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Saturday Stories: Superbugs, Heart Disease, and Mythology

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Maryn McKenna, in Wired, on the superbug surge the pandemic has fueled. Saima May Sidik, in Nature, on everything we now know about heart disease post COVID. Chris Goodnow, in ABC news, busts three of COVID’s most pervasive myths ; ; ; ; ; Related StoriesSaturday Stories: Long COVID Numbers, MonkeyPox, And How One School Managed To Avoid COVID EntirelySaturday Stories: Those Clowns Said Whatnow, and Public HealthSaturday Stories: Dispatch From The ER, and What Comes After Omicron ;

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Saturday Stories: Long COVID Numbers, MonkeyPox, And How One School Managed To Avoid COVID Entirely

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Gideon M-K, in Medium, explores the numbers surrounding Long COVID. Kai Kupferschmidt, in The New York Times, on fighting Monkeypox without homophobia. Abrome, a small school in Texas whose viral Twitter thread was reprinted in the Tasmanian Times, on how their school has avoided COVID from the get-go. ; ; ; ; ; Related StoriesSaturday Stories: Superbugs, Heart Disease, and MythologySaturday Stories: Those Clowns Said Whatnow, and Public HealthSaturday Stories: Dispatch From The ER, and What Comes After Omicron ;

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5 Ways to Burn More Calories During Your Strength Session

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Since the days of Jane Fonda workout videos, aerobic exercise has been crowned as king when it comes to weight loss. Running, biking, swimming and aerobics have all been widely cited as the best ways to burn calories. Recent research, however, offers credence to another method: resistance training. In fact, a new study out of Arizona State University suggests that resistance exercise (aka strength training) may actually burn twice as many calories as we once thought. These researchers hypothesized that the energy-expenditure equation traditionally used to determine the calories burned during resistance training is misguided. The long-held method involves measuring oxygen consumption constantly during resistance training to estimate caloric expenditure, which is identical to the method used for determining those numbers for activities like running …

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The Edmonton Obesity Staging System for Pediatrics

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Edmonton Obesity Staging System – Pediatrics (EOSS-P) Regular readers are by now familiar with the Edmonton Obesity Staging System (EOSS), that classifies individuals with obesity based on its impact on physical, mental and functional health. Now, Stasia Hadjiyannakis and colleagues present an adaptation of EOSS for kids, published in Pediatrics and Child Health. The evidence-informed paediatric clinical obesity staging system (EOSS-P), builds on EOSS for adults and captures the severity of disease, as well as factors that complicate management, within four domains of health most commonly encountered in obesity: The EOSS-P assesses four main domains that are impacted by obesity and can impact responsiveness to weight management – metabolic, mechanical, mental, milieu: Metabolic Metabolic complications of paediatric obesity include glucose dysregulation (including type 2 …

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New Product Alert: Celebrate Vitamins Protein & Calcium Bar New Flavors

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Celebrate Vitamins Essential Protein 2 in 1 Protein & Calcium Bar has two fruity new flavors! Lemon Crunch and Crazzberry Crunch. I was given an opportunity to sample them. They are both delicious. I want to dangle a Crazzberry Bar from a chain and wear it, it smells Ahhh-MAZING. I love that they made fruit flavors, it’s a nice alternative to the typical chocolate flavors. Summery… I can see pulling one of these babies out of your beach bag in the summer and while everyone is eating chips and snack cakes you’ll be doing right by your health.Highlights:15 grams of Protein PLUS… 500 mg of Calcium Citrate and 333 IU of Vitamin D3 per bar.High protein snack (Between 130-140 calories) comes in 4 delicious flavors: NEW Crazzberry Crunch (fruity, berry, …

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Healthy Crunchy Snacks

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It’s raining. Woo hoo. I’ve been looking forward to it. I ran all my errands yesterday so I could stay home today and enjoy watching it through the window. It’s a perfect day to make a pot of soup and that is the plan. If you are looking for a little healthy, crunchy snack to go with soup or anything else… Here’s a few of my favorite ways to get my crunch on post weight loss surgery:Homemade Crunchy Cheese “Crackers” Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with a piece of parchment paper. Place cheese on paper about 1/2″ apart. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until bubbly and slightly golden.Remove from parchment and place on a paper towel to absorb any excess oil (some …