tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6450654996619508442024-03-14T07:22:46.064-07:00Health, Fitness, Wellnes and Healthy FoodNutrition is important for fitness. Eating a well-balanced diet can help you get the calories and nutrients you need to fuel your daily activitiesMultimedia Productionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220439327412388635noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-645065499661950844.post-21923993768829972712021-10-04T15:06:00.004-07:002021-10-04T15:07:24.426-07:00 Specialists become Disappointed over COVID-19 Refusal, Deception <p>The COVID-19 patient's wellbeing was weakening rapidly at a Michigan emergency clinic, however he was having none of the specialist's conclusion. Notwithstanding hazardously low oxygen levels, the unvaccinated man didn't think he was that wiped out and got so furious over an emergency clinic strategy disallowing his significant other from being at his bedside that he took steps to leave the structure. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQITA4kMqzUMxF-3JC4qeEKh9nD9tb74zT8vhWuF-pWZ4pGsUJ4PVaYBHZ2QOHiP7dOGei6pJob9pDxnQn-EyCr9LZmatFgly3COuXWcTI7o9V9GkWzpG7-LCJTvY6lzhwpp1uDqbFZRCX/s2048/Specialists+become+disappointed+over+COVID-19+refusal%252C+deception.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQITA4kMqzUMxF-3JC4qeEKh9nD9tb74zT8vhWuF-pWZ4pGsUJ4PVaYBHZ2QOHiP7dOGei6pJob9pDxnQn-EyCr9LZmatFgly3COuXWcTI7o9V9GkWzpG7-LCJTvY6lzhwpp1uDqbFZRCX/w640-h426/Specialists+become+disappointed+over+COVID-19+refusal%252C+deception.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Dr. Matthew Trunsky didn't keep down in his reaction: "You are free to leave, yet you will be dead before you get to your vehicle,'" he said. </p><p>Such trades have turned into really normal for clinical laborers who are becoming exhausted of COVID-19 refusal and falsehood that have made it angering to treat unvaccinated patients during the delta-driven flood. </p><p>The Associated Press asked six specialists from the nation over to depict the kinds of falsehood and refusal they see consistently and how they react to it. </p><p>They portray being disturbed at the steady demands to be endorsed the veterinary parasite drug Ivermectin, with patients erupting at specialists when they are informed that it's anything but a safe Covid treatment. An Illinois family practice specialist has patients disclose to him that central processor are implanted in antibodies as a component of a ploy to assume control over individuals' DNA. A Louisiana specialist has turned to showing patients a rundown of fixings in Twinkies, reminding the people who are wary with regards to the cosmetics of antibodies that regular items have bunches of safe added substances that nobody truly gets it. </p><p>LOUISIANA DOCTOR: 'quit taking a gander at Facebook' </p><p>At the point when patients tell Dr. Vincent Shaw that they don't need the COVID-19 immunization since they don't have a clue what's going into their bodies, he pulls up the fixing list for a Twinkie. </p><p>"Take a gander at the rear of the bundle," Shaw, a family doctor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "Reveal to me you can articulate everything on the rear of that bundle. Since I have a science certificate, I actually don't have the foggiest idea what that is." </p><p>He additionally usually hears patients reveal to him they haven't done what's necessary examination about the antibodies. Have confidence, he advises them, the immunization designers have gotten their work done. </p><p>Then, at that point there are the periphery clarifications: "They're placing a tracker in and it makes me attractive." </p><p>Another clarification left him dumbfounded: "The patient couldn't comprehend why they were given this free of charge, since humankind all by itself isn't pleasant and individuals aren't decent and no one would part with anything. So there's nothing of the sort as innate agreeableness of man. Furthermore, I had no rebound from that." </p><p>Individuals who become ill with gentle cases demand that they have normal resistance. "No, you're not a Superman or Superwoman," he advises them. </p><p>He said probably the greatest issue is web-based media, as proven by the numerous patients who depict what they saw on Facebook in ruling against getting inoculated. That attitude has brought forth images about the numerous Americans who got their certificates at the University of Facebook School of Medicine. </p><p>"I'm similar to, 'No, no, no, no, no.' I shake my head, 'No, no. That isn't right, no, no. Stop, stop, quit taking a gander at Facebook.'" </p><p>DALLAS ER DOCTOR: Baffled at how he's 'lost all validity' with hostile to antibody patients </p><p>Dr. Stu Coffman has patients reveal to him they are terrified with regards to antibody incidental effects. They don't believe the administrative endorsement interaction and raise disproven worries that the immunization will hurt their ripeness. He said the most surprising thing somebody advised him was that there was "really poison in the mRNA immunization" — an unmerited gossip that began on the web. </p><p>He is perplexed by the pushback. </p><p>"On the off chance that you have a gunfire wound or cut injury or you're having a respiratory failure, you need to see me in the crisis division," he said. "Be that as it may, when we begin discussing an immunization, out of nowhere I've lost all validity." </p><p>He said the way to conquering aversion is to sort out where it starts. He said when individuals come to him with worries about ripeness, he can highlight explicit exploration showing that the immunization is protected and their issues are unwarranted. </p><p>In any case, he says there's no expectation in changing the personalities of individuals who think the antibodies are bound with poison. "I'm most likely not going to have the option to show you whatever persuades you in any case." </p><p>Furthermore, he figures he could alter individuals' perspectives on the antibody in the event that they could chase after him for a shift as he strolls past the beds of the wiped out and kicking the bucket, practically every one of whom are unvaccinated.</p>Multimedia Productionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220439327412388635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-645065499661950844.post-5038319456678077342021-05-29T09:16:00.006-07:002021-08-06T02:57:21.490-07:0010 Healthy Summer Foods That Promote Weight Loss - Nutrition<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaRbEmLh6ledn-dUFpLRKfejvG0l3aP7zaMQamCwTV90VToCi7EA4GDlO4ZCD8VacqatDt-tQtzaCwb8kPLqUy8MJ4wBSn57awFlmWE8MB6rae8bxwB2j4FH4haEqGq3ugLdkoX4ZvyfkF/s640/watermelon-2367029_640.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="10 Healthy Summer Foods That Promote Weight Loss - Nutrition" border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaRbEmLh6ledn-dUFpLRKfejvG0l3aP7zaMQamCwTV90VToCi7EA4GDlO4ZCD8VacqatDt-tQtzaCwb8kPLqUy8MJ4wBSn57awFlmWE8MB6rae8bxwB2j4FH4haEqGq3ugLdkoX4ZvyfkF/w640-h480/watermelon-2367029_640.jpg" title="10-healthy-summer-foods-that-promote-weight-loss-nutrition" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For then again most people, summer in the south methods lawn grills, open air celebrations and fairs, and heaps of time with loved ones. This can likewise mean engaging the desire to eat whatever and at whatever point you need when encircled by every one of the enticements. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As an individual keen on shedding pounds or who has recently had weight reduction medical procedure, we profoundly urge you to adhere to a severe dietary rundown to advance weight reduction. Notwithstanding, frequently our patients feel at a misfortune with regards to what quality food choices they have, particularly when on a tight spending plan. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So I have felt free to order a rundown of summer food sources that not just advance weight reduction and have huge loads of added healthful advantages however are every now and again on special at the supermarket because of them being in season. Whenever you are at the store, get a couple of these things and perceive how you can consolidate them into your eating regimen. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1. AvocadosHealth Benefits of Avocados </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Avocados are an incredible wellspring of sound fats and potassium, lessening pulse and mitigating squeezing. Avocados have 2 grams of protein and 15 grams of sound fats. Despite the fact that they contain 9 grams of carbs, there are 7 grams of fiber, approaching 2 grams of net carbs. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">2. Ringer Peppers </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ringer Peppers Health Benefits </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ringer peppers are low in calories, assists with lessening LDL (terrible cholesterol) levels, controls diabetes, and facilitates aggravation because of the capsaicin found in them. Ringer peppers additionally improve the capacity for iron to be retained into the gut, forestalling sickliness. Additionally, carotenoids, colors found in plants, are plentiful in chime peppers and are connected to improving eye wellbeing. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">3. Berries </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">berries for weight lossBerries are a solid, low sugar-containing natural product alternative. They are plentiful in nutrients B and C, fiber, and cancer prevention agents. Berries help improve glucose and insulin reaction in diabetic patients, lower cholesterol levels, improve your skin, and leave you feeling full because of the fiber content. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">4. Cucumbers </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cucumber Health Benefits </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cucumbers are low-calorie vegetables comprised of solvent fiber and about 95% water, making them a superb weight reduction food. They are an extraordinary option to dinners to include additional cell reinforcements and calming benefits. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">5. Peas </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Peas Health BenefitsPeas have a high fiber and protein content, making them an extraordinary expansion to any feast. Peas are known to build certain chemicals in the body that stifle hunger. Joined with the protein and fiber content, peas help you feel full more, improve processing, and battle constant sicknesses. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">6. Shrimp </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Shrimp Health BenefitsShrimp is a high protein, low-calorie food alternative that contains 75% of the day by day an incentive for B12 and 100% of the every day an incentive for selenium, a mineral that improves thyroid capacity and limits untimely maturing. Appreciate shrimp crude or concoct it and add it to a dinner. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">7. SpinachSpinach Health Benefits </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Spinach is a superfood and an extraordinary wellspring of iron. Spinach contains numerous minerals, nutrients, shades, and phytonutrients that add to more clear skin, improved visual perception, directed circulatory strain, more grounded muscles, and the counteraction old enough related macular degeneration (AMD) and hemophilia. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">8. TomatoesTomato Health Benefits </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tomatoes are an extraordinary wellspring of nutrient C, potassium, folate, and nutrient K. Tomatoes are additionally the essential dietary wellspring of the cell reinforcement lycopene, which has been appeared to lessen the danger of coronary illness and malignant growth. As a bariatric patient, you need to adhere to crude tomatoes and keep away from sugar-filled tomato items, for example, ketchup and pureed tomatoes. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">9. WatermelonWatermelon Health Benefits </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Watermelon is an invigorating natural product comprised of about 90% water and is loaded with nutrient C and nutrient A. This natural product is low in calories yet high in cell reinforcements that improve heart wellbeing, battle malignancies, assuage muscle irritation, and advance hydration for the skin. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">10. ZucchiniZucchini Health Benefits </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">With comparative advantages to cucumbers, zucchini offers a plentiful inventory of nutrients that help the safe framework, help in sound assimilation, decrease glucose levels, and advance weight reduction. Zucchini has a high fiber content and a low calorie thickness, causing you to feel full for longer timeframes. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">End </span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In spite of these food varieties being sound and loaded up with nutrients and supplements, it is as yet critical to follow parcel control techniques to guarantee you are clinging to your bariatric specialist and dietitian's rules. Talk with your bariatric dietitian in the event that you have had weight reduction medical procedure somewhat recently to study what is supported on your post-usable bariatric diet.</div></span><p></p>Multimedia Productionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220439327412388635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-645065499661950844.post-65071319104371960312021-04-20T12:29:00.004-07:002021-08-06T03:15:38.533-07:00Critical care for COVID-19 in Minnesota, despite the flat trend in public hospitals remains<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">1189 new cases of COVID-19, five deaths in Minnesota</div><a href="https://livehealthytogether.blogspot.com/" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="Critical care for COVID-19 in Minnesota, despite the flat trend in public hospitals remains" border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="705" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4-Qp_ccBD-A_7eUmQyuz0VZ31lLZjAuit3SfgSpiNy4ee1GE0uc8klMnedFfXOTURnne7sMukPDc1J20zgiMvti5N9T_NsjOUinCbBPmB9BzC5aV00RsIcst2G5Le0YZMtT8MLVMJ_qrK/s600/Docter+examines+covid+19+patients.jpg" title="critical-care-for-covid-19-in-minnesota-despite-the-flat-trend-in-public-hospitals-remains" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the examination room at the Brian Coyle center in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood, medic Kaise Abdirahman vaccinated COVID-19 against Hibo Ahmed earlier this month.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>
The number of Minnesot people hospitalized in intensive care for severe COVID-19 continues to increase, although vaccinations continue and the number of people hospitalized for the coronavirus remains the same.<div><br /></div><div> Data released Tuesday showed that 193 people at Minnesota hospitals had received intensive care for complications from COVID-19 the day before, up 21% from the previous seven days.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, according to the latest figures, the number of people in hospital beds treating COVID-19 has increased by 68 percent, up from 1 percent over the past week.</div><div><br /></div><div>Traditionally, between 5% and 8% of people who contract COVID-19 are critically treated in intensive care units, according to evidence-based guidelines from medical information service UpToDate. Mechanical ventilators for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are often turned on in the intensive care unit for COVID-19.</div><div><br /></div><div>Overall, 52% of eligible Minnesotans received at least one dose of the vaccine, and 37% discontinued their vaccination sequence whether or not one or two doses were needed, according to the most recent data on Sunday. To date, at least 2.3 million Minnesot people have received at least one injection.</div><div><br /></div><div>More women appear to be vaccinated in the state than men. According to the Minnesota Department of Health, nearly 1.3 million women and more than 1 million men have received at least one vaccine.</div><div><br /></div><div>The state has vaccinated 85% of seniors aged 65 and over. At the time of the pandemic, people in this age group accounted for 13% of diagnosed COVID-19 cases and 89% of deaths from viral illnesses.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Minnesota Department of Health announced 1,189 new confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the state's tally to 558,850 during the pandemic.</div><div><br /></div><div>Genetic sequences of samples containing viral RNA showed that about 70 to 80 percent of positive tests for COVID-19 in Minnesota came from the SARS-CoV-2 virus variant, said a health department spokesman.</div><div><br /></div><div>Five more deaths from complications from COVID-19 were reported on Tuesday, including one in their late 40s and four others between the ages of 60 and 84. Only one lives in long-term care or assisted living facilities.</div><div><br /></div><div>As of March 2020, the state had recorded 7,031 deaths from COVID-19.</div></div>Multimedia Productionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220439327412388635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-645065499661950844.post-52246246591505693932021-03-08T22:06:00.005-08:002021-08-06T03:17:01.383-07:007 Significant Innovation in the Healthcare Industry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5QFpPmwn9_F_BVCECqVykFGKWgEsn7FpmDRDszeRo2poCzZJETRrdUkJJG5TzBZGtpmwonRzRy7ICyg-1Fscnd-X7gXHPagJciZtvt2X-3JM2qbDIEEdlWliaLfaUGBjSuy0k9TIOpOj4/s400/health+medicine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="7 Significant Innovation in the Healthcare Industry" border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="400" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5QFpPmwn9_F_BVCECqVykFGKWgEsn7FpmDRDszeRo2poCzZJETRrdUkJJG5TzBZGtpmwonRzRy7ICyg-1Fscnd-X7gXHPagJciZtvt2X-3JM2qbDIEEdlWliaLfaUGBjSuy0k9TIOpOj4/w640-h426/health+medicine.jpg" title="7-significant-innovation-in-the-healthcare-industry" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There has been a significant innovation in the healthcare industry right now than what it was five years earlier. The reason for this is the advancement of technology as well as a huge number of revolutionary digital solutions that are being introduced every single day. The world of medicine is facing several issues over the years, and some of these have been effectively solved thanks to the innovative technological solutions out there. This has modified and enhanced the medicine industry significantly at present.
A lot of breakthroughs have been made in treatments, collection of data, research as well as medical devices including hearing aids that have made a huge impact on the medicinal world. At present, technology has led to better treatment for several types of ailments which have helped many patients across the globe to get rid of their conditions. In this article, we will throw light on some of the most notable ways in which technology has modified the world of medications at present.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. Enhanced care and efficiency
Physical practitioners these days make use of handheld devices for recording the real-time information of the patients and also for getting instant updates of their medical history. This results in a more precise and effective diagnosis as well as treatment. As a matter of fact, there has been a huge improvement in the quality of healthcare thanks to the centralization of critical patient info plus lab results.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. 3D Printing
Nowadays, it is feasible to reproduce some internal organs as well as bones with the help of 3-D printing technology. Doctors are able to introduce the artificial bones and organs into the patient’s body for replacing any problematic or infected areas.
Apart from this, this 3-D printing technology is also used by the surgeons to better understand what exactly is happening within the bodies of the patients. A 3D model will make it more convenient for any surgeon to get a closer look at the issue and also formulate several types of solutions that will help to get rid of the problem.
In the same way, 3-D printing has also modernized prosthetics. A 3-D printer will help in obtaining a customized prosthetic limb in a much affordable manner. For instance, prosthetic hands can be custom printed for any kid who requires different models while they develop rather than getting a new prosthetic hand affixed every single year. Besides this, the significant development in 3-D printing technology has resulted in the reduction of expenses related to this technology at present.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Remote monitoring
It is quite difficult for some patients to make movements in their daily lives. However, visiting the hospital on a regular basis can prove to be quite expensive in the long run. Fortunately, the innovative remote monitoring technology has helped the patients to gain access to a doctor very easily and also consult with him while staying in the comfort of their own residences. This helps to save plenty of money as well as time. The doctor is also able to monitor any specific problem from a remote distance, for instance, by procuring blood pressure levels, and thus there is no need for them to go to a health clinic at all. This particular technology has proved to be extremely helpful for pacemaker patients in particular.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. Big data
At present, big data has come into the limelight given that information implies everything when it comes to the healthcare and medicinal industry. A huge amount of information is available which when evaluated will be able to provide significant perceptions regarding the condition of the present healthcare industry as a whole. For instance, physical practitioners will be able to make a more precise diagnosis by studying the treatment history of any particular patient and this will help them to perform significantly better treatments.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. Mobile apps
There is an old saying which asserts that an app will be available for everything out there. Right now, one can easily monitor the personal health of any individual using innovative apps. These apps help you to track your slumber patterns, count the number of your calories, monitor your heartbeat, and also come in touch with a doctor remotely. You will likewise come across social media apps intended for the physicians to interact, and those which will link the patients to the doctors.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. Medical experimentation
The nature of medical experimentations that are conducted nowadays has been altered drastically thanks to the advancement of technology. Experiments will only take several weeks or months to give the desired results instead of several years as in the past. The reason for this is that it is now feasible to simulate the reactions of humans to any specific medicine and there is no need to depend only on the human volunteers. In recent times we have come across the chimp adenovirus which is able to revolutionize the rate of experimentation to a significant extent. With the outbreak of Ebola, it was amply proved that experiments could be accelerated considerably. Researchers had to come up with innovative solutions for preventing the outbreak of these diseases in different parts of the world and this resulted in the invention of the Ebola vaccine within a short period of time.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">7. Online assistance
The introduction of the Internet also helps the patients to get information instantly regarding their own medical issues without visiting the health clinic at all. Technology also helps doctors to send emails and text messages including videos while consulting with their colleagues from across the globe. This is particularly useful for doctors who are staying in underdeveloped and rural areas. This will help them to provide solutions for the patients without any need of accessing a sophisticated hospital. This process was particularly effective following the earthquake in Haiti in the year 2010 and will undoubtedly be refined for usage in the future.
Conclusion:
You’ll come across better as well as more accessible therapies these days as compared to any other time in the medical history. This has been made possible largely because of technical innovations. In fact, these innovations have helped the researchers to explore and obtain better solutions for treatments that have helped the healthcare industry to become more effective over time.</span></div>Multimedia Productionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220439327412388635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-645065499661950844.post-38175917107622769392021-02-15T11:52:00.005-08:002021-02-15T11:52:33.529-08:00<p> </p><article class="sc-bwzfXH sc-kIPQKe jjVnED" data-position="post-position-1" id="h_fe57ad8f1696e1e1f5e9175718cf25e4" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 24px;"><header class="sc-dqBHgY jQXcSn" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 class="sc-gxMtzJ RIfoo" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 28px; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">More than 600,000 Americans will have died of coronavirus by June 1, model forecasts</h2><p class="sc-dfVpRl fHIrNq" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c8c8c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px;">From CNN Health’s Lauren Mascarenhas</p></header><div class="sc-bdVaJa post-content-rendered render-stellar-contentstyles__Content-sc-9v7nwy-0 erzhuK" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 16px 0px;"></p><div class="Box-sc-1fet97o-0 image-with-captionstyles__ImageWithCaptionWrapper-sc-17jmou0-0 eWDxVG" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 100%;"><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><img alt="The casket of a person who died after contracting Covid-19 is loaded into a hearse in El Cajon, California, on January 15, 2021. " class="Image-p11edh-0 gubAgz" src="https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/digital-images/org/5e4507d5-2f57-4949-8a90-81293c33415d.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.625; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px;">The casket of a person who died after contracting Covid-19 is loaded into a hearse in El Cajon, California, on January 15, 2021. Mario Tama/Getty Images</figcaption></figure></div><p class="sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 16px 0px;"></p><p class="sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 16px 0px;">More than 600,000 Americans will have died from Covid-19 by June 1, according to the latest forecast from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.</p><p class="sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 16px 0px;">The model predicted a death toll of 614,503 Americans -- down slightly from the previous forecast released last week, which projected 631,000 deaths.</p><p class="sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 16px 0px;">Warmer weather and wider vaccination could help drive transmission down between now and August, according to the IHME. </p><div class="sc-bdVaJa sc-eXEjpC jwLkgz" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(204, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 32px 0px; padding-left: 14px;"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="quote-icon" fill="" height="32" style="outline: 0px;" viewbox="0 0 64 64" width="32" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M19,28c.05-3.93,1.16-9.6,4.94-13.06L22.27,12C13.05,14.69,6.12,24.38,6,33.12l0,.06V52H30V28H19Z"></path><path d="M47,28V28c0-3.93,1.16-9.6,4.94-13.06L50.27,12C41.05,14.69,34.12,24.38,34,33.12l0,.06V52H58V28Z"></path></svg><q style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px; position: relative;">“We expect vaccination to reach 145 million adults by June 1 and that scale-up will prevent 114,000 deaths,” IHME said in a statement. </q></div><p class="sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 16px 0px;">More than 50 million doses of vaccine have been administered nationwide, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And if 95% of Americans started wearing masks in the next week, 34,000 lives could be saved.</p><p class="sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 16px 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The UK variant: </strong>Spread of the B.1.1.7 virus variant, first identified in the UK, could complicate any potential decline. At least 981 cases of the B.1.1.7 variant have been found in 37 states, the CDC said this week.</p><p class="sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 16px 0px;">The team said it had factored in the expected variant spread into its projections for this forecast. In the worst-case scenario, US deaths could reach 645,000 by June 1.</p><p class="sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 16px 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Other factors:</strong> Progress could also be reversed if people let their guards down, said IHME.</p><div class="sc-bdVaJa sc-ibxdXY YFOWQ" style="border-left: 3px solid rgb(204, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 32px; margin-top: 32px; padding-left: 16px;"><blockquote class="sc-dnqmqq hJIoKL" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 0px;">“Transmission has been contained over the winter through mask wearing, decreased mobility, and avoidance of high-risk settings such as indoor dining,” IHME said. “As daily case counts decline and vaccination increases, behaviors are likely to change towards increased risk of transmission.” </blockquote></div></div><div class="sc-bdVaJa sc-gzOgki amIVz" data-open="false" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 24px;">Link:: <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-02-14-21/h_fe57ad8f1696e1e1f5e9175718cf25e4" target="_blank">edition.cnn.com</a><header class="sc-dqBHgY jQXcSn" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></header></article>Multimedia Productionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220439327412388635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-645065499661950844.post-81043881907275911452021-02-15T11:50:00.003-08:002021-02-15T11:50:16.433-08:00Study finds 7 new 'worrying' coronavirus variants in the U.S.<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.385em; font-weight: 700;">Jessica Hullinger</span></p><div style="background-color: white; 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border-radius: 8px; border: none; height: auto; left: 313.656px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></null></div></figure><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">America seems to be incubating a number of its own unique coronavirus variants, new research suggests. A <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="6" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:study" href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.12.21251658v1" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">study</a> posted Sunday that hasn't yet been peer reviewed identified seven new "lineages" of the virus, <em>The New York Times</em> <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="7" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:reports" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/14/world/covid-19-coronavirus/a-new-study-identifies-seven-us-virus-variants-with-the-same-worrying-mutation" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">reports</a>. While the lineages evolved independently of one another, they seem to display the same genetic mutation.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The change is seen in a gene that influences how the virus finds its way into a host's cell, suggesting it could make these variants more contagious — though this hasn't been confirmed. "I think there's a clear signature of an evolutionary benefit," <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="8" data-v9y="0" data-ylk="slk:said" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/14/world/covid-19-coronavirus/a-new-study-identifies-seven-us-virus-variants-with-the-same-worrying-mutation" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">said</a> Jeremy Kamil, a virologist at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and a co-author of the new study.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The new variants have been spotted across the country, but it's hard to tell just how prevalent they are or where they began because the U.S. performs genome sequencing on just a tiny fraction of coronavirus test results. And while viruses evolve all the time, the risk is that a new variant could be more contagious or more deadly. This is exactly what happened with the B.1.1.7 strain — nicknamed the "U.K. variant" — that's now spreading rapidly in the U.S. It is estimated to be up to 45 percent more transmissible, <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="9" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:and up to 70 percent more deadly" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/02/13/virus-variant-first-detected-uk-has-been-deadlier-study-confirms/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">and up to 70 percent more deadly</a>. Experts warn this new variant could be dominant in the U.S. by March.</p><div class="caas-da" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><div id="sda-INARTICLE"></div></div><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Still, the U.S. is making progress against the virus, at least for now. The country is administering 1.66 million vaccine doses a day, and the seven-day rolling average of new infections <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:dropped below 100,000" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/14/us-daily-new-covid-cases-dip-below-100000" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">dropped below 100,000</a> Friday for the first time in three months, leading governors across the country to ease pandemic restrictions — like mask mandates and limits on gatherings. But health experts are nervous. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Georgetown University, <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:told the Times" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/14/world/covid-19-coronavirus/us-governors-are-easing-restrictions-but-the-virus-variant-news-keeps-getting-worse" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">told the <em>Times</em></a> that letting our guard down now would be "courting disaster."</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/study-finds-7-worrying-coronavirus-130100654.html" target="_blank">news.yahoo.com</a></p></div>Multimedia Productionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220439327412388635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-645065499661950844.post-13053492005773999512021-02-15T11:47:00.001-08:002021-02-15T11:47:38.846-08:00Latest on COVID-19 in MN: Vaccinations continue as key metrics show improvement<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZLL0cHjwsS8sMVmPei2WRMvq-vtdkqwVOj3J9UJC2Pe0Lxswhe0jhUfi9lr85U0k6HrxeEEm1Ni5iOEPClD85EYIipSr2en8Xqda7GEbMjIAHlPdaMUtuyMbx_brna3YxEeLJl5Tpkcqe/s1400/bffb95-20210120-covid-vaccine-community-health-clinic-03-1400.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1400" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZLL0cHjwsS8sMVmPei2WRMvq-vtdkqwVOj3J9UJC2Pe0Lxswhe0jhUfi9lr85U0k6HrxeEEm1Ni5iOEPClD85EYIipSr2en8Xqda7GEbMjIAHlPdaMUtuyMbx_brna3YxEeLJl5Tpkcqe/w640-h494/bffb95-20210120-covid-vaccine-community-health-clinic-03-1400.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h4 id="h4_3_things_to_know%3A" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7rem; line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em;">3 things to know:</h4><ul style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1rem;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">More than 675K Minnesotans have received at least one vaccine dose</p></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1rem;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">2 new deaths reported Monday; 611 new cases logged</p></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1rem;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Test positivity rate is at lowest level since last summer</p></li></ul><hr style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(124, 129, 131); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; height: 1px; margin: 60px auto; width: 360px;" /><h4 id="h4_updated%3A_11%3A53_a.m." style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7rem; line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em;">Updated: 11:53 a.m.</h4><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Key COVID-19 metrics in Minnesota continue to show improvement, as the number of state residents who've received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine surpasses 675,000.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The Minnesota Department of Health reported two deaths Monday, the lowest since Feb. 1, bringing the seven-day average down slightly to just below 11 deaths per day. The state also logged 611 new confirmed cases.</p><figure class="figure figure-none figure-full" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="New COVID-19 related deaths reported in Minnesota each day" sizes="(max-width: 47.999em) 99vw, 66vw" src="https://img.apmcdn.org/dcbf542da0cc84290f433053b1cf945d6f8ee250/uncropped/3b6590-20200417-covid-19-data-charts01-2000.png" srcset="https://img.apmcdn.org/dcbf542da0cc84290f433053b1cf945d6f8ee250/uncropped/3b6590-20200417-covid-19-data-charts01-2000.png 2000w" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;" /></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The test positivity rate also remained flat, at 2.9 percent, which is just above Minnesota's low record of 2.76 percent on June 20, 2020.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">COVID-19 vaccinations are up week over week, leading to a gradual upward trend in the state’s average daily vaccination pace. More than 12 percent of Minnesotans have received at least their first shot of the vaccine, as of data through Saturday.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The increase in vaccinations are overwhelmingly concentrated among older Minnesotans, of whom nearly one-third have received at least one shot.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Just over 4 percent of Minnesota residents of all ages have received both doses to complete their vaccinations.</p><figure class="figure figure-none figure-full" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="Newly reported COVID-19 vaccine doses in Minnesota" sizes="(max-width: 47.999em) 99vw, 66vw" src="https://img.apmcdn.org/c142ad2e08ea5055ce9d1cb7c3daf4764ce66f02/uncropped/1debc2-20210127-covid19-vaccine-doses-2000.png" srcset="https://img.apmcdn.org/c142ad2e08ea5055ce9d1cb7c3daf4764ce66f02/uncropped/1debc2-20210127-covid19-vaccine-doses-2000.png 2000w" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;" /></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">In total, nearly 915,000 vaccine doses have been administered in the state.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The state is at an all-time high for the number of doses administered within three days of receipt by providers, though the state is just short of its goal of 90 percent of doses within three days.</p><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><div class="amat-oembed twitter" data-testid="embed-container" data-url="https://twitter.com/dhmontgomery/status/1361365877678108678" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1361365877678108678" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-1" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-1&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1361365877678108678&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mprnews.org%2Fstory%2F2021%2F02%2F15%2Flatest-on-covid19-in-mn&siteScreenName=MPRNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&width=550px" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 1118px; max-width: 100%; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></div></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">As of Sunday, Minnesota ranked 24th among states in <a class="apm-link default" href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;">doses administered per 100,000 people</a>, according to data collected by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s was up from 28th on Saturday. With federal vaccine shipments rising, the pace of vaccinations may increase in the coming days.</p><div class="apm-related-list" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="apm-related-list-title" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5rem;"></div><ul class="apm-related-list-body" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="apm-related-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 0.5em;">Analysis</span><a data-testid="relativeLink" href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/02/10/analysis-whats-to-blame-for-minnesotas-slow-vaccination-pace" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;">What's to blame for Minnesota's slow vaccination pace?</a></li></ul></div><figure class="figure figure-none figure-full" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="A line chart." sizes="(max-width: 47.999em) 99vw, 66vw" src="https://img.apmcdn.org/733491c9aacdd2a02dd91b23c2b662e27a5df0c5/uncropped/fe2600-20210129-total-vaccinations-mn02-2000.png" srcset="https://img.apmcdn.org/733491c9aacdd2a02dd91b23c2b662e27a5df0c5/uncropped/fe2600-20210129-total-vaccinations-mn02-2000.png 2000w" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;" /></figure><div class="apm-related-list" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="apm-related-list-title" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5rem;"></div><ul class="apm-related-list-body" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="apm-related-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 0.5em;">COVID-19</span><a data-testid="relativeLink" href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/02/15/latest-on-covid19-in-mn#covid19" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;">Tracking cases in Minnesota</a></li><li class="apm-related-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 0.5em;">Latest developments</span><a data-testid="relativeLink" href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/02/15/latest-on-covid19-in-mn#developments" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;">From across Minnesota</a></li><li class="apm-related-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 0.5em;">Top headlines</span><a data-testid="relativeLink" href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/02/15/latest-on-covid19-in-mn#top_headlines" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;">From MPR News</a></li><li class="apm-related-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 0.5em;">Sign up</span><a href="https://cloud.connect.mpr.org/mprnews_covid" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;">Daily analysis on COVID-19 in MN</a></li></ul></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">About 97 percent of Minnesotans known to be infected with COVID-19 in the pandemic have recovered to the point where they no longer need to be isolated.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">State health officials continue to monitor new virus strains circulating in the United States, which may be more contagious. Officials have warned that they could lead to an increase in cases.</p><div class="apm-related-list" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="apm-related-list-title" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5rem;"></div><ul class="apm-related-list-body" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="apm-related-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 0.5em;">The Brazil variant</span><a data-testid="relativeLink" href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/01/27/npr-why-scientists-are-very-worried-about-the-variant-from-brazil" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;">Why scientists are very worried</a></li></ul></div><h3 id="h3_cases_spread_across_age_groups%2C_regions" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em;">Cases spread across age groups, regions</h3><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">People in their 20s still make up the age bracket with the state’s largest number of confirmed cases — more than 89,000 since the pandemic began, including more than 47,000 among people ages 20 to 24.</p><figure class="figure figure-none figure-full" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="New Minnesota COVID-19 cases by age, adjusted for population" sizes="(max-width: 47.999em) 99vw, 66vw" src="https://img.apmcdn.org/6b486323329122674a9b5fbfdcf2e51f9ad83f8d/uncropped/6cb37a-20200626-covid-cases-age-2000.png" srcset="https://img.apmcdn.org/6b486323329122674a9b5fbfdcf2e51f9ad83f8d/uncropped/6cb37a-20200626-covid-cases-age-2000.png 2000w" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;" /></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The number of high school-age youth confirmed with the disease has also grown, with more than 36,000 total cases among those ages 15 to 19 since the pandemic began.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Although less likely to feel the worst effects of the disease and end up hospitalized, experts worry youth and young adults will spread it unknowingly to older relatives and members of other vulnerable populations.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">People can have the coronavirus and spread COVID-19 when they don’t have symptoms.</p><div class="apm-related-list" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="apm-related-list-title" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5rem;"></div><ul class="apm-related-list-body" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="apm-related-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 0.5em;">What you need to know</span><a data-testid="relativeLink" href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/01/06/new-year-new-covid19-regulations-in-mn-what-you-need-to-know" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;">New year, new COVID-19 regulations in MN</a></li><li class="apm-related-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 0.5em;">Reporter's notebook</span><a data-testid="relativeLink" href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/11/10/reporters-notebook-understanding-covid19-case-rates-over-time" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;">Understanding COVID-19 case rates over time</a></li></ul></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Something worth watching: There’s been an uptick in cases in northwestern Minnesota recently, though it’s unclear why just yet. All other regions of the state have been seeing cases decline.</p><figure class="figure figure-none figure-full" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="New COVID-19 cases by Minnesota region" sizes="(max-width: 47.999em) 99vw, 66vw" src="https://img.apmcdn.org/010eaee3911b075d7bcd1113c47b5efb5506840f/uncropped/7dd70a-20200625-covid-regions-charts01-2000.png" srcset="https://img.apmcdn.org/010eaee3911b075d7bcd1113c47b5efb5506840f/uncropped/7dd70a-20200625-covid-regions-charts01-2000.png 2000w" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;" /></figure><div class="apm-related-list" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="apm-related-list-title" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5rem;"></div><ul class="apm-related-list-body" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="apm-related-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 0.5em;">Worried you might have been exposed to COVID-19?</span><a data-testid="relativeLink" href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/10/02/worried-you-might-have-been-exposed-to-covid19-heres-what-to-do" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;">Here’s what to do</a></li><li class="apm-related-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 0.5em;">What to do</span><a data-testid="relativeLink" href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/12/05/npr-what-to-do-if-you-test-positive-for-the-coronavirus-this-fall-or-winter" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;">If you test positive for the coronavirus this winter</a></li></ul></div><h3 id="h3_caseloads_still_heaviest_among_people_of_color" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em;">Caseloads still heaviest among people of color</h3><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">In Minnesota and across the country, COVID-19 has hit <a class="apm-link apm-link default" href="https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;" title="">communities of color disproportionately hard</a> in both cases and deaths. That’s been especially true for<a class="apm-link apm-link default" href="https://sahanjournal.com/health/minnesota-emilia-gonzales-avalos-father-covid-19-unidos-mn/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;" title=""> Minnesotans of Hispanic descent</a> for much of the pandemic.</p><figure class="figure figure-none figure-full" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="New COVID-19 cases per capita by race" sizes="(max-width: 47.999em) 99vw, 66vw" src="https://img.apmcdn.org/c9ef1b7c0367e225b0da2e1f8f7729c02fdf3a7f/uncropped/59d09b-20201006-covid-cases-race-2000.png" srcset="https://img.apmcdn.org/c9ef1b7c0367e225b0da2e1f8f7729c02fdf3a7f/uncropped/59d09b-20201006-covid-cases-race-2000.png 2000w" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;" /></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Even as new case counts continue to fall from their late November, early December peaks, the data shows Latino people continue to be hit hard.</p><div class="apm-related-list" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="apm-related-list-title" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5rem;"></div><ul class="apm-related-list-body" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="apm-related-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 0.5em;">'I don't wish this to anybody'</span><a data-testid="relativeLink" href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/12/07/how-covid19-is-disproportionately-hitting-minnesotas-latino-community" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;">How COVID is disproportionately hitting Minnesota’s Latino community</a></li></ul></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><a class="apm-link apm-link default" data-testid="relativeLink" href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/10/08/mistrust-threatens-to-hamper-testing-in-mn-communities-most-vulnerable-to-covid19" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;" title="">Distrust of the government</a>, together with deeply rooted health and economic disparities, have hampered efforts to boost testing among communities of color, officials say, especially among unauthorized immigrants who fear their personal information may be used to deport them.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm on Thursday also acknowledged the need to ensure that vaccination opportunities be spread equitably.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Malcolm said the state will release data soon regarding vaccinations, race and ethnicity. Officials say they’re trying to improve the quality of data. Per state law, it's been shared voluntarily, and so may be inconsistent.</p><div class="apm-related-list" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="apm-related-list-title" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5rem;"></div><ul class="apm-related-list-body" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="apm-related-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 0.5em;">Who's eligible, how to sign up</span><a data-testid="relativeLink" href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/01/19/how-to-get-your-covid19-vaccine-in-minnesota-what-you-need-to-know" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;">Everything you need to know about getting COVID shots in MN</a></li><li class="apm-related-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 0.5em;">APM Research Lab</span><a href="https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/vaccine-progress" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;">The U.S. remains far behind COVID-19 vaccination goals</a></li></ul></div><figure class="figure figure-none figure-full" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="Percent of COVID-19 tests to come back positive" sizes="(max-width: 47.999em) 99vw, 66vw" src="https://img.apmcdn.org/ba7feec10fac865a480a5270005596cf4495677c/uncropped/8990f1-20200523-covid-explainer-01-2000.png" srcset="https://img.apmcdn.org/ba7feec10fac865a480a5270005596cf4495677c/uncropped/8990f1-20200523-covid-explainer-01-2000.png 2000w" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;" /></figure><hr style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(124, 129, 131); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; height: 1px; margin: 60px auto; width: 360px;" /><h2 id="covid19" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 2.4rem; line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em;">COVID-19 in Minnesota</h2><div class="customHtml" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/3309888/embed" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; height: 205px; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;"></iframe></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"></p><div class="customHtml" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://flo.uri.sh/story/490428/embed" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; height: 450px; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;"></iframe></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"></p><div class="customHtml" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="710" scrolling="no" src="https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Qy7dJ/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-style: none; border-width: initial; box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;" width="600"></iframe></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit;">Data in these graphs are based on the Minnesota Department of Health's cumulative totals released at 11 a.m. daily. You can find more detailed statistics on COVID-19 at the </em><a class="apm-link apm-link default" href="https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situation.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;" title=""><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit;">Health Department website</em></a><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit;">.</em></p><div class="apm-related-list" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="apm-related-list-title" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.7rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5rem;"></div><ul class="apm-related-list-body" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="apm-related-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 0.5em;">COVID-19 in Minnesota</span><a data-testid="relativeLink" href="https://www.mprnews.org/health/covid-19" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00334e; fill: rgb(0, 51, 78); transition: color 0.175s ease 0s, fill 0.175s ease 0s;">Full coverage of the coronavirus pandemic</a></li></ul></div><hr style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(124, 129, 131); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; height: 1px; margin: 60px auto; width: 360px;" /><h2 id="h2_latest_developments" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 2.4rem; line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em;">Latest developments</h2><h3 id="h3_st._cloud_va_starts_vaccinating_essential_workers" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em;">St. Cloud VA starts vaccinating essential workers</h3><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The St. Cloud VA Health Care System is now offering the COVID-19 vaccine to veterans who are also front-line essential workers.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The St. Cloud VA has been vaccinating its health care workers, long-term care residents and veterans 75 and older. Now, VA officials are scheduling vaccines for enrolled veterans who are front-line essential workers, regardless of age or health condition. They include first responders, teachers, grocery store, postal workers, corrections officers and those who work in food, agriculture, manufacturing and public transit.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">J.D. Anderson, chief of pharmacy at the St. Cloud, said they've seen strong interest among veterans in getting the vaccine.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">"I think we had two no-shows in the last two days, even though we've been we've had steady below zero temps,” Anderson said. “We have a very hardy group that is very eager to receive vaccination."</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Anderson added that the VA is preparing to move to the next phase, which includes veterans 65 and older, and those with underlying health conditions.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit;">— Kirsti Marohn | MPR News</em></p><h3 id="h3_walz%E2%80%99s_emergency_powers_extended%2C_again%2C_for_another_month" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em;">Walz’s emergency powers extended, again, for another month</h3><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">DFL Gov. Tim Walz has again extended his emergencies powers to coordinate Minnesota's response to the pandemic.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The latest extension through March 15 means that Minnesota will have been in a peacetime emergency for at least a year.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Walz said fellow Democrats who control the House have been willing to tackle issues such as a statewide face covering mandate. But he said the Republicans who control the state Senate have refused to act, leaving him no choice but to issue executive orders.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">"If I won't want hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans to be evicted, if I don't my ability to order PPE and to shift the national guard to give vaccine, all of that would end if the emergency orders that are being used by 49 out of 50 governors are brought back," the governor said.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191a1a; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Walz first signed an executive order last March that allows him to expedite contracts, mobilize the National Guard and make other unilateral decisions to manage the pandemic. 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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The American Society of Clinical Oncology, which represents many of the nation’s top cancer doctors, is calling attention to the ties between alcohol and cancer. In a <a href="http://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2017.76.1155">statement published Tuesday</a> in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the group cites evidence that even light drinking can slightly raise a woman’s risk of breast cancer and increase a common type of esophageal cancer.</span></div>
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Heavy drinkers face much higher risks of mouth and throat cancer, cancer of the voice box, liver cancer and, to a lesser extent, colorectal cancers, the group cautions.</div>
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“The message is not, ‘Don’t drink.’ It’s, ‘If you want to reduce your cancer risk, drink less. And if you don’t drink, don’t start,’” said Dr. Noelle LoConte, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the lead author of the ASCO statement. “It’s different than tobacco where we say, ‘Never smoke. Don’t start.’ This is a little more subtle.”</div>
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Other medical groups have cited the risks of alcohol as a possible cause of cancer. But this is the first time that ASCO has taken a stand.</div>
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Drinking over all, as well as heavy drinking and problem drinking, are on the rise in the United States and <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2647079">affect all segments of society</a>, including women, older adults, racial and ethnic minorities and the poor, several surveys have shown.</div>
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Yet few adults, when asked, identify alcohol consumption as a risk factor for cancer, even though the vast majority were familiar with other cancer risk factors, like smoking and sun exposure, a <a href="https://www.asco.org/advocacy-policy/asco-in-action/national-survey-reveals-most-americans-are-unaware-key-cancer-risk?et_cid=39746367&et_rid=1844891989&linkid=National+Cancer+Opinion+Survey">recent ASCO survey</a> of 4,016 adults found. Fewer than one in three adults identified alcohol as a risk factor for cancer. (Most also failed to mention obesity as a risk factor.)</div>
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The doctors’ group is also calling for new public health initiatives to curb alcohol use, from taxes to restrictions on ads targeting minors, like the new <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/nyregion/alcohol-advertising-mta-subway.html">ban on alcohol advertising</a> on New York City’s subways and buses slated to go into effect in January. The group likewise opposes “pink washing,” in which alcohol companies drape their products in pink ribbon to enhance sales, a practice it opposes “given the consistent evidence that shows the link between alcohol consumption and an increased risk of breast cancer.”</div>
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For the statement, ASCO researchers reviewed earlier published studies and concluded that 5.5 percent of all new cancers and 5.8 percent of all cancer deaths worldwide could be attributed to alcohol. The paper stated clearly that alcohol plays a causal role in cancers of the throat and neck, voice box, liver and colon, as well as esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and, in women, breast cancer.</div>
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For women, just one alcoholic drink a day can increase breast cancer risk, according to a <a href="http://www.aicr.org/continuous-update-project/reports/breast-cancer-report-2017.pdf">report released in May</a> from the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund that was cited by ASCO. That report analyzed 119 studies, including data on 12 million women and over a quarter of a million breast cancer cases, and concluded there was strong evidence that alcohol consumption increases the risk of both pre- and postmenopausal cancer, and that drinking a small glass of wine or beer every day — about 10 grams of alcohol — increases premenopausal breast cancer risk by 5 percent and postmenopausal risk by 9 percent.</div>
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“The more you drink, the higher the risk,” said Dr. Clifford A. Hudis, the chief executive of ASCO. “It’s a pretty linear dose-response.”</div>
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Even those who drink moderately, defined by the Centers for Disease Control as one daily drink for women and two for men, face nearly a doubling of the risk for mouth and throat cancer and more than double the risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus, compared to nondrinkers. Moderate drinkers also face elevated risks for cancers of the voice box, female breast cancer and colorectal cancers.</div>
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The risk for heavy drinkers — defined as eight or more drinks a week for women and 15 or more a week for men, including binge drinkers — are multiples higher. Heavy drinkers face roughly five times the risk of mouth and throat cancers and squamous cell esophageal cancers than nondrinkers, nearly three times the risk of cancers of the voice box or larynx, double the risk of liver cancer, as well as increased risks for female breast cancer and colorectal cancer.</div>
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“If you look at these figures, you see alcohol is a contributing factor; certainly it has a causal role,” Dr. Hudis said.</div>
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer, which is part of the World Health Organization, first classified the consumption of alcoholic beverages as carcinogenic to humans in 1987, tying consumption to cancers of the mouth, throat, voice box, esophagus and liver, said Susan Gapstur, vice president for epidemiology at the American Cancer Society.</div>
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Since then, she said, more and more evidence has accumulated tying alcohol to a broader group of cancers, including colorectal cancer and, in women, breast cancer. A more recent I.A.R.C. report concluded that alcohol “is a cause of cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, colorectum, liver and female breast.” (The esophageal cancer is largely specific to squamous cell carcinoma.)</div>
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“The story of alcohol has been quite consistent and has been peeled away like an onion over time, and we’re continuing to learn more about the mechanisms involved,” Dr. Gapstur said. “We don’t have randomized trials, but sometimes when you start looking at the coherence of all the evidence, including the observational epidemiology, the lab studies, the mechanistic studies, you begin to see a picture and get more clarity.”</div>
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One way alcohol may lead to cancer is because the body metabolizes it into acetaldehyde, which causes changes and mutations in DNA, Dr. Gapstur said. The formation of acetaldehyde starts when alcohol comes in contact with bacteria in the mouth, which may explain the link between alcohol and cancers of the throat, voice box and esophagus, she suggested.</div>
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Dr. Anne McTiernan, a scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who was an author of one of the earlier reports on alcohol and breast cancer, said she was pleased that oncologists were focusing on alcohol.</div>
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“That puts some weight behind this,” she said. It “shows they’re serious about it and willing to put their name on the line for changes in policy, and willing to say that even small amounts of alcohol can increase the risks of some cancers to a small degree.”</div>
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Source: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/well/live/cancer-doctors-cite-risks-of-drinking-alcohol.html">www.nytimes.com</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">People with diabetes must check blood glucose levels regularly. <span style="font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"></span><span class="videographer" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; text-align: start;"></span><span style="font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"></span><span class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Modesto Bee</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Working with patients with diabetes through the years, I hear a common theme. “Is this bad?” “Bad” is often used to describe a particular food, blood glucose reading, habit, or behavior. Or similarly I sometimes hear, “this is good, right?” Labeling habits and behaviors as good or bad, black or white may not be the best strategy to managing diabetes over time. It can lead to frustration and diminish our efforts to take care of ourselves.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">November is National Diabetes Awareness month, highlighting the condition that can be challenging because of the daily attention to meal planning, physical activity, medications and stress levels. These factors are managed and individualized by a person’s diabetes care team. One size doesn’t always fit all, and being perfect with a treatment plan is a tall order.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For example, reducing food portions at meal times is beneficial when managing diabetes. This guideline is “better” than overeating and taking large portions. But when we do overeat, we aren’t suddenly “bad.” Consider redirecting these types of all or nothing thoughts and ask what can improve next time. Maybe that is not going back for a second helping or swapping out a starchy food for a non-starchy vegetable.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some people with diabetes check their blood glucose levels at home. It can be hard not to think of these readings as judgment. Some people even believe they are “bad” if the numbers are not in the range their diabetes care team has recommended. A better approach would be to reframe those glucose checks as information or data to help with decisions about meals, activity and medication. Look to see what is happening to readings over the week and see if there is a pattern. Is there a higher reading after the work potluck? How about when you skip exercise? Use that information to guide lifestyle adjustments and discuss concerns with your care team.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Diabetes is not always predictable. The condition changes with age, life stages, and stressful events. Even changes in the seasons can affect diabetes. What works best now may not later. Being flexible and staying positive are helpful mindsets for managing diabetes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As 63-year-old Margaret Smith lay dying in Vanderbilt University Medical Center, nurse Olivia Neufelder tried to make some of her last moments on Earth as tranquil as possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Neufelder, <a href="http://wlos.com/news/local/video-of-angel-vanderbilt-nurse-singing-to-patients-touches-the-hearts-of-millions" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top" title="">who has been friends with Margaret for 15 years</a>, sang “Dancing in the Sky” by Dani and Lizzie to the ailing woman confined to a hospital bed, according to WLOS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Smith would later be moved from the Tennessee hospital to <a href="http://www.newschannel5.com/news/video-of-nurse-singing-to-cancer-patient-goes-viral" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top" title="">a nearby nursing home, where she died Wednesday</a>, NewsChannel5 reported. She had been waiting for a liver transplant, which doctors said she wasn’t healthy enough to receive.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But before that, Neufelder wanted to share a few more minutes — and the calming power of music — with her old friend.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“There was almost a sense of peace knowing that it was her favorite song and she did tell me it’s the song she wants played at her funeral,” Neufelder told NewsChannel 5. “She didn’t feel like a patient at that time. I wanted her to know that she was loved even if her family wasn’t able to be there.”</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">A friend of Smith’s captured the touching moment, which quickly went viral after </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1723324397700158&id=100000678443234" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_top" title="">it was posted to Facebook by Megan Smith</a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">, Margaret’s daughter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Megan Smith wrote that, to her mother, Neufelder is an “angel.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“This nurse sat with my mom for hours while the medicine from too much Anesthesia and sang a very special song to my sweet mother to comfort her,” Smith detailed on her post. “You never left her side by choice!! Words cannot describe the appreciation and love we feel for nurse Olivia who mom calls her angel!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the video, Neufelder can be seen tenderly caressing Smith’s hand and often wiping away tears. Smith, in turn, lies with her arms crossed, closing her eyes and occasionally looking up at the singing nurse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Around 3.5 million people have watched that video, plus another 270,000 people who saw a different clip of the serene connection between nurse and patient.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Neufelder told Fox17 that <a href="http://fox17.com/news/local/video-of-angel-vanderbilt-nurse-singing-to-patients-touches-the-hearts-of-millions" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top" title="">she hoped the millions of people who watched the videos learned this</a>: “There’s always hope, there’s always someone.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Miss Marg has touched my heart in such an indescribable way,” <a href="https://www.facebook.com/olivia.neufelder?fref=ts" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top" title="">she wrote on Facebook</a>. “I am so humbled and honored to be a Nurse. My thoughts and prayers are forever with this amazing family.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Erika Hurt had become the face of drug addiction.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The young mother was captured in a photograph by police, passed out in the driver's seat of her car outside a Dollar General store in Hope, Ind. — an empty syringe still resting between the 25-year-old addict's fingers. The snapshot captured yet another horrifying moment in the worsening U.S. opioid epidemic.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What was not seen that Saturday afternoon last October was her 10-month-old son, buckled into his car seat in the back.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I was angry and I wanted to blame the police for putting my business out there and showing the world my private addiction and everything like that,” <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/year-after-her-overdose-photo-went-viral-mother-now-says-n813451" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 18px; text-decoration-line: none; zoom: 1;">she told NBC News</a>, a year after the image went viral.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I’m thankful now that the cop did take the picture,” she told NBC News. “The fact that I’m able to look back on that picture and see where the addiction had taken me, and I’m able to use that picture now to show others that addicts can recover.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I've decided to repost the picture simply because it displays exactly what heroin addiction is,” she wrote. “Also because I do not want to ever forget where the road of addiction has taken me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On Thursday, President Trump <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/26/trump-plans-to-declare-the-opioid-crisis-a-public-health-emergency/?utm_term=.401b49184468">declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency</a>, calling it the “worst drug crisis in American history” and vowing to focus the nation's attention on resolving it.<br /><br />“As Americans, we cannot allow this to continue,” he said. “It is time to liberate our communities from the scourge of drug addiction. We can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic. We can do it.”<br /><br />Despite Trump’s call to action, critics questioned the merits of his pronouncement, given that it did not include an immediate request to Congress for emergency funding.<br /><br />“America is hemorrhaging lives by the day because of the opioid epidemic, but President Trump offered the country a Band-Aid when we need a tourniquet,” said Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.). Markey called the announcement “nothing more than a dog-and-pony show in an attempt to demonstrate the Trump administration is not ignoring this crisis.”<br /><br />Since 2014, more than 28,000 people in the United States have overdosed on opioids and died, according to data <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/index.html">from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>. Specifically, heroin overdose deaths have quadrupled since 2010, accounting for nearly 13,000 deaths in 2015, according to the data.<br /><br />Behind the grim statistics are haunting scenes of overdosed victims — and the children affected by their parents' addictions.<br /><br />Disturbing photographs and videos depicting scenes such as the one in which Hurt was found unconscious have become common as the epidemic rages.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She said she had bought some heroin on a Friday and had been trying to convince herself not to use it. But she failed. She knew she needed to reach out for help but decided she did not want to be talked out of using it, she said, so while driving with her sleeping son in the back seat, she pulled over in the first safe place she could find — a Dollar General parking lot.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As The Washington Post's <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/10/27/another-parents-overdose-another-child-in-the-back-seat-a-new-norm-for-drug-users/?utm_term=.f3af093a71bc" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 18px; text-decoration-line: none; zoom: 1;">Kristine Phillips reported</a>, police believed Hurt had overdosed on heroin, and she was given two doses of Narcan, which reverses opioid overdoses in emergency situations.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I didn’t even know the picture had been taken,” she told The Post. “I just remember being extremely shocked. I was at a loss for words. I was humiliated, and I was hurt, and I was very angry at the police.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hurt said she had been battling addiction since she was 15, when she was prescribed painkillers for a staph infection. By 19, she had started using heroin, she said, and by 21, she had moved to the needle.</span></div>
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An Italian man has been jailed for 24 years after intentionally infecting 30 women with HIV.</div>
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Valentino Talluto is said to have had unprotected sex with at least 53 women after his HIV diagnosis in 2006, the youngest of whom was 14 at the relationship's start.</div>
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The accountant, using the pseudonym "Hearty Style", went on social networks and dating sites to find his victims.</div>
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On Friday, judges sentenced the 33-year-old to 24 years in prison.</div>
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Talluto's defence lawyers had argued their client's actions were "imprudent, but not intentional".</div>
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However, those who asked him to wear a condom were told he was either allergic, or had recently been tested for HIV, news agency AFP reported.</div>
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When some of the women confronted him after discovering they were infected, he denied he was a carrier of the potentially deadly virus, which can lead to Aids.</div>
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As a result of his actions, another four people contracted the virus on top of the women he directly infected: three men and one baby.</div>
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Prosecutor Elena Neri told the court last month: "His actions were intended to sow death."</div>
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However, Talluto - whose mother was an HIV-infected drug addict who died when he was four - told the court if that had been the case, he would not have gone to the effort of having actual relationships.</div>
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"Many of the girls know my friends and family," he said. "They say that I wanted to infect as many people as possible. If that had been the case, I would have gone for casual sex in bars, I would not have brought them into my life."</div>
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Judges in Rome deliberated over the sentence for more than 10 hours before announcing the verdict.</div>
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According to local media, victims wept as the sentence was read out. However, it fell short of the life term prosecutors had asked for.</div>
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Despite an abundance of <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tackling-obesities-future-choices" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">evidence</a> illustrating that weight gain is caused by a complex cocktail of factors, obesity is often solely attributed to poor individual lifestyle choices – such as diet and exercise.</div>
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This type of simplistic view of what causes weight gain leads to and reinforces what’s known as “<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1467-789X.2003.00122.x/full" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">weight stigma</a>”. This is defined as:</div>
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But this isn’t something that just impacts people of a certain weight. In fact, weight stigma affects people of all body shapes and sizes – including people classed as a <a href="http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/481394" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">healthy weight</a>.</div>
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These types of attitudes of course aren’t helped by the fact that fat jokes, as well as stereotypical and derogatory images of overweight people are so common. For a start, think about <a href="http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.93.8.1342" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">TV soaps</a> – research has shown that characters with excess weight have more negative experiences, fewer friendships and less romantic relationships when compared to characters of a healthy weight.</div>
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The role of the media</h2>
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An examination of <a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-44630-001" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">national newspapers</a> also shows obesity is portrayed in a negative way. And there is evidence that newspapers <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-everyday-language-casually-stigmatises-obesity-and-what-to-do-about-it-83860" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">stigmatise and in some cases dehumanise people</a> who are overweight.</div>
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This can be seen in The Times’ recent <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/heffalump-traps-will-clear-the-nhs-of-fatties-tkvwm7d2s?shareToken=8091bfe5a3aeaa042849cf97ff9427f5" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">article</a>, which has the headline “Heffalump Traps will Clear the NHS of Fatties” – clearly highlighting that people with obesity are stereotyped and in many cases, belittled.</div>
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Reports in newspapers are often on the “controllable causes” of weight gain, such as dietary behaviours, with little mention of so-called “uncontrollable causes” – like <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/sep/07/supersize-us-upselling-is-fuelling-the-obesity-epidemic-warns-report" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">portion upselling</a>, food formulation, and food advertising.</div>
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Research looking at the way <a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-44630-001" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">national newspapers</a> in the UK portray obesity also shows that 98% of articles inform readers it is something that is controllable. This leads people to believe that being overweight is caused only by poor lifestyle choices, and is fundamentally solved by being more active and eating a healthier diet. The reality of course is very different and extremely complicated.</div>
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What’s more, these newspapers are collectively read by millions of people. Such articles both reinforce and endorse stigmatising attitudes and discriminatory behaviours towards people with obesity. It sends the message out loud and clear that it’s acceptable to <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10810730.2011.561915" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">judge people based on their body weight</a>.</div>
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Widespread stigma</h2>
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Weight stigma is seen in all areas of society – including <a href="http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00647/full" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">workplaces</a>, schools and <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10964-011-9713-z" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">education centres</a> – as the recent <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4859606/Mother-refuses-let-daughter-taught-FAT-teacher.html?ito=email_share_article-top" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Daily Mail article</a> article “Why I refuse to let my daughter be taught by a fat teacher” clearly demonstrates.</div>
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Even <a href="http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01497/full" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">healthcare services</a> aren’t immune to this type of weight stigmatisation – it has been suggested that patients may be denied bariatric surgery due to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/02/must-we-really-be-nation-of-fat-shamers?CMP=share_btn_tw" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">biased attitudes</a> of surgeons.</div>
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These types of attitudes are also clearly evident in government policy. In 2011, Andrew Lansley, the Secretary of State for Health, said:</div>
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This was written in a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/healthy-lives-healthy-people-a-call-to-action-on-obesity-in-england" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">call to action on obesity</a>.</div>
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Whether you’re a politician or a medical professional, it doesn’t necessarily make you immune to popular belief and media misconception.</div>
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Overcoming discrimination</h2>
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But beyond all of this, weight stigma is doubly damaging because it not only negatively impacts people who are overweight, but it further hinders the likelihood of countries taking effective action. This system wide action would see the creation of a health promoting environment – one that is free of stigma and individual blame. The responsibility for obesity must be shared between society and the individuals within it.</div>
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To help with this, we must move beyond the use of demeaning weight related imagery in the media. This is one reason why the <a href="http://www.obesityaction.org/oac-image-gallery/oac-image-gallery-categories" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Obesity Action Coalition</a>, the <a href="http://www.uconnruddcenter.org/image-library?#" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Rudd Centre for Food Policy & Obesity</a> – a non-profit research and public policy organisation – and the <a href="http://easo.org/media-portal/obesity-image-bank/" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">European Obesity Association</a> have each produced preferred non-stigmatising image banks that journalists and media outlets can use.</div>
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This is an important step because negative images can greatly impact people with obesity on a daily basis, which can <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1038/oby.2010.234/full" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">lead</a> many to feel depressed about their physical appearance.</div>
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Only by accurately reflecting the realities of obesity – that it is a chronic disease caused by both controllable and uncontrollable factors – can we move towards establishing an effective solution. Given that a UK based research <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40608-015-0064-2" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">study</a> from 2015 found that adults of all ages and backgrounds have stigmatising attitudes towards those with excess weight, this is clearly something that needs to be tackled sooner rather than later.</div>
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Macro-focused diets say that by getting the right balance of proteins, carbs and fat, you can lose weight and be healthier.</h3>
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They are <a class="" href="https://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/articles/2015/02/06/dash-the-best-diet-with-the-least-buzz" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c7ef0; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Link: https://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/articles/2015/02/06/dash-the-best-diet-with-the-least-buzz">carbohydrates, protein and fat</a>, and your body needs a lot of them – which is why they’re called “macronutrients,” not “micronutrients,” such as iron and zinc. Macros also provide your body energy: Each gram of carbohydrate contains 4 calories; protein contains 4 and fat, 9. (The only other substance that feeds our bodies calories is alcohol, which has 7 calories per gram. But, since we don’t <i style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">need</i> booze to survive, it doesn’t get to be a member of the macronutrient club.)</div>
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For years, diets have ganged up on this-or-that macronutrient, <a class="" href="https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2014/04/15/when-elimination-diets-backfire" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c7ef0; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Link: https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2014/04/15/when-elimination-diets-backfire">telling us to banish them</a> as much as possible to lose weight. In the 90s, it was the fat-free craze. But then research found that healthy fats such as avocados, walnuts and olive oil can help you shed fat. For instance, one study in the British Journal of Nutrition shows that adults who eat the most unsaturated fat have lower body mass indexes and less belly fat than those who eat the least.</div>
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Then, in the early 2000s, the <a class="" href="https://health.usnews.com/best-diet/atkins-diet" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c7ef0; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Link: https://health.usnews.com/best-diet/atkins-diet">Atkins Diet</a> stormed onto the scene, and urged <a class="" href="https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2014/09/03/carbohydrates-setting-the-record-straight" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c7ef0; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Link: https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2014/09/03/carbohydrates-setting-the-record-straight">people to cut carbs</a> – even from fruits and veggies – and fill up on protein and fat. But some research disputes that approach. <i style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"></i>In one 2014 PLOS ONE study, when adults tried two different diets, one rich in whole grains and low in red meat and one low in whole grains and rich in red meat (both diets packed the same number of calories), they enhanced the diversity of their gut bacteria, lost more weight and body fat and improved their BMI more than when they swapped whole grains for red meat.</div>
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That brings us to today’s macro-focused diets, including The One One One Diet and<i style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </i>the IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macros) diet, along with apps such as My Macros+ and Fitocracy Macros. These diets don’t cut macronutrients, but instead tell you to get them all.</div>
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“Carbohydrates provide us with energy as well as fiber, which improves heart and digestive health; protein is the building block for strong muscles and healthy tissues and also helps make hormones and enzymes; and fats help maintain healthy tissues and cells, ensure proper nerve and brain function and increase the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins,” says nutritionist Rania Batayneh, author of "The One One One Diet: The Simple 1:1:1 Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss<i style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">."</i> She adds: “Put simply, each macronutrient plays a very different role in keeping your body healthy, and skipping out on any one of them can compromise health.”</div>
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The One One One Diet<i style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </i>focuses on getting one serving of carbohydrates, one serving of protein and one serving of fat at every meal and snack. “Because every meal or snack contains a protein, a carb and a fat, you’re supporting each structure and function of your body with nutrients every few hours, which leads to overall health and wellness," she says. Plus, by combining them at each meal, you can stay full longer, keep your blood sugar from spiking, prevent fat gain, and give your muscles a constant supply of <a class="" href="https://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/articles/2015/02/13/older-adults-double-your-protein-intake-for-better-health" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c7ef0; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Link: https://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/articles/2015/02/13/older-adults-double-your-protein-intake-for-better-health">protein for muscle growth</a>.</div>
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“Portion control is inherent in the diet and based on the formula when you stick with one of each of the macronutrients,” she says. For example, in The One One One Diet<i style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">, </i>a serving size of nut or seed butter (which would count as a fat), is 1 tablespoon, not 2 as indicated on the nutrition label. Some foods, count as two different macronutrients, for example, beans count as both a carb and protein, and cheese counts as a fat and protein. In her book, Batayneh provides a cheat sheet of common foods, their macronutrient classifications and serving sizes. Those serving sizes are critical to keeping your macro intake balanced as well as not overdoing it on calories.</div>
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Meanwhile, the If It Fits Your Macros diet requires a lot of math. You have to know how many calories your body burns in an average day, and eat 10 to 20 percent fewer calories every day than that number. Then you’ve got to split those calories so you get 40 percent of them from carbohydrates, 40 percent from protein and 20 percent from fat during the course of each day. (<a class="" href="http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c7ef0; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Link: http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/">IIFYM.com has a calculator</a> to help you determine the number of grams of carbs, protein and fat you need daily.) It doesn’t matter when you get each of them. Meanwhile, drink plenty of water and make sure you’re getting a good bit of fiber from the foods you’re eating. It’s worth mentioning that while some nutritionists say this is a pretty healthy split, the diet was designed by competitive bodybuilders, not licensed health professionals.</div>
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“Eating a variety and balance of each macronutrient ensures that you meet your micronutrient goals, which is also key in promoting good health. Proteins tend to be high in iron and zinc; carbs boast fiber and B vitamins; and fats offer omega-3 fatty acids and help absorb fat-soluble vitamins found in many fruits and vegetables,” Batayneh says.</div>
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Is that an excuse to get your carbs from donuts and your protein and fat from bacon? There, The One One One diet and IIFYM diet don’t agree. According to Batayneh, you can moderate hits to your health by making sure splurges pack all three macros in roughly similar amounts, but a salmon fillet with brown rice and a green salad with lemon and olive oil is still going to pack more vitamins, minerals and healthy fats (not to mention fewer chemicals) than a fast-food cheeseburger made of processed ground beef, American cheese and a white-bread bun. However, according to IIFYM.com, <a class="" href="https://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/articles/2014/12/17/5-myths-about-women-weightlifters" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c7ef0; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Link: https://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/articles/2014/12/17/5-myths-about-women-weightlifters">bodybuilders</a>designed IIFYM so that dieters could eat so-called “dirty” foods without gaining weight. According to the diet, it doesn’t matter if you get your carbs from whole grains or cupcakes, as long as you get the right number of calories from carbs that day</div>
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Other health experts such as Wesley Delbridge, a registered dietitian and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, gravitate toward the The One One One approach. “All carbohydrates contain 4 calories per gram, but we are seeing that refined ones are adsorbed and stored differently in the body,” he says. Focus on getting your macros from whole, unprocessed foods and weight loss will likely follow, says Holly Herrington, a registered dietitian in the Center for Lifestyle medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. But remember that to lose weight, you still have to take in fewer calories than you’re burning, she says. Getting your macros at every meal will make that easier by reducing insulin spikes, crashes and cravings.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">Make Macros Work for You</span></div>
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While counting macros may be the <a class="" href="https://health.usnews.com/best-diet/best-healthy-eating-diets" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c7ef0; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Link: https://health.usnews.com/best-diet/best-healthy-eating-diets">nutritional ideal</a>, it’s not super practical, Delbridge says. For those who aren’t up to measuring serving sizes or tabulating percentages, simply taking a quick scan of your plate and making sure it contains some of each macronutrient is an easy way to lose weight and be healthier. “If you are really mindful of getting whole, fiber-filled carbs, lean proteins and healthy fats at each meal, you will get yourself into a habit where you won’t really have to think about calories,” he says.</div>
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“What I think is missing from the common American diet is that we aren’t focused on getting all of our macronutrients for every meal and snack. People wake up and have a granola bar and an apple for breakfast and think they are doing well. Not to knock apples, but without fat and protein in that breakfast, too, they are just going to be starving and tired in an hour,” he says. Protein and fat delay gastric emptying (how long it takes for food to leave your stomach), prevent blood sugar spikes and help keep your hormone levels stable for longer-lasting fullness and energy.</div>
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The American Heart Association recommends that no more than 30 percent of your <a class="" href="https://health.usnews.com/best-diet" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c7ef0; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Link: https://health.usnews.com/best-diet">daily calories</a> come from fat (only 10 percent should be saturated fat). That leaves 70 percent or more of your calories to divvy up between protein and fat. There’s debate over what that split should be, but Herrington recommends that 40 to 60 percent of your total calories come from whole carbs and 20 to 30 percent from lean protein.</div>
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The point is, you have wiggle room – as long as, at every meal, you get all three macronutrients.</div>
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Imagine being only 22 and already having a $33-million contract.</div>
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That’s something we can only dream about, but it’s reality for the Canadiens’ Jonathan Drouin, who signed a six-year, US$33-million contract with the Canadiens after they acquired him from the Tampa Bay Lightning on June 15 in exchange for top defence prospect Mikhail Sergachev.</div>
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How does a young man handle that much money?</div>
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“Well, you don’t get that money in one lump-sum cheque,” Drouin’s agent, Allan Walsh, said Tuesday after the player announced he would donate $500,000 of his own money — $50,000 a year over the next 10 years — with a goal of helping raise another $5 million over that time for Montreal’s CHUM hospital.</div>
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Drouin’s contract works out to an average of $5.5 million a season, which should certainly be more than enough for him to never have to worry about money again. But there is no shortage of stories about professional athletes earning millions upon millions, only to end up broke after they retire.</div>
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“I’ve always preached how important it is to save your money,” said Walsh, who is the head of Octagon Athlete Representation. “We create budgets for all of our players with input from them based on how much they’re making and then we follow their monthly spending to make sure they’re staying within the parameters of the budget and the right amount of money is being saved.</div>
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“The reality is it’s not how much you make in your career,” Walsh added. “It’s how much you have left when you’re done. And for the vast majority of players, their earning potential occurs in a very short window of time and then that money that they made — while very significant — has to then last them the rest of their life.”</div>
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Walsh said a big part of his job is explaining to young players how much money they need to save during their careers if they want to maintain the lifestyle they have grown accustomed to — often with young families — after they hang up their skates and the huge paycheques stop coming in.</div>
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“One of the most gratifying aspects of working with players is when they’re retired and maintaining that friendship and seeing how they’re thriving away from the game and that structure you helped set up with them when they were 21 or 22, and now they’re 35 or 40 and they’ve maintained that structure all the way through their careers,” Walsh said. “Now more than ever, they’re thankful they had that input and guidance and direction, not just from me, but from all the people who work with me to help them.”</div>
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Source: <a href="http://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/nhl/montreal-canadiens/canadiens-jonathan-drouin-can-enjoy-lifestyle-of-the-rich-and-famous" target="_blank">montrealgazette.com</a></div>
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We know eating nutritious food is good for helping to keep our bodies healthy and lean, but we don't often think about the effect food has on our brain -- you know, that amazing organ in our head which controls most of our body's activities.</div>
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Keeping our brain health in mind is incredibly important. In fact, eating the right foods for brain health can help our <a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/nutritional-psychiatry-your-brain-on-food-201511168626" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">mood</a>, <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170725154208.htm" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">concentration</a>, <a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/boost-your-memory-by-eating-right" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">memory</a> and even <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2805706/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">prevent some diseases</a>.</div>
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So, how do we best feed our brains? HuffPost Australia spoke to <a href="http://www.drjennybrockis.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Jenny Brockis</a>, brain health and mental performance specialist and author of <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Future Brain</em>, to find out.</div>
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"It's not necessarily one specific food, it's a certain combination of foods which have been shown to be beneficial, and these are the foods found in the Mediterranean-style diet," Brockis told HuffPost Australia.</div>
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"We keep coming back to this diet and it's because all the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2997798/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">research</a> supports that eating more fruit, vegetables and healthy fats, and watching the amount and type of protein you eat makes such a difference."</div>
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1. Leafy greens</h4>
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"Number one on the list is leafy greens, such as kale and spinach," Brockis said.</div>
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Other leafy greens include lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, rocket and watercress. Not sure how to cook them? <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/02/27/heres-how-to-make-dark-leafy-greens-not-taste-like-dirt_a_21726390/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Here's a guide</a> on how to make leafy greens taste good.</div>
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2. Vegetables</h4>
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"Number two is any other vegetable. It doesn't matter what colour -- in fact, the more colours and variety on our plate the better," Brockis said.</div>
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"Choose what's in season as it will be fresher, and look at what you don't normally buy, get curious and experiment with new veggies."</div>
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3. Fruit</h4>
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"Beyond the vegetables, include fruit. We're told to eat two pieces of fruit per day, but we're not getting that," Brockis said.</div>
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"Again, it's the variety of different fruits which is important. We're coming into summer so we'll be seeing stone fruits and mangoes which are all great for us.</div>
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"The anthocyanin found in deeply pigmented red fruits, such as in blueberries, raspberries, strawberries and red grapes, is particularly good for us, and we get this in other red vegetables like beetroot."</div>
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4. Fish and other lean protein</h4>
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"Fish is always included in the Mediterranean diet, at least a couple times a week. Go for the cold water carnivorous fish -- the wild salmon, trout, mackerel, herring, sardines and so on," Brockis said.</div>
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"If you don't like those oily types of fish, all white fish will have some level of omega-3, just not quite as much as the cold water carnivorous sorts."</div>
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As for the inclusion of red meat, some researches say red meat <a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/cutting-red-meat-for-a-longer-life" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">is unhealthy and linked to shorter life spans</a>, while others <a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/media-releases/articles/red-meat-and-exercise-could-be-the-key-to-keeping-body-and-mind-in-peak-condition-as-we-age" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">disagree</a>.</div>
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"This depends on who you speak to. There are two camps on this: one camp say red meat is not an issue and to go for it, and another camp say we're eating far too much of it and we should cut it down.</div>
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"The truth may lie somewhere in between, but most people on the Mediterranean-style diet would eat red meat a couple of times a week."</div>
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You can also include poultry (chicken, turkey) a couple of times per week. However, focus on a primarily plant-based diet with fish.</div>
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"It's also advised we should go meatless a couple of times a week too, and this is where you can use legumes (chickpeas, black beans, cannellini beans) as your protein source."</div>
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5. Whole grains</h4>
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Whole grains -- such as oats, brown rice, barley, rye, wholemeal pasta and bread -- contain a variety of vitamins. Brockis suggests having at least <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/05/31/what-a-serve-of-carbs-protein-and-fat-really-looks-like_a_22115615/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">three servings</a> of whole grains a day.</div>
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6. Healthy fats</h4>
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"If we want to keep our brains in better health for the long-term, it's really important we do try to get the better fats in our diet: that's the omega-3s in fish and the fats found in nuts, avocado and olive oil," Brockis said.</div>
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"Avocados are great to eat as a fruit and you can also buy avocado oil which tastes delicious. A lot of people are afraid of nuts but they are a great source of different fats and vitamins."</div>
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If this list seems overwhelming, don't worry. Start by including one thing at a time.</div>
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"It's not about perfection. It's about trying to work with our own busy schedules to see what works best, but being mindful that the more fresh, locally-sourced food, and the widest variety of healthy foods, is the best for our bodies and brains."</div>
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Another brain health factor to keep in mind are <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/11/07/we-know-about-probiotics-but-whats-the-deal-with-prebiotics_a_21600765/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">prebiotics</a>, a type of non-digestible fibre compound which nourishes the good bacteria in our gut.</div>
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"We talk a lot about our second brain -- in the gut -- these days. The current research is looking into what supports our bacterial gut biome, and the prebiotics which come from some high-fibre foods have shown to be very beneficial in keeping the good gut bacteria in good shape."</div>
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Some prebiotic foods include garlic, unripe banana, onions, legumes, whole grains, asparagus and leeks.</div>
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Why does the Mediterranean diet work so well?</h3>
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"Overall, it provides the widest possible supply of nutrients which have been shown to support good neuronal health and function," Brockis explained.</div>
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"It's all to do with the levels of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/06/19/what-are-antioxidants-really_a_22488520/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">oxidative stress</a> and inflammation that we have to deal with on a regular basis, so these are the foods which are most supportive.</div>
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Which foods are the worst for brain health?</h3>
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Just like certain foods aren't great for our physique (ahem, doughnuts and chips), these junk foods likewise have a negative impact on the health and function of our brain.</div>
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"The studies confirm again and again and again that the typical Western diet isn't good for us on a <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4034518/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">number of different levels</a> -- from heart disease, raising levels of inflammation in the body, affecting mood, risk of mental illness and weight," Brockis said.</div>
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"We're facing a world that is trying to come to grips with the number of people being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and obesity, and both of these contribute enormously to brain health, function and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/10/30/yes-what-you-eat-affects-your-mental-health_a_21593454/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">mood</a>."</div>
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With regards to pro-inflammatory foods, primarily we should be looking out for added sugar in processed foods, Brockis explained.</div>
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"We are probably consuming too much sugar because a lot of it is <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/03/23/8-foods-and-drinks-that-contain-way-more-sugar-than-we-think_a_21904740/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">hidden from sight</a> -- unless we choose to take time out and read the labels. However, it's important to get better at this as sometimes it's the savoury foods which you would never imagine to have so much sugar in them.</div>
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"If there's one type of food we could do well to avoid or cut down, it's the amount of sugar we're inadvertently eating in processed foods and drinks."</div>
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Trans fats have also been shown to have a <a href="http://time.com/3923595/trans-fats-memory/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">negative effect on brain health and function</a>, and are commonly found in fried fast foods, frozen pizza, biscuits, microwave popcorn, margarine, crackers and doughnuts.</div>
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"If we have the right fat, that's great. But it's the trans fats which have been shown to be the damaging fats," Brockis said.</div>
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"Because our brain is 60 percent fat, it will use what we provide it, and if we're not providing it with healthy fats (such as the omega 3s) then it makes do with whatever it can get its hands on -- or brains on.</div>
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"This literally <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27215959" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0dbe98; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">changes the physiology of your brain</a>. It changes the flexibility of the membranes surrounding our cells, and that influences how other things travel across the membrane, which reduces brain function."</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/09/19/the-best-foods-for-brain-power_a_23214172/" target="_blank">huffingtonpost.com</a></div>
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The use of acupuncture has significantly increased over the past decade in women and couples with infertility who are trying to improve their chances for pregnancy. Some pursue acupuncture to relieve the anxiety, frustration, and stress related to infertility, yet many questions remain about whether and how acupuncture may improve fertility. </div>
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Below are answers to commonly raised questions that can help patients who are contemplating acupuncture to increase their chances of conceiving.</div>
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There have been conflicting results with studies that have shown increased pregnancy rates, while others have not. Despite a lack of consensus, many women have conceived on their own or during fertility treatments while undergoing acupuncture.</div>
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This varies. Acupuncture may be started when a woman begins trying to conceive, immediately before beginning fertility treatments or after several unsuccessful months/years of trying on their own or with fertility treatments, or during the first several weeks of pregnancy. </div>
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Many will continue acupuncture treatments to support their pregnancy and the overall well-being of the mother. After pregnancy occurs, a combination of acupuncture, nutrition, and lifestyle recommendations can be used for stress reduction, to minimize nausea, and to alleviate low back pain or pressure that is common in the later stages of pregnancy.</div>
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In a similar fashion to any treatment, the effects of acupuncture vary and may provide improvement for some patients. However, some patients may not perceive a benefit. </div>
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From historical and modern Eastern and Western acupuncture medicine authorities, it is thought that acupuncture may improve fertility rates by helping to regulate menstrual cycles and ovulation, regulating hormone levels, increasing blood flow to the uterus, and by improving the quality of eggs and sperm.</div>
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The initial visit is usually 75-90 minutes. This visit usually begins in a private treatment room where patients will rest with the tiny needles comfortably inserted for 25-30 minutes.</div>
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Some patients are anxious about the needles. However, the needles used for acupuncture are different than those used for injections or blood draws. They are very small disposable stainless steel needles that are gently and painlessly inserted into specific acupuncture points.</div>
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Insurance plans vary in their coverage. Some patients can submit the invoiced charge of treatment to their insurance company and they may be reimbursed for a portion of the cost. The cost of an initial appointment can be $100-150 (75-90 min) and follow up appointments may range from $80-95 (50-60 min).</div>
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There is no set number of sessions, though many acupuncturists recommend beginning 2-3 months prior to trying to get pregnant or to starting fertility treatments.</div>
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Multimedia Productionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220439327412388635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-645065499661950844.post-33941597332561313042017-09-20T14:12:00.001-07:002017-09-20T14:12:13.266-07:00A new study is changing how scientists think about Alzheimer’s disease<img height="359" src="http://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/styles/inline__450w__no_aspect/public/ca_0922NID_Alzheimer%27s_Brain_Cell_online.jpg?itok=4RBsRooc" width="640" /><br />
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How does <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE4</em> do its dirty work? Since 1993, when this variant of the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">apolipoprotein E</em> gene was found to multiply the risk of the most common form of Alzheimer's disease as much as fourfold, researchers have probed its connections to β-amyloid, the dominant suspect for the cause of the illness. This protein fragment forms extracellular "plaques" that can disrupt brain signals and kill neurons. This week, however, one of the main proponents of the hypothesis that <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE4</em>exacerbates amyloid pathology stunned many of his colleagues by showing that its most toxic effects may result from a damaging immune response to a different protein: tau.</div>
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"This is a seminal study" and has "profound clinical implications," says Bob Vassar, a molecular biologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. The study also shifts the terms of an old debate over whether Alzheimer's treatments should focus on tau or amyloid, by suggesting both could be targeted through <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE4.</em> Because David Holtzman, the leader of the new study, has long championed a link between <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE4</em> and β-amyloid, "it's very compelling to hear him argue now" that tau is central to <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE4</em>'s dangerous influence, says Scott Small, a neuroscientist at Columbia University.</div>
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People with Alzheimer's disease die with brains riddled by both amyloid plaques and intracellular tau "tangles." Yet the evidence linking tau to <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE4</em> has been indirect and circumstantial, says Holtzman, a neuroscientist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis in Missouri. In any case, scientists doubted that tau—normally a stabilizing protein within cells—could escape from neurons to interact with the cholesterol-ferrying protein made by <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE</em>, he says.</div>
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That turned out to be wrong. "When we learned that some tau actually escapes cells and that pathological forms can spread from to cell to cell, we thought maybe it is tenable to retest this."</div>
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For the new study, <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature24016.html?foxtrotcallback=true" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #37588a; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">published today in <cite style="box-sizing: inherit;">Nature</cite></a>, Holtzman and colleagues took genetically engineered mice that produce a version of tau found in the brains of people with a neurodegenerative disease similar to Alzheimer's, and cross-bred them with strains expressing <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE4</em> or the two other main human variants of <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE</em>: E2 and E3. They also crossed the tau mice with mice in which its <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE</em>had been disabled. When the team examined brain tissue in the four resulting strains, all the mice carrying the human variants of <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE</em> had tau tangles and neurodegeneration, with the most profound tissue loss in E4 mice. In the taumaking mice with no <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE</em> gene, however, there was little or no neuronal death.</div>
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That result alone "provides definitive evidence" that <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE</em> plays a major role in tau pathology, says Gary Landreth, a neuroscientist at Indiana University in Indianapolis.</div>
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Equally compelling, he and others say, was what happened when Holtzman's team took microglia and astrocytes—the brain's immune cells—from mice that express human <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE4</em> and grew them in culture with neurons that contain the human tau. The immune cells launched an inflammatory response that appeared to kill neurons en masse. "This is a brand-new mechanism by which <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE</em>influences both Alzheimer's and other tauopathies, by affecting the innate immune response," Holtzman says.</div>
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Holtzman and others now believe that β-amyloid plays an important role in triggering the onset of Alzheimer's disease, with tau deposits creating later damage. "Gone are the days when we had these competing camps" of tau versus amyloid, says Dennis Selkoe, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston and an architect of the amyloid hypothesis. "It's both—a double whammy." But, he adds, the study reveals an important new target for treatments: the destructive conspiracy of pathogenic tau and <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ApoE4.</em></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The easiest and most straightforward way of giving yourself energy, preserving your body and losing weight is probably available at your neighborhood food store, or it might even be buried in your kitchen. Don't be alarmed, be excited.</span></div>
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Superfoods have long been the highlight of any discussion about health or healthy food. Many celebrity chef have dedicated cooking books to them.</div>
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Many health experts from around the world have been advocating for the incorporation of superfoods into our diets, and some say that merely adding a few of them to your daily menu is enough to provide your wellbeing with an instant boost.</div>
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What is there in superfoods that makes them so desirable?</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">High levels of essential nutritional elements (like protein, minerals, vitamins, essential fatty acids and more).</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Very high doses of antioxidants.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">They are easily absorbed and digested.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">They are beneficial to every body system.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beauty enhancing: for a glowing skin, shiny hair and sparkling eyes.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Improve body and soul balance.</li>
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Some of these superfoods are rightly considered exotic, and are only available in health food stores. Among these, you can find acai berries (that come from the Amazon rain forests), goji berries (another rare fruit), Spirulina (a miracle working seaweed) and others. The good news is that most of the superfoods are far more accessible than we thought, and as a matter of fact, they are already available at our house. Despite the fact, that some of these healthy foods are underneath our noses, we do not consume them on a regular basis. That's simply outrageous in my book.</div>
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Among the superfoods, you can find at the nearest market or supermarket you can find: legumes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, blueberries, strawberries, quinoa, salmon, dark chocolate (with more than 70% cacao), and many green leaves – the greener they are, the healthier they are. For this reason, kale has become the object of such legendary tales, that have turned it into the unofficial king of superfoods. Spinach, mangold and Bok choy are high on this list as well.</div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Changing to a Healthier Diet, Easily</span></h6>
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Apparently, turning to a superfood-rich diet is super simple, and super healthy: replacing processed foods or less healthy foods by superfoods, will not only grant our body important nutritional values, but will also provide energy and assistance to the different body systems. Some of them even boost the discharge of mood-improving hormones.</div>
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Consuming superfoods as part of your daily menu not only necessitates a recognition in their importance, but also learning about the different kinds of superfoods, their values and the optimal ways to make them.</div>
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It is also recommended to test a variety of superfoods to see which one of them is having the best effect on you.</div>
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You can find many recipes throughout the web that concentrate on superfoods, and much more information on the nutritional values of specific superfoods you're interested in. The only thing left for you to do is get informed, find your favorite superfood recipe and start cooking!</div>
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There are many factors to think about when deciding to get a tattoo. When choosing a tattoo artist and parlor, safety and cleanliness rank top priority to prevent infections from dirty needles. A recent <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-11721-z" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(247, 34, 16); border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-style: none none solid; border-top-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">study</a> published in <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;">Scientific Reports</em> suggests tattoo aficionados should also take a closer look at the ink. </div>
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Tattoo ink is made up of various organic and inorganic pigments, which can be tainted with toxic element impurities. Researchers from Germany and France wanted to know whether, and how, this material affects the body. To answer this question, they examined skin and lymph tissue of four tattooed and two non-tattooed human corpses. They found ink in both the skin and lymph nodes of two of the four tattooed patients. Those bodies also had elevated levels of aluminum, chromium, iron, nickel and copper. All four of the inked individuals had higher levels of titanium in the skin and nodes.</div>
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Using a high-tech X-ray light, the researchers found lymph nodes tinted with the color of the tattoo. They also found nanoparticles of toxic elements from tattoo pigment. The average size of these particles was 180 nanometers (to put this in perspective, a human hair is around 75,000 nanometers wide).</div>
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Finding lymph nodes colored with the tattoo ink was not surprising. Lymph nodes—located in the head and neck region, armpits and groin area—help clean the site where the tattoo needle entered. But finding pigment in nano form was unexpected. This size "implies that they may not have the same behavior as the particles at a micro level," Bernhard Hesse, co-lead author of the study and a visiting scientist at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France, said <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-09/esrf-sft091117.php" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(247, 34, 16); border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-style: none none solid; border-top-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">in the statement</a>. "And that is the problem: we don’t know how nanoparticles react." And because the samples were from dead bodies that had been tattooed not immediately before death, the researchers inferred that the nanoparticles had lingered in the lymph nodes for a while.</div>
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As for the elevated levels of titanium found in all the inked-up bodies, that likely came from titanium dioxide, the second-most common ingredient in tattoo inks. This white pigment is used to create certain shades when mixed with colorants. The compound is also used in food additives, sunscreens and paints, all of which could theoretically contribute to the elevated body levels. But as the researchers note, prior work has shown that respiratory exposure to titanium dioxide leaves the element only in the lung and hilar lymph nodes. In these bodies, the nanoparticles were not confined to those specific regions, suggesting the effects of tattoos are more than skin deep.</div>
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There's also a concern that the black pigment in tattoo ink may contain nanoparticles that are carcinogenic. A <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21824122" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(247, 34, 16); border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-style: none none solid; border-top-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">study</a> in the <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;">British Journal of Dermatology</em> found some nanoparticles may cause toxic effects in the brain and nerve damage. This finding suggests ink particles are capable of leaving the surface of the skin and traveling throughout the body, possibly entering organs and other tissues.</div>
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There's still a lot to be learned about how these pigments interact with the body, but clearly there's good reason to think before you ink.</div>
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A century ago, a largely forgotten, worldwide epidemic that would kill nearly a million people was beginning to take hold. Labelled as sleepy sickness — or more properly encephalitis lethargica — the disease caused a number of bizarre mental and physical symptoms and frequently left people in a catatonic state, sometimes for decades. (Oliver Sacks described his successful treatment of some of them in 1969, in the book <i>Awakenings</i>.) The cause has never been officially pinned down, but the most common suggestion is that some kind of infectious agent triggered an autoimmune response, which targeted and inflamed part of the brain.</div>
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The role of the immune system in mental disorders is subject to much important research at the moment. The onset of conditions from depression and psychosis to obsessive–compulsive disorder has been linked to the abrupt changes in biology and physiology that occur when the body responds to infection, especially in childhood. And some researchers have traced the possible chain of events back a generation. Studies have highlighted that pregnant women could react to infection in a way that influences their baby’s developing brain, which could lead to cognitive and neurodevelopmental problems in the child.</div>
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One consequence of this ‘maternal immune activation’ (MIA) in some women could be to increase the risk of autism in their children. And two papers published online this week in <i>Nature</i> (<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature23910" style="color: #5c7996; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">S. Kim <i>et al</i>. <i>Nature</i> http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature23910; 2017</a> and <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature23909" style="color: #5c7996; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">Y. S. Yim <i>et al. Nature</i>http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature23909; 2017</a>) use animal models to examine how this might happen, as well as suggest some possible strategies to reduce the risk.</div>
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Kim <i>et al.</i> looked at the impact of MIA on the brains and behaviour of mice. They found that pregnant female animals exposed to circumstances similar to a viral infection have offspring that are more likely to show atypical behaviour, and they unpick some of the cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible. Some of their results confirm what scientists already suspected: pregnancy changes the female mouse’s immune response, specifically, by turning on the production of a protein called interleukin-17a. But the authors also conducted further experiments that give clues about the mechanisms at work.</div>
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The types of bacteria in the mouse’s gut seem to be important. When the scientists used antibiotics to wipe out common gut microorganisms called segmented filamentous bacteria in female mice, this seemed to protect the animals’ babies from the impact of the simulated infection. The offspring of mice given the antibiotic treatment did not show the unusual behaviours, such as reduced sociability and repetitive actions. Segmented filamentous bacteria are known to encourage cells to produce more interleukin-17a, and an accompanying News & Views article (<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature24139" style="color: #5c7996; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">C. M. Powell <i>Nature</i> http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature24139; 2017</a>) discusses one obvious implication: some pregnant women could use diet or drugs to manipulate their gut microbiome to reduce the risk of harm to their baby if an infection triggers their immune response. Much science still needs to be done before such a course could be recommended — not least further research to confirm and build on these results.</div>
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Yim <i>et al. </i>analysed the developing brain of mice born to mothers who showed MIA. They traced the abnormalities to a region called the dysgranular zone of the primary somato-sensory cortex (S1DZ). The authors genetically engineered the mice so that neurons in this region could be activated by light, and they showed that activation of S1DZ induced the same telltale atypical behaviours, even in mice that were born to mothers with no MIA.</div>
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It’s unusual to be able to demonstrate such a direct link between the activities of brain regions and specific behaviours — although plenty of work on mental disorders makes a strong theoretical case for linking particular conditions to over- and under-active brain zones and circuitry.</div>
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Encephalitis lethargica, for example, has been linked to changes in the deep regions of the basal ganglia, and the disease produces symptoms that are similar to those often seen in autism, including stereotyped and repetitive behaviours. Yim <i>et al.</i>’s study shows that the S1DZ region projects to one of those deep brain regions — the striatum — and that this connection helps to trigger repetitive actions in the animals. But S1DZ also connects to a separate, distinct, region in the cortex, and this is what seems to drive the changes in sociability.</div>
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Taking the two studies together, it’s tempting to draw parallels with mechanisms that might increase the risk of autism in some people and explain some of its symptoms. Scientists and others should be cautious about doing so — much can change when results from animal models are applied to human biology. But the studies do offer some intriguing leads.</div>
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"There have only been a few small studies suggesting that levels of vitamin D in the blood can predict risk," said study author Kassandra Munger, ScD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. "Our study, involving a large number of <a class="textTag" href="https://medicalxpress.com/tags/women/" rel="tag" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(49, 61, 87); color: #313d57; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">women</a>, suggests that correcting vitamin D deficiency in young and middle-age women may reduce their future risk of MS."</div>
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For the study, researchers used a repository of <a class="textTag" href="https://medicalxpress.com/tags/blood+samples/" rel="tag" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(49, 61, 87); color: #313d57; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">blood samples</a> from more than 800,000 women in Finland, taken as part of prenatal testing. Then the researchers identified 1,092 women who were diagnosed with MS an average of nine years after giving the blood samples. They were compared to 2,123 women who did not develop the disease.</div>
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Deficient levels of vitamin D were defined as fewer than 30 nanomoles per liter (nmol/L). Insufficient levels were 30 to 49 nmol/L and adequate levels were 50 nmol/L or higher.</div>
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Of the women who developed MS, 58 percent had deficient levels of vitamin D, compared to 52 percent of the women who did not develop the disease.</div>
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Researchers found that with each 50 nmol/L increase in vitamin D levels in the blood, the risk of developing MS later in life decreased by 39 percent. In addition, women who had deficient levels of vitamin D had a 43 percent higher risk of developing MS than women who had adequate levels as well as a 27 percent higher risk than women with insufficient levels.</div>
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"More research is needed on the optimal dose of vitamin D for reducing risk of MS," said Munger. "But striving to achieve <a class="textTag" href="https://medicalxpress.com/tags/vitamin/" rel="tag" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(49, 61, 87); color: #313d57; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">vitamin</a> D sufficiency over the course of a person's life will likely have multiple health benefits."</div>
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Limitations of the study include that participants were primarily white women and therefore the findings may not be the same for other racial groups or men. Also, while the blood samples were taken an average of nine years before MS diagnosis, it is possible some women may have already had MS when <a class="textTag" href="https://medicalxpress.com/tags/blood/" rel="tag" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(49, 61, 87); color: #313d57; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">blood</a> was drawn and were not yet showing symptoms of the disease.</div>
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Artificial sweeteners, which many people with weight issues use as a substitute for sugar, may increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to research.</div>
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The study was small and the detailed results have not yet been published, but experts said its findings fitted with previous research showing an association between artificial sweeteners and weight gain.</div>
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Type 2 diabetes is linked to obesity and rates of the disease are soaring around the world. Its complications, if it is not controlled, can include blindness, heart attacks and strokes.</div>
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The study was carried out by researchers at the University of Adelaide, in Australia, who wanted to investigate whether large amounts of no-calorie artificial sweeteners altered the ability of the body to control the levels of glucose in the blood.</div>
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Some of the 27 healthy volunteers who were recruited for the study were given the equivalent of 1.5 litres of diet drink a day, in the form of capsules of two different sweeteners, sucralose and acesulfame K. They took the capsules three times a day for two weeks, before meals. The others in the study were given a placebo.</div>
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Tests at the end of the two weeks showed that the body’s response to glucose was impaired. “This study supports the concept that artificial sweeteners could reduce the body’s control of blood sugar levels and highlights the potential for exaggerated post-meal glucose levels in high habitual NAS [non-caloric artificial sweeteners] users, which could predispose them to develop type 2 diabetes,” said the authors.</div>
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They presented their findings at the <a href="https://www.easd.org/annual-meeting/easd-2017.html">European Association for the Study of Diabetes</a> in Lisbon, Portugal.</div>
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Some experts said the findings were in line with previous research, while others said they did not support the conclusion that sweeteners could increase the risk of type 2 diabetes.</div>
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“This study addresses a very important global human health issue, as artificial sweeteners are food additives commonly used not only by patients with diabetes but also by healthy individuals aiming to manage their sugar intake,” said Dr Inês Cebola, from Imperial College London, who is a member of the Society for Endocrinology.</div>
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“Although generally thought as safe and even beneficial, artificial sweetener consumption has actually been previously associated with weight gain and development of glucose intolerance, which can lead to development of type 2 diabetes.”</div>
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She said studies had previously only been done on mice. “Even if it is proven in the future that artificial sweeteners are detrimental for the general population, this might not be true in all cases. Type 2 diabetes arises from an interaction between environmental and genetic factors, many of which we do not fully understand yet. It is thus premature to point the finger at artificial sweeteners as isolated elements of risk. The full story will probably prove itself a lot more complex.</div>
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“At the moment, I would not advise against artificial sweeteners per se, but instead I would stress the importance of a balanced diet and regular exercise.”</div>
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Victor Zammit, professor of metabolic biochemistry at the University of Warwick, said it was not possible from the data available to conclude that the body’s changed response to glucose would necessarily result in diabetes. Proper clinical trials were needed.“Increased sweetener intake may be associated with other lifestyle elements that may be more direct causes of type 2 diabetes,” he said.</div>
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<a href="https://www.diabetes.org.uk/">Diabetes UK</a> was sceptical. “This is a small study with interesting results, but it doesn’t provide strong evidence that artificial sweeteners increase the risk of type 2 diabetes,” said Emma Elvin, a clinical adviser. “We need to see the results of larger trials testing in settings more true to real life before we’ll know more.</div>
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“Consuming lots of sugary foods and drinks is very damaging to overall health and can increase risk of type 2 diabetes. We would advise people to reduce their intakes of sugar, and artificial sweeteners could be an option to help some people achieve this.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is why drinking lots of water is advisable to loose weight. But Drinking 8-10 glasses of water in a day is a boring task for people so in this video we will talk about some flavored water and Interesting drinks which will fulfill the body’s water requirement as well as support fast weight loss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We will first take up the most effective detox weight loss drink which has proved helpful in burning fat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 ltr water room temperature</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 inch ginger grated or sliced (Adrak kati ya pisi hui)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 sliced cucumber (Khira, Kheera)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 sliced Lemon (Nimbu) and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">15-20 mint leaves with 10 stems of mint (Pudina)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Put some water in one jar and place sliced Lemon, cucumber, ginger, and mint leaves in it and cover it with lid</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now keep it, as it is overnight or atleast for 4 hours minimum</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then strain it and drink it 3-4 times. The First drink should be taken empty stomach in the morning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Drink this weight loss drink atleast 4 – 6 week s for better results. By drinking this amazing weight loss drink you can loose 2 – 5 kgs weight in the very first week only.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is an Aloevera drink as Aloevera is known for its body cleansing properties which help for weight loss</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 teaspoon Aloevera gel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 teaspoon Lemon (Nimbu) drops</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 glass water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, Mix Aloevera gel and lemon drops in water and that’s it, It ready. Now you can enjoy this weight loss drink</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Intake this weight loss drink 2-3 times in a day for good results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3 – 4 cup boiled water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/2 spoon cumin seed (Jeera)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/2 spoon coriander seeds (Sabut Dhaniya)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/2 spoon fennel seeds (Sof, Sonf)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Put cumin seeds, coriander seeds and fennel seeds in boiled water and keep it boiling till 5 minutes without covering the pan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now after straining it put it in thermos</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Drink this weight loss drink in full day in parts and 1st time drink it in morning as it will be more beneficial</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Note one thing that this drink is beneficial only when drunk hot</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This weight loss drink prepares in 2 steps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4 cups of water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2 teaspoon honey (Shahad) for taste(optional)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now Make a good quality green tea and let it cool</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 Handful mint or mint leaves (Pudina) and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now put the mint leaves and sliced lemon in the green tea which we had prepared at first step and leave it for whole night;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, strain lemon and mint leaves from this refreshing drink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Drink this weight loss drink many times in a day;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Note: This drink is also good for digestion</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our last weight loss drink is a Tasty Veggie juice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Put tomatoes, carrot and beetroot in a blender to make a mix juice of all these;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now put hint of ginger as well while blending the veggies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can also mix cucumber, lemon, and celery in this juice to enhance its taste;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To get good results drink this delicious weight loss drink/juice daily;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This weight loss drink supplies essential nutrients and dietary fibers besides weight loss.</span></div>
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7th Pink Caravan Ride will start on March 7 to offer free clinical examinations for breast cancer</div>
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Jennifer Wright and Charlotte Robineau, breast cancer survivors, say a patient’s attitude can have a tangible effect on their recovery. But the first step is to get screened.</div>
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But breast cancer doesn’t discriminate. It affects women and men, young and old, healthy and unhealthy individuals and without screening, there’s no way to know that the disease has struck until it’s too late.</div>
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“Without screening, people just don’t know whether everything is fine or not. You never think it is going to happen to you. You may have the early stages of breast cancer and not know it — it’s like chipping a nail, it doesn’t hurt,” Jennifer Wright, 51, a breast cancer survivor said. “The treatment makes you sick, not the initial cancer.”</div>
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Wright is among the scores of breast cancer survivors who will again be on horseback beginning March 7 to champion the message of early breast cancer detection based on their first-hand experience for the 7th pan-UAE Pink Caravan Ride.</div>
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The 10-day horseback expedition includes the equine route, the medical route that gives free screenings to everyone, fund-raising initiatives, and awareness events.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">But breast cancer doesn’t discriminate. It affects women and men, young and old, healthy and unhealthy individuals and without screening, there’s no way to know that the disease has struck until it’s too late.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Now living in Dubai, Wright said awareness is crucial.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">“I was a fit and healthy person and when I reached 40, I went for a mammogram and everything was fine, but then we had an extremely busy time in our lives including moving home and I skipped a few years.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Four years later, Wright’s mammogram results revealed three tumours — they were all cancerous.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Wright went into depression after the initial treatment. She was advised to take up something she really loved to overcome her depression — horse riding.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">“I got back into the saddle after 20 years and it has been fantastic in terms of both therapy and sheer enjoyment. I even ride competitively against younger riders.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Since the Pink Caravan involves volunteers on horseback, Wright made wise use of her passion for riding to teach people that early detection is paramount to survival.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Also saddling up for the ride is Charlotte Robineau, 43, from Yorkshire in the UK. She’s joining the ambassadors in pink on Day 5 on the Pink Caravan Ride — Regatta Day in Dubai. Charlotte, who describes herself as “confident but not competitive” on a horse, was diagnosed with rapidly developing Stage 3, grade 3 cancer just 18 months ago.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">“My body felt as though there was something wrong. I had an itch on my nipple and I went to seek some advice, but nothing was found. Something still seemed wrong to me. I went for another test and then finally took myself to hospital where I was immediately treated as an emergency case and had an oncologist, a breast surgeon, everybody — it was two weeks of hell to be honest,” she said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Surgeons removed Robineau’s breast because the chemotherapy wouldn’t work in the stage where Robineau was in.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“I thought it was either going to destroy me or I could simply get positive; I could either give in or kill this beast. It is incredible how your attitude can actually have a tangible effect on your recovery,” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">“I didn’t know much about breast cancer before I was diagnosed, but I would urge anybody to listen to their own bodies, their own inner voice and if they feel there is something wrong — get checked out straight away.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">For more information on the Pink Caravan Ride route map, visit www.pinkcaravan.ae.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Source: <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/society/get-yourself-screened-for-breast-cancer-say-survivors-1.1988618" target="_blank">gulfnews.com</a></span></div>
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