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Eosinophilic esophagitis is a chronic inflammatory condition of the esophagus, or food pipe. The esophagus is the tube that connects the mouth to the stomach.

Eosinophilic esophagitis causes chronic inflammation in the esophagus, which can make it difficult for a person to eat, drink, or even swallow saliva. A person may also experience related symptoms, such as heartburn, nausea, and malnutrition.

Both adults and children can get eosinophilic esophagitis. In children, the condition can lead to developmental issues, such as stunted growth.

In this article, we provide information on the symptoms and causes of eosinophilic esophagitis. We also outline the dietary and medical treatment options available.

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the esophagus.

In people with EoE, white blood cells called eosinophils build up within the inner lining of the esophagus. These eosinophils release substances that cause inflammation. Chronic inflammation of the esophagus may lead to symptoms such as difficulty eating or swallowing.

EoE is a rare condition, affecting about 1 in 2,000 people. However, the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology state that the condition is becoming more common, though this may be partly because increased awareness has led to more diagnoses.

EoE can develop in children or adults and in people of all ethnicities. People who develop EoE typically have preexisting allergies, such as:

Experts have suggested that these allergies may trigger EoE in some cases.

The symptoms of EoE may differ from person to person. However, some of the more common symptoms include:

Children who develop EoE may become irritable and refuse to eat or drink. As a result, they may experience developmental problems, such as stunted growth.

Eosinophils are a type of white blood cell that is not usually present in the esophagus. In EoE, eosinophils accumulate in this part of the body, causing inflammation of the esophageal tissues.

Scientists have noticed that many people who develop EoE have some type of allergy. As such, the consensus is that a persons immune response to an allergen may cause the accumulation of eosinophils in the esophagus.

According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, abnormal immune responses to foods are the leading cause of EoE. However, experts do not yet fully understand the mechanism by which foods trigger EoE.

Other potential allergens that could contribute to EoE include:

According to the American Partnership for Eosinophilic Disorders, specific genes may also play a role in the development of EoE.

To diagnose EoE, a doctor will ask about a persons symptoms and whether they have any allergies.

If the doctor suspects EoE, an upper endoscopy (UE) will be necessary to confirm the diagnosis. A UE involves passing a long, flexible tube called an endoscope down the esophagus. A small camera on the end of the endoscope allows the doctor to look for inflammation.

During the procedure, the doctor may take a small sample of the esophageal tissue for further examination. The presence of eosinophils within the sample would indicate EoE.

A person who receives a diagnosis of EoE may require further medical tests to identify any allergens underlying the condition.

In most cases, a doctor will recommend an elimination diet, which involves removing food triggers from the diet and monitoring the effect on EoE symptoms.

Occasionally, they may use a blood test to detect a type of immune cell called immunoglobulin E (IgE), which a persons immune system releases in response to certain allergens. High levels of IgE indicate that the body is overreacting to an allergen.

A skin prick test is also an option. This test involves using a fine needle to insert a small amount of a suspected allergen beneath the skin. Redness or swelling at the site of the skin prick test suggests an allergic reaction to the substance.

However, blood tests and skin prick tests may not be useful, as they commonly produce false-positive results. Also, as experts believe that EoE may not be IgE-mediated, these tests may have little to no value.

There is currently no cure for EoE. However, a combination of dietary changes and medical treatments may help manage inflammation and alleviate symptoms.

Elimination diets can help a person identify their trigger foods so that they can avoid them in the future. There are different types of elimination diet, which vary in terms of convenience and effectiveness.

A doctor may recommend one of the following three elimination diets:

Empiric elimination diets involve removing all foods that commonly affect EoE. Such foods include:

Food test-directed elimination diets involve eliminating any food that a person has previously shown sensitivity to during a skin prick test.

After eliminating these foods from the diet, a person monitors their symptoms to check for any improvement.

Elemental diets involve using a special formula to supplement or replace the diet. The formula contains a combination of amino acids, which provide nutrition without triggering EoE.

Elemental diets are the most extreme treatment option, and doctors usually only recommend them for children. However, they may be necessary if other approaches are not working.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have not yet approved any medications for the treatment of EoE. However, the following treatments may help manage inflammation or alleviate symptoms:

Most people with eosinophilic esophagitis will require ongoing treatment. However, the disorder is unlikely to cause further chronic illness or affect life expectancy.

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic inflammatory condition of the esophagus. People who have the condition may experience difficulty eating and drinking, which can lead to complications, such as weight loss and malnutrition.

The exact cause of EoE remains unclear. However, most people who develop the condition have preexisting allergies. Experts generally agree that these allergies may contribute to EoE.

There is no cure for EoE. However, a combination of dietary changes and medical treatments can help reduce inflammation and alleviate symptoms.

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A map of planned changes to Liberty StreetCity of CincinnatiIt took roughly seven years to go from suggestions by neighborhood groups to fleshed out plans to wrangling at City Hall to reality, but it's finally here: work began this week on an effort to make Liberty Street safer for pedestrians and once again tie together the northern and southern halves of Over-the-Rhine.

The $7.4 million worth of alterations now underway along Liberty Street touch three neighborhoods and mark the first significant changes to the major OTR thoroughfare since the 1950s, when it was dramatically widened, proponents say.

"We have two different sides of the community," Over-the-Rhine Community Council President Maurice Wagoner said today. "It's difficult to cross Liberty Street and be safe going back to both sides of the neighborhood... It's been very gratifying to bring this neighborhood and make it one, instead of 'north of Liberty and south of Liberty,' again after 60 years."

The changes will include one less lane of traffic; medians; bump-outs at Sycamore, Main, Walnut, Vine, Race and Elm streets and Central Parkway; pedestrian islands; trees; and other features stretching from Sycamore Street to Central Parkway.

That's a busy seam between the two parts of OTR where pedestrians experience significant danger. Other improvements including repaving will stretch from Reading Road in Pendleton to Dalton Avenue in Queensgate. The intersection of Liberty Hill and Liberty Street will also receive a traffic light.

Council member Jeff Pastor lived on Sycamore Street when he was a child, he says.

"I've taken my own life in my hands many times as a kid just trying to cross Liberty," he said. "I watched my grandmother do the same thing. I think much of the job on city council is to fix the scars in our city. Liberty Street is one of those scars and this project will see one of our 52 neighborhoods attached back together."

The road narrowing was among the proposals brought to council in 2013 by representatives of the Over-the-Rhine Brewery District in northern OTR. But it encountered years of political turbulence.

Cincinnati City Council May 1 last year voted 8-1 to approve a road diet for Liberty Street though that plan was a little different from original proposals.

Concerns about on-street parking, access to FC Cincinnati's coming stadium and the cost of moving a major water main that runs underneath Liberty Street all played into a protracted fight around the proposed alterations.

Supporters of narrowing the street say the artery, widened in the late 1950s at the expense of a number of buildings, is a barrier for pedestrian flow between the two sides of OTR.

"There are two schools that sit directly on Liberty Street," Cincinnati City Council member Chris Seelbach said today. "Young kids cross this seven-lane highway every day. We wanted to make it safer. Second, we wanted to try and bridge Over-the-Rhine back together."

But those opposed to narrowing the street pointed out that it connects the neighborhood and the West End to both I-71 and I-75, and that the coming FC Cincinnati soccer stadium is likely to bring more congestion and traffic to the area.

The new compromise plan will reduce Liberty Street to six lanes. That's one more lane than the original five-lane plan drawn up after several years of community input and study, but one less lane than an alternate plan supported by Mayor John Cranley that would have added bump-outs to some sections of the road while keeping it at seven lanes. The seven-lane plan would have preserved parking on both sides of Liberty Street. The so-called five-lane plan would have potentially restricted parking on both sides during peak hours.

The compromise plan will end up reclaiming less right-of-way for future development than the five-lane plan would have 10 feet but also preserves most of the parking on the street, the city says, and won't cause the relocation of a water main that would have cost roughly $800,000.

Council member Seelbach, who long championed the original five-lane plan, called the eventual project underway now an example of how differing sides can come together and get things done.

Work should be done by March 2021, Seelbach says.

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We can find one revealing answer in the darkest days of the 17th century. In 1629, the British historian Erin Maglaque noted recently, a fearsome plague swept into Italy. In Florence, officials in the local health board tried to cordon off their city, but the disease slipped in anyway.

By August 1630 Florence was burying its dead by the hundreds in broad and deep pits. By the following January, the city had ordered citizens locked in their homes for a 40-day quarantine and then gone about the business of delivering food to the tens of thousands of locked-down households.

The food the Florentine health board had delivered would be exceptionally varied and fine: bread and wine, sausage seasoned with fennel and rosemary, rice and cheese, salads of sweet and bitter herbs. The health board, historian Maglaque tells us, considered the citys enormous outlay for good food a necessary expense. The poor of Florence had been living, city health officials realized, on diets that left them especially vulnerable to infection.

Improving the well-being of the poor, the Florentine health board believed, would be a key to the citys recovery. But this idea of feeding the poor at a high-quality level appalled many of the citys wealthy. They worried, one observer would later write, that the quarantine would give the poor of Florence the opportunity to be lazy and lose the desire to work, having for forty days been provided abundantly for all theirneeds.

Other Italian cities rejected the Florentine health board lead. They refused to provide abundantly for the needs of their poor and paid a price. In Florence, the plague ended with 12 percent of the population dead. In Venice, the death rate ran nearly three times the Florentine rate, in Milan almost four times.

Today, nearly four centuries later, Senator Lindsey Graham and his Republican Senate colleagues are marching right in the footsteps of those 17th-century Italians who found the prospect of anything close to abundance for the poor so scandalous.

This bill pays you more not to work than if you were working, Graham harrumphedbefore the Senate vote on his benefit-cutback amendment to the corona relief legislation.

What connects our affluent today to the wealthy elites of old Italy? The unnerving impact of inequality on the psyches of the privileged. The more wealth the wealthy of any epoch accumulate, the less they value those without wealth.

In deeply unequal societies, those who hold grand private fortunes must sooner or later come to grips with the vast gap that separates them from everyone else. Why do I have so much, becomes the unspoken question, while so many have so little?

The easiest answer: I must deserve my good fortune. I must be worthy. And if I owe my good fortune to my worthiness, then those without fortune must owe their sad circumstances to their unworthiness. They must be dumb or lazy or profligate or worse. These undesirables, this perspective plays out, do not deserve our generosity. Any generosity toward them would only open up, as Lindsey Graham puts it, a Pandoras box.

So assumed the rich of Florence so many generations ago. So assume their counterparts today. Then as now, that amounts to a deadly assumption.

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To data there is no indication that the virus is more or less catchable depending on anything intrinsic about a person:

Ref public people with the COVID-19 disease [a very partial list]:Sophie Gregoire Trudeau [wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau], Boris Johnson [UK PM], Prince Charles [UK], Tom Hanks, Senator Rand Paul,Iraj Harirchi [Iranian Deputy Health Minister], Olga Kurylenko [French actress, starred in Bond movie Quantum of Solace],Michigan State Rep, Capt. Brett E. Crozier, USN [ex-Captain of the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt], Sailor on USNS Comfort, Rita Wilson, Prince Albert II of Monaco,Matthew Hancock [Britain Health Secretary], Alister Jack [Scottish Secretary and member of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cabinet],James Dolan [the executive chairman of the Madison Square Garden Company], Chris Cuomo [CNN anchor and a brother of the current New York state governor], Brooke Baldwin [Another CNN who works with Cuomo],Rudy Gobert [Utah Jazz player touched all the microphones], Donovan Mitchell [Utah Jazz teammate of Goberts], Kevin Durant [1 of 4 Brooklyn Nets players], Marcus Smart [Boston Celtics], Jason Collins [former NBA star],Dmitry Strakhov [cyclist at the UAE Tour],Turkish Boxing Federation [Serhat Guler national team member and trainer Seyfullah Dumlupinar], Sampdoria Italian football club [Five footballers along with the team's doctor], Dusan Vlahovic [Serbian striker for Fiorentina], Marouane Fellaini [former Manchester United footballer, currently plays for Chinese Super League], Callum Hudson-Odoi [player Chelsea Football Club], Colton Underwood [former lead of The Bachelor], Kristofer Hivju [played Tormund Giantsbane on HBO's Game of Thrones],Harvey Weinstein [film producer -- convicted of rape and other sex crimes], Jackson Browne [singer-songwriter], Slim Thug [Houston rapper],Daniel Dae Kim [South Korean-American actor from Hawaii Five-0], Placido Domingo [Spanish opera singer 73 years old -- one of the 3 Tenors], Luis Sepulveda [best-selling Chilean writer, lives in northern Spain, diagnosed after returning from a literary festival in Portugal], Michel Barnier [European Union's chief Brexit negotiator], Bento Albuquerque [Brazilian Mines and Energy Minister], Augusto Heleno [Brazil's national security adviser, 72 years old Army General ret.], Jeremy Issacharoff [Israel's ambassador to Germany], Friedrich Merz [64-year-old politician, campaigning to lead Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU)], Kozo Tashima [head of Japan's football association & deputy head of Japan's Olympic Committee], Nadine Dorries [Minister in UK's Health Department, the first British politician to test positive on March 10], Peter Dutton [Australian Home Affairs Minister], Massoumeh Ebtekar [Iranian Vice President], Begona Gomez [Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife], Quim Torra [The local leader Spains Catalonia region], Irene Montero [Spanish Minister & partner to Deputy Prime Minister Pablo Iglesias], Franck Riester [French Minister of Culture], Francis Suarez [Mayor of City of Miami], Fabio Wajngarten [Press Secretary for Brazilian President Bolsonaro], Michal Wos [Polish Environment Minister], Oumarou Idani [Burkina Faso Minister of Mines], Stanislas Ouaro [Burkina Faso Minister of Education]

and of course the President of Harvard and his wife

Famous people who died from COVID-19 and possibly other co-morbidities:

Not famous except as a recent person who died: Cashier at Market Basket

What do all these people have in common -- Not Age, Ethnicity, Sex, Race, Income, Location, Occupation, Travel or lack there of -- only two things bind all the COVID-19 patients:

So -- why do the homeless, and poor as well as "people of color" do less well on an average after they catch COVID-19. It mostly comes down to the so-called co-morbidity factors:

And finally while it doesn't make you more or less sick -- Close Proximity to people who might be transmitting the SARS-COV-2 virus by talking, breathing, coughing, spitting, etc.

For example the case of:

While some might catch the COVID-19 through contact with a door knob or a seat on a Subway Car and then wiping their face -- this is probably not the primary means of transmission.

Ultimately --- the Frequency and Exposure at close range which you have to infected people -- That's the primary aspect which makes you more likely to catch COVID-19

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Almost nine out of 10 (87%) employees fear for their health because of the Covid-19 outbreak, with many feeling isolated, lonely and finding it difficult to sleep.

According to a survey of 2,008 workers by jobs platform TotalJobs, two-thirds (64%) of the employees now working from home think their wellbeing has been affected by the changes brought about by government restrictions.

More than half (52%) said their sleep had been affected; 54% were less active than before the outbreak; 45% found their new home workspace uncomfortable; and 58% had been eating more than they would normally.

Employees were also worried about their colleagues health and wellbeing. Eighty-six per cent were concerned about co-workers health, which prompted 81% to make more of an effort to reach out to one another.

Almost three-quarters (73%) agreed that they appreciated their colleagues more than they had before the pandemic.

Dr Aaron Balick of the Department for Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex said: Its a paradox that in a time of social distancing people are more aware than ever of their relational needs. In missing our usual workplace banter and support, we are seeking new ways of achieving it, being more conscious about how we reach out to others, and finding out the social pleasures we had in the workplace but were somehow unaware of before.

Working from home can increase worry, stress, and loneliness for many people. Levels of anxiety are increasing with people concerned about their health, job security, and health of their colleagues and loved ones. This means that working from home should be more about work, and become another opportunity to seek and provide comradeship and support during challenging times for all of us.

TotalJobs head of marketing Lynn Cahillane said: Against the backdrop of a constantly changing environment, employers need to remain mindful about the potential unease among their team, and encourage support and awareness, not only for the sake of staffs physical welfare but for any increased mental stress people may be experiencing as a result.

Working from home can increase worry, stress, and loneliness for many people. Levels of anxiety are increasing with people concerned about their health, job security, and health of their colleagues and loved ones, Dr Aaron Balick, University of Essex

Teams should be encouraged to share their worries with line managers, who themselves have an important role to play in ensuring vulnerable employees are supported at this time.

Meanwhile, a separate survey by the Institute for Employment Studies discovered many employees now working from home were struggling with musculoskeletal pain, diet, sleep and their mental health.

More than half (58%) experienced pain in the neck, shoulder (56%) and back (55%), compared to their normal physical condition.

Many were not maintaining a balanced diet and healthy exercise regime; 20% admitted to an increase in alcohol consumption, 33% were eating a less healthy diet, and 60% were exercising less than they would usually acknowledging that they are exercising less.

Sixty-four per cent were losing sleep because of worry, while 50% reported not being happy with their current work-life balance. A third said they frequently felt isolated.

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Viral threat Its unclear why two similar people who become infected with COVID-19 can have very different outcomes: One may

Viral threat

Its unclear why two similar people who become infected with COVID-19 can have very different outcomes: One may develop severe disease while the other becomes only mildly ill. Its a very difficult question to answer, says David Topham, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

But for some people, a weakened immune system can leave them more vulnerable to infections ranging from the new coronavirus to the common cold (which is often caused by less deadly types of coronavirus). And there are a number of factors known to undermine immune function. Understanding and addressing those can help fortify your bodys defenses.

Medical conditions

Your health status can make a big difference in how well you can fend off viruses and other infections. Certain underlying conditions are well-known to result in an overall weakened immune system, notes Dr. Ingrid Mayer, a professor of medicine and cancer research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Those pre-existing conditions include diabetes, malnutrition and untreated HIV, according to Mayer, as well as some cancers such as leukemia or multiple myeloma.

Separately, autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis actually cause the immune system to attack healthy cells, and weaken the bodys response to real threats. And although theres buzz around the drug hydroxychloroquine (used for lupus, arthritis and malaria) as a possible treatment for COVID-19, it remains unproven for this purpose.

Medications

Various types of medications can impact our ability to fight off infections. Drugs used to treat autoimmune disorders by suppressing the immune system are just one example.

Chemotherapy drugs can also lower immunity, Mayer says, as can steroids, which are used to treat inflammation caused by arthritis and other conditions.

So ask your doctor about all your medication options. And discuss how to treat or mitigate immune-compromising side effects if there are no safe, effective alternatives available.

Smoking

Lighting up is not only dangerous by itself it can also weaken the immune system. In particular, smoking can decrease your ability to fight off diseases that affect the lungs, like COVID-19.

It affects your airways ability to clear infection, says Dr. Shira Doron, an infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Although its still not clear why men appear to be more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection than women, some experts theorize that smoking could be a factor, since men are likelier than women to be smokers, Doron says.

Thats just one more reason, in a long list, to never start smoking or quit if you do.

Stress

Constantly being in fight-or-flight mode is taxing on the body. The strain can be felt in many ways, ranging from raised blood pressure to headaches. Too much work stress can even increase the chances youll need to take a sick day.

For anybody, stress is a big factor that can weaken the immune system, Topham emphasizes. Stress can not only increase your vulnerability to infection but it can hamper your recovery time. While theres no way to avoid all stress or anxiety, managing it by taking mental breaks during the day or trying everything from breathing exercises and meditation to yoga can make all the difference.

Sleep problems

Getting too little sleep or poor quality sleep that leaves you feeling tired throughout your day can also undercut your bodys defenses.

About 1 in every 3 adults doesnt even get seven hours of nightly shut-eye, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the minimum amount recommended. Many others suffer from disorders like sleep apnea that even after spending a lot of time in bed leave people feeling groggy in the morning.

With many people working at home during the coronavirus pandemic, that could mean some opportunity to rest more no need to get up earlier for the work commute, for example. Maybe people are sleeping in and catching up on their sleep, Topham says. On the other hand, juggling home and work obligations could mean working at all hours and getting less zzzs. Whatever the case, its critical that you get adequate, restorative rest and treat sleep disorders, experts say, so your bodys defense system is able to function optimally.

Isolation

Social distancing also now referred to as physical distancing can make it hard to connect with others. That, in turn, can put a person at higher risk for mental health challenges, like depression.

In addition, social isolation has been shown to increase stress in animals and people, which is directly linked with a decreased immune response.

For that reason, using all safe options to connect via video chat or a simple phone call is as important now as ever, experts say.

Poor diet

The traditional Western diet high in fat, sugar and processed foods isnt exactly an exemplary eating pattern. Not only can it raise the risk of things like heart disease, but it may also inhibit your bodys ability to fight disease.

Bad luck, poor diet, poor sleep habits, tons of stress all of those things can be associated with not having optimal immune function, Doron says.

Although you cant control certain pieces of your immunity puzzle, such as genetics, you can control your diet. So doing what you can to bolster immune function may include bucking unhealthy trends at the dinner table. Aim to follow a plant-based diet high in fruits, vegetables, nuts and lean proteins akin to, for example, a Mediterranean diet.

Sedentary lifestyle

You could be forgiven for planting yourself on the couch and endlessly scrolling through news updates in the midst of a pandemic. But inactivity and obesity are linked with decreased immunity.

Being sedentary and not exercising leads to less efficient heart function, Topham says. And he notes there are cases where COVID-19 causes cardiovascular injury that can lead to a form of heart failure thats been deadly in some people with the virus. Obesity can also contribute to heart problems and immune suppression, rendering the body less able to battle viral infections.

Research indicates that regular exercise, on the other hand, boosts immunity and can make you less susceptible to disease, including viruses. Physical activity also helps people manage chronic diseases like diabetes that can otherwise undermine the bodys defenses against COVID-19.

Things that can weaken the immune system

Medical conditions.

Medications.

Smoking.

Stress.

Sleep problems.

Isolation.

Poor diet.

Sedentary lifestyle.

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DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., April 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --A peer-reviewed study, performed at Cell Science Systems, Corp., has reported that simple blood tests can determine micronutrients and antioxidants that boost immunity and protect the body's cells.

The study highlights new research on how food sensitivities, as well as nutrient deficiencies, may play a vital role in keeping people healthy. Further, it reports that people with more food sensitivities and an unhealthy diet and lifestyle have more nutrient deficiencies and are less able to resist oxidative stress.

The paper entitled "A randomized observational analysis examining the correlation between patients' food sensitivities, micronutrient deficiencies, oxidative stress response and immune redox status" appears in the current issue of the journal Functional Foods in Health and Disease.

One of the biggest detriments to health is inflammation, whichdrives metabolic syndrome; includingoverweight, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Other conditions linked to food sensitivity include asthma, rhinitis, migraine, eczema, IBS and arthritis.

Avoidance of individual food sensitivities, tested through the Alcat Test, reduces overweight; the major factor that drives these high-risk conditions. Interestingly, food sensitivity reactions, not only promote inflammation but also impair nutritional status, according to the study.Food-induced inflammation, coupled with nutrient deficiencies, are factors that contribute to the underlying conditions that render one more susceptible to the serious effectsof infections.

The main point is: "This study suggests that high food sensitivity is associated with a higher nutrient deficiency, a stronger oxidative stress response and a lower immune redox status (sic, that is, protection from oxidative damage)."

"This is all about prevention, immune balance, and effective diet and lifestyle changes. Underlying conditions lay the ground for less protection from infections,"says lead author Dr. Irena Steele.

These findings are especially relevant today because they show that through laboratory testing one can determine with precision the exact foods and/or nutritional supplements that prevent inflammation, boost T-cell immunity (needed to fight pathogens and destroy infected cells) and also protect the bodies' cells from the ravages of oxidative stress, which can be caused by infections, such as the new coronavirus, stress, environmental pollution, and other factors. The coronavirus, can, in severe cases, induce dramatic and potentially fatal oxidative stress ("cytokine storm").

"Personalization of diet, according to scientific testing, reduces chronic inflammatory conditions and confers a healthier immune state," says Roger Deutsch, CEO of Cell Science Systems. "This is not something we're proposing as a cure for someone already infected; but, it's potentially great news for prevention."

Cell Science Systems, Corp. is a federally and state-licensed laboratory and FDA-registered medical device manufacturer specialized in preventive medical lab tests that measure how the immune system responds to foods, nutrients and other substancesto create a truly personalized diet and health plan.Cell Science Systems was voted"Company of the Year for Food intolerance Testing" by international consulting firmFrost & Sullivan.

CONTACT: Roger Deutsch; Phone: 954 999 8308; Email: [emailprotected]; more information: http://www.CellScienceSystems.com

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The majority of Americans who regularly get their news from conservative sources inaccurately believe that the coronavirus pandemic is no more deadly than the common seasonal flu, according to new polling data.

A new survey by Gallup conducted from March 17 to 29 showed that 57 percent of Americans with a "conservative news diet" including sources such as Fox News, Breitbart, One America News and the National Review believed that the coronavirus posed the same risk or less of a risk than the seasonal flu. In reality, health experts have estimated that the novel virus is at least 10 to 20 times more deadly.

Conversely, the Gallup survey found that only 28 percent of those turning to only "liberal" media including MSNBC, The New York Times, CNN and Vox believed that coronavirus was less or equally deadly as the common flu. Meanwhile, just 36 percent of those who consumed a mix of conservative and liberal media believed incorrectly that the coronavirus was no more deadly than the flu.

Some right-wing pundits and conservative lawmakers have faced criticism from medical professionals and health experts for repeatedly downplaying the threat of the coronavirus by comparing it to the common flu. President Donald Trump also repeatedly made the comparison, even as the number of deaths and confirmed cases rose rapidly across the country.

"So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on," Trump tweeted on March 9.

But Trump's tone has changed significantly in recent days. During a White House press briefing last Tuesday, the president said that "a lot of people" had previously compared coronavirus to the flu. Trump said that people had suggested: "Ride it out, don't do anything, just ride it out and think of it as the flu."

"But it's not the flu. It is vicious," he added.

The overall death rate from the coronavirus remains unclear. As of early Thursday afternoon, there were about 1.45 million confirmed cases of coronavirus around the world. Of those, close to 92,000 have died, while more than 340,000 have already recovered. Those numbers put the death rate from confirmed cases at a little over 6 percent. Comparatively, the seasonal flu has an average death rate of about 0.1 percent.

But health experts have noted that there are almost certainly many cases of coronavirus that have gone uncounted. Some individuals never show any symptoms, despite having contracted the virus. Additionally, a large number of individuals only experience mild symptoms. These people may never get tested and may not even be aware that they could have the coronavirus.

The death rate has also appeared to vary between countries. Analysts have noted that this could be due to a lack of testing. Many countries have struggled to adequately test their populations, meaning that often only the sickest patients get tested and are confirmed to have the virus. There could be a large number of sick individuals with mild cases that have been left uncounted in official totals. Despite the discrepancies and lack of testing, however, the data clearly shows that the coronavirus poses a far greater risk to human health than the common flu.

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You've felt it: That burning sensation that starts in your chest and slowly creeps up your throat like a slow-burning fire. It goes by many names, including the expletive-laden terms sufferers keep to themselves, but the most common are acid reflux, heartburn and acid indigestion.

An acid reflux diet can be a healthy way to eat if you include lots of low-acid fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy.

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If it only happens every once in a while, that means you probably ate something that didn't agree with you. If it happens more than twice a week, though, you may have a more serious condition called gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Either way, your diet is the best place to start to tame the symptoms of acid reflux so it doesn't get out of control.

Taking a good look at your diet is the first line of defense in combatting acid reflux, especially because most symptoms are reported after a meal, according to July 2017 research published in the Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility.

If you have acid reflux, chances are you have trigger foods, meaning those that provoke the burning pain, regurgitation or difficulty swallowing many sufferers experience. Trigger foods can vary from person to person.

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Following an acid reflux diet means you should take out the foods that commonly cause heartburn and add in foods that are known to tame the symptoms.

For most people, that means removing suspect foods and monitoring the effect on symptoms, then slowly adding them back in, one at a time, to see if the acid reflux reemerges. That's how you find your personal trigger foods.

Much of how diet affects acid reflux has to do with a ring of muscle that relaxes to let food pass from the esophagus to the stomach, called the lower esophageal sphincter (LES).

Some foods and lifestyle behaviors cause the LES to relax too much, and that allows stomach contents to come back up into the esophagus, according to August 2019 research published in the Journal of Thoracic Disease.

An acid reflux diet is extremely personalized, since a trigger food for you may not be a trigger food for someone else. This type of eating can be healthful overall, though, and you might see the quality of your diet improve.

Some common trigger foods are ones that should be limited in the diet anyway, and others are just known to cause the LES to relax too much.

This Peaches and Creamy Coconut Quinoa Oatmeal Bowl is a good breakfast option for those with acid reflux.

Since caffeine typically aggravates acid reflux, opt for caffeine-free herbal teas like chamomile. Avoid peppermint or spearmint tea, though, as it may trigger symptoms. Other drinks that are usually safe for those with acid reflux include:

Obviously, there are some foods on the "avoid" list that are healthy foods, but that doesn't mean you can't get those nutrients in other foods that won't aggravate your symptoms of acid reflux.

Following an acid reflux diet that is high in fruits, vegetables and whole grains may help tame your symptoms and, yes, it is a very healthy way to eat.

According to November 2017 research published in the Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, people who had a higher intake of fiber in their diet had a lower risk for GERD. In addition, an August 2019 research article published in the Journal of Thoracic Disease found that people who increased their fiber intake saw a reduction in symptoms of acid reflux.

Pros

Symptoms and severity of acid reflux may decrease by eliminating common trigger foods.

It can take a long time to figure out your trigger foods.

Your overall diet may improve

Meal planning may become more difficult.

If your symptoms calm down after eliminating foods, you decrease your risk for developing esophagitis (inflammation of the esophagus) or Barrett's esophagus (cancer), according to the Mayo Clinic.

Some healthy foods are eliminated from the diet.

It may be harder to eat away from home.

You may have to eliminate foods you love to eat.

If your symptoms of acid reflux are bothering you enough to seek out solutions to tame them, then you should try modifying your diet.

However, diet isn't the only change you should make. There are many lifestyle factors that are also known to cause acid reflux, and diet alone may not be enough to completely get rid of the heartburn.

The Mayo Clinic suggests other modifications you can make to your lifestyle that may tame your symptoms:

While you should mostly avoid desserts that are high in fat or that contain chocolate, peppermint or spearmint, according to UPMC HealthBeat, the following sweets are typically safe for those with heartburn:

Even though occasional acid reflux is fairly common, if you have continuing symptoms that don't get better with diet and lifestyle modifications, seek help from your doctor for other remedies or medication.

If you have difficulty or painful swallowing, pain when you eat, problems breathing or are vomiting in large amounts, it has a strange color, or looks like coffee grounds, you should seek help immediately, per the NIH.

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A study published in the Journal of Human Evolution reveals for the first time the diet of fossil baboon Theropithecus oswaldi discovered in the Victoria Cave in Cartagena (Murcia), the only site in Europe with remains of this primate, which is four million years old and came from eastern Africa.

The new work analyses the diet of this primate based on its sole European fossil remains and thanks to the analysis of the oral micro-wear patterns on the teeth resulting from eating food. According to the conclusions, the feeding pattern of this guenon the most common primate in the fossil registry of the Pleistocene in the African continent would be different to that of baboon Theropithecus gelada, which is phylogenetically currently the closest species to T. oswaldi. Baboon T. gelada, which lives in the Simien mountains in northern Ethiopia, usually feeds on fresh herbs and sprigs.

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The work, headed by professors Laura Martnez and Alejandro Prez-Prez, from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona (UB), was also produced by expert from the Department of Biotechnology of the University of Alicante (UA) Alejandro Romero, as well as experts from the Faculty of Earth Sciences and the Faculty of Psychology of the UV, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Municipal Museum of Prehistory and Palaeontology of Orce (Granada) and George Washington University (USA).

Diet of the fossil baboon in the south of the Iberian Peninsula

According to UA researcher Alejandro Romero, the analysis with electronic microscopy that we did of the enamel of the teeth from Theropithecus oswaldi revealed a good state of preservation, which made it possible to define oral micro-wear. The pattern of micro-grooves that were observed on the enamel, adds Romero, is a reflection of the abrasive nature of the food that was chewed. Therefore, when compared with models of primates with known diets, it is possible to deduce the type of feeding ecology of fossil species.

In this sense, the analysis of the grooves caused to the vestibular side of the teeth resulting from eating these abrasive foods confirms that T. oswaldi specimens from the Victoria Cave had to have a more abrasive diet than the current T. gelada, and more similar to the solid food-based diet of other primates, such as mangabeys (Cercocebus sp.) and baboons (Mandrillys sphinx), who eat fruits and seeds, some of them with hard coats, in wooded and semi-open ecosystems, adds Laura Martnez from the Faculty of Biology of the UB.

However, other more recent studies based on observations of T. Gelada from the region of Guassa, also in Ethiopia, describe a more diverse diet, with the presence of rhizomes and tubers during the most unfavourable season. The difference found between T. oswaldi and T. gelada specimens add study authors indicates that the specialisation observed in current baboons could be derived from the fact that there were no fossils in their lineage. This could be a consequence of a regression in their ecological niche as an adaptation to ecosystems that were altered anthropically or as a result of climate change.

Victoria Cave: the long journey of the African baboon

The Theropithecus genus expanded beyond the Sahara desert, from the east to the north and south of the African continent. Their evolutionary lineage, which is also currently present in some geographical areas of Europe and Asia, came very close to disappearing some 500,000 years ago. Today, it would only be represented by the Theropithecus gelada species, a baboon that basically feeds on herbs and has an ecological profile closer to herbivores than primates.

In 1990, the digging campaign led by palaeontologist Josep Gibert found the first fossil remain, a tooth of Theropithecus oswald (Journal of Human Evolution, 1995), in the Victoria Cave (Cartagena). This karstic cave an old manganese mine has provided fossil remains of close to 100 species of vertebrates and is one of the few European sites from the Lower Pleistocene that has human remains. Outside the African continent, the fossil registry of baboon fossils is very scarce, as other remains have only been found in Ubeidiya (Israel) and Minzapur (India).

The new fossil remains of T. oswaldi with between 900,000 and 850,000 years of age were recovered by a team from the Faculty of Earth Sciences of the UB. The presence of this African guenon in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula strengthens the hypothesis of dispersion models of fauna from the African continent in Europe during the Pleistocene through the Strait of Gibraltar.

The study published in Journal of Human Evolution is framed within the Paleobaboon Research Project, which analyses the dental and cranial adaptations of primates from the papionine tribe as an analogous model of the evolution of the Hominini lineage, who they shared a common geographical space with at similar dates.

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