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…

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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…

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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…

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