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Blood Sugar Warning Signs You Shouldn’t Ignore If You’re Over 50 – Health Digest
LightField Studios/Shutterstock Each time you eat something, your body goes to work sorting out the nutrients to fuel and heal your body. Carbs in your food are converted to glucose to provide energy for your cells. That’s when your blood sugar rises, so your pancreas begins to release […]
Women Over 50 Should Avoid Eating These Foods Before Having Sex – Health Digest
PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock No matter how much we take care of our aging bodies, certain things are difficult to prevent. For example, Botox can only do so much when it comes to wrinkles, your hair will eventually turn shades of grey or white, and your body, well, the […]
What Happens To Your Kidney Stone Risk When You’re 50 Or Older – Health Digest
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Perfect Wave/Shutterstock You might wince just hearing the words “kidney stones,” particularly if you’ve had one. (Spoiler alert: They can be painful.) Kidney stones form in your kidneys when deposits of calcium and other minerals begin to build […]
The Scientific Reason Sleep Helps Us Make Better Decisions – Health Digest
Thomas Barwick/Getty Images When your life is jam-packed with activity, it’s tempting to cut back on sleep. Sleep isn’t just a passive activity, though. Your brain does a lot of processing of your daily experiences to help form memories. Sleep allows your brain to clear out toxins so you […]
Eating Poached Eggs Has An Unexpected Effect On Your Cholesterol – Health Digest
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Karpenkovdenis/Getty Images For centuries, humans have cooked eggs in a variety of ways. They’ve pan-fried them. They’ve scrambled them. More recently, they’ve even microwaved them (which doesn’t always produce predictable results, unless you have a foolproof microwave egg-cooking […]
What Happens To Your Brain When You Take Too Much Viagra – Health Digest
Pixelseffect/Getty Images Viagra (sildenafil) treats erectile dysfunction (ED) by relaxing the walls of your blood vessels to improve blood flow. It was originally designed to treat high blood pressure, but researchers noticed that erections were a side effect (read how high blood pressure and ED are linked). Because […]
Why You Shouldn’t Take Ibuprofen To Treat Stomach Pain (And What To Take Instead) – Health Digest
Xavier Lorenzo/Getty Images Ibuprofen treats many of your common pains, from a headache to sore feet. You can even reach for ibuprofen if you have a fever. It might make sense to take ibuprofen if you have stomach pain as well. However, ibuprofen isn’t the best medication to treat […]
A Harvard Student Ate 24 Eggs Every Day For 1 Month And Here’s What Happened – Health Digest
If there’s one thing to know about Ivy League students in Massachusetts, it’s that they’re big fans of doing things that other people never consider. For example, there was the MIT Blackjack Team that, in the 1990s, hit up casinos to count cards and made a small fortune. Then there […]
The Easily Missed Parkinson’s Sign Ryan Reynolds Wished He Noticed In His Dad – Health Digest
Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images Ryan Reynolds learned of his father Jim’s Parkinson’s diagnosis when the actor was 22 years old. At the time, his parents didn’t mention much about the disease, and Reynolds himself didn’t understand the symptoms of Parkinson’s that would later arise. This strained his relationship with […]
Brett Favre And Other Famous Athletes That Have Parkinson’s Disease – Health Digest
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Legendary NFL quarterback Brett Favre revealed he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease while testifying on Capitol Hill about his involvement in a Mississippi welfare scandal. “As I’m sure you’ll understand, while it’s too late for me — I’ve recently been diagnosed with Parkinson’s — this […]