Doha: The Ministry of Culture on Sunday organized a ‘Healthy Life’ workshop on the occasion of National Sport Day to encourage employees to follow healthy diets, engage in various sports activities, and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

The workshop was presented by trainer Khalid Nabina, who described a healthy lifestyle as a set of practices aimed at enhancing the level of individual health and preventing diseases, which leads to elevating the standard of living in general. He pointed out that, to some people, the concept of healthy life is limited to exercising, healthy food, and losing or controlling weight, indicating that

Preventing heart failure and managing diabetes are the potential benefits of a new discovery by University of Guelph researchers.

In a study using mice, the scientists found that nitrate can improve heart health – and the reason why is linked to gut microbes.

“We used sodium nitrate in our study, but nitrate is found in green leafy vegetables like spinach and beets in particular,” said Graham Holloway, a professor in the university’s Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences.

Researchers studied the effects of the nitrate on mice eating a high-fat diet, and found the nutritional compound acts like a

Jeremy Renner makes his first television appearance since his Jan. 1 snowplow accident in Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interviewairing Thursday

Jeremy Renner’s recovery from his Jan. 1 snowplow accident is all about progress.

On Wednesday, the Avengers: Endgame star — whose upcoming interview with Diane Sawyer is set to air Thursday — re-shared a photo on his Instagram Story showing him working with chiropractic sports physician Christopher Vincent as a camera crew looks on.

“This pain, agony, soreness … Ain’t nothing but PROGRESS,” Renner, 52, wrote in a caption over the photo.

Vincent, whose Instagram profile

In a few years, direct flights lasting 20 hours will possibly be a reality. On such occasions, we wonder how we could keep ourselves as healthy and fit as possible on a very long air journey.

The announcement by various airlines that from 2025 they will be able to offer direct flights from Australia to the US and Europe has opened a new debate about how much the human body can withstand in the air – mentally and physically.

In particular, the non-stop flights will last 20 hours and will concern the trips from Sydney to New York and London.

Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones is defending a move to reduce the frequency of eye exams for healthy seniors, saying Monday that changes to funding for optometry services involve “fine tuning” the coverage.

Jones announced Friday that the government had reached a funding agreement with optometrists that increased some payments to them – though she has not detailed those increases – but it also cuts some coverage for patients.

As of Sept. 1,

Millions of people will begin to lose their health insurance on Saturday, as five states began the unwinding of a pandemic-era protection that kept people from being removed from the Medicaid rosters.

During the public health emergency, states were required to keep people on Medicaid without the often yearly reapplication process normally in place. But now that the public health emergency is winding down, so are the Medicaid rolls.

“We’re now in a position within just a couple of days where states can begin to disenroll people — to redo their rosters for Medicaid — and this continuous coverage requirement