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Att regelbundet låta kroppen vila från mat har positiv effekt på hälsan, säger Kerstin Brismar. Och det behöver inte vara mer dramatiskt än att skippa nattmackan så att kroppen får tolv timmars matpaus. I avsnittet berättar hon om den korta fastans effekter på kroppen och varför småätande gör oss både tjocka och ledsna

How have social distancing and quarantine measures affected older individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic? Recent research lead by Professor Miia Kivipelto’s team provides some important insights – there were several negative effects but at the same time many lifestyles and behaviors did not substantially change during the first wave of the pandemic, and some even improved.

Wallberg H, Brismar K, Hellenius M-L och Kivipelto M bidrar till samhällsdiskussionen: "Vetenskapliga utvärderingar visar nu även att risken att insjukna eller avlida i hjärt-och kärlsjukdomar eller insjukna i typ 2-diabetes minskar hos deltagare i preventionsprogrammen jämfört med en referensgrupp där patienterna inte deltagit i programmen"

Congratulations to Carl Johan Sundberg who has been awarded the medal "8th size medal suspended by a blue ribbon" from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf, for his "outstanding contributions as a researcher and educator in health and exercise" 

Judith Bruchfeld is a Chief Physician at Karolinska University Hospital and a docent in Infectious Diseases at Karolinska Institutet’s Department of Medicine, Solna. She is accustomed to studying airborne pandemic contagion. Early in the current pandemic, Judith saw the need to assemble various experts to investigate long-term illness after COVID-19. “There’s a lot we don’t understand yet.”

The virtual Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Health is a collaboration between Karolinska Institutet and Makerere University in Uganda. The aim of the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Health is to develop capacity and mobilise actions to drive the agenda for sustainable health. The Centre is permeated by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Titled "Exercise Induces Different Molecular Responses in Trained and Untrained Human Muscle" and authored by scientists from Karolinska Institutet, Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences and Stanford University, it became the most highly viewed article in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise in 2020

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, consumer eating patterns and habits have changed. Before the pandemic, most countries in the Nordic-Baltic region had been collecting food consumption data to monitor the region’s health and food safety situation, but during these unusual times, no data on consumer behaviour exists. Take a look at survey data on food consumption in the Baltic region.

Patricia Eustachio Colombo, doctoral student with the Department of Global Public Health at KI, is first author of the cross-sectional study based on data from the Swedish national dietary survey “Riksmaten ungdom” published in Public Health Nutrition.

Listen to Karolinska Institutet's President Ole Petter Ottersen discussing "Successful Aging", Diana Norland on "The Survival or Wellness Longevity: Is there a Choice?" and Kerstin Brismar on "The Future Consequences of Current Lifestyles" in a seminar entitled The Future of Aging - How Longevity Will Change the Way We Live, held at Engelsbergs bruk on 3 April 2019.

Karolinska Institutet's podcast 'Medicinvetarna' discusses topics of interest with KI researchers. The podcast is in Swedish.