Experts Prescribe These 6 Lifestyle Medicines For a Long, Healthy Life
YORAM VODOVOTZ & MICHAEL PARKINSON, THE CONVERSATION
22 JANUARY 2021
And the costs are unaffordable and growing. About 90 percent of the nearly US$4 trillion Americans spend annually for health care in the US is for chronic diseases and mental health conditions.
But there are new lifestyle medicines that are free that doctors could be prescribing for all their patients.
Lifestyle medicine is the clinical application of healthy behaviors to prevent, treat and reverse disease. More than ever, researchunderscoresthatthe pills today s physician should be prescribing for patients are the six domains of lifestyle medicine: whole food plant-based eating, regular physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, addiction reduction or elimination, and positive psychology and social connection.
Groton The Groton school district will continue full remote learning next week, as 105 teachers and staff and 74 students need to self-isolate or quarantine, according to Superintendent Susan Austin.
The school district had shifted to full remote learning for this week due to a post-holiday uptick in cases, but Austin said the situation has only escalated since then.
She said in a communication Thursday to parents, guardians and staff that the decision to continue remote learning is due both “to the inability to provide appropriate staffing for in-person learning and for the safety of our students and staff.”
Austin said in a phone interview that, with community spread and increases in COVD-19 cases in Groton, the school district also is seeing cases in schools.
According to the foundation, individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease are often older and at higher risk of developing serious complications from COVID-19.
By Dominique Patton BEIJING (Reuters) - A new form of African swine fever identified in Chinese pig farms is most likely caused by illicit vaccines, industry insiders say, a fresh blow to the world s largest pork producer, still recovering from a devastating epidemic of the virus. Two new strains of African swine fever have infected more than 1,000 sows on several farms owned by New Hope Liuhe, China s fourth-largest producer, as well as pigs being fattened for the firm by contract farmers, said Yan Zhichun, the company s chief science officer. Though the strains, which are missing one or two key genes present in the wild African swine fever virus, don t kill pigs like the disease that ravaged China s farms in 2018 and 2019, they cause a chronic condition that reduces the number of healthy piglets born, Yan told Reuters. At New Hope, and many large producers, infected pigs are culled to prevent the spread, making the disease effectively fatal. Although the known infections are limited