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(TOKYO) — If you’re trying to lose weight and want a new way to do it, stair-climbing as a regular exercise — or just adding a few flights a day — might be for you.

It’s accessible, and research shows it’s more effective than walking on level ground.

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“Overall, it is a fact that stair-climbing gets you fit faster and consumes more calories,” said Lauri van Houten, vice president of the International Skyrunning Federation, which oversees a wide range of disciplines that involve vertical climbing.

This includes disciplines like mountain running above 2,000 meters (about 6,500 feet) or events like the Stairclimbing World Championships.

These competitions are for the very fit, but we’re talking here about adding a few minutes of stair-climbing as a daily routine and raising awareness about its effectiveness for all ages.

“How many calories will I burn is the question everyone wants to know,” van Houten said. “Here’s the good news: The overall energy ex..

As the saying goes, there’s an app for that. And inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, is no exception.

IBD is an umbrella term for chronic inflammation-related conditions affecting the digestive system, most commonly Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Both can result in waves of symptoms, typically called flares or flare-ups, involving diarrhea, stomach pain, fatigue, and weight loss. In addition to medication, many treatment plans involve diet and lifestyle changes that require careful compliance and diligence. And that’s where apps come in.

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For example, as part of your IBD management, you might see your doctor every six months or so. They’ll likely ask you how you’re feeling, how your symptoms have changed over that time, how you’ve been sleeping, how stressed you’ve been—all challenging details to remember off the top of your head.

But an app that offers symptom and lifestyle habit tracking lets you record all of that information and keep it ..

We’re in the midst of a weird cultural moment involving people’s bowel habits. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has been trending on social media, including TikTok videos and posts about the disorder on Instagram, X, and other platforms. Billboards proclaiming that Hot girls have IBShave popped up over the past few years in Los Angeles and other cities.

As a result, a subject that was once unthinkable to discuss socially has been normalized. “It’s definitely a phenomenon,” says gastroenterologist Dr. Roshini Raj, an associate professor of medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and author of Gut Renovation. “It’s a topic more people are comfortable talking about, and people are paying more attention to how their guts are feeling.”

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What is IBS?

A functional GI disorder, IBS is characterized by symptoms like bloating, gas, abdominal pain, cramping, constipation, and/or diarrhea. The syndrome is more common among women—affecting more than twice a..

You may not be a political pundit or consider yourself any type of expert on the upcoming presidential election. But you still have influence—at least with the people you’re closest to.

“The conversations we have with family and friends and colleagues and acquaintances could matter more than almost anything else that happens in a campaign,” says Jon Favreau, founder of the liberal media company Crooked Media, as well as the community organization Vote Save America, and host of the podcast Pod Save America. “More than the television ads, and more than what the candidate says.”

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As trust in major institutions declines, people are increasingly persuaded by those in their social network, he adds. When you have a basic level of trust established with someone, they’re more likely to listen to you than they are to talking heads on the TV or strangers knocking on their door. That means you have the opportunity to convince them to vote if they’re not already p..

The premiere of the first-ever season of The Golden Bachelorette has been on my calendar for months. I can’t wait to watch 24 men who have aged exceedingly well climb out of their limos and greet the star, Joan Vassos, on Sept. 18 at the Bachelor Mansion. I’ll pay special attention to a few of them—because I already know exactly which guys are making it to hometowns and fantasy suites, and which one will walk away with the final rose.

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No, I’m not clairvoyant—don’t ask me how long Vassos and her leading man will last in the real world—and no, I don’t have an in with the network. I just happen to love spoilers. If I don’t know exactly how a TV show or movie I’m watching ends when I’m at the beginning, I won’t watch. I flip to the last few pages of books for the same reason. The uncertainty—and possibility that the ending will crush me into smithereens—gives me a boatload of angst that I definitely don’t need.

I’m far from alone: Just ask the guy who’s ..

A landmark new study published in the Lancet estimates that antimicrobial resistant pathogens, or AMR, will kill more than 39 million people by 2050.

The study also predicts that 169 million deaths will be associated with drug-resistant infections by that year.

“These findings highlight that AMR has been a significant global health threat for decades and that this threat is growing,” said Mohsen Naghavi, a professor at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and the study’s author.

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Read More: 25% of Antibiotic Prescriptions Are Unnecessary. Here’s Why That’s So Dangerous

AMR is becoming an especially large problem for the elderly. Adults above the age of 70 have experienced an over 80% increase in deaths attributed to AMR from 1990 to 2021, while deaths among children have decreased by more than 50%. All populations over the age of 25 experienced an increase in deaths attributable to antimicrobial resistance, t..

Carin Luna-Ostaseski still recalls the shock of discovering her periods had become monsoons. Short monsoons, she clarifies—her cycle went from lasting a week to two to three days—but still monsoons. She realized she was going through at least one tampon every hour.

Then, more confusion: Earlier this year, partway through a flight, she became convinced she was having a heart attack—her heart was racing wildly, and she felt scared. It turned out she was actually experiencing a panic attack, triggered by—surprise!—perimenopause, which can lead to symptoms like weird periods, mood swings, and anxiety. “You Google the symptoms, like ‘I’m bleeding too much,’” says Luna-Ostaseski, 47, who lives in San Francisco. “You don’t think, ‘This is perimenopause.’ Our parents’ generation knew about menopause, but I think perimenopause is a new concept for our generation.”

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So what exactly is it? In a nutshell: the conclusion of a woman’s reproductive life, starting an..

The numbers are hard to ignore. Around the world, 48 million children experience stunted growth, 45 million suffer from wasting, and nearly half of all children who die every year die from malnutrition.

“Even for kids who survive [malnutrition], their ability to be physically and mentally at their full potential is such a big thing for their quality of life and that of the country they live in,” says Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “Tragically, in Africa, 40% of kids never get to their full physical or mental development.”

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Each year, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation highlights an issue in its Goalkeepers Report with a large unmet need, and for which the organization provides proven, actionable solutions. This year, the group focused on childhood malnutrition, and the consequences it has throughout children’s lifetimes.Addressing nutrition in young children allows more kids to attend and remain in school, and if more ..

Not long ago, Mark Chiverton, a 33-year-old in the U.K., noticed he was making a lot of silly mistakes. He’d mix up words when writing emails, or blank on a basic term while talking to his wife. None of these slip-ups were all that concerning on their own—but they were happening frequently enough that Chiverton worried he was, to put it bluntly, “getting dumber.”

“At first I thought, ‘Maybe it’s just general aging, or maybe I bashed my head and didn’t realize it,’” he says. But eventually, a thought occurred to him: could COVID-19 be the reason for his mental slips? Chiverton thinks he caught the virus in early 2020, before tests were widely available, and he knows for sure he had it in 2022. Though he has no lingering physical effects from those infections (and has periods of time when his brain cramps get better), he sometimes wonders whether those mental slips are mild signs of Long COVID, the name for chronic symptoms following an infection.

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When people are strong and reliable, we describe them as solid, yet the human body is about 60% water. Let’s face it: even the toughest among us is less like concrete, and more like a walking water balloon. Water is essential to most of our bodily functions, like carrying nutrients to our cells and keeping the brain sharp. The problem is that we’re constantly losing water through sweating, peeing, and breathing. We must do our part to keep the balloon full. We must drink fluids.

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Drinks are absorbed and retained better when paired with minerals commonly found in food like sodium, potassium, and chloride. It’s important to replenish these minerals, called electrolytes, during tough, lengthy exercise, as sweat ushers them out of the body.

Cue the electrolyte products. Commercials show our favorite pro athletes boosting their electrolytes with sports drinks, powders, and gels—with looks of deep satisfaction etched on their faces—but does the average pers..