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WebMD Health Friday, June 2, 2023 4:20 PM Do You Need A Full-Body MRI Scan? Probably Not, Experts Say        Whole body MRI scans may lead to unnecessary follow-up tests that are not only expensive, but also anxiety-inducing, experts say.

WebMD Health Friday, June 2, 2023 2:19 PM Anxiety, Your Brain, and Long COVID: What the Research Says        Anxiety, depression, and COVID-19 can be a bad combination for your brain — and your long-term health. Having anxiety and depression before a COVID infection increases the risk of developing long COVID, researchers have found.

WebMD Health Friday, June 2, 2023 1:05 PM Doctor: What My Patients Have Taught Me About Crohn's        A doctor explains some of the frustrations and problems his Crohn's disease patients face and how he works to help them.

WebMD Health Friday, June 2, 2023 1:02 PM Doctors, Researchers Work Hard to Improve Crohn's Disease Treatments        Learn how Crohn's disease treatment and long-term outlook have improved over the past few decades.

WebMD Health Friday, June 2, 2023 11:09 AM Schizophrenia: Fighting the FDA for Clozapine Access        Are FDA REMS restrictions blocking access to clozapine for people with schizophrenia?

WebMD Health Friday, June 2, 2023 11:08 AM The Wisdom of Morrie: An Antidote to Today's Loneliness Epidemic        Rob Schwartz, the son of the man made famous in the book Tuesday's with Morrie, has published a new volume of his late father's writings on life, love and joy.

Mark's Daily Apple Friday, June 2, 2023 1:00 PM New and Noteworthy: What I Read This Week—Edition 224       Research of the Week Being a morning person is strongly linked to greater life satisfaction.. The paleo diet of Siberia and Eastern Europe: meat and freshwater fish. New genetic variants related to Alzheimer's found in Ashkenazi Jews. Mob grazing research. Epidemiology. New Primal Kitchen Podcasts Primal Health Coach Radio: Adrien Paczosa Primal Kitchen Podcast: Getting to the Heart of Your Stress with Dr. Dave Rabin Media, Schmedia Vending machine eggs. What a great idea. It's been an extremely embarrassing decade for lab grown meat. Interesting Blog Posts Changing attitudes about public nudity in Germany. Great multisport athletes. Social Notes Strong. Everything Else Docuseries about carnivore. Things I'm Up to and Interested In Hard truth: We often train our former selves, not current selves. Interesting paper: Does the shingles vaccine reduce the risk of dementia? Important: Walking. There are no free lunches: Semaglutide side effects. Interesting: Are we running out of exhaustible resources? Question I'm Asking Are you training (and feeding/treating/etc.) who you are or who you used to be? Recipe Corner Sheet pan beef and broccoli. Ramp pesto. Time Capsule One year ago (May 27 – Jun 2) Hiking First Aid: What to Do, Bring, and Know to Stay Safe on the Trail—Venture out safely. Alternate Day Fasting—Worthy Trying?—Is it? Comment of the Week "Placebos: As kids in the 80s, whenever we complained about a stomach ache and asked to stay home from school, our mom would give us some "medicine" to calm our stomachs. It was 2% milk with a bit of sugar and green food colouring. It worked like a charm." -Yep. The post New and Noteworthy: What I Read This Week—Edition 224 appeared first on Mark's Daily Apple.

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6 Foods Loved by U.S. Presidents Some foods, like chicken and ice cream, have been staples of the White House kitchen for centuries, while others — such as turtle, squirrel, and opossum — have been mostly relegated to history. Here are some of the favorite foods of U.S. Presidents.

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Daily Fact: What iconic cactus takes 50 years to grow one arm?

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Original photo by LHBLLC/ Shutterstock It can take 50 years for a saguaro cactus to grow one arm. It's not easy to be a cactus — surviving in a scorching environment with little water is a pretty tough task for most plants. Some cacti, like the saguaro, have adapted by taking their sweet time to grow. In fact, saguaro cacti often reach just 1.5 inches in the first 10 years of their lives. Growing their iconic arms — often featured in old Western films and desert art landscapes — can take 50 years, or even up to 100 years in drought-like conditions. Many saguaros do not flower until they reach 35 years old. And although they produce some 40 million seeds over their lifetime, odds are just one of their cacti descendants will survive to adulthood after battling arid conditions, trampling, human interference, and invasive species that threaten their environments. Reaching their maximum size — upwards of 45 feet tall and more than 2 tons in weight — can take 175 to 200 years, close to the end of a saguaro's lengthy life span. But there is perhaps one consolation involved in that long journey: Saguaros are the largest cactus species in the U.S. These slow-growing giants are found wild only in the Sonoran Desert, which stretches from southeastern California across southwestern Arizona and into Mexico. Despite their vulnerabilities, saguaro are important plants in the Sonoran ecosystem, providing fruit for birds, nectar for bats and other pollinators, and superb nesting spots for birds and other wildlife — which is why these colossal cacti are legally protected native plants in Arizona.   All cacti have prickly spines. All cacti have prickly spines.

The scientific name for the saguaro — Carnegiea gigantea — is named for philanthropist __. The scientific name for the saguaro — Carnegiea gigantea — is named for philanthropist __. Numbers Don't Lie Height (in feet) of the largest recorded saguaro cactus 78 Estimated species of cacti globally 2,000 Species of cacti found wild outside the Americas 1 Diameter (in centimeters) of Blossfeldia liliputana, the world's smallest cactus 2.5 There's a special census for saguaro cacti every 10 years. How do scientists know how many saguaros exist in the U.S.? Turns out, they count and record them, in a fashion similar to how the federal Census estimates the nation's population of humans. Scientists at Saguaro National Park in Arizona first began the cactus count in 1990 as a way to track species health and numbers, syncing the enumeration with the federal Census. Every 10 years, scientists and volunteers count the number of cacti in randomly selected areas of the park to calculate how many saguaro likely exist in the preserve as a whole. The work is labor-intensive, requiring census-takers to hike to desolate areas of the park and record each cactus' GPS coordinates, height, number of arms, and other information. In 2020, that work totaled more than 3,500 hours from staff and a group of more than 500 volunteers. The most recent report shows the saguaro population nearly doubled from the 1990 count, totaling around 2 million in 2020, though it's possible up to 20% of baby saguaro could be missed, since they're so small and difficult to spot.   You might also like 6 of the Longest-Lived Species on Earth The average human life span has increased significantly over the last century, but we still don't measure up to some of the longest-living plant and animal species on Earth. Here are six creatures that stretch the limits of life spans on Earth.

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