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How to avoid “traveler’s tummy” on your next vacation, according to gut health experts

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Ever had your bathroom habits change a little — or a lot — during travel? You’re not alone.

Often referred to as “traveler’s tummy,” it’s common to experience disruptions to your digestion and bowel movements while traveling. But there are things you can do to help prevent these effects.

Traveler’s tummy symptoms “can be caused by eating contaminated food or drinking contaminated water, especially when traveling to areas where the locals may be used to the bacteria in food and drink, but the traveler is not,” explains Dr. William Li, a physician and bestselling author of “Eat to Beat Your

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Let’s Move for better health

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Underlining the “Let’s Move” theme of this year’s Olympic Day, which aims to prompt people around the world to make time for daily physical activity, President Bach stressed the health benefits and togetherness that can be gained from exercise.

“When we do sport, it keeps our mind and body strong and healthy,” said President Bach. “When we do sport, it inspires us to always give our best. When we do sport, it makes us dream, it spreads joy and it brings us together. When we do sport, we live by our new Olympic motto: Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together.

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How to Cool Down Fast in Summer Heat

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Ask Lewis: Hi, and welcome to Your Health, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series!

Josh Fisherman: On this show, we highlight the latest vital health news, discoveries that affect your body and your mind.

Every episode, we dive into one topic. We discuss diseases, treatments, and some controversies.

Lewis: And we demystify the medical research in ways you can use to stay healthy.

I’m Asking Lewis.

Fisherman: I’m Josh Fisherman.

Lewis: We’re Scientific American‘s senior health editors.

Today we’re talking about the best way to beat the heat this summer. Your body has evolved a natural technique for cooling

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Canadians have the right to a healthy environment with the passage of new laws

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Changes to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act enshrining the right to a healthy environment have passed into law.

The federal government has been working on the legislation for several years, and introduced the latest version in the Senate in February.

It also adds a sentence to the act guaranteeing that every Canadian has the right to a healthy environment and makes it a duty of the government to protect that right.

The government now has up to two more years to define how that right will be implemented when it comes to enforcing the act.

Critics

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WELL Health Technologies (TSE:WELL) Shares Up 1.7%

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Shares of WELL Health Technologies Corp. (TSE:WELL – Get Rating) were up 1.7% during trading on Wednesday . The stock traded as high as C$5.55 and last traded at C$5.47. Approximately 1,512,460 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 37% from the average daily volume of 1,103,975 shares. The stock had previously closed at C$5.38.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

WELL has been the topic of a number of research reports. Raymond James set a C$8.50 target price on shares of WELL Health Technologies and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, April

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Allina Health System cuts off patients with medical debt

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Many hospitals in the United States use aggressive tactics to collect medical debt. They flood local courts with collections of lawsuits. They garnish patients’ wages. They seize their tax refunds.

But a nonprofit health system in the Midwest is among those taking things a step further: withholding care from patients who have unpaid medical bills.

Allina Health System, which runs more than 100 hospitals and clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin and brings in $4 billion a year in revenue, sometimes rejects patients who are deep in debt, according to internal documents and interviews with doctors, nurses and patients.

Although Allina’s

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Cigarette warning labels are about to get even harder to ignore in Canada

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Health Canada has announced new warning labels to be printed directly on cigarettes in an effort to deter new smokers, encourage quitting and reduce tobacco-related deaths. It’s a world first that experts hope will have a significant impact.

Canada became the first country to put warning labels on individual cigarettes

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Canadian smokers will soon see warnings printed on individual cigarettes

Starting Aug. 1, Canada will become the first country to put warning labels on individual cigarettes. The warnings will include messages

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Chambersburg Health Alert: Heavy drinking leads to muscle loss. Doctor Explains | state

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The big picture:Dr. Lindsay Boik-Price says: “Drinking harms you in many ways.”

in the news: New research is showing that heavy drinking during your younger years puts your body at risk due to negative “effects on muscle mass” in your middle and older years.

This finding has direct implications for you in Pennsylvania.

Did you know that 19.0% of you binge drink in Franklin County?

Key Findings

The research indicated that there was a correlation between low muscle mass and heavy drinking. In effect, those who drank more lost more muscle.

The researchers noted that even though they

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