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A Facebook whistleblower’s testimony before Congress and leaked internal documents detailed the increased risks for poor self-esteem, disordered eating, and suicidal thoughts in some young people using the apps. RELATED: Facebook Comes Under Fire After Whistleblower and Leaked Documents Reveal Negative Impact on Girls Now new research suggests that social media use may impact mental health in adults as well. Researchers found that social media platforms, including Facebook, Snapchat, and TikTok, were associated with an increased likelihood of depressive symptoms in adults who didn’t initially report depression....

A San Diego dad of three who is currently helping his daughter build her own organic clothing company, Huelsenbeck is also trying to instill his love of sports into his sons, who are 4 and 7 years old. His eldest son was the youngest kid on the Little League team this year and did not want to play most games. “In this case, I had to push him,” Huelsenbeck said....

I used to say that I have lived with MS most of my adult life. But now, if I add together the 15 years of disease activity before diagnosis with the time since diagnosis, I’ve lived with MS for well over half of my life — not just the adult part. Now that I am in what would commonly be called midlife, however, I’m finding that both me and my disease are sort of, well … stuck....

“Some previous research studies suggest that antibodies related to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may be produced at sites of inflammation in the lungs and airways,” says the senior author of the new study, Jeffrey Sparks, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. “However, it was previously uncertain whether patients with airway diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, are more likely to develop RA,” Dr....

The research included 380 people in Hong Kong who participated in either a 12-week tai chi program, a regular exercise program, or no intervention. Compared with those not participating in an activity, people in the tai chi and conventional exercise programs dropped centimeters off their waists after the three months of the intervention and sustained the reduction more than six months later. “Our study suggests that tai chi can be an effective alternative to conventional exercise in the management of central obesity,” says the lead study author, Parco Siu, PhD, an associate professor and the head of the division of kinesiology at the school of public health and the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong....

But I didn’t. And clearly, neither do many of the 2.4 million Americans living with chronic hepatitis C today. Why Some People Overlook the Risks of Hepatitis C After living in South Africa for more than a decade, I moved back to the United States in 2016. It was then that my new doctor reminded me that hepatitis C testing is recommended for all people born between 1945 and 1965....

RELATED: Can Drinking Coffee Lead to Weight Loss? Here, a few registered dietitians share details on the healthy, sustainable, and effective weight loss diets they want to see stay — and those they’d be happy to see take a hike in the new year. The 4 Best Weight Loss Diets in 2022 1. Mediterranean Diet U.S. News & World Report ranked this mostly plant-based eating approach its No. 1 overall diet in 2022, and registered dietitians such as Amy Gorin, RDN, the owner of Amy Gorin Nutrition in Stamford, Connecticut, stand by that choice....

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That’s why it’s so important to diagnose and treat Crohn’s disease as soon as possible. You can work with a gastroenterologist to manage and treat the condition, thereby helping reduce — or delay — your risk of developing some of the more severe complications. Severe Complications of Crohn’s When people start showing signs of Crohn’s inflammation, they usually have such telltale symptoms as diarrhea, abdominal cramping, and rectal bleeding. Over the course of months or years, the majority of people with Crohn’s go on to develop more serious symptoms....

RELATED: New Medication Guidelines for Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis Previewed At this point, experts aren’t sure which health issue is the chicken and which is the egg. Back in 2008, German research published in the Journal of Periodontology showed that people with RA had 8 times the odds of developing gum disease as compared with people without RA. And study after study has brought more clarity to the connection. Research from the University of Louisville in Kentucky published in September 2013 in the journal PLoS Pathogens found that the bacterium that causes periodontal disease, Porphyromonas gingivalis, increases the severity of rheumatoid arthritis, leads to an earlier onset of the disease, and causes symptoms to progress more quickly....

One diet that’s been the subject of a number of studies and reports in professional journals, as described in a June 2020 article in Nutrients, is the ketogenic diet — or keto diet, for short. The keto diet calls for people to get about 70 to 80 percent of their daily calories from fats, by consuming foods such as eggs, grass-fed meat, full-fat dairy products, and nuts, and smaller percentages of calories from protein and carbohydrate....

But what’s the real story? And how do registered dietitians advise their clients — especially those who say they just aren’t hungry in the morning? Here’s the scoop. RELATED: How to Eat Eggs for Every Meal The Claim About Eating Breakfast The origin of the original claim — that breakfast is the most important meal of the day — is based on a marketing campaign by a cereal manufacturer in the 1940s, as The Atlantic reported in 2016....

From staying on top of an ever-increasing list of disease-modifying and symptom-management drugs coming onto the market, to learning when to pay attention to the disease versus when to look away and pretend that everything is fine, living with multiple sclerosis is the hardest degree we’ll earn but for which we’ll never receive a diploma. Some of the lessons seem like they should be relatively easy: If you’re having a hard time doing something, pay more attention while doing it....

So why is it that as many as 75 million of us — that’s one in three adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — currently have high blood pressure, often without even knowing it? The reason is simple: High blood pressure (also referred to as HBP, or hypertension) typically has no symptoms. It doesn’t, for example, cause chest pain or make you huff and puff while climbing a flight of stairs....

People who are malnourished or underweight are more likely to get tuberculosis and are also more susceptible to reinfection or relapse of TB after treatment. Malnutrition leads to decreased immunity, and your body needs to be as strong as possible to defend itself against those tough tuberculosis bacteria. It’s a vicious cycle: Poor nutrition can actually encourage the persistence of active tuberculosis disease, and active tuberculosis leads to worsening malnutrition....

There are different types of asthma. Some types are defined by their causes, while others are defined by their symptoms. Also, asthma may often be categorized based on its severity or the age at which it first shows up. In some people, asthma is so mild and situation-specific that it doesn’t require medication. In others, it can be severely debilitating most or all the time. “We sometimes call asthma a syndrome, not a disease, because it’s so complex,” explains Chitra Dinakar, MD, a clinical professor of medicine at Stanford University and the clinical chief of allergy, asthma, and immunodeficiency at Stanford Health Care....

Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) NSAIDs may reduce pain and inflammation. They’re usually taken by mouth, but some can be applied to the skin. Both OTC and prescription forms of NSAIDs are available. Some common NSAIDs include: Ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin)Naproxen (Aleve)Etodolac (Lodine) Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (DMARDs) DMARDs work by suppressing inflammation-causing chemicals in the body. They can slow the progression of psoriatic arthritis and prevent permanent joint damage. Most are taken by mouth....

Moreover, researchers are working on finding new medicines to target both triple- negative and HER2-negative cancers. Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Lacks 3 Key Receptors Estrogen receptors (ER)Progesterone receptors (PR)Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) Because triple-negative breast cancers lack these receptors, typical medicines that target estrogen, progesterone, and HER2 are ineffective. Triple-negative breast cancers can be more aggressive and more challenging to treat. But every case is different, and your prognosis will depend on many factors....

The drug Glucophage (metformin), as well as diet and exercise programs, are effective diabetes prevention measures, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. But the strategies tested in the new study, which included stronger medications typically reserved for people with full-blown type 2 diabetes, did not help people with prediabetes once they went off the medications. “We see benefits, as expected. But the question is could we sustain the results, and the answer is we couldn’t,” says an author of the study, Kieren J....

What Are Carbohydrates Exactly? There are three macronutrients: carbohydrates, protein, and fat. If you want to get scientific, a “carb” “refers to a particular molecular structure. It is a string of carbons with a water molecule attached to each of them,” says David Katz, MD, MPH, founder and president of the TrueHealth Initiative in Chesterfield, Missouri, and author of The Truth About Food. And that’s all it says. This particular structure is found in everything from lentils to lollypops, he adds....