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Poor Quality Diet Significantly Raises Risk for Type 2 Diabetes
By Janet Tiberian, MA, MPH, CHES
June 17, 2022
Poor Quality Diet Significantly Raises Risk for Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is one of the biggest public health issues. About 1 in 10 Americans have type 2 diabetes and a third have pre-diabetes, which if left untreated will become type 2, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The good news is: Eating a healthy diet can lower… See more
What Caused Your Quarantine 15
By Janet Tiberian, MA, MPH, CHES
June 16, 2022
What Caused Your Quarantine 15
As Covid-19 transitions from pandemic to endemic, it’s left another major public health issue in its wake -- significant weight gain. The U.S. was dealing with an obesity epidemic long before Covid hit. Between 2017 and 2018, about 42… See more
Heavy Metals in Cannabis
By Janet Tiberian, MA, MPH, CHES
May 15, 2022
Cannabis Plant
Cannabis is a group of plants with psychoactive properties that are used to produce industrial hemp, CBD oil, and medical marijuana. Unfortunately, many people don't realize that cannabis plants can absorb a lot of dangerous heavy metals.

Heavy Metals in Cannabis

Horticulturists… See more
New Brain Stimulation Approach May Help Severe Mental Illness
By Janet Tiberian, MA, MPH, CHES
May 13, 2022
Brain Activity

How Does the Brain Work

Your brain is composed of networks of neurons – electrically excitable cells. These networks are the building blocks of your nervous system and the basis of brain activity. They transmit information to and from your brain and the rest of your body to help you think… See more
Do You Really Need 10,000 Steps a Day?
By Janet Tiberian, MA, MPH, CHES
May 7, 2022
a group of women walking outside
If you’re a walker, you’ve probably heard the recommendation to walk 10,000 steps (or about five miles) every day for health. Did you ever wonder how experts arrived at this amount?  Not through science. The original concept came from a 1964 Japanese marketing campaign to promote an early… See more
Obesity Can Triple the Risk of Heart Failure in Women, Study Says
By Janet Tiberian, MA, MPH, CHES
May 6, 2022
woman in a bathroom weighing herself on a scale
When it comes to your heart, being obese is a real killer. Researchers have known for years that obesity raises the risk of heart failure for men (11 percent) and women (14 percent), but a new study shows that for some women, being… See more
Depression in Men Looks Different than It Does in Women
By Janet Tiberian, MA, MPH, CHES
April 10, 2022
Depression in Men Looks Different than It Does in Women
Depression is often thought of as a women’s health issue. Women are almost twice as likely as men to experience symptoms of depression, according to the Office on Women’s Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  But the truth is: Depression also affects men and in large… See more
Lean Body Mass Can Help Forestall Osteoporosis, Particularly in Men
By Janet Tiberian, MA, MPH, CHES
April 9, 2022
Lean Body Mass Can Help Forestall Osteoporosis, Particularly in Men
Most men aren’t too concerned about their own bone density. Understandably so. Bone thinning affects far more women than men. Take hips for example. Hip osteopenia is prevalent in 56 percent of women and 18 percent of men… See more
There’s So Much More to Heart Disease than Just Cholesterol Numbers
By A. Alan Reisinger, III, MD, FACP
March 31, 2022
There’s So Much More to Heart Disease than Just Cholesterol Numbers
The year I graduated from medical school, 1982, a brave new world of cardiology was just beginning. Researchers conducting a trial of the drug lovastatin discovered it lowered cholesterol in a small group of patients with a genetic predisposition for dangerously high cholesterol. Patients with this… See more
Bad Teeth & Heart Disease
By A. Alan Reisinger, III, MD, FACP
March 29, 2022
Man at the dentist

Do you see your dentist regularly?

If you do, good for you. Unfortunately, only about two-thirds of Americans have seen their dentists in the last 12 months. That’s bad for their teeth, and it may also be bad for their heart. That’s because there’s a link between what’s… See more

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