Sunday Duo: The Top Two from the Wellness-verse this week are:
Here are the two “Bests” of what I’ve read/watched/heard this week in the field of wellness, to help you stop surviving and start thriving.
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1. Alcohol Deaths on the Rise, Especially for Women:
(Or the less catchy title of the study: “Using Death Certificates to Explore Changes in Alcohol‐Related Mortality in the United States, 1999 to 2017”)
Over the last two decades, alcohol consumption, alcohol‐related emergency department visits, and hospitalizations have all increased, especially among women and those middle-aged and older, according to the researchers who wanted to study whether this rise also meant a rise in a alcohol-related deaths.
It did.
The alcohol-related death rate rose to 51 percent in the time studied, accounting for population growth. The death rate among women, specifically, rose 85 percent. Read that again!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acer.14239
(Related: Alcohol poisoning kills 6 Americans a day, according to CDC findings published in 2015)
(Related: Get the facts. How much is a serving, how much should you be drinking, and more.
2. The Game Changers — Debunked.
The “documentary’ Game Changers is being debunked by many in the nutrition science world. Here is one from Layne Norton and Holly Baxter, who each have many legs to stand in this space).
In the video, they lay out the scientific literature and processes to help you separate the film’s “facts” from actual fact. Links to the studies and a full write-up are in their show notes.
“Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy”
– Unknown