Health

Rice feeds billions. It thrives in warm, wet fields and stores energy in a way that fits busy lives and tight budgets. Those same flooded fields can also make arsenic more available to rice plants, and some of that arsenic can end up in the grain. A growing body of field evidence points to a new twist: as the planet …

Against the backdrop of a “dangerously hot” July and August, experts in East Texas warned of an insidious heat-related risk lurking in a seemingly benign item, KLTV reports. What’s happening? AccuWeather indicated portions of East Texas were under a Heat Advisory lasting from Aug. 14 until Aug. 20. On Tuesday, temperatures approached three digits, with heat index values anticipated to …

Some foods and drinks interfere with the way some diabetes medications work. High fat meals, alcohol and refined carbs can impact the effectiveness of some diabetes medications. When taking diabetes medications, make sure you stay hydrated and consider meal timing and portions. When you have diabetes, the focus is often on eating a healthy diet to better manage the disease …

Luis Alvarez/Getty Images Truth: You don’t want to get shingles, the condition that occurs when the dormant virus that causes chickenpox reactivates. Often, it leads to painful rashes and blisters. (Which makes the crazy, frustrating symptomatic itching of chickenpox seem like a walk in the park.) Fortunately, there’s a fast way to lower your …

Scientists Find This Common Household Appliance Helps Lower Blood Pressure  AOL.comView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

Image by Michael M. Santiago via Getty / Futurism About 10 weeks before his assassination in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy — better known as Bobby, and the father of our current health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — delivered a rousing address at Vanderbilt University that came to be known as one of his greatest speeches. Quoting his presidential uncle John, …

Orthopedic surgeon and self-proclaimed “longevity doc,” Dr. Vonda Wright claims that 11 push-ups can change a woman’s life. The concept has since become a viral trend with TikTokkers replicating it 60,000 times over. Wright herself surfaced on one of the platform’s videos and then again recently in an interview with author Mel Robbins to double down on her claims. Highlights …

Woman Ends Up in Urgent Care After Popping Pimple in the ‘Triangle of Death’ on Her Face (Exclusive)  AOL.com Is it actually dangerous to pop pimples in the ‘triangle of death’? A dermatologist weighs in — plus tips on how to get rid of blemishes  Yahoo Lifestyle Canada Horror as Woman Winds Up in Urgent Care After Trying To Pop Pimple  Newsweek I …

Dozens of cases of a potentially debilitating vector-borne disease have been identified in the United Kingdom this year, the BBC reports, almost twice as many as last year. What’s happening? On the surface, this uptick in cases of chikungunya virus might not appear to be concerning in scale. In all, 73 people in the U.K. contracted chikungunya, up from 27 …

A daily cup of coffee could be blunting the effects of certain antibiotic treatments, according to a new study analyzing the reaction of Escherichia coli bacteria to caffeine. The international team of researchers behind the study looked at 94 different chemical substances and how they changed E. coli: specifically, how they altered the systems that control what gets into and …