Category: Feature Stories

Seven hours of sleep at night is the ideal amount of sleep for middle-aged and older adults. That’s what U.S. and Chinese scientists report in the journal Nature Aging. The study concludes that significantly more or less sleep is associated with poor mental health and poorer mental performance. Good sleep is all the more critical, especially for older people. Specifically, scientists from the Universities of Cambridge and Fudan examined data from nearly 500,000 adults between the ages of 38 and 73, collected in the “UK Biobank,” a comprehensive British database.…

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Austria is probably the first European country to have had a significant transmission of BA.4. At the latest, another Corona wave will sweep over Austria and Europe in autumn. Experts, physicians, and virologists agree on this. Austria will be prepared, as Health Minister Johannes Rauch has repeatedly stated – most recently via Twitter. He said preparations were already underway for the fall and that various scenarios were being played out, depending on which variant of the virus would prevail. The strategy of the Minister of Health is briefly summarized: Testing,…

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Brown sugar gives many people the impression of being healthier. And is brown sugar the healthier alternative to white sugar? Or is cane sugar healthier? Sugar is the new fat. Few foods are as discredited as the sweet sin. It’s said to make you fat, sick, and addicted. Unfortunately, many foods, such as cakes, chocolate, or jam, taste so good precisely because of sugar because the sweetness is an essential flavor carrier, just like fat. White sugar is the most commonly used in recipes and for sweetening. The difference is…

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Sixty-five percent of patients with residual virus in the clinical trial had long-covid symptoms. Long-covid symptoms appear to be related to the presence of viral components. This concludes a clinical study of patients with chronic intestinal diseases led by Herbert Tilg, Director of Internal Medicine I at Innsbruck University Hospital. “The fact that viral remnants correlate with long-covid symptoms has never been shown humanely before,” Tilg said in an APA interview. Specifically, 46 patients with inflammatory bowel disease were also examined for corona in gastrointestinal endoscopy, described by the renowned…

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While some people have not even been infected after two years of the Corona pandemic, others have tested positive for the second time. What’s the reason? The Omikron wave is rolling across the country with full force. Several thousand people are infected with the coronavirus every day, even for the second time. But why is this happening? And most importantly, how quickly can you be re-infected after overcoming an illness? After surviving Corona infection: That’s why some people are infected twice First, the most critical question in advance: can you…

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British researchers suspect that some people are immune to Corona. The reason for this could be specific T-cells. Are there people who can’t become infected with Corona? Since the pandemic began in late 2019, scientists worldwide have been looking at the question of possible Corona immunity. A British study provides exciting clues. Corona study: who is immune to the virus? In the winter of 2021, researchers led by Mariana O. Diniz of University College London made an interesting observation: 58 hospital employees at exceptionally high risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection did…

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We sleep in our bedding every night, but do you know how often you should change the comforter cover? A lot more often than most do… Quite a few people change their bedding only every three to four weeks. Fatal! The common house dust mite feels very comfortable in our bed’s warm and humid climate. The sweat and skin flakes in the bed linen also provide an ideal breeding ground for bacteria. So we share our bed with billions of mites that disturb our sleep… Regular change of bed linen…

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According to a study, the most common way to become infected with corona is through conversation – mouth masks reduce the risk eightfold. You’re mistaken if you think coronaviruses spread most through sneezing or coughing. As a new study shows, interpersonal conversations are the “dominant” form of coronavirus transmission. What can help against it? First and foremost, mouth masks, because as the scientists found out, they can reduce the risk of infection by a factor of eight – as long as everyone involved wears a mask. The study results were…

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How healthy is soybean? Isoflavones resemble the female sex hormone estrogen and are found in soybeans. Processing them into tofu significantly lowers their levels. Soya-based foods are considered a healthy alternative to meat and milk. At the same time, the protein supplier is said to have other, not always only favorable properties. What about the actual influence on the thyroid gland or an alleged hormonal effect? It is impossible to imagine vegetarian and vegan cuisine without soya, whether in its original form or processed into tofu and soya milk. For…

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