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Ask a Health Coach: Sleep Deprivation, Cortisol Spikes, and Cohabitating with a Twinkie Eater

Hey folks! In this week’s edition of Ask a Health Coach, Erin is answering your questions about how to offset the effects of a poor sleep routine, dealing with a difficult partner, and which is more important for optimal health: low stress or a Primal diet. Thanks for all your …

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Is ‘Femtech’ the Next Big Thing in Health Care?

Start-ups and tech companies are creating products to address women’s health care needs. It’s still a small segment of the market, but growing. This article is part of our new series on the Future of Health Care, which examines changes in the medical field. Women represent half of the planet’s …

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Temasek-Founded Firm Affinidi Partners EVA Air To Roll Out A Digital Health Passport

Taiwan airline EVA Air announced today (March 29) that it will be collaborating with Singapore-based technology company Affinidi to utilise its digital credential verification solution to verify passengers’ Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test results. The service will be used for EVA’s Singapore to Taipei flights, and the airline has plans to …

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Ask a Health Coach: Consistency, Control, and Chronic Cardio

Hi there, folks! In this week’s Ask a Health Coach, Erin is back to answer your questions about the pros and cons of consistent eating patterns, how to avoid chronically overdoing it in the gym, and staying motivated when everyone around you is addicted to a SAD lifestyle. Do you …

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Too Much High-Intensity Exercise May Be Bad for Your Health

A new study hints that excessive HIIT may harm your mitochondria, the energy generators found in every cell of your body. If high-intensity exercise is good for us, is more necessarily better? Maybe not, according to an admonitory new study of the molecular effects of high-intensity interval training, also known …

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Weekly Health Quiz: Covid Vaccines, Microbiomes and How We Move

1 of 7 Which statement about the way we move is supported by research? Romantic couples unconsciously tend to synchronize their walking pace Pet dogs tend to synchronize their movements with family members People who taking up dancing tend to feel greater degrees of closeness All of the above 2 …

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Ask a Health Coach: More of Your Carb Questions Answered

Hi folks, in today’s Ask a Health Coach, Erin will be answering a few more of your carb-related questions, from knowing which ones to include in your total macro intakes  to strategies for managing the aftermath of a carb binge. We love getting your questions, so be sure to post …

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Weekly Health Quiz: Covid Vaccines, Side Effects and Exercise

1 of 7 Which statement about Covid vaccines is not true? It takes several weeks to build up immunity after vaccination Current vaccines are very effective in protecting against serious illness Once you are vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask Vaccine side effects may be more pronounced …

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Los Angeles County finds fewer cases among health care workers as more get vaccinated.

What was once a flood of health care workers catching the coronavirus in Los Angeles County has now slowed to a trickle, in large part because the vast majority of them have been vaccinated, local public health officials said. Reports of new virus cases among health care workers in the …

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