This Week In Wellness

This Week In Wellness drinking hot tea may increase your risk of esophageal cancer. A study published in the International Journal of Cancer has shown that drinking tea hotter than 60 degrees Celsius was associated with a whopping 90% higher risk. Previous studies have shown a link between hot tea drinking and risk of esophageal Listen In The post TWIW 21: Hot tea linked to cancer appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness the team of science writers behind Retraction Watch has put together a database of unreliable scientific research in Australia and 247 research papers published by Australian scientists (including some of Australia’s most reputable Universities) to be compromised. “The public should be concerned. Almost 250 [papers], that’s a number that many people Listen In The post TWIW 20: Australian research unreliable appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness a new study reveals children who are habitually barefoot between the ages of 6-10 show significantly better motor skills including better balance and jumping skills. Shout out to Dr Jacey Pryjma from the Australian Children’s Chiropractic centre for bringing this research to my attention. Published in Frontiers in Pediatrics, this is Listen In The post TWIW 19: Barefoot may be better for kids appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness topical collagen powder may be just as effective as sutures for healing skin biopsy wounds according to a study published in the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology by a team of physician researchers at the George Washington University. In a comparison that included rate of healing, the quality of the wound Listen In The post TWIW 18: Collagen as effective as sutures appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness high fructose corn syrup combined with trans fats has been shown to induce nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (advanced inflammatory fatty liver disease) in rodents.  The incidence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is rising rapidly and much of the blame has been laid on fat. However the impact of high fructose corn syrup Listen In The post TWIW 17: Fructose, trans fats and your liver appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Spending time in nature may be enough to help you feel healthier and happier. In what seems like one of the most common sense studies ever a study published in Nature, analysed over 20,000 people in England and their self reported health and wellbeing. It showed that any time in nature leads to benefits, and Listen In The post TWIW 16: Nature Heals appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness a mother’s womb may not be as sterile as we were lead to believe. Researchers from the University of Western Australia have found that the majority of babies are exposed to bacteria in the womb and have even postulated that these bacteria may play an important role in development. Lead author Lisa Listen In The post TWIW 15: The bacteria helping to build your baby appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness research conducted by Dr. Sanjida Halim Topa with colleagues at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has shown that a major component of cinnamon essential oil could be the answer to control the dispersion of superbugs and the development of their biofilm. As antibiotics become less and less effective against superbugs, there Listen In The post TWIW 14: Could cinnamon oil could be the key to preventing super bugs appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness the Australian Chiropractors Association President Dr Anthony Coxon is calling for Australian Chiropractors, health professionals and members of the public to make sure that their views are heard on the topic of Chiropractic care for kids. He encourages them to head to the link attached in the show notes and fill Listen In The post TWIW 13: ACA President calls for public support appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness Australia and New Zealand’s health star food rating system has been criticised by Public health researchers and lawyers from the George Institute for Global Health because salty, sugary and fatty products are scoring too highly as producers are accused of “gaming the system”. With the Institute’s public health lawyer, Alexandra Jones Listen In The post TWIW 12: Food producers “gaming” the health star rating system appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness in validation of mums and dads all over the world, broccoli has been shown to inactivate genes that play an important role in cancer development. It has been known for some time that cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli cauliflower, cabbage, collard greens, Brussels sprouts and kale have decreased the risk of Listen In The post TWIW 11: Broccoli may reduce your cancer risk appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This week in wellness 56 percent of parents of teens with sleep troubles believe this use of electronics is hurting their child’s ability to get to sleep and stay asleep. The C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll (conducted by the Children’s Health Department at the University of Michigan) took responses from a nationally representative household survey Listen In The post TWIW 10: Screen time hurts teens sleep and health appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This week in wellness an integrative approach may help to decrease the pain and usage in prescription opioid users. With the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) stating that the number of deaths in Australia involving opioids has nearly doubled in the decade to 2016, from 591 to 1119 and AIHW spokesperson Dr Lynelle Listen In The post TWIW 9: An integrative approach may help reduce the Opioid crisis appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This week in wellness alcohol advertisers are attempting to put a “health halo” on their products in order to attract increasingly health conscious consumers whilst Instagram influencers have also been used in quote, unquote “underhanded” alcohol marketing as researchers call for greater regulation. Research at Curtin University and published in Public Health Research and Practice Listen In The post TWIW 8: Alcohol advertisers aiming for ‘health halo effect’ appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This week in wellness a study presented at EuroPrevent 2019 showed that those in the lowest quartile of muscle power had a massive 10-13 times higher chance of dying compared to those above the median for maximum muscle-power. The study looked at non-athletes between 41 and 85 years of age and used an upright row test Listen In The post TWIW 7: Increasing your muscle power may prolong your life appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This week in wellness a study, published recently in Circulation, estimates that the US FDA’s added sugar label could prevent or postpone nearly 1 million cases of cardiometabolic disease, including heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, over a 20-year period in the US alone. In 2016, the FDA announced several mandatory changes to the Listen In The post TWIW 6: Sugar labels may save millions appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This week in wellness just days after the removal of health fund rebates for natural therapies came into effect on 1 April, Greg Hunt MP has announced $2 million for updated natural therapy reviews to re-examine which therapies should once again be eligible for Subsidy through the Private Health Insurance rebate. The review update will Listen In The post TWIW 5: A back flip on natural therapies? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

The Medical Board of Australia is consulting on options to regulate medical practitioners who provide complementary and unconventional medicine and emerging treatments. They claim the draft guidelines aim to prevent harm that may occur directly from the complementary and unconventional medicine or emerging treatments or indirectly, from delays in accessing other treatments. The consultation has Listen In The post TWIW 4: Proposed restrictions on integrative medicine appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness a federal jury in San Francisco has found that Glyphosate, and in particular Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup, was a substantial factor in causing Edwin Hardeman’s Non-Hodkins Lymphoma ( a cancer that affects the immune system). Jurors in the case awarded Mt Hardeman 80 Million dollars in damages amid accusations that they hid the carcinogenic Listen In The post TWIW 3: Monsanto sued for $80 Million appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness eggs have been once again associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death. A study released this week by the Journal of The American Medical Association combining the findings from 6 prospective cohort studies and almost 30,000 people from diverse backgrounds stated that each additional half egg consumed per day Listen In The post TWIW 2: Eggs Associated with Heart Disease and Death appeared first on The Wellness Couch.