Category: Healthy

As the aging process speeds up post 60, factors like maintaining a healthy weight apart from keeping muscle mass and focusing on bone health become important for optimum fitness. It is no longer about hours of intense gymming or trying fad diets, but a slow and steady attempt to supply your body with essential micronutrients, boost your immunity and strengthen yourself to age gracefully. (Also read: Fitness tips for older adults: 6 easy exercises for agility, balance in seniors)

Nutrition needs for elderly are different from those of young and one needs to eliminate certain foods like sugary items and processed foods completely. Also, if one finds it hard to chew certain foods due to decaying teeth, soups, khichdi and lentils are the best ways to increase intake of the nutrients.

Karishma Shah, Nutritionist and Wellness Expert shares fitness tips people should follow after the age of 60, on her

Last week, the Illinois prison system was held in contempt by a federal judge for failing to deliver a satisfactory implementation plan for addressing the abysmal physical health care provided to Illinois Department of Corrections inmates.

Solving the problem is easy. Rather than contracting with an outside Texas consultant for $1.75 million, listen to the court’s monitor, Jack Raba.Raba is a straight shooter and a hero. He blew the whistle on the late former Chicago Police Det. Jon Burge, who tortured suspects, years ago. His team includes Mike Poisis, who wrote an extensive report on the IDOC system for the court and once was the IDOC medical director.

These are knowledgeable doctors with impeccable integrity. They have spent years thinking about and analyzing the IDOC health care system. Dr. Pablo Stewart, the mental health monitor, has been identifying deficiencies for years as well.

Instead of listening to them and making

Breakfast is often linked as the most important meal of the day, but sometimes it can be the hardest to have – especially if you need a breakfast on the go.

With little time in the morning, breakfast often becomes a meal of convenience, where you will lather a piece of toast with jam or pour yourself a bowl of cereal like corn flakes.

However, a new “Food Compass” has pinpointed the healthiest foods to have for breakfast – and jam and corn flakes do not make the cut.

Instead, scientists at Tufts University have pointed to foods like raw salmon or avocado for a healthy breakfast, and have said to avoid eggs where possible.

They have created the Food Compass to rank 8,000 foods from one to 100, with 100 being the healthiest option.

They looked at 54 nutritional attributes for each food which were divided into nine categories:

Vermonters buying health insurance through the state’s Obamacare portal, Vermont Health Connect, will likely see a steep increase in their premiums next year, after state regulators voted this week to allow double-digit increases.

The increases could coincide with the end of federal marketplace subsidies under the American Rescue Plan next year. The increases could push some Vermonters out of the insurance market altogether.

The Green Mountain Care Board, an independent body that regulates hospital growth and a significant chunk of the health insurance market in Vermont, voted Thursday to allow double-digit rate increases for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont and MVP Health Care in 2023, according to a press release from the board.

Thursday’s decision affects some 72,000 Vermonters in two groups: those who buy health insurance on their own, and those who get insurance through their small employer.

Enrollees who get their

Spirituality enhances medical care for those coping with serious illness. And it boosts overall health outcomes, even at a population level.

Those assertions are based on a review of more than two decades of high-quality studies that show benefits of seeing and nurturing a patient’s spirituality as part of medical care or public health.

The findings, led by researchers from Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program and colleagues from the university’s Initiative on Health, Religion and Spiritualityamong others, were published earlier this month in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The link between body and soul is not a new discovery, according to Dr. Tracy A. Balboni, co-director of the Harvard initiative and a professor of radiation oncology and the study’s lead author. She said the association is especially known between communal forms of spirituality and key outcomes like reductions in all-cause mortality, suicide, depression and substance abuse,