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How What You Fuel Your Body With Can Affect Your Body's Immune Function
How you choose to nourish your body has far-reaching effects that go well beyond your waistline measurements. What you eat can also have significant effects on the function of your body's immune system....
Understanding How Multiple Sclerosis Affects the Body in Multiple Ways
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease that affects the central nervous system, disrupting the exchange of information between the brain and the rest of the body. According to the National MS Society, ther...
Struggling with a Weight Loss Plateau? Here is How You Can Break Through
Anyone who has ever tried to lose weight has likely experienced the dreaded plateau. While the weight generally comes off easy during the first few weeks of the effort, this progress eventually stalls ...
New US Dietary Recommendations Provide a Blueprint for Healthy Eating
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA )and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued new dietary guidelines this week, providing a guiding blueprint for Americans and their nutritional nee...
CDC Unsure if Coronavirus Variants Cause Rare Complications in Children
Over the past month or two, scientists who have been genotyping samples of the SARS CoV-2 virus have noticed several important mutations. When viruses replicate, mutations are inevitable. Most of the mut...
COVID-19 Marches on as All 50 States Begin Reopening. What You Need to Know
As the US death toll from COVID-19 inches toward 100,000, all 50 states are forging ahead with some level of reopening. In order to protect your own health, you need to be aware of how these changes...
Is Now the Time to Allow Kids to Return to Sports? What to Know
If you are like most parents with active children, you may be desperately missing the outlet that youth sports once provided for your kids. As states begin the delicate reopening process, many areas are now put...
Healthcare at the Forefront of Tuesday Night's Vice Presidential Debate
Buried in all of the rancor of Tuesday's vice presidential debate was significant discussions between the two candidates about health care issues. Vice President Mike Pence took on Sen. Kamala Harris at...
What is Food Insecurity and Why is it Such a Problem Now for So Many?
While many health experts and government officials are rightfully focused on controlling the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is another huge problem that millions of Americans are facing as a resul...