Courtesy of: Your Napa Chiropractor Dr. Joseph T. Megna Health Alert: Vaping and Chronic Lung Disease. Researchers analyzed records from 2013 to 2016 on new lung disease diagnoses and found that both traditional smoking and e-cigarette use are associated with an elevated risk for chronic lung disease compared with nonsmokers (50% and 33%, respectively). The findings are important because debate continues over whet...

Courtesy of: Your Napa Chiropractor Dr. Joseph T. Megna Health Alert: MAFLD? Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a condition that occurs when fat accumulates in the liver from causes other than excessive alcohol consumption. In a recent article, researchers suggested changing the name for this condition to metabolic (dysfunction) associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) in order to better highlight the unde...

Courtesy of: Your Napa Chiropractor Dr. Joseph T. Megna Health Alert: Heavy Drinking Earlier in Life Can Have Long-Term Consequences. Using data from the Whitehall II cohort, researchers identified a link between heavy alcohol intake before midlife and hypertension, impaired liver function, increased stroke risk, a larger waist circumference, and a higher body mass index (BMI) later in life, even if heavy drinking...