Articles by Shari Barbanel
Honoring Diversity: NUHS Offers New Naturopathic Medicine Scholarship
National University of Health Sciences (NUHS, Lombard, IL) has created the Black Naturopathic Opportunity Scholarship to nurture the field of naturopathic medicine, particularly in communities of color, and to increase the representation of Black/African-American physicians in complementary and alternative medicine. “The scholarship has been designed to support naturopathic medicine, as well as National’s commitment to ...
Yamuna Zake, The Ultimate Body Rolling Workout, The Foot Fix
Yamuna Zake is a master teacher of body sustainability dedicated to demystifying the body and providing simple, powerful tools to make lifelong fitness a reality for everyone. She has trained an international network of 800 certified practitioners, from the U.S. and Canada to Europe and Asia, and hosts sellout foot-fitness classes around the world for ...
Exercise During Pregnancy May Save Kids From Health Problems As Adults
Exercise during pregnancy may let mothers significantly reduce their children’s chances of developing diabetes and other metabolic diseases later in life, new research suggests. A study in lab mice has found that maternal exercise during pregnancy prevented the transmission of metabolic diseases from an obese parent—either mother or father—to child. If the finding holds true ...
MUIH Adds Pathway For Registered Dietitians Into Doctor of Clinical Nutrition Program
Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) has added a pathway for registered dietitians (RD) into its Doctor of Clinical Nutrition (DCN) program. This provides RDs whose highest degree is a bachelor’s degree with the opportunity to receive a doctoral degree in a little over two and a half years. Through this program, RDs will deepen ...
New Dates Announced for 2021 Edition of IHS
New dates for the 2021 edition of the in-person conference, Integrative Healthcare Symposium (IHS), produced by Diversified Communications, have been released. The event, which was recently postponed from May 2-4, 2021 due to the continued magnitude of the public health and safety issues caused by COVID-19, will be held on Sept. 18-20, 2021 at the New York ...
New Discovery Explains Antihypertensive Properties of Green and Black Tea
A new study from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) shows that compounds in both green and black tea relax blood vessels by activating ion channel proteins in the blood vessel wall. The discovery helps explain the antihypertensive properties of tea and could lead to the design of new blood pressure-lowering medications. Published in Cellular Physiology ...
Accelerating Gains in Abdominal Fat During Menopause Tied to Heart Disease Risk
Women who experience an accelerated accumulation of abdominal fat during menopause are at greater risk of heart disease, even if their weight stays steady, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (Pitt Public Health)-led analysis published today in the journal Menopause. The study—based on a quarter century of data collected on hundreds ...
Toddler Sleep Patterns Matter
Establishing a consistent sleep schedule for a toddler can be one of the most challenging aspects of child rearing, but it also may be one of the most important. Research findings from a team including Lauren Covington, an assistant professor in the University of Delaware (UD) School of Nursing, suggest that children with inconsistent sleep ...
Mediterranean-style Diet Linked to Better Thinking Skills in Later Life
People who eat a Mediterranean-style diet—particularly one rich in green leafy vegetables and low in meat—are more likely to stay mentally sharp in later life, a study shows. Closely adhering to a Mediterranean diet was associated with higher scores on a range of memory and thinking tests among adults in their late 70s, the research ...
Sacred Heart University Adds New Master’s Degree in Human Clinical Nutrition
Sacred Heart University (SHU, Fairfield, CT) will offer an online master of science degree in human clinical nutrition beginning this fall. Jobs related to nutrition are increasing because of an increased focus on disease prevention and integrative health care. With only about 30 online master’s degrees in clinical nutrition available nationwide, the new degree makes ...
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