Category Archives: Healthy living

Hearing Loss, Dementia, and Quality of Life

Hearing Loss, Dementia, and Quality of Life
Hearing loss tops the list of risk factors for dementia The 2024 update of the Lancet Commission report on dementia affirmed validity of the 2020 Lancet Commission report regarding 12 potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia and added new 2 new ones. In addition, the 2024 Commission report estimated the percentage of dementia cases attributable…
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Pros and Cons of GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Drugs

Pros and Cons of GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Drugs
A new era for weight loss? Researchers in Denmark conducted a study testing the effects of four weight-loss strategies for persons with obesity, without diabetes, and with an average age of 42 years. The four strategies included 1) the GLP-1 drug liraglutide (Saxenda) plus usual activity, 2) liraglutide plus exercise, 3) placebo plus exercise, and…
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Obesity Redefined

Obesity Redefined
What is obesity and why does it matter? Obesity refers to excess body fat. Traditionally, the medical establishment has defined obesity as body mass index of 30 or more. However, this definition has several well-known problems. First, most people have a hard time visualizing body mass index, defined as body weight measured in kilograms divided…
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How Might Religion and Spirituality Promote Better Health?

How Might Religion and Spirituality Promote Better Health?
Social connections Robert Putnam is an Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. He has written or co-written a dozen books that chronicle changes in American civic and religious culture over the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st. A new film, Join or Die, features Putnam explaining the importance of belonging to…
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