WEBMD – Blood is your body’s superhighway. It carries nutrients and oxygen to your heart, brain, muscles, and skin.
A healthy diet is one way to optimize your blood flow. Next time you head to the grocery store, consider including these items in your shopping cart.
Cayenne Pepper
Thanks to a compound called capsaicin, cayenne pepper can help your arteries work well. It can also help relax the muscles in your blood vessels so blood can...
ARS TECHNICA – Under ardent anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr, federal health officials are working to link COVID-19 mRNA vaccines to the deaths of 25 children, and may further restrict access to the shots, possibly recommending them for people aged 75 and up, instead of 65 and up, according to The Washington Post.
Four unnamed sources close to the situation told the Post that Trump administration health officials appear to be using information from...
THE NEW YORK TIMES – One of Ben & Jerry’s founders, Jerry Greenfield, has resigned from the ice cream company, saying that the company’s independence had been lost and its social activism “silenced” under the control of its parent company, Unilever.
The move, announced by fellow co-founder Ben Cohen on social media early Wednesday, follows years of mounting tensions between Unilever, which acquired the ice cream company in 2000, and the Ben & Jerry’s founders,...
KFF HEALTH NEWS – For a while, walking the dog felt hazardous.
Earl Vickers was accustomed to taking Molly, his shepherd-boxer-something-else mix, for strolls on the beach or around his neighborhood in Seaside, California. A few years ago, though, he started to experience problems staying upright.
“If another dog came toward us, every single time I’d end up on the ground,” recalled Vickers, 69, a retired electrical engineer. “It seemed like I was falling every other...
He won a massive following with “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men.” Through the Sundance Institute and festival, he became a patron saint of American independent film.
BuzzFeed – In r/AskReddit, when someone asked, "What is a little quirk about your body that you don’t think other people have?" the answers that rolled in were proof of that — and they weren't your typical double-jointed answers, either. Here's what people had to say:
1. "I'm literally hard-headed. I have no frontal sinuses, and where they should be is just bone. I never get sinus headaches."
—Rocklicker13
2. "I'm not colorblind in of my...