Category: Science and Health

Many people, especially those who are addicted to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media, suffer from FOMO, the “fear of missing out,” because they see others having fun experiences without them. FOMO is associated not only with social media use but also with low self-esteem, loneliness and internalizing problems. But what about JOMO – […]

These flourless lace cookies are truly addictive. I turn them into sandwich cookies by pairing them up and filling them with Nutella, but they’ll go with just about any spread you like  — be it chocolate spread, homemade ganache, jam or cookie or nut butter.  With no mixer needed, these gluten-free cookies are incredibly simple […]

Adding olive oil to foods in a Mediterranean diet can reduce the risk of breast cancer in women by two-thirds, according to a new study published this month. The Mediterranean diet, chosen as the best for 2023, includes a combination of foods either grown or raised in countries including Italy and Greece, and advocates replacing […]

Healthy pets could be passing on multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs; bacteria that resist treatment with multiple antibiotics) to their hospitalized owners, and furthermore, humans could be transferring these dangerous microbes to their dogs and cats, according to new research published in the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet.  What is antimicrobial resistance? Antimicrobial resistant infections caused an estimated […]

The man was also the first patient to be treated at Rambam’s new trauma care unit.

Seaweed is a superfood, with health, medicinal, pharmaceutical and cosmetic benefits just for the asking – or pulling it up from the sea. It is commonly found as thick growths on rocky shores or accumulations in shallow water at about 50 meters or less.  An innovative study conducted by Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the […]

Over the course of the last few pages, we’ve been discussing the particulars of when a nazirite must shave in response to contracting corpse immunity. On Nazir 49, we encountered a mishnah which taught that a nazirite must shave after coming into contact with a corpse or even certain quantities of fluid or dust from a […]

Heartburn is one of the most annoying phenomena disturbing our daily life. But there is a way to cope with and even prevent it. Dr. Maya Rosman explained in her show on 103FM what exactly heartburn is and what can be done against it. “The feeling of heartburn and a ‘rising’ of the food upwards […]

Peanut allergies can be reduced by 77% if babies are fed peanut products at four to six months of age, a new study found. The peer-reviewed study was published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in December. The study was led by Prof. Graham Roberts of the National Institute for Health and Care […]

As those of us familiar with Sephardic cuisine know, there are often different names and spellings for similar dishes. When it comes to baked casseroles of vegetables, egg and usually cheese, it could be called a kuajado or quajado, sfongato or asfongato, fritada or frittata. Most often, “almodrote” is used by Turkish Jews when the […]