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• Beetroots Can Be Beneficial to Runners

  A new study shows that runners may benefit from eating beetroot. Eating beetroot before a workout helped runners to improve their performance during a 5K run. “Baked beetroot food was compared to cranberry relish in its effect on runners in the study," says Margaret Murphy, RD, a Chicago dietitian...

• What Is the Link Between Gout and Fructose?

  Fructose is a natural sugar found in fruits and honey, while high fructose corn syrup is a man-made sweetener produced from corn. High fructose corn syrup is composed of 55% fructose and 45% glucose.The reason why fructose has a negative impact on the joints is that fructose is metabolized...

• How Does a Psychiatrist Treat Insomnia?

  What is the First Step to Initiate When You Have Been Diagnosed with Insomnia?The most important step to finding a solution for your insomnia is to get to the root of it. Have a conversation about it with your family and inquire as to whether your insomnia may potentially be hereditary or genetic....

• Can Sleep Apnea Increase the Risk of a Stroke?

  Stroke is one of the leading causes of long-term disability and death globally. Many conditions have long been known to increase the risk of stroke, like a high level of blood cholesterol, diabetes, high-blood pressure, smoking, and atrial fibrillation. However, now snoring, or rather sleep apnea,...

• What Is Brain Freeze?

  The terms “brain freeze” or “ice cream headache” describe a sudden, stabbing forehead pain that occurs after drinking a cold drink or eating ice cream too quickly. In medical terms, it is known as sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia or cold stimulus headache. It is known mostly to occur in the...

• What is Cardiac Ablation?

  Cardiac ablation is a procedure used for atrial fibrillation (a-fib) treatment, which is an irregular beating of the heart. Doctors may recommend the procedure when other methods of treatment such as drugs and heartbeat reset aren’t successful.If atrial fibrillation, or an irregular heart rate,...