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Exercise Much More Effective Than Medicines or Counseling for Managing Depression

A new study by University of South Australia researchers reveals that exercise is 1.5 times more effective than counseling or leading medications in managing depression. The study, which is the most comprehensive to date, encompassed 97 reviews, 1039 trials, and 128,119 participants, and shows that physical activity is highly beneficial for improving symptoms of depression,…

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Drug-resistant stomach bug spreading across US: CDC alert

Drug-resistant stomach bug spreading across US: CDC alert

Health By Rob Bailey-Millado February 27, 2023 | 9:21am The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a “serious public health alert,” warning of a nationwide spike in “extensively drug-resistant” shigellosis. The highly contagious bacterial infection attacks the intestines and causes inflammatory, sometimes bloody diarrhea, according to the CDC’s “emergency and preparedness response.” There are…

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How Perimenopause Affects Your Mental Health

How Perimenopause Affects Your Mental Health

If your mood fluctuations feel less like your usual stress and anxiety and more like the beginnings of a villain origin story (and you’re also experiencing symptoms like insomnia and feeling warmer than usual), it could be the beginning stages of perimenopause. This is what doctors call the transition to menopause, which is the end…

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Master divergent and convergent thinking

Master divergent and convergent thinking

Author Tiago Forte believes that in today’s digital age, people need a second brain to manage their knowledge. In other words, we need a personal system for collecting, organizing, and retrieving information from both physical and digital environments. Although many people spend hours of their day on digital knowledge work, most are not getting better…

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Bilinguals are less sensitive to mood changes in their second language

Bilinguals are less sensitive to mood changes in their second language

Does the language we speak shape how we see and experience the world? According to linguistic determinism, differences between languages influence how we think, and new research suggests that these differences also influence what we feel. The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, shows that emotional words evoke a smaller physiological response in bilinguals’…

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