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  Nighttime pistachio snacking may reshape gut microbiome in prediabetic adults by Jose Calatrava 7/7/25 Pennstate
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Evidence Shows ACA’s Mandated Benefits Alone Don’t Drive Up Costs. The Debate Continues.

| Julie Appleby and Sarah Boden | KFF Health News | 3/18/26

This article argues that preventive care such as cancer screenings and lab tests can save money by catching illness earlier, when treatment is more effective and less costly.

It’s Not Just Vaccines — Parents Are Refusing Other Routine Preventive Care for Newborns

| AP News | AP News | 3/21/26

AP reports that some parents are declining vitamin K shots, hepatitis B vaccination, and erythromycin eye ointment for newborns, despite these long-standing preventive measures protecting against bleeding, infection, and blindness.

How Does Your State Compare on Cancer Prevention & Screening?

| Sandy McDowell | American Cancer Society | 2/10/26

This piece looks at prevention practices including smoking reduction, HPV vaccination, healthy weight, physical activity, and recommended cancer screening, and compares how well states support them.

Trump Team’s Planned ACA Rule Offers Its Answer to Rising Premium Costs: Catastrophic Coverage

| Julie Appleby | KFF Health News | 2/13/26

The article discusses how insurance design affects access to preventive care and explains why even limited coverage can matter if it preserves screenings and other basic preventive services.

Some Pediatricians Are Already Seeing Negative Effects of Changing Vaccine Recommendations

| Dr. Jade Cobern | ABC News | 1/7/26

ABC covers the preventive role of childhood vaccination and reports that pediatricians are concerned reduced vaccine recommendations will weaken one of the most established forms of preventive care.

The New Blood Pressure Guidelines: What You Need to Know

| Julie Corliss | Harvard Health | 12/1/25

This explainer outlines updated blood pressure guidance and emphasizes early treatment plus sustained lifestyle change to prevent heart disease and preserve brain health.

What Is CKM Syndrome, and Why Should Young Adults Pay Attention?

| American Heart Association News | American Heart Association | 12/1/25

The article explains preventive practices for cardiokidneymetabolic health, including healthy diet, regular exercise, weight management, avoiding smoking, regular checkups, and knowing your numbers.

The Heartfelt Effects of Exercise

| Julie Corliss | Harvard Health | 11/1/25

Harvard Health summarizes evidence that regular physical activity is one of the strongest preventive tools for lowering cardiovascular risk and extending life.

American Cancer Society Guideline for Diet and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention

| American Cancer Society | American Cancer Society | 10/20/25

This guideline article lays out prevention practices for cancer risk reduction, including fruit and vegetable intake, whole grains, fiber-rich foods, weight control, and regular physical activity.

Yoga Isn’t Just for Flexibility. It May Also Protect Brain Health.

| American Heart Association News | American Heart Association | 9/9/25

This piece reviews evidence that yoga may support preventive brain health by improving stress regulation, supporting cognition, and helping reduce decline with aging.

How Can We Prevent Heart Disease?

| Author not clearly exposed in tool | Cleveland Clinic | recent page, exact publish date not clearly exposed in tool

Cleveland Clinic outlines practical prevention steps such as Mediterranean or DASH-style eating, exercise, smoking cessation, stress reduction, and management of blood sugar and cholesterol.

6 Ways To Improve Your Brain Health

| Author not clearly exposed in tool | Cleveland Clinic | recent page, exact publish date not clearly exposed in tool

This explainer presents preventive brain-health habits including movement, sleep, social connection, mental stimulation, good nutrition, and management of overall health risks.

Can You Prevent a Heart Attack?

| Author not clearly exposed in tool | Cleveland Clinic | recent page, exact publish date not clearly exposed in tool

The article emphasizes prevention through health screenings, blood pressure and cholesterol control, exercise, diet, quitting smoking, managing stress, and getting adequate sleep.

Flossing May Reduce Risk for Stroke and Irregular Heart Rhythm

| Laura Williamson | American Heart Association News | 1/30/25

This article connects oral hygiene to prevention, reporting research suggesting that regular flossing may help reduce risk of some strokes and atrial fibrillation.

What Is Healthspan, and How Can You Maximize Yours?

| American Heart Association News | American Heart Association | 1/14/25

The piece frames preventive care as a long-term strategy built around not smoking, staying active, sleeping well, eating a healthy diet, and controlling blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar.

How To Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer

| Cleveland Clinic | Cleveland Clinic | 3/17/26

This article explains that while genetics and age cannot be changed, lifestyle habits and regular screening can help reduce overall breast cancer risk.

A Blood Test That Checks for Dozens of Different Cancers?

| Harvard Health staff page lists title and date; author not clearly exposed in search snippet | Harvard Health | 11/10/25

Harvard Health explains the promise and limits of multi-cancer early detection blood tests and places them in the broader context of preventive screening and early detection.

Salad chain Sweetgreen is caving to conspiracy theories about seed oils. Why?

by Aimee Levitt 21/1/25 The Guardian

It’s January, season of resolutions and virtue, when Americans collectively decide to throw out the butter and sugar and booze and embrace grain bowls and bone broth. Most of these resolutions – 80%, according to some studies – will fade by February, Super Bowl Sunday at the latest, so advertisers pushing dietary health trends have to strike fast.

'Harmless' virus might trigger Parkinson's disease, researchers say

by Dennis Thompson 9/7/25 Medical x press

"HPgV is a common, symptomless infection previously not known to frequently infect the brain," lead researcher Dr. Igor Koralnik, chief of neuroinfectious diseases and global neurology at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, said in a news release. "We were surprised to find it in the brains of Parkinson's patients at such high frequency and not in the controls."

Kennedy touts ultra-processed meals he once called ‘poison’

by Jessica Glenza 9/7/25 The Guardian

The US health secretary appeared at an enormous food plant in Oklahoma for a company called Mom’s Meals, which makes 1.5m “medically tailored” meals each week and ships them all over the country.

Ready to cold plunge? We dive into the science to see if it's worth it

by Will Stone 20/11/23 npr

Your body's first reaction to a plunge in chilly water is the "cold shock" response. Your heart rate jumps. Stress hormones spike. You gasp suddenly, and may hyperventilate.

Nighttime pistachio snacking may reshape gut microbiome in prediabetic adults

by Jose Calatrava 7/7/25 Pennstate

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Prediabetes affects a third of people in the United States and most of them will develop Type 2 diabetes, yet effective dietary intervention strategies remain limited. Pistachios have shown promise in improving markers of diet quality, yet little is known about how they influence the gut microbiome — a key player in glucose regulation and inflammation.

Why Evangelicals Turned Their Back on PEPFAR

by Peter Wehner 6/7/25 The Atlantic

In parts of Botswana, 75 percent of pregnant women had HIV. Most diseases kill the very old and the very young, “but this disease was killing the most productive and reproductive parts of society,” Dybul recalled in 2018. “So not only were many households run by orphans, but entire villages were run by orphans, because everyone else was dead.”

Should I worry about ticks?

by Joel Snape 16/7/23 The Guardian

As arachnid superorders go, ticks are pretty evolutionarily successful. They’ve been around for at least 100 million years in one variety or another, with their main party trick – hanging around until they can latch a host to feed on – working on thousands of different animals across almost endless environments. But how concerned should you be about them in the UK? You won’t miss the blood they take, but they can cause a variety of unpleasant conditions in their hosts – and there’s some evidence that their population is growing.

Children need the freedom to play on driveways and streets again – here’s how to make it happen

by Debbie Watson 4/6/25 THE CONVERSATION

In many cases, children don’t have easy access to purpose-built spaces like playgrounds. They need adults to get them there. Without the use of more informal spaces to spend time with other children, this means they often lack daily opportunities for play.

Wearables Aren't Going to 'Make America Healthy Again'

by Beth Skwarecki 1/7/25 LIFEHACKER

Health and fitness wearables can do many things, but they really can’t do much to make people healthier—no matter what U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., says in front of Congress. 

5 ways Trump's megabill will limit health care access

by Phil Galewitz 3/7/25 npr

The bill, passed in both the House and the Senate without a single Democratic vote, is expected to reverse many of the health coverage gains of the Biden and Obama administrations. Their policies made it easier for millions of people to access health care and reduced the U.S. uninsured rate to record lows, though Republicans say the trade-off was far higher costs borne by taxpayers and increased fraud.

Why Texas Republicans still oppose Medicaid expansion

by Kim Krisberg and David Leffler 7/11/22 THE TEXAS TRIBUNE

Eighteen percent of Texans don’t have health insurance — the highest rate in the nation — and Johnson had already filed five pieces of legislation that session to use Medicaid expansion to get as many as 1.2 million of those people insured.

New polymer-coated vitamins and minerals

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/new-polymer-coated-vitamins-and-minerals-could-fight-malnutrition-low-income-countries Science Mag 11/13/19

Frustrated by such failures, health policy experts at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, sought the help of Jaklenec and her supervisor, Robert Langer, an MIT chemical engineer who has pioneered numerous dissolvable coatings for protecting and delivering fragile medicines.

Jaklenec, Langer, and their colleagues initially considered more than 50 different polymer coatings that were stable in boiling water but would dissolve in the stomach’s acidic environment. After narrowing the list to 10 candidates and studying each closely, they settled on a polymer known as BMC. A protective coating in dietary supplements, BMC is already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (and therefore considered safe). The MIT team coated 11 micronutrient powders in BMC, including iron, zinc, folate, vitamin A, and vitamin D. They also coated microparticles containing up to four different vitamins and minerals. Lab testing showed that all stood up well to heat, ultraviolet light, and even 2 hours straight of being cooked in boiling water. The particles also readily dissolved in a low pH solution meant to mimic stomach acid.

U.S. life expectancy plunged in 2020, with Black Americans acutely affected.

NY Times 2-18-2021

Thursday’s figures give the first full picture of the pandemic’s effect on American expected life spans, which dropped to 77.8 years from 78.8 years in 2019. It also showed a deepening of racial and ethnic disparities: Life expectancy of the Black population declined by 2.7 years in the first half of 2020, after 20 years of gains. The gap between Black and white Americans, which had been narrowing, is now at six years, the widest since 1998.
Still, unlike the drop caused by the extended, complex problem of drug overdoses, this one, driven largely by Covid-19, is not likely to last as long because virus deaths are easing and people are being vaccinated. In 1918, when hundreds of thousands of Americans died in the flu pandemic, life expectancy declined 11.8 years from the previous year, Dr. Arias said, down to 39. Numbers fully rebounded the following year.

Health Check: why swimming in the sea is good for you

https://theconversation.com/health-check-why-swimming-in-the-sea-is-good-for-you-68583 the Conversation December 25, 2016 3.41pm EST

Historically, doctors would recommend their patients go to the seaside to improve various ills. They would actually issue prescriptions detailing exactly how long, how often and under what conditions their patients were to be in the water.

Using seawater for medical purposes even has a name: thalassotherapy.

To this day, healing and spa resorts by the seaside abound. They are thought of as places where people can not only let go of their troubles but, in some cases, even cure arthritis.

Little-known nutrient can boost your brain and fight cancer

by Jordan Joseph 26/6/25 earth.com

The work centers on queuosine, a vitamin‑like micronutrient we must borrow from food or friendly gut bacteria.

Scientists Just Discovered a Surprising Benefit of Turmeric

by Lauren Manaker 24/6/25 NEW STUDY

A new review of studies found that turmeric may help improve blood pressure, cholesterol and more. Older people without dementia experienced better cognitive health while taking turmeric. 

Some ultra-processed foods are good for your health, WHO-backed study finds

by Denis Campbell 13/11/23 The Guardian

Some ultra-processed foods increase the risk of developing cancer, heart disease and diabetes – but others are good for you, new research into the demonised foodstuffs suggests.

Can multivitamins improve memory?

by Allison Aubrey 26/5/23 npr

A team of researchers wanted to assess how a daily multivitamin may influence cognitive aging and memory. They tracked about 3,500 older adults who were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial. One group of participants took a placebo, and another group took a Silver Centrum multivitamin, for three years. The participants also took tests, administered online, to evaluate memory.

Just add sugar: Research shows common antioxidant can be more beneficial through glycosylation

by Sydney Dahle 14/6/23 PHYS ORG

Polyphenols are a class of compounds found in many plant-based foods. Polyphenols help prevent cellular damage in the body and can help to prevent diseases such as cancer or heart disease. However, many of them do not dissolve in water, making it difficult to fully take advantage of their health benefits.

RFK Jr.’s made promises about vaccines. Here’s what he’s done as health secretary

by Associated Press 30/6/25 National Politics

During his Senate confirmation hearings, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested he wouldn’t undermine vaccines.

Here is how we know that vaccines do not cause autism

by Matthew Herper 3/2/25 STAT

Vaccines do not cause autism. You’ve almost certainly read that before — probably hundreds of times. But many people do not believe it, perhaps because too often it is repeated without a real explanation of how we know that.

Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished

by Taiwo Adebayo 15/5/25 AP

For years, the United States Agency for International Development had been the backbone of the humanitarian response in northeastern Nigeria, helping non-government organizations provide food, shelter and healthcare to millions of people. But this year, the Trump administration cut more than 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall assistance around the world.

30-Min ‘Japanese Walking’ Trend Goes Viral As Expert Says It Beats 10,000 Steps

by Renan Duarte 14/6/25 AOL

The fix-all “10,000 steps per day” method credited with longevity and healthy aging has been bettered by a surprisingly easier fitness hack.

Yoga teachers 'risking serious hip problems'

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50181155BBC News 11/03/2019

Mr Matthews says the amount of yoga teachers do, as well as the fact they might not be doing any other kind of exercise, can explain the problems that develop......."They might be doing yoga six days a week and think that's enough, without doing any other kind of exercise, like cardio or cross training," he says...."It's like anything. If you do the same thing again and again, there can be problems. You need to mix it up in terms of the kind of exercise you do.