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Healthy lifestyle may reduce risk of long COVID | News

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For immediate release: February 6, 2023

Boston, MA – Women who followed most aspects of a healthy lifestyle, including healthy body weight, not smoking, regular exercise, adequate sleep, high quality diet, and moderate alcohol consumption, had about half the risk of long COVID compared with women without any healthy lifestyle factors, according to a study led by Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.

“With ongoing waves of COVID-19, long COVID has created a serious public health burden. Our findings raise the possibility that adopting more healthy behaviors may reduce the risk of developing long COVID,” said Andrea Roberts, senior

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Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of patients with advanced schistosomiasis in Hunan Province, China | Infectious Diseases of Poverty

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    Eagles’ Super Bowl aspirations, with a healthier Jalen Hurts, start vs. Giants in NFC playoffs

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    Life is good in Philly.

    “We know we put ourselves in this position by what we did all season,” Hurts said.

    Just a quick refresher on everything the Eagles did: They started 8-0 and 13-1 as Hurts surged into MVP contention. The Eagles finished 7-2 at home and even beat the teams that featured key players in their last Super Bowl win, Doug Pederson and Carson Wentz.

    After all the hand-wringing in Philly for decades over the Eagles (14-3) never having had won a Super

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    Muscle Relax Techniques That Help You Destress Instantly

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    There are many relaxation techniques. The best known is Progressive Neuromuscular Relaxation. It is based on the findings of the American scientist E. Jacobson, namely that stressful situations are usually accompanied by an increase in muscle tension, while in calm situations, the muscles are relaxed. Based on this finding he developed a relaxation method known as the Jacobson’s Progressive Neuromuscular Relaxation.

    It is a process in which the person learns how to relax various muscle groups of their body. Through continuous cycles of tension and relaxation of these muscles, the person accurately observes how they feel both during tension and

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    Sugar And Its Natural Substitutes

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    Added sugar has been linked to many serious diseases, including obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

    Fortunately, there are many ways to sweeten foods without adding sugar. There are many natural sweeteners that people often use instead of sugar. These include coconut sugar, honey, maple syrup and molasses. While these natural sweeteners may contain more nutrients than regular sugar, your body still metabolizes them in the same way.

    The natural sweeteners listed below are slightly ‘less bad’ than regular sugar. Nevertheless, they are still forms of sugar.

    Why sugar is bad for you

    Sugar interferes with your body’s hormones that

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    GREG GUTFELD: Here’s the ‘infuriating part’ about COVID-19 reporting

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    Happy, glorious, glorious Monday. Oh, it’s so great to be here. So we’re coming up on the three-year anniversary of full lockdown mode. When COVID arrived and the price for a bowl of bat soup went through the roof. Since then, we’ve learned a lot about the screwups in the early days, and we knew from the start the official stats were like Joe Biden counting his grandchildren. The numbers didn’t add up.

    But now we’re seeing some people admit the truth as the media finally lets them speak the truth

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    How Our Body Reacts To A Long-Haul Flight

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    In a few years, direct flights lasting 20 hours will possibly be a reality. On such occasions, we wonder how we could keep ourselves as healthy and fit as possible on a very long air journey.

    The announcement by various airlines that from 2025 they will be able to offer direct flights from Australia to the US and Europe has opened a new debate about how much the human body can withstand in the air – mentally and physically.

    In particular, the non-stop flights will last 20 hours and will concern the trips from Sydney to New York and London.

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    4 healthy diets that can extend your life: study

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    You can reduce the risk of early death by nearly 20%, just by eating more foods from four healthy eating patterns, according to researchers who analyzed decades of data collected on more than 119,000 adults.

    The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that people who ate the “highest-quality diets” had a 20% lower risk of dying early from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory and neurodegenerative diseases during the study.

    Notably, the researchers found the link between the healthy eaters and lower risk of death held up across different racial and ethnic groups, including Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic

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