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Sleep patterns linked to variation in health, cognition, lifestyle and brain organization

Sleep is not one-size-fits-all: individual sleep styles are connected to distinct health, lifestyle, and psychological factors. Credit: Vitaly Gariev, Unsplash (CC0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Researchers led by Aurore Perrault at Concordia University, Canada and Valeria Kebets at McGill University, Canada, have used a complex data-driven analysis to uncover relationships among multiple aspects of sleep and individual variation…

How digital ‘care’ can hijack our anxieties

Cs news1 week ago011 mins

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It’s 2:47 a.m. and your phone buzzes on the nightstand. The notification suddenly glows in the darkness: “You’re on a 7-day streak!”; “Don’t break your streak!” You feel the need to open the app right away for an emergency breathing exercise. Half-awake, you fumble for the device, chest tightening. Another buzz:…

Prostate cancer survivors who follow healthy lifestyle guideline live longer, new study shows

Cs news1 week ago04 mins

Credit: Leandro Boogalu from Pexels A new study from the American Cancer Society (ACS) reports that men diagnosed with non-metastatic prostate cancer who adopted the ACS Nutrition and Physical Activity Guideline for Cancer Survivors after diagnosis live longer. Over 14 years of follow-up, men with the highest adherence to the guideline were 23% less likely…

Research identifies educational strategies that fuel lifestyle medicine adoption across health systems

Cs news2 weeks ago07 mins

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Expanding access to lifestyle medicine education opportunities—such as continuing medical education (CME) courses, professional certification, webinars, mentoring and peer-to-peer connections, and conference participation—can facilitate the adoption of the medical specialty across health systems, according to a study published in Translational Behavioral Medicine. This qualitative study conducted by the American College of…

Tomatillo—yes or no? For healthy eating, the answer is easy

Cs news3 weeks ago3 weeks ago08 mins

Credit: Mark Stebnicki from Pexels For anyone unfortunate enough to have grown up without them, tomatillos might seem tough to approach. They hide inside a papery cloak and tend to hang out in the quietest corners of produce sections in the U.S.—if they show up there at all. But to those in the know, tomatillos…

How healthy eating cuts chronic pain

Cs news4 weeks ago4 weeks ago05 mins

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain We all know the benefits of a healthy diet. But new research from the University of South Australia shows that eating nutritious food is about far more than ticking off the five food groups—it can also significantly reduce chronic pain. In a weight-loss study of 104 Australian adults living with overweight…

Why lifestyle medicine could make a difference

Cs news2 months ago09 mins

Temporary distancing was one strategy family caregivers employed to cope with the stress. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain By 2030, an estimated 47 million women worldwide will enter menopause each year. The transition through menopause can last several years and brings with it a host of physical, mental and brain changes. One of the most distressing…

Mental health care needs urgent reform to include lifestyle interventions, claims report

Cs news2 months ago2 months ago09 mins

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Mental health services must urgently increase investment in lifestyle interventions to improve care and help close the 15-year life expectancy gap faced by people with mental illness, a Lancet Psychiatry Commission report warns. Lifestyle interventions targeting physical activity, nutrition, sleep and smoking are key to mental health care, not optional extras,…

How genetics and lifestyle drive dilated cardiomyopathy

Cs news2 months ago2 months ago06 mins

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An international team, led by scientists from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, has studied around 3,000 people affected by the heart disease dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM)—a driver of heart failure and sudden cardiac arrest. They discovered those who had a mutation in a particular gene called TTN were 21 times more…

The meditation app revolution is here, and it’s backed by science

Cs news2 months ago09 mins

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Do you have a meditation app on your smartphone, computer or wearable device? Well, you’re not alone. There are now thousands of meditation apps available worldwide, the top 10 of which have been collectively downloaded more than 300 million times. What’s more, early work on these digital meditation platforms shows that…