Linda Searing

Chronic stress can lead to various physical and mental health problems, including anxiety, depression, headaches, heart disease, high blood pressure, sleep problems and more.

The researchers noted that even study participants who lost less weight still achieved “protection against structural degeneration of the knee.”

People with lower levels of dietary calcium and potassium were more likely to have a follow-up episode of kidney stones than were those whose diets included more of those minerals.

Nearly 43 percent of 19- to 30-year-olds say they used marijuana in 2021, according to federally funded research.

The researchers also found that the more covid symptoms young people had initially, the more likely they were to develop long covid.

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Pediatricians urge parents to make sufficient sleep a family priority and to encourage such things as daytime physical activity and a regular nighttime routine.

Health experts say the total number of miscarriages is probably much higher because many — perhaps most — miscarriages occur early in pregnancy, usually before a person knows they are pregnant.

There has been a small but steady increase in the number of Caesarean-section births for much of the past 25 years.

Interestingly, whether the coffee they drank was plain or sweetened with about 1 tsp of sugar made no difference.