The actress told Insider that she coupled intuitive fasting with the keto diet to improve her metabolism, which in turn helped with her lingering COVID-19 symptoms.
Health experts, however, say that these claims are not substantiated by current research. While studies have shown that intermittent fasting can lead to short-term weight loss, the long-term effects of restricting calories in this way is still not fully understood.
The current research remains a mixed bag of pros and cons, suggesting that intermittent fasting is not the right weight-loss strategy for everybody and should be undertaken with caution.
What is intermittent fasting?
Intermittent fasting focuses more on when people eat rather than how much they eat. The diet includes periods of fasting or restricted calories. It is separate from the fasting many cultures practice for religious or spiritual purposes.
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The FINANCIAL Recent news reports proclaiming pediatric mental health visits to the ER are on the rise, youth suicide is at a record high, and half of all college students meet the criteria for one or more mental health disorders are telling us that we have a problem on our hands. To explore the issues behind the headlines, Columbia’s Department of Psychiatry and School of Journalism recently hosted an online forum, “Youth and Mental Illness: What is Going On?”, the third in an ongoing series of mental health programs developed by the Columbia Department of Psychiatry and School of Journalism.
May 21, 2021
Transcatheter therapies for tricuspid valve disease continue to gain momentum, as evidenced by three studies presented at this week’s EuroPCR 2021: TRISCEND, TriBAND, and CLASP TR.
On the whole, the early data suggest these devices are a viable treatment for tricuspid regurgitation (TR), investigators told the meeting’s virtual audience, yet they also speak to the diverse approaches annular reduction, transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER), and valve replacement aimed at addressing this clinical niche.
All three are manufactured by Edwards Lifesciences:
Thirty-day data from TRISCEND make the case for valve replacement, specifically with the Evoque device, in patients with symptomatic and at least moderate TR.
May 19, 2021
Compared with second-generation DES, devices with ultrathin struts are associated with less TLF, driven by reductions in clinically driven TLR, a long-term meta-analysis of multiple RCTs suggests.
The thinner struts have been thought to offer advantages in terms of producing less inflammation, vessel injury, neointimal proliferation, and thrombus formation. The new meta-analysis builds on the findings of a prior meta-analysis showing that ultrathin-strut DES were associated with a lower risk of TLF (composite of cardiac death, MI, or clinically driven TLR) at 1 year compared with conventional second-generation thin-strut DES.
Several additional
large-scale RCTs that have been completed in recent years, with extended follow-up to a mean of 2.5 years, differentiate the newer meta-analysis, which was presented today by Yousif Ahmad, MD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA), at the EuroPCR 2021 virtual meeting. It was also simultaneously published in the
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Today, doctors and scientists across America at National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers and other organizations issued a joint statement urging the nation s health care systems, physicians, parents and children, and young adults to get the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination back on track.
Dramatic drops in annual well visits and immunizations during the COVID-19 pandemic have caused a significant vaccination gap and lag in vital preventive services among U.S. children and adolescents especially for the HPV vaccine. The pandemic also has exacerbated health disparities, leaving Black, Indigenous and other people of color; rural; and sexual minority adolescents at even greater risk for missed doses of this cancer prevention vaccine.