Tag: Isolation

Here’s Why ‘Healthy Eating’ May be Destroying Your Vision

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The obsession of losing weight and switching to healthy eating without knowing what it actually is, has become a common problem. Some health experts suggest that an obsession with healthy eating may paradoxically be endangering lives. According to the Paris nutritionist Sophie Ortega, a pure unbending vegan diet can lead to B12 deficiency. B12 is not made by the body and most people get the required nutrient from animal products like eggs, dairy products, meat or fish. If untreated, a vitamin B12 deficiency can lead to vision loss, weakness, tiredness…

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Loneliness And Social Isolation Can Impact Longevity

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A greater social connection is associated with a 50 percent reduction in the risk of premature mortality. The growing phenomenon of loneliness, which international experts have described as a global epidemic, may be responsible for as many deaths as obesity, according to the results of two meta-analyses presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in Washington. To examine the impact of social isolation and solitude on the risk of premature mortality, researchers conducted an initial meta-analysis of 148 studies that involved 300,000 participants.  The results confirmed the…

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Depression is not a weakness, say health experts

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 – By Prasad Joshi  With ‘Depression: Let’s talk’ being the theme of World Health Day falling on Friday, health experts have stressed that the curable mental disorder should not be considered as weakness of an individual. Exhorting the need for doing away with the social stigma associated with depression, experts have urged that those affected should not suffer in silence and open up about the mental agony or trauma they are undergoing. Psychiatrist Sanjeev Saoji said, “We have often found that a person – trying to open up about his…

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