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Bad news, booze and beef lovers.The American Cancer Society has updated its diet and physical activity recommendations to help prevent cancer — and the new guidelines released on Tuesday discourage consuming red meat, processed food, sugar-sweetened drinks — and all alcohol. The combination of these risk factors (as well as being physically inactive) accounted for…

ADAM KLECZKOWSKI, THE CONVERSATION 2 JUNE 2020 As the new coronavirus was rapidly spreading in February and March 2020, many governments introduced stringent lockdown measures. Through a massive public effort, these countries have been successful at slowing the pandemic. Combining various public health approaches, countries such as Slovenia and New Zealand have eradicated the virus…

First things first, all vegetables are healthy for you, and we would never want you to eliminate a certain vegetable (or any food for that matter) just because it might be ever so slightly higher in carbs than another. Vegetables are chock-full of essential vitamins and minerals, and pretty much every single nutritionist we've ever…

The fragmented U.S. health care system has hampered efforts to expand coronavirus testing, by making it difficult for hospitals to switch to new labs with ample capacity.Fyodor Urnov, a scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, oversaw a massive effort to begin testing for the coronavirus, but then found that many hospitals didn’t want the…

New York|These N.Y.C. Neighborhoods Have the Highest Rates of Virus DeathsRace and income are the key factors that decide who dies from Covid-19 and who survives, city data shows.The ZIP code that includes Spring Creek Towers, a subsidized housing development in Brooklyn better known as Starrett City, had the highest death rate from the coronavirus…