SUBJ: 12 Foods That Could Help You Lose Weight

SUBtitle: obesity and inflammation are associated with a decline in cognitive function.

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SHORT NOTES:

12 Foods That Could Help You Lose Weight: apples, asparagus, avocadoes…

Higher obesity, and dietary inflammatory index scores are associated with a decline in cognitive function.

Learn to love sleep, the best medicine for your brain.

Eat more olive oil, avocadoes, nuts, salmon, anchovies; reduce butter, corn/sunflower/soybean oils.

More than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses, as many as from diabetes.

How to avoid ghosthackers when you die.

Collegiate swimmers exhibited poor sleep patterns during pre-competition preparation.

Structured digital data makes sleep medicine an ideal candidate for articial intelligence.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is more prevalent among Autistic individuals.

LONG NOTES:

AARP: 12 Foods That Could Help You Lose Weight: apples, asparagus, avocadoes, broccoli, carrots, cottage cheese, eggs, lentils, mushrooms, oats, nuts, pears,

We propose that higher obesity, and dietary inflammatory index (DII) scores in obese people are associated with a decline in cognitive function.  Erythrocyte membrane fatty acids can reflect dietary fatty acid intake. In addition, this effect might be mediated via the fatty acids in the erythrocyte membrane. Dietary Inflammatory Index and Cognitive Function: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Study in Obese Chinese Township Population from 45 to 75

Live Long, Dr. Attia – Learn to love sleep, the best medicine for your brain. Athletes who slept less than 6 hours a nite were 2.5 times more likely to be injured;V REM sleep helps profess emotional memories, cooling negative feelings; Sleep disturbances allow Alzheimers to progress; 30 to 50% of adults experience sleep disturbances which precede ementia by several years; Sleep medication cost $28 billion annually in the US, but they do not contribute to healthy sleep; a half hour of strong daylight helps our circadian rhythm to promote healthy sleep at night; NUTRITION: eat more olive oil, avocadoes, nuts, salmon, anchovies; reduce butter, corn/sunflower/soybean oils.  More than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses, as many as from diabetes; Dr. Attia was doing everything to live longer, despite being miserable emotionally.  Reframing is looking at something from another person’s point of view; Cognitive behavioral therapy works – learn new ways of thinking about and acting on their problems. Four pillars of mindfulness-emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and self-management. Longevity is meaningless if your life sucks.  Your resume doesn’t matter when it comes time for your eulogy.  I think people get old when they stop thinking about the future.

From the Sunday newspaper: How to avoid ghosthackers when you die: On facebook, designate a legacy contact, to manage your account if you die: Accounts center/personal details/account ownership and control/memorialization-they won’t be able to log in, read messages, or delete friends, just announce death and shut it down. Apple-iphone-open settings, tap your name; go to Sign-in and security/ legacy contact, add legacy contact.  Google: Google activity controls/under web and app activity, choose auto=delete, select 3 months or longer if you want.

Collegiate swimmers exhibited poor sleep patterns during pre-competition preparation, and the sleep fragmentation of male swimmers was more pronounced. There were sex differences in both subjective and objective measured sleep patterns, with male swimmers having less sleep and low efficiency, while female swimmers experienced more significant sleep disturbances.

Artificial Intelligence in Sleep Medicine: The Dawn of a New Era  This wealth of structured digital data makes sleep medicine an ideal candidate for the application of AI and ML algorithms, which excel at identifying complex patterns and relationships within large datasets. Additionally, the widespread availability of consumer sleep technologies, like wearables, expands these opportunities, allowing ML to extract novel insights from extensive real-world sleep data.1,2 This editorial aims to highlight the current uses of AI in sleep medicine and research, validation and ethical challenges, and the exciting future prospects.

Many studies have shown that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is significantly more prevalent among Autistic individuals compared to the non-Autistic population.