Alcohol Use Went Up w/Women During Pandemic
There wasn t much else to do during the pandemic so its not surprise that alcohol use went up in 2020 but the rise is mostly with women.
During the pandemic, it wasn t only guys who were hitting the bottle, but apparently women have been reaching out for the glass as much if not more than men have.
According to WOOD, there is a dangerous trend that has caught the eye of researchers and that is massive increase in alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A survey was put together that involved 800 people by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health discovered that 60% of those surveyed said that they were drinking more than before the pandemic had started.
Culturally specific health behaviors and activities may improve the health of Native Americans, report researchers.
Stress, trauma, and racism occur at high rates within Indigenous communities and have not been explored as potential contributors to cardiometabolic disease (CMD). But new research examines this link and found increasing evidence that culturally specific health behaviors and activities can lessen the negative effects of these stressors.
Native American people in the US have a higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease compared to all other racial groups, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Indigenous people not only suffer from traditional CMD risk factors, such as elevated blood sugar, hypertension, and obesity, they also now face some of the highest rates of discrimination in all areas of our society,” says principal investigator Melissa Lewis, assistant professor of family and community medicine at the University of Missouri School o
Will the pandemic provide an opportunity for positive change in the cruise industry?
“The Covid-19 pandemic has created a unique opportunity for cruise line companies to revise their corporate culture, reinvent their business models, enhance their human resources management, develop and embrace the risk and crisis management strategies, and adopt sustainable development,” say the experts. In this image from 1 May 2021, passengers queue to be tested for Covid-19 before embarking on board the Costa Smeralda cruise liner docked in Savona, near Genoa in Italy.
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“The Covid-19 pandemic has created a unique opportunity for cruise line companies to revise their corporate culture, reinvent their business models, enhance their human resources management, develop and embrace the risk and crisis management strategies, and adopt sustainable development,” say the experts. In this image from 1 May 2021, passengers queue to be tested for Covid-19 b
Ria Soni remembers her first period very well.
She was in fifth grade and had a band concert that night. Her section, the alto saxophones, were going to play a solo during “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from “Toy Story.” She got her period during the school day, and because of health class, she knew she could go to the school nurse and get a pad.
“It was an exciting concert I couldn’t really miss it. But I was unsure how it would be, would I feel uncomfortable?” said the now-21-year-old Rutgers University graduate. “The hardest thing was going home and having to tell my parents about it. Because it was a little awkward.”