Category: Health

Serving Water With School Lunches Could Prevent Child, Adult Obesity

Tom Patriot

Encouraging children to drink plain water with their school lunches could prevent more than half a million youths in the U.S. from becoming overweight or obese, and trim the medical costs and indirect societal costs associated with these problems by more than $13 billion, a new study suggests. The findings were based on the nationwide expansion of a pilot program that was conducted in 1,200 elementary and middle school schools in New York City between 2009 and 2013. When water dispensers were placed in school cafeterias, students’ consumption of water…

Read More

Study: Yoga Helps Back Pain Among Veterans

Tom Patriot

In a study including 150 military veterans with chronic low back pain, researcher Dr. Erik J. Groessl and his team from the VA San Diego Healthcare System found that veterans who completed a 12-week yoga program had better scores on a disability questionnaire, improved pain intensity scores, and a decline in opioid use. Groessl is a researcher with the VA San Diego Healthcare System and the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. The study was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on July 20, 2017. The study shows…

Read More

Dermatologists Explain How Light Therapy Works To Treat Acne

Tom Patriot

For the entirety of my teen years, I had terrible acne that left me feeling embarrassed and socially awkward. I remember uncomfortable days in school, asking fellow classmates how they got their perfect skin, researching special diets to make my acne clear up and trying every acne product and treatment under the sun (my mother can vouch for this). It was my senior year in high school when my acne started to clear up, but only with the help of a blue light treatment. The treatment, which helps eliminate acne-causing bacteria that can cause inflammation, basically…

Read More

Yes, You Can Get A Yeast Infection In Your Armpit

Tom Patriot

Yeast infections are most commonly associated with vaginas, as most women know all too well (three out of four women will experience a yeast infection in their lifetime). But most people are unaware that it’s possible to get yeast infections in their armpits ― and men and women are both susceptible. Joshua Zeichner, the director of cosmetic and clinical research in dermatology at Mount Sinai who holds a doctorate in medicine, spoke with HuffPost about yeast infections in the armpits. He started with a little information about the different kinds of yeast infections and explained…

Read More

WATCH: Lip Fillers Can Lead To Cysts, And Those Cysts Have To Be Popped

Tom Patriot

Caution: Lip fillers can leave cysts when they are poorly injected, and those cysts have to be popped. Dermatologists have become known for posting stomach-churning videos of procedures they perform in-office. And as a result, watching gigantic pimples being popped or viewing blackhead removal in close-up slow motion has become a guilty pleasure unlike any other for some people. Until now. United Kingdom-based cosmetic doctor Tijion Esho has gotten in on the trend by posting clips of himself popping the lip cysts that can develop from botched fillers. Esho told HuffPost it’s necessary to remove the cysts because “if…

Read More