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Inflammation is a silent saboteur that can wreak havoc on your health and sabotage your weight-loss efforts. Fortunately, there are natural approaches to help you reduce inflammation and drop unwanted pounds. One is adopting a healthy diet centered around anti-inflammatory foods like fruits, vegetables, and legumes. We spoke with Destini Moody, RDN, CSSD, LD, a registered dietitian and sports dietitian with Garage Gym Reviews, who shares her 10 best anti-inflammatory snacks for weight loss. But before we dive into them, let’s chat a little bit more about inflammation. If left unchecked, inflammation can lead to various chronic health conditions, including…

You may need to talk with your doctor about prescription medications or other treatments, such as pelvic floor therapy, biofeedback, or surgery.The occasional bout of constipation happens to everyone at some point. Often the cause is obvious: traveling and being out of your normal routine, eating too much cheese, or possibly both. When in Rome, eh? But when constipation is a regular (no pun intended) occurrence and has no known cause, it’s called chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC).Symptoms of CIC can last for months or longer. You may experience periods of abdominal pain, cramping, bloating, gas, passing hard and lumpy stools,…

Shoveling and digging out after a heavy snowfall can be a good workout for most people; but for those with heart disease, shoveling is best left for others to do. Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, says she encourages exercising, but the combination of cold weather and strenuous exercise puts extra strain on your heart and can trigger a heart attack. Watch: Mayo Clinic Minute Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1:08) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: “Mayo Clinic News Network.” Read the script. Shoveling snow can be a good workout, but it’s not for…

Back pain is the leading cause of work limitations globally; and if you’re a heavy lifter, lack proper posture, or experience regular stress, you may be one of the 50 to 80 percent of adults who will experience at least one episode of back pain in their lifetime. With these eye-opening statistics, what if simply strapping yourself onto a cushioned table and tipping partially upside down could help relieve your dreadful back pain and keep you from missing your workouts? Seem too good to be true? Maybe not. “Inversion tables are beneficial for relieving back and hip pain from issues…

Balanced eating can seem like such an abstract concept — what does balance really mean and look like when it comes to food? While balance will look different for each of us at every meal, there is one important takeaway to understand about finding and maintaining balance, and that’s what I’m sharing in this video. The Spectrum of Eating Habits Imagine a spectrum. On one end of the spectrum, we have the all-in mentality of rigid diets, plans, and food rules that feel restrictive and require you to regulate yourself. This is the place where you eat “super clean” and…

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Each year, more than 11,000 new cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many women often don’t show any signs of cervical cancer in the early stages of the disease. In advanced stages, symptoms may include vaginal bleeding, pelvic pain or pain during intercourse. Dr. Kristina Butler, a Mayo Clinic gynecologic oncologist, explains why preventive screenings are crucial. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (1:05) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: “Mayo Clinic News…

When it comes to making smoothies, there’s a short list of usual suspects that tend to make their way into the blender: alt-milk, protein powder, spinach, berries, bananas. But Will Bulsiewicz, MD, a gastroenterologist and New York Times bestselling author of The Fiber Fueled Cookbook, has a favorite smoothie ingredient for gut health that’s a little more unexpected. This gastroenterologist’s winner-winner ingredient for gut healthy bevs? Broccoli sprouts. You heard that right. “I am utterly obsessed with putting broccoli sprouts in my smoothie—it’s my secret weapon,” Dr. Bulsiewicz says. Although these mighty greens might not sound like the obvious smoothie-making…

For those not fully immersed in social media, our digital version of Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, Reader’s Digest, and the Enquirer, sequential meals or eating refers to a specific sequence in which you eat your food. Since we digest food at different rates, some argue that we should eat all of one type of food before going on to the next. Millions of years of evolution have eliminated the need for “mono-eating.” On the more scientific end of the spectrum lies the idea that by eating the proteins on our plate, meat or fish, before those tasty carbohydrates, vegetables, and…

Flaxseeds have long been a staple in nutrition and wellness. The superfood is packed with omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants, protein, and fiber, and has long been a wellness-world favorite for sprinkling on top of açai bowls or mixing into smoothies. Recently, though, these nutritious little seeds have caught the eye of skin-care aficionados on social media who claim that applying them to your face in mask form can mimic the effects of Botox. On TikTok, #flaxseedfacemask currently has 80 million views and promises to hydrate, smooth, and tighten the skin. But, like all social media skin-care trends, I couldn’t help…

ROCHESTER, Minn. and OREM, Utah — Mayo Clinic Platform, a collaborative ecosystem for healthcare innovation, and Techcyte, a world leader in AI-based digital pathology, are working together to transform the global practice of pathology through the creation of a digital pathology platform.   The digital pathology platform will pioneer and fundamentally reshape the next generation of pathology services with an open, end-to-end, AI driven solution to advance treatments, enhance efficiency and accuracy, and provide worldwide access to industry-leading pathology services. The platform will enable healthcare organizations worldwide to economically digitize their pathology practices and use innovative technical and AI workflow solutions. …