February is American Heart Month. With the goal of encouraging heart health awareness and providing heart disease prevention tactics, I wanted to offer resources, including a story idea, multimedia content and expert that I hope will help with your coverage plans.
Healthy Food Hypes Proven & Myth Busted
Recent research may have Americans rethinking their diet. A group of the nation’s leading cardiologists took a fresh look at the most popular foods and describe their implications - both good and bad - on heart health. The results may have you changing your meal plan.
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Manchester, UK – 5th February 2019: IX Reach, the leading provider of SDN cloud connectivity, remote peering and Ethernet services to more than 170 global locations is proud to announce its network expansion into East Africa in partnership with the award-winning Djibouti Data Center.
Djibouti Data Center (DDC) has been selected as the strategic hub for IX Reach’s African expansion owing to its excellent reputation and unique position as the first and only Tier 3 carrier neutral ecosystem in east Africa with direct access to all major international and regional cable systems connecting Africa to Europe, Middle Eastern, and Asian markets.
“We are delighted to call Djibouti Data Center a new Point of Presence (PoP) on our network”, said Simon Vye, CEO at IX Reach. He continued, “IX Reach is dedicated to increasing connectivity, collaboration and innovation as well as improving the range of services we provide to our customers. This new partnership with DDC is key in continuing our vision of making our full portfolio of solutions including cloud connectivity just one cross connect away on the IX Reach network.”
DDC tenants will be able to connect directly onto IX Reach’s global network giving access via a single port to over 50 Internet Exchanges and Direct Connect into the industry’s leading Cloud Service Providers. Given the geographical importance of Djibouti, IX Reach will also be able to address markets in other African countries improving global connectivity and reach.
"We are very excited to have IX Reach join the carrier neutral DDC ecosystem, and to be enhancing the DDC’s available network footprint for our global customer base as well as Africa’s growing and emerging markets,” said Anthony Voscarides, CEO of the Djibouti Data Center. “In addition to the DDC’s market leading access in east Africa to international and regional fiber cable systems, the new IX Reach PoP will further enhance connectivity options to a diverse network of major Internet Exchange Points, cloud service providers, and data centers across Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific regions.”
The expansion into a new continent continues to highlight IX Reach’s global ambitions and increased investment into its network and services demonstrating its dedication to meeting the global challenges of increased data use driven by the growth of video streaming, content delivery, IoT, big data and AI technology.
About the Djibouti Data Center (DDC)
The Djibouti Data Center (DDC) is the first and only Tier 3 carrier-neutral data center ecosystem in east Africa with direct access to all major international and regional fiber optic systems connecting Europe, the Middle East, and Asia markets with Africa – including AAE1 and SeaMeWe5. The DDC also operates the Djibouti Internet Exchange (DjIX), a neutral and independent IXP in Africa. The DjIX offers content and service providers high speed, reliable, and resilient bilateral and multilateral peering service. Both the DDC and DjIX are catalysts in east Africa that enable new applications and services that help to drive economic development and social well being in the region. Learn more about the DDC products and services
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Is Your Sleep Problem Tied To The Family
Tree? Here Are 3 Diet Tips To Reverse It
It’s estimated that 50-70 million U.S. adults have some type of sleeping disorder. And what you eat or don’t eat may impact how you sleep.
Many studies provide evidence of how nutrition influences sleep quality and also plays a role in disorders such as sleep apnea, snoring, TMJ, and insomnia. Some doctors say the connection goes even further - perhaps back one or two generations in a family tree.
“Although patients often understand the role that diet plays in their overall health, many are surprised to find out that factors such as what their mother ate, or what their family traditionally eats, may have also played a role in their issues with breathing-related sleep disorders and TMJ,” says Dr. Shab Krish, author of Restore Your Rest: Solutions for TMJ and Sleep Disorders (www.krish.com). “That happens when outside stimulus detected by the body causes modifications at the cellular level, known as epigenetics. Diet can have a significant impact on changes to the cells.
“Several studies show that a poor or high-fat diet is detrimental to health across several generations. So what the mother eats when she is pregnant can affect the cells of the fetus. But the good news is that epigenetic marks are reversible and can respond to environmental changes like a healthy diet.”
Dr. Krish has three diet recommendations that can lead to healthier cells and better sleep:
Avoid Inflammatory foods. Dr. Krish says foods such as sugar, dairy products and gluten can cause inflammation and weight gain all over the body. This in turn increases the chances of sleep disorders. “For example, if there is excess fat in the neck, it can put more pressure on the airway,” Dr. Krish says. “Sugar is the worst; it causes inflammation everywhere, including in the nasal passages, which can cause a person to develop a bad habit of breathing through the mouth. And when that happens, the lower jaw is set back and downward, which can lead to poor tongue position and poor swallowing habits. All of these contribute to sleep issues.”
Load up on Omega 3s. “The typical Western diet is filled with refined carbohydrates and animal proteins and does not include many inflammation-reducing Omega 3s - fatty acids which have been shown to reduce cardiac arrest,” Dr. Krish says. Omega 3 foods Krish recommends include fish - anchovy, mackerel, salmon, sardines - nuts and seeds (walnuts, flax seeds), navy beans and soybeans, and vegetables such as spinach and brussel sprouts.
Eat epigenetic boosters. “An epigenetic diet can maximize the health of DNA,” says Dr. Krish. “Foods such as broccoli, turmeric, and green tea have demonstrated the ability to slow or reverse damage to the DNA. Foods that are rich in folate - vitamin B9 - improve epigenetics. These include citrus fruits, strawberries, and leafy green vegetables. Foods rich vitamin B12, such as milk, meat, fish and eggs, also are part of the folate family and boost epigenetics.”
“When it comes to sleep problems, nasal breathing and issues of the jaw and mouth, inflammation is a big culprit,” Dr. Krish says. “A strong overall diet goes a long way toward reducing it.”
About Dr. Shab Krish
Dr. Shab Krish, author of Restore Your Rest: Solutions for TMJ and Sleep Disorders, is director of TMJ & Sleep Therapy Centre of North Texas (www.krish.com). She has board certifications with the American Academy of Craniofacial Pain and the American Board of Craniofacial Dental Sleep Medicine. She is also a double specialist in both periodontics and endodontics.
