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11/08 newsletter - A pregnant teenager died after trying to get care in three visits to Texas emergency rooms
Exercise in a pill: have scientists really found a drug that’s as good for you as a 10km run?
American Health
November 08, 2024
Health News Roundup
A pregnant teenager died after trying to get care in three visits to Texas emergency rooms: Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023. Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs. Feverish and vomiting the day of her baby shower, the 18-year-old had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours, returning home each time worse than before.
Exercise in a pill: have scientists really found a drug that’s as good for you as a 10km run?: an a pill really mimic all the beneficial effects of exercise? You’d think so from some of the stories about substances that “could make going to the gym unnecessary”. There was another rash of these a few weeks ago, when researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark announced that a drug called LaKe “brings the body into a metabolic state corresponding to running 10km at high speed on an empty stomach”. But what’s going on here? Even if a pill can replicate parts of what exercise does for us, how useful is that, really?
Nutrition Corner
Latin America's rice and beans dishes provide more than deliciousness: "Rice and beans" sounds like the very definition of simplicity. But take a look across Latin America and the Caribbean, and you'll find it's a dish – or rather, dishes – as diverse as the region itself. In Puerto Rico, you'll find arroz con gandules – rice with pigeon peas and flavored with peppery achiote oil. In Jamaica, "rice and peas" describes a dish often made with peppers and red kidney beans.
Could eating a handful of pistachios daily help improve eye health?: Eating a handful of pistachio nuts each day can significantly improve eye health, according to a new study from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Adding two ounces of unsalted, shelled, dry-roasted pistachio nuts each day for 12 weeks to participants’ usual diet improved their macular pigment optical density (MPOD).
Recipe for The Day
Chicken fried steak is a Southern comfort food classic made with cube steak that’s been breaded and fried like fried chicken and served with a creamy country gravy. Chicken fried steak is also a budget-friendly dish that uses inexpensive cube steak, and it’s versatile enough to serve for dinner with homey sides or breakfast or brunch with biscuits and eggs. Ree Drummond loves to serve this cowboy-friendly, dish to her family alongside mashed potatoes for a hearty comfort food meal. In her easy chicken fried steak recipe, Ree shares her top tips for breading and frying like a pro, the key technique for making a flavorful, creamy white gravy and why you must serve chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes.
Lifestyle & Fitness Focus
30 minute Full Body HIIT & STRENGTH | NO REPEAT & NO EQUIPMENT
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