How many hours we should sleep

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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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Omicron BA.4 has reached Austria

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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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4,098 new infections: Lowest level in four months

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From Sunday to Monday, 4,098 new infections were registered in Austria. This is below the average of 5,719 over the past seven days and is the lowest level of new cases in four months. Fewer new infections were last reported on January 3, with 3,319 new cases. Currently, 75,108 people in Austria are actively infected with the coronavirus. The seven-day incidence is 449.77, with 66,867 new PCR tests performed in the past 24 hours. This results in a positive rate of 3.78 percent. There are also nine new deaths associated…

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Is brown sugar healthier than white sugar?

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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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Vienna’s amusement park: Monday is cheaper in Prater

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The new Prater season brings a new promotion for members of the City of Vienna’s Vorteilsclub. On “Prater Monday,” discounts will be offered at 40 businesses in Vienna’s amusement park. New Prater highlights Good news for all those who like to make the Vienna Prater unsafe: Every Monday, excluding public vacations or vacations, there will be discounts and promotions at the more than 40 participating Prater businesses in the future with the Vorteilsclub card. With the Vorteilsclub card: These discounts await you on Mondays in the Prater Double the fun…

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The first week of May is unstable and quite chilly

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Single-digit early temperatures, frequent rain showers, and only rare sunshine await us in the new week, according to the ZAMG forecast. We have the weather forecast in detail. The somewhat unsettled and only moderately temperate weather continues in the first week of May. On Monday, the sun will shine intermittently in the west and partly in the north until the morning. Then, spring clouds will form, followed by some rain showers. In the rest of Austria, many clouds and a few rain showers will persist at first. There will be…

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Omicron mutation gives South Africa a new corona wave

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Earlier than expected, South Africa is now facing a new wave of the corona. The country’s low vaccination rate is also to blame. South Africa is on the cusp of a new wave of Corona infections, according to Health Minister Joe Phaahla. “Whichever way you look at it, it suggests that we may be entering the fifth wave much earlier,” Phaahla said Friday at a televised news conference. According to the Secretary, the number of new Corona infections and hospitalizations had spiked in the past two weeks. New cases were…

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Long Covid related to virus remnants

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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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Among 4,500 new infections in Austria

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Five new deaths were linked to Covid 19 infection. From Saturday to Sunday, 4,363 new infections were registered in Austria. This is below the average of 5,721 infections over the past seven days. The 7-day incidence is currently 449.91. Currently, 77,269 people are actively infected. In the past 24 hours, 78,990 PCR tests have been performed. This results in a positive rate of 5.52 percent. In addition, five new deaths have been reported. Thus, the pandemic has claimed 18,161 lives so far. source: sozialministerium.at

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