This Week In Wellness

This Week In Wellness a systematic review examining the replacement of glucose and sucrose with fructose in foods and drinks has failed to show the harmful effects of Fructose previously suggested and may even suggest some benefit to fructose consumption.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2021.647600/full

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This Week In Wellness a landmark Adelaide Uni study has shown that meat consumption leads to increased life expectancy despite what they describe as “research that has thrown a negative spotlight on meat consumption in the human diet,”

https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2022/02/22/meat-eating-extends-human-life-expectancy-worldwide

https://www.dovepress.com/total-meat-intake-is-associated-with-life-expectancy-a-cross-sectional-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-IJGM

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This Week In Wellness as Israel deals with it’s 5th wave of Corona virus despite some of the highest vaccination and booster rates in the world a new study on Vitamin D supplementation in that country is showing a lot of promise.

Described as “some of the most convincing evidence to date” Researchers from Bar Ilan University and the Galilee Medical Center have gone as far as to say that they can predict how people would fare if infected based on nothing more than their ages and vitamin D levels.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-study-offers-strongest-proof-yet-of-vitamin-ds-power-to-fight-covid/

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263069

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20955219/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/1-in-4-hospitalized-covid-patients-who-lack-vitamin-d-die-israeli-study/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/israel/

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This Week In Wellness economists from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics have conducted a meta-analysis of the impact of Covid-19 lockdowns on mortality and concluded that they had “little to no effect” on saving lives.

Their analysis of the data concluded that lockdowns across Europe and the USA had “reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average” with some of the studies actually showing an increased mortality.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/02/covid-lockdowns-had-very-little-effect-on-mortality-rate-study/

https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf

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This Week In Wellness a 3 day wellness festival incorporating over 60 events is coming to the Adelaide Hills this April as part of their bushfire recovery efforts funded by the Federal Government.

Martin Radcliffe, Chair of Adelaide Hills Tourism Board said that it was fitting that the Adelaide Hills was the first region in Australia to be home to the inaugural Wellness Wander event.

https://wellnesswander.com.au

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This Week In Wellness musician Neil Young has told music and podcasting platform Spotify that “They can have Rogan or Young. Not both,” referring to Joe Rogan, one of the most popular podcasters in the world. Spotify in turn responded by removing all of Young’s music backing in the top-rated podcaster to whom they have exclusive rights.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-28/who-backs-neil-youngs-spotify-covid-stance/100787132

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This Week In Wellness saliva sharing amongst family members helps children discern who they can trust and turn to in times of stress.

A 2022 study published in the journal Science showed that exposure to family member spit (or saliva sharing) plays a crucial role in how we define our relationships and it starts from the first few months of life.

https://www.statnews.com/2022/01/20/saliva-sharing-babies-closest-relationships/

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh1054

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This Week In Wellness research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology has shown that a cup of tea can contain up to 60 disinfection byproducts (DBP’s) including some with unknown health side effects.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210915085847.htm

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c03419

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This Week In Wellness getting enough DHA during pregnancy may help prevent maternal stress on unborn male fetuses, leading to a reduction in the development of neurodegenerative disorders like autism and schizophrenia.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210324113405.htm

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This Week In Wellness acute Vitamin D3 supplementation was shown to almost halve the risk of being hospitalized for more than 8 days in COVID cases with comorbidities compared to cases without comorbidities who did not supplement and decreased the mortality rate by over 2 times.

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