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3 Detroit nonprofits focus on making city healthy

ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Marti Benedetti from Crain’s Detroit Little did former Detroit Mayor Hazen Pingree know in 1894 that his fervor for growing produce in Detroit would return in 2016. But that is exactly what is happening, according to three Detroit nonprofits at the 24th Annual Congress for New Urbanism. Pingree was beloved and best […]

Yoga classes for kids are leaving them stress-free

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE by Gina Silva from FOX LA At a small school in Inglewood, California, students are learning for the first time, the benefits of yoga. Eight-year-old Mekhi Mitchell says, “Yoga helps me by making me less angry, more happy, and less mad.” Yoga classes are taught as part of the physical education program […]

Do picture warnings on cigarettes increase quit attempts?

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE from MedicalNewsToday.com by Marie Ellis CLICK HERE Results of the study are published in JAMA Internal Medicine. According to the study authors, the United States led the world by being the first to require cigarette pack warnings in 1966. However, since then, the country has fallen behind others in implementing effective pack […]

New pre-surgery technique may make colostomy bags redundant for emergency bowel cancer patients

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE from MedicalNewsToday.com HERE An expandable tube that unblocks the bowel before surgery could lead to fewer cancer patients being diagnosed as emergencies and needing a colostomy bag. The Cancer Research UK-funded CReST trial presented at the 2016 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago today (Sunday) found that less […]

How altered gut microbes cause obesity

ORIGINAL ARTICLE from ScienceDaily.com HERE In an earlier study, Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., the George R. Cowgill Professor of Medicine, observed that acetate, a short-chain fatty acid, stimulated the secretion of insulin in rodents. To learn more about acetate’s role, Shulman, who is also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and a team […]

If you’re an older adult, a 30-minute workout may not be as effective, even at the cellular level, as it was when you were younger.

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE from ScienceDaily.com CLICK HERE According to a new study, age may play a significant role in a cell’s ability to respond to that activity. Tinna Traustadóttir of Northern Arizona University led the study, which was published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, a journal of the society for Redox Biology and Medicine. […]

Obesity Increases in U.S. Women, Study Finds

ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Jessica Ravitz of CNN HERE There doesn’t appear to be much headway being made in the battle to curb obesity in the United States, according to a pair of studies released Tuesday. Updated finding show that 35% of men, 40% of women and 17% of children and adolescents are obese, according to […]

Bigger Baby Bottles Linked to Weight Gain

ORIGINAL ARTICLE from Fox News HERE Babies who drink from large bottles early in life may be experience more weight gain by six months of age than infants who drink from smaller bottles, a study suggests. Starting when the babies were two months old, researchers tracked their weight based on the size of their bottles, […]

Learn more about the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board

The Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board is one of the National Native Network’s partner agencies. Here is an introduction and promotional video explaining who they are. Enjoy! For more information on the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board click here.

Cigarette-pack warnings work better with photos

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE from Fox News CLICK HERE Gruesome pictures on cigarette packages may convince more smokers to quit, a U.S. study suggests. In a four-week experiment, researchers randomly assigned about 2,150 adult smokers to receive either text-only or photo-enhanced warnings on their cigarette packs. With pictures, smokers were 29 percent more likely to try […]

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