08 Dec, 2024
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Health Secrets Your Nails Are Trying To Tell You – Health Digest

If the skin surrounding your nail has become red, irritated, and swollen, it likely indicates an infection, which is known as “fingernail paronychia.” All it takes is plucking a hangnail too harshly or even soaking your hands in water for too long for this kind of skin damage to occur, reports Nemours KidsHealth. While it is […]

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Is This Popular Spice An Effective Alternative To Ibuprofen? What Doctors Say – Health Digest

Dr. Jyotsna Nagda, a pain specialist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, shared (via TIME) that turmeric’s anti-inflammatory properties are what help with pain relief. And it’s not just its main active ingredient, curcumin (which gives this popular spice its characteristic yellow hue), that works in the pain relief department. Per registered dietitian nutritionist Katherine […]

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Do This With Your Stomach At Least Once A Year To Check Your Risk Of Heart Disease – Health Digest

The CDC classifies people as overweight if their BMI is over 25 and obese if it’s over 30. According to a 2010 study in Obesity Research & Clinical Practice, men with a BMI over 30 are 80% more likely to develop coronary heart disease compared to men between 18.5 and 22.9. Women with a BMI […]

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Avoid Eating Too Much Peanut Butter If You Take This Type Of Medication – Health Digest

Peanut butter contains vitamin E and resveratrol, both of which can increase the side effects of blood thinners. Vitamin E-rich foods are considered natural blood thinners themselves. We’re talking spinach, tomatoes, kiwis, mangoes, and yes, peanut butter. When consumed in excess with blood thinning medications like warfarin (Coumadin), aspirin, and clopidogrel (Plavix), vitamin E can increase your risk of […]

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The Unique Exercise That Can Help Your Brain Age Backwards – Health Digest

A 2023 study in the Annals of Internal Medicine sought to determine if tai chi or a cognitively enhanced tai chi would help people who have memory decline. They split 318 older adults into three groups after measuring their cognition using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). One group practiced cognitively enhanced tai chi, which had […]