Something Wrong During a Video Chat. It Was a Mini-Stroke.
Latest Heart News THURSDAY, May 26, 2022 (American Heart Association News) Exhausted at the end of a workday, Dawn Turnage plopped into a comfortable chair on her patio to soak up some sun before going to bed early. Her phone buzzed. It was a FaceTime call from her sister, April Washington. Washington was calling because […]
Micronutrients (vitamins + minerals) show benefit for children with ADHD and emotional dysregulation: Evidence from a randomized clinical trial shows broad-spectrum micronutrient supplementation with all known vitamins and essential minerals resulted in global improvement of attention and mood based on blinded clinician ratings
A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), published by Elsevier, reports that children with ADHD and emotional regulation randomized to take a micronutrient formula were three times more likely to show symptomatic improvement on blinded clinician ratings, compared to those in the placebo group (54% versus 18%). […]
Drug Abuse & Addiction Definition, Treatment, Causes, Symptoms
American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Treatment Revision. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 2000. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. Arlington, Virginia: American Psychiatric Association, 2013. American Psychiatric Association. Treatment of Patients with Substance Use Disorders, Second Edition. Arlington, Virginia: American Psychiatric Association, […]
Drug Abuse & Addiction Disorder: Treatment, Causes, Symptoms & Effects
American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Treatment Revision. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 2000. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. Arlington, Virginia: American Psychiatric Association, 2013. American Psychiatric Association. Treatment of Patients with Substance Use Disorders, Second Edition. Arlington, Virginia: American Psychiatric Association, […]
Industrial discharge is the dominant mercury source in Korea’s west coast
Minamata, a British film released in 2021, is a drama based on the true story of an American photographer documenting how the citizens of Minamata, Japan, became ill due to the industrial discharge dumped into the river by a Japanese corporation. The Minamata disease, mentioned in the movie, is a neuromuscular disorder resulting from mercury […]