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Therapy On The Go: Mildly Depressed or Simply Stressed, People are Tapping Apps for Mental Health Care
By Lauri Goldkind Your Health

Therapy On The Go: Mildly Depressed or Simply Stressed, People are Tapping Apps for Mental Health Care

It might be surprising to think about browsing for therapists and ordering up mental health care the way you can peruse a menu on Grubhub or summon a car on Lyft. But over the last decade, digital access to therapy has become increasingly common, in some cases replacing the traditional model of in-person weekly sessions […]

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How to Boost Your Attention and Ability to Function with Meditation, Exercise and Sleep
By Colin McCormick Your Health

How to Boost Your Attention and Ability to Function with Meditation, Exercise and Sleep

Whether you’re driving a car with children yelling in the backseat or trying to read a book in a coffee shop while someone talks loudly on their phone, attention is essential for navigating and interacting with the world. However, attention has a limited capacity, meaning we can only process so many things at once. This […]

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Why Stress-Related Illness Is So Hard to Diagnose, and How a Patient-Centered Playful Approach Can Help
By Najmeh Khalili-Mahani Your Health

Why Stress-Related Illness Is So Hard to Diagnose, and How a Patient-Centered Playful Approach Can Help

For at least three decades, researchers have gathered evidence that chronic stress puts pressure on the body to constantly adjust itself to restore physiological stability. This process is known as allostatic load and it creates a cascade of toxic metabolic activities that cause wear and tear on the body. Allostatic load makes people vulnerable to […]

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Social Prescriptions: Why Some Health-Care Practitioners Are Prescribing Food to Their Patients
By Matthew Little, Eleah Stringer, Warren Dodd Your Health

Social Prescriptions: Why Some Health-Care Practitioners Are Prescribing Food to Their Patients

Angela is a 54-year-old mother of two living with Type 2 diabetes in a small apartment in Guelph, Ont. Despite steady access to health care and a physician who encourages regular exercise and healthy eating, Angela’s complications have worsened in recent years. These complications cause mobility challenges, sometimes rendering her unable to leave the house. […]

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Building Healthy Relationship Skills Supports Men’s Mental Health
By John L. Oliffe, Gabriela Gonzalez Montaner, Mary Theresa Kelly Your Health

Building Healthy Relationship Skills Supports Men’s Mental Health

Healthy relationships positively influence men’s well-being. Men who are partnered or married live longer lives than single men, and they have better mental health than women and unpartnered men. Marriage appears to offer a protective influence on men’s health, reducing loneliness, depression and suicidality, and is associated with less substance and alcohol use. Despite these […]

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80% Of All Cancers Are On The Skin: What Happens If I Have One?
By Katie Lee, Erin McMeniman and H. Peter Soyer Your Health

80% Of All Cancers Are On The Skin: What Happens If I Have One?

Two in three Australians will have a skin cancer in their lifetime, nearly all of them basal cell carcinomas (BCC), squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) or melanomas. If the spot removed was more like a sore or lump than a mole, it’s likely your doctor is talking about basal or squamous cell carcinoma, also called keratinocyte […]

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