Let me be very clear. I do not like beets. I’ve spent over fifty years disliking beets.
I’ve tried them boiled (gag-inducing), roasted (almost tolerable, but no), raw (the additional chewing required just prolongs the misery), and picked (where’s the bathroom?).
To me, beets taste like garden dirt laced with a little bit of sugar. Interestingly, there is validity to that perception. Beets contain a naturally-occurring compound called geosmin, and geosmin gives beets their dirt-like . . . er. . . earthy flavour.
Some people like this earthy flavor.
I’m not one of them.
Just as interesting – at least…
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How many hours of shuteye is best? Here’s what the latest science says about sleep
With the release of two studies that try to untangle the relationship between sleep and brain health, specialists are offering some reassurance for anyone who’s feeling anxious about optimizing their shuteye.
New research published Monday suggests that getting less than the recommended seven or eight hours of sleep each night might not be as harmful as expected for some people’s brains.
That follows a study printed last week that suggests daytime napping could have some positive effects.
But sleep science is still a relatively new field, with much more research still to be done on how sleep patterns intersect with…
Lobbyists target Ontario Health amidst Ford government changes: report
As the Ford government increases the number of for-profit clinics operating in the province’s health-care sector, the lobbying of Ontario Health has shot up by 50 per cent, a new report shows.
The Integrity Commissioner of Ontario’s annual report, which summarizes the work by the ethics watchdog during the 2022 to 2023 year, shows the overall number of lobbyists at Queen’s Park is up.
Ontario Health, the government agency in charge of health care, was the most lobbied Crown corporation over the past year. It was lobbied 276 times, an increase of 51 per cent compared to the previous year,…
Unvaccinated healthcare workers hope to go back to work
Sandy Hartman is frustrated. She’s not allowed back to work at the London Health Sciences Center because she’s not been vaccinated against COVID-19.
“At this point in time, the policy is outdated, and I’m hoping we can see some changes,” said Hartman.
A staff nurse at LHSC for the past 12 years, Hartman, who is eight months pregnant, has been put on an unpaid leave of absence by the hospital because of her vaccination status.
She believes the softening of other COVID regulations recently, like mandatory masking and patient screening, means she should be allowed to return to work.
“We’re…
Digital Healthcare Market Stabilizes After Year of Low Investment
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CB Insights has released their State of Digital Health Report for Q1 2023, and there is finally some good news to report. After four quarters of declines in funding in the digital health space, global digital health funding held steady in the first quarter of this year at US$3.4 billion. This is positive news to see stabilization after a year of continuous decline, and the first time funding did not drop quarter to quarter since Q4 of 2021.
They do point out that this is not a trend in overall venture capital funding, but rather something…
Man swimming with family in Midlands lake disappeared under the water, SC coroner said
A death is under investigation after a Midlands man disappeared under water for more than an hour Sunday, the Fairfield County Coroner’s Office said in a news release.
Coroner Chris Hill said his office responder to the scene of a drowning in Lake Wateree at about 3:15 pm, according to Tuesday’s release. The drowning happened in a portion of the lake in Ridgeway, the coroner’s office said.
Johnny Mack Simmons, a 37-year-old Winnsboro resident, was swimming in the lake with his family, according to the release.
At one point Simmons went under water and did not resurface, the coroner’s office…
Guelph Rotary Club donates $300,000 towards a youth mental health facility
‘This money is really about intervention and prevention…we’ve got all these services available so that if a youth does tip over, it’s a warm transfer,’ said Cyndy Dearden, former executive director of the Grove
GUELPH ‒ Access to mental health resources for local youth has become a little easier thanks to a significant financial donation from the Rotary Club of Guelph.
Donating $288,000 to The Grove Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario- Wellington Guelph during a celebratory event and luncheon, all money will go towards supporting the construction of a new youth wellness site on Woolwich Street, which will open in the…
Flights to LaGuardia paused, the FAA says. Smoky, hazy skies, health alerts for Long Island continue
The FAA paused flights bound for LaGuardia Airport Thursday morning, as haze and smoke from Canadian wildfires continued to impact the New York area.
“The FAA has paused flights from the Northeast, Ohio and Mid-Atlantic bound for LaGuardia New York Airport,” the Federal Aviation Administration announced in an email around 7:30 am
It said departures to La Guardia were delayed an average of 54 minutes due to low visibility and that it would “take steps to manage the flow of traffic safely into New York City, DC, Philadelphia and Charlotte.”
There is also the chance of ground stops at Newark,…