Two new studies reviewing data from 15 countries between April 2020 and June 2021 suggests that stricter COVID-19 measures are associated with negative mental health effects and a lower opinion of the government’s pandemic response.
In countries that tried to control virus transmission, the mental health of people was more impacted by COVID-19 than that of people in countries that tried to suppress transmission.
Mental health was more affected by physical distancing restrictions than by closures of workplaces, schools, public transport, restrictions on domestic travel, and cancellations of public events.
Studies:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00060-3
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00082-2
Eating a high-protein (animal-based) diet is similar to smoking 20 cigarettes per day!
The authors tracked 6,381 adults over the age of 50 for nearly 20 years and discovered that participants between the ages of 50 and 65 who ate a high-protein diet (i.e. 20% or more of calories coming from protein) were 4 times more likely to die of cancer than those who consumed a low-protein diet (i.e. less than 10% of calories coming from protein).
Moreover, participants who ate a high-protein diet had a 5 times greater risk of mortality from type 2 diabetes, and they were 74% more likely to die of any cause than low-protein consumers.
Although, the negative health associations of eating too much protein were decreased or eliminated with plant-based protein.
In a meta-analysis (31 studies) on protein intake and disease, which was published by the International Scholarly Research Network published, the main conclusion is that overconsumption of protein was associated with higher rates of osteoporosis, cancer, disorders of liver function, renal disease, and coronary artery disease: https://doi.org/10.5402/2013/126929
The authors examined the percentage of protein that came from animal and plant sources for 81,337 participants over 6–12 years, and they found that the risk of cardiovascular death steadily increased with higher consumption of meat protein and steadily decreased with increased consumption of protein from nuts and seeds.
Call for a Special Issue on “Pedagogical Innovations in Higher Education” in the journal ⋘Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education⋙ by 23rd January 2023.
This special issue focuses on the topics such as creativity in teaching and learning, educational technology, assessment and standards, education for sustainable development, learning analytics, and educational leadership.
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Call for a Special Issue on “CALLing out Culture: The Interplay Between Language, Technology and Culture” in the journal ⋘Journal for Multicultural Education⋙ by 30th September 2022.
This special issue focuses on the topics such as implementing new approaches, methodologies, and content in teaching and learning culture; introducing new cross-cultural and intercultural approaches; increasing teachers’ and students’ cultural competence, intercultural awareness, global citizenship and understanding; practicing teaching cultural knowledge, values, behavior, and skills.; etc.
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Call for a Special Issue on “Tourism Talent Challenge” in the journal ⋘Tourism Review⋙ by 30th November 2022.
This special issue focuses on the topics such as new and innovative human resource management approaches and practices in tourism/hospitality; sustainable work and employment systems in tourism/hospitality; thriving workforce in the contemporary context of the global tourism industry; tourism workforce diversity in the post-pandemic world; the mobility of workers and the migrant labour force; etc.
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This case-control study concluded that after adjusting for sex and age of participants, independent predictors of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) included irregular patterns of eating, drinking a lot of tea, not getting quality sleep, and not getting enough exercise.
An international team of researchers from the universities of Portsmouth, Southampton, and Copenhagen discovered a new and uncommon genetic disease that slows down children’s brain development (children’s brains grow abnormally and intellectual development is postponed), which is caused by variations in the protein-coding gene Glutamate Ionotropic Receptor AMPA Type Subunit 1. This finding may help doctors with screening, prenatal diagnosis, and the development of focused treatments to help patients and their families.
Study: 🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2022.05.009🔗
Researchers from Rutgers University found a way to explain why people with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are more likely to have tooth decay and weakened teeth – diabetes leads to decreased strength of the enamel due to lower durability and strength of dentin: 🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archoralbio.2022.105434🔗
Researchers from the University of Houston developed a groundbreaking technique that restores the heart muscle cells after a heart attack and it also helps the cells regenerate. Even though the researchers delivered mutant transcription factors to mice hearts using synthetic messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), this study has the potential to develop into a powerful clinical strategy for treating heart disease in people.
Study: 🔗https://doi.org/10.20517/jca.2022.17🔗
Call for a Special Issue on “Advances in Surfaces, Interfaces and Interphases 2022” in the journal ⋘Surfaces and Interfaces⋙ by July 1st, 2023.
This special issue focuses on new advanced technologies, novel emerging materials, and improved understanding of phenomena at surfaces and interphases that fueled the fast evolution of this area of science, located at the crossroads between physics, chemistry, and biology.
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Call for a Special Issue on “Classification and Data Science in the Digital Age” in the journal ⋘Journal of Classification⋙ by 31st October 2022.
This special issue focuses on the topics such as information-theoretic statistical modelling and model selection, machine learning, approaches for handling missing data, model-based clustering, hidden Markov models, networks and graphical models, modelling high-dimensional and complex data, optimization in classification and clustering, pattern recognition, statistical learning, and data mining.
Link: 🔗https://www.springer.com/journal/357/updates/23115522#:~:text=Submission%20deadline%3A%20October%2031st,Science%20in%20the%20Digital%20Age.🔗
This review examined the effects of flavonoids in supplements versus foods. The main conclusion is that the multifaceted mixture of plant compounds cannot be simulated by single-flavonoid supplementation.
This double-blinded study showed that flavanols found in foods improve brain function and oxygenation levels in the brain in response to a stressful event, and they also help to protect against vascular diseases by improving nitric oxide signaling and supporting endothelial health.
Participants had to complete different cognitive tests of increasing difficulty after they drank a cocoa-containing beverage and having their oxygen availability in their brain and body decreased by breathing air with a carbon dioxide concentration 100 times higher than found in regular air.
Hence, those who drank the high-flavanol beverage completed the Stroop tests at higher speed and accuracy.
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