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Health News : Having diabetics increases your risk of certain eye complications that can cause vision loss. This isn’t something to be scared of, but it is something to be aware of. An annual dilated eye exam can catch signs of disease early to preserve your vision. In fact, a full 90% of diabetes-related blindness can be prevented through early detection and treatment. What to Expect from an Annual Dilated Eye Exam If you’ve had an eye exam in the past, some parts of the annual dilated exam will be familiar to you. Other parts may be new, but don’t worry. They aren’t painful or usually even uncomfortable. A typical annual dilated eye exam includes: An eye chart test to determine your ability to see at different distances An “air poof” test to check the pressure inside your eyes Pupil dilation through drops in your eyes that help your ophthalmologist examine your retina and optic nerve, which connects the eye to the brain Optical coherence tomography (OCT) to cap...

Health News : Burgers, fries, pizza and high energy drinks impact testicular function in young men, new research suggests. Specifically, the sperm counts for men who typically eat “Western” meals of high fat foods were 25.6 million lower, on average, than the counts of men noshing on fish, chicken, fruits, vegetables and other more “prudent” foods, a new Harvard study found. Sperm is the male reproductive cell. A man is considered to have a low sperm count if he has fewer than 15 million sperm per milliliter or less than 39 million sperm per ejaculation. A low sperm count can negatively impact a man’s ability to get a partner pregnant. Declining sperm counts in Western nations “Sperm count has been declining in the Western countries over the past few decades,” wrote the researchers in a presentation of their results at the 2019 annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Vienna on Tuesday. By one recent calculation, sperm counts of ...

Health News : Seeking to “curb the epidemic of youth vaping,” San Francisco officials voted on Tuesday to effectively ban the sale of e-cigarette — becoming the first US city to do so and thrusting the coastal tech hub into a fierce debate over the future of smoking. Advocates of the ban say the city must act where federal regulators have not, protecting teens and prohibiting the sale of untested products until they undergo FDA review. Opponents say the new law leaves cigarettes — known to cause cancer and heart disease — as the only practical option for those addicted to nicotine. But will the strict new policy make San Francisco healthier? It depends on which public health experts you ask. E-cigarettes are popular with smokers trying to kick the habit, as they satisfy the urge for nicotine while removing exposure to the tar and toxins of burned tobacco, but many worry they’re creating new addictions to nicotine — particularly among young people. Influential gro...

Health News : Smoking is bad for your heart, especially if you are a young woman. Women under 50 who smoke may face the highest risk of a serious type of heart attack compared to men, according to a new study published Monday in the the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Every 40 seconds someone in the United States has a heart attack, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Heart disease is already the top killer of women and men, and smoking, which is a strong risk factor for heart disease, is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. This is one of the first studies to quantify just how bad smoking is for the hearts of women compared to men, particularly among patients who had what’s known as acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI, a serious type of heart attack. STEMI is when one of the heart’s major arteries, the one that supplies oxygen and blood to the heart, is blocked. It’s one of the mos...

Health News : It might seem counterintuitive, but generally speaking, skinny people don’t have faster metabolisms than people who weigh more. In fact, the bigger your body, the more calories you burn. Basal (or resting) metabolism refers to the total number of calories all the cells in the body need to stay alive and functioning. “Your resting metabolic rate is typically described as the total number of calories your body needs while at rest. This is made up of basic functions like supporting your vital organs, muscle and fat tissue and the energy that is required to break down food we eat,” said Martin Binks, director of the Nutrition & Metabolic Health Initiative at Texas Tech University. “Your total calorie requirement includes these plus what’s needed to move around,” he added. “Therefore, by nature of having more mass, a larger person burns more calories.” Melissa Majumdar, registered dietitian, personal trainer and senior bariatric dietitian at Brigham and Women...