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ACA Offers Public Health Continuing Education Webinar Series
The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) has announced the availability of a new webinar series from the American Public Health Association (APHA) Chiropractic Health Care Section through its online learning platform, Learn ACA. The 12-hour continuing education series was created by a multidisciplinary group of health care professionals including educators, researchers and clinicians in the fields ...
ABC Launches HerbTV on YouTube
As part of its ongoing educational mission for consumers, academia, industry, media and government, the nonprofit American Botanical Council (ABC) has announced the official launch of ABC’s YouTube channel, HerbTV. HerbTV from the ABC on YouTube.com is the home of more than 180 educational videos on medicinal herbs and related health and wellbeing content and ...
NUNM Accepted Into Teaching Kitchen Collaborative
The National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM, Portland, OR) has been formally accepted into the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative (TKC), a leading invitational network of educational, research, and community organizations with teaching kitchens aimed at improving personal and public health. Effective Jan. 1, 2024, NUNM has joined organizations including Google, Compass Group and Cleveland Clinic, leading the teaching ...
IFM Presents Scholarship and Linus Pauling Award Winners at Annual International Conference
The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) has announced the winners of its Linus Pauling Award in Functional Medicine, Debbie Sanstad Memorial Scholarship, and the inaugural Founders’ Scholarships, presented at its 2023 Annual International Conference (AIC). In its 30th year, AIC brought together more than 1,000 renowned health care professionals, researchers and practitioners from around the ...
Dietary Supplements An Important Weapon For Fighting Off COVID-19, Other Respiratory Conditions
Supplements containing vitamins C and D and other micronutrients, sometimes in amounts exceeding the federally recommended levels, are a safe, effective and low-cost means of helping your immune system fight off COVID-19 and other acute respiratory tract diseases, an Oregon State University (OSU) researcher says. Findings were published April 23 in the journal Nutrients. Adrian Gombart of ...
INM to Host Online Dialogue on Infectious Disease and Immune Resilience
In response to growing concerns about the coronavirus and its public health implications, the Institute for Natural Medicine (INM) has announced that it will host a two-part online educational series, featuring leading licensed naturopathic physicians and researchers, that focuses on strategies for maximizing immune system health. Part one of “Building Resilience Naturally: COVID-19 and Beyond” ...
Twin Study Shows What’s Good For the Heart is Good For the Brain
Emory University researchers are giving us double the reasons to pay attention to our cardiovascular health—showing in a recently published study in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease that good heart health can equal good brain health. The American Heart Association defines ideal cardiovascular health (CVH) across seven modifiable risk factors (blood sugar, serum cholesterol, blood pressure, body ...
Chewing Gum May Be Effective For Delivering Vitamins
Nearly 15 percent of all chewing gum varieties sold promise to provide health-enhancing supplements to users, so Penn State researchers studied whether two vitamin-supplemented products were effective at delivering vitamins to the body. Their results validate the concept of gum as an effective delivery system for at least some vitamins. The research marks the first ...
Why Sugary Drinks and Protein-rich Meals Don’t Go Well Together
Having a sugar-sweetened drink with a high-protein meal may negatively affect energy balance, alter food preferences and cause the body to store more fat, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Nutrition. “We found that about a third of the additional calories provided by the sugar-sweetened drinks were not expended, fat metabolism ...
Raising Dietary Potassium to Sodium Ratio Helps Reduce Heart, Kidney Disease
Reducing sodium (salt) in the diet has been recommended to lower blood pressure and the risk of heart disease. However, in a new review article, University of Southern California researchers found that increasing dietary potassium is as important to improving the risk factors for cardiovascular and kidney disease as limiting dietary sodium. The article is ...
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