Skip the guilt: Red wine could protect your oral health

Red wine stains the teeth, making your smile look like something out of a B-movie. But a new study says that it might protect your oral health. Some of us love to savor a glass of red wine — or two — with dinner every once in a while. The catch is that this velvety drink often leaves the teeth stained, so maybe …

Dr. Brooks and her colleagues searched nine medical databases and screened more than 8,000 articles before narrowing down their review to 17 papers. The papers looked at the effect of having cats, dogs, hamsters, finches, and even goldfish on the mental well-being of people living with a mental illness …

Public health experts fear that this trend toward “fat acceptance” bodes ill for future well-being and the soaring costs of chronic weight-related ailments like heart disease, hypertension, Type 2 diabetes and more than a dozen kinds of cancer. As Dr. Burke wrote in a recent issue of JAMA devoted to obesity, …

The Mediterranean diet “is widely reported as one of the healthiest models for preventing cardiovascular disease,” they note, whereas the vegetarian diet is much less well studied — particularly in regard to its potential to offer a heart-healthyalternative for people who are used to eating meat and fish.

Dr Melanie Keep, an e-Health researcher at the University of Sydney, said recent years had seen a rise in the number of illness support groups on social media, as well as online discussion boards and … “We have articles about things like self-care, causes of mental illness, or we might share artwork.

In a comprehensive article on The Connection Between Art, Healing, and Public Health, Heather L. Stuckey and Jeremy Nobel say that “[a]rt helps people express experiences that are too difficult to put into words, such as a diagnosis of cancer.” “[A]rtistic self-expression,” they continue, “might contribute to …

As a result of this changing legislation, researchers have been trying to find out more about how marijuana may benefit health, as well as the damage that it could cause. Last year, for example, Medical News Today reported on a study linking marijuana use to a greater risk of psychosis in teenagers, while …

Jed Magen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations … Research shows that people who feel lonely have more healthproblems, feel worse and perhaps die at an earlier age.

It is estimated that around 16.2 million adults in the United States — or approximately 6.7 percent of the country’s adult population — had at least one major depressive episode in 2016, making it one of the most common mental health conditions. People with depression may experience persistent feelings …