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Reduction of Preventable Deaths

The three leading causes of death that can be associated directly with your diet are caused by heart disease, stroke, and some cancers. These three health conditions have been associated with the high consumption of red meat, and processed foods.

Benefits of Delayed Cord Cutting

When doctors delay cutting the umbilical cord of newborns from ten seconds after birth to three minutes after birth, the baby will have an increase in the amount of iron in their blood lasting through the first few months.

Researchers in Europe looked at a large group of people between the ages of forty and sixty nine and they concluded that when the screenings for diabetes were done on people at later stages in life, the risk of their lives having a cardiovascular event within five years increased.

Socioeconomics and Heart Disease

A recent study of black women in Mississippi revealed a startling truth about heart disease and poverty. Black women under the age of fifty who were in the lower socioeconomic brackets were more than twice as likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke, compared to women who had greater financial resources.

When people are diagnosed as having chronic conditions, or major conditions, then they often feel the need to go to a second doctor to see if they say the same things. Even when the second doctor confirms the diagnosis of the first doctor, the people report feeling comforted by the second opinion.

Introduction to Gender Identity

For the vast majority of people the gender that they feel most connected to matches the physical signs of gender they were born with. The gender that we associate ourselves with will determine how we choose to dress, how we choose to respond to some situations,

Antonio Bianco MD, PhD works as an endocrinologist at Rush University Medical Center. According to Dr. Bianco, the symptoms that people have when they have hypothyroidism will vary from person to person.

Increased Amount of Anesthesia Required by Smokers

According to Erdogan Ozturk, MD, who is an investigator associated with the Bezmialem Vakif University located in Istanbul people who smoke tobacco products require about thirty eight percent more propofol in order to be put to sleep for surgical procedures. If you think that you only smoke a little, so your needs for more anesthetics will not be affected you might be surprised to learn that passive smokers need about eighteen percent more anesthesia than non-smokers.

Everyone gets angry, and sometimes letting people know you are angry is even beneficial because carrying around pent up emotions can make your blood pressure rise. If you are one of those people that frequently lose your temper, then the following list may make you rethink how you react.

When teens see the social media postings depicting people celebrating with alcoholic beverages, and they see the posts telling how happy the drinking person was while they were celebrating, it can cause the teen to think that drinking alcohol makes you have more fun, and to think that the average person consumes more alcohol than they actually do.