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Type 2 Diabetes Might Be More Like Three Different Diseases, Researchers Say October 29, 2015 | By Health Editor   Getty Images By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Oct. 29, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Medical data routinely gathered from millions of patients can be used to detect previously unseen patterns in chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests. As a result, researchers say they’ve identified three distinct subgroups of type 2 diabetics by combing through the health records of more than 11,000 patients. Each of the subgroups faces unique health problems related to type 2 diabetes, and shares common genetic traits that can explain those challenges, said senior study author Joel Dudley. Dudley is director of biomedical informatics and an assistant professor of genetics and genomic sciences at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. “Not only did the clinical data tell us those were meaningful groups, but the genet

Face-Lifts Don’t Really Boost Self-Esteem, Study Finds October 29, 2015 | By Health Editor Photo: Getty Images By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Oct. 29, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Face-lifts may smooth away years from a person’s appearance, but they seem to do little to boost self-esteem, new research suggests. In the small study, the researchers looked at what 50 patients — almost all of them women — said about their own sense of self-esteem, both immediately before plastic surgery and six months later. “The findings of the study are not surprising,” said lead author Dr. Andrew Jacono, a board certified plastic surgeon with the New York Center for Facial Plastic and Laser Surgery in New York City. “Because as I see it, self-esteem is much more complex than someone’s appearance. It’s rooted in a long developmental process that starts in childhood. So, to assume that what has taken a lifetime of work to develop could be changed by one simple operation i

Too Much TV Linked to Leading Causes of Death October 29, 2015 | By Health Editor           Photo: Getty Images THURSDAY, Oct. 29, 2015 (HealthDay News) — A new study links watching too much TV with some of the leading causes of death in the United States. Ninety-two percent of Americans have a TV in their home, according to background information in the study. And 80 percent of American adults watch an average of three-and-a-half hours of TV a day, which is more than half of their leisure time. “We know that television viewing is the most prevalent leisure-time sedentary behavior and our working hypothesis is that it is an indicator of overall physical inactivity,” explained study author Sarah Keadle, a cancer prevention fellow at the U.S. National Cancer Institute. “In this context, our results fit within a growing body of research indicating that too much sitting can have many different adverse health effects,” Keadle said. In the study, the researchers follo

The Brilliant Self-Rolling Yoga Mat You Didn’t Know You Needed October 29, 2015 | By Alexis Reliford                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Your yoga practice is about to get  even  more relaxing, thanks to the  self-rolling mat . Created by fitness and yoga enthusiast Aaron Thornton, the YoYo Mat debuted via Kickstarter in August. Since then the project has raised more than $150,000 from yoga-loving supporters. So just how does it work? RELATED:  Yoga Poses for Anxiety, Pain, and More Loosely resembling those popular ’90s slap bracelets, the YoYo Mat stays super flat when in use and tightly rolls itself up when you’re finished. Each mat is designed with a bi-stable steel spring band, which causes only one side of the mat to roll up. The other side remains flat whe

The Jacked O’ Lantern Pumpkin Workout October 29, 2015 | By Alex Orlov, Life by DailyBurn                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   It’s almost Halloween — that spooky time of year where sugary temptations close in all around us. If you’re planning a major   cheat day   on account of the holiday, it can’t hurt to get your sweat on before you hit the streets in search of sweets. (Did you know that the average American child collects between   3,500 to 7,000 calories   worth of candy on Halloween night?) Our solution: A workout to help you get   jacked   with the help of your jack ‘o lantern! Before you carve your pumpkin, why not use it to car