Sometimes trying to be healthy feels like just another item on your endless, exhausting to-do list. Here on NPR’s health team, we don’t want to add to anyone’s stress. The good news is that it doesn’t take great feats of fitness or a heroic commitment to good habits to stay well. Often small changes can make a significant difference.
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As winter arrives and the days grow shorter, many individuals experience a dip in mood known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). This common condition, also referred to as winter depression, can leave you feeling fatigued, moody, and less motivated. But fear not; there are effective strategies to boost your well-being and beat those winter blues!
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For most people living with ME/CFS or Long COVID there is no specific or different advice regarding diet. In order to feel healthy, it is important to drink enough fluids and have a diet that contains enough nutrients. It is also beneficial to have a regular eating pattern. This will mean you will have more energy, and you will be supporting your immune system to prevent further illness and infections.
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Wearable healthcare technology has grown in popularity over the last few years. With advancements in biosensor technology and accuracy, smaller battery sizes, and increased performance, wearable medical technology can provide users with accurate healthcare data that keeps them in charge of their own healthcare.
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If you haven’t yet heard bout ChatGPT, Bard, or the other AI tools that have recently taken the world by storm, well, there is no time like the present to get yourself acquainted. Not only have these new AI tools become game changers for students, engineers, and really anyone trying to cut down on the amount of work that they need to do with their own skills and brainpower, ChatGPT can also be a powerful tool for those caring for older adults (or caring for children or spouses for that matters). In this article we’ll do our best to quickly cover the basics of using a tool like ChatGPT as well as provide a few ideas on how you might use ChatGPT to help you care for a loved one.
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Craving more companionship in your daily life? You’re not alone. More than half of U.S. adults are lonely — and that number was rising even before the COVID-19 pandemic.1 It’s become such a problem that Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, has declared an “epidemic of loneliness.”2 And that lack of social connection is harming people’s physical, mental, and social health.
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Here’s a new fact about spring, summer, fall, and sometimes even winter, now that climate change has blurred seasonal boundaries: sizzling heat may be on the way, or currently blanketing your community. High temperatures stress the body, leading to thousands of heat-related illnesses and deaths every year in the US. Creating a personal heat plan can help you stay safe when the heat index soars. This article will help you create your personal heat safety plan.
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A registered dietician nutritionist shares some of the most common and harmful nutrition myths perpetuated by wellness culture that people should ditch ASAP.
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The DASH diet is a healthy-eating plan designed to help prevent or treat high blood pressure, also called hypertension. It also may help lower cholesterol linked to heart disease, called low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol.
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Depression rates are higher than they’ve ever been, according to new data from Gallup.1
A recent Gallup poll reported that 29% of Americans have been diagnosed with depression at least once in their lifetime—this represents an increase of almost 10 percentage points when compared to 2015. This number is the highest recorded by Gallup.
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