Plant vs. Animal Fat & Screen Time At Bedtime

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CF 347: Plant vs. Animal Fat & Screen Time At Bedtime Today we’re going to talk about Plant vs. Animal Fat & Screen Time At Bedtime But first, here’s that sweet sweet bumper music

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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #347 Now if you missed last week’s episode, we talked about REM And TMD & Psychological Factors In Knee Osteoarthritis Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

Another Monday, another staffing issue but this one is OK too. I told one of my girls today that if someone didn’t know us and all they knew was our staff changes over the last 2 years, they’d think we’re crazy people and hard to work for. The truth is, when you have 12 or 13 employees, you just have people in different aspects of their lives going and coming and doing life like the rest of us. It is what it is. The one who turned in a resignation today is a massage therapist who’s been with us for 9+ years. No animosity. No problems.

She just wants to try things on her own where she rents a booth at a spa and does it on her own. We didn’t do anything wrong. Just a change in stages of her life and that’s OK. Not everyone’s dreams and goals are my dreams and goals.

That’s the new pile of BS I stepped into this week. Last week was a whole different thing that I’m not getting into on the podcast but things have been challenging. But, on the encouraging side, you’ve heard me saying that business has been picking up again. And that has been maintained. But, what it does is to serve as an impetus to make sure you’re giving and pouring into the ones on your team that are all in and doing what they can do to grow the clinic and take the best care of your patients. If they’re performing and dependable, pay them. Keep them on board. Employees like career trajectory. But we don’t have a huge ceiling and not a lot of titles an employee can have in our clinics, do we? So how do you pour into your staff? Some of the big drivers of employee satisfaction are:

1. Recognition and appreciation
2. Opportunities for growth and development
3. Work-life balance
4. Positive work environment
5. Autonomy and decision-making authority

Other things that matter are

1. Reputation – are they proud to tell people where they work?
2. Senior management – what confidence do they have in you as the captain of the ship?
3. Immediate manager – if you are the owner but have a manager running the staff, what is their confidence and relationship with that leader and what kind of leader are they?

There are several more but here’s the thing, you gotta do you and run your clinic how you best see fit but these things need to be in your mind as well because when you have happy employees, you have higher retention, increased productivity, and better customer/patient service. Every time.

Just a tip from your Ol’ Uncle Jeffro

Item #

Our first one this week is called, “Plant and Animal Fat Intake and Overall and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality” by Zhao et al and published in JAMA Internal Medicine on August 12, 2024 aye chihuahua!

Zhao B, Gan L, Graubard BI, et al. Plant and Animal Fat Intake and Overall and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality. JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 12, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3799 Remember, the citations can be found at chiropracticforward.com under this episode.

Why They Did It Importance The impact of dietary fat intake on long-term human health has attracted substantial research interest, and the health effects of diverse dietary fats depend on available food sources. Yet there is a paucity of data elucidating the links between dietary fats from specific food sources and health. They wanted to study the associations of dietary plant and animal fat intake with overall mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality.

How They Did It This large prospective cohort study took place in the US from 1995 to 2019. The analysis of men and women was conducted in the National Institutes of Health–AARP Diet and Health Study. Data were analyzed from February 2021 to May 2024. Specific food sources of dietary fats and other dietary information were collected at baseline, using a validated food frequency questionnaire.

What They Found The analysis included 407,531 men and women the mean age of the cohort was 61.2 During 8,107,711 person-years of follow-up, 185,111 deaths were noted, including 58 526 cardiovascular disease mortality deaths. Now, I could dive into the weeds here for you but I’ll lose you like a sock in the laundry and we don’t want that so we’ll go to the wrap-up. We don’t want to get glassy-eyed and mushy-brained.

Wrap It Up The findings from this prospective cohort study demonstrated consistent but small inverse associations between a higher intake of plant fat, particularly fat from grains and vegetable oils, and a lower risk for both overall and cardiovascular disease mortality. A diet with a high intake of animal-based fat, including fat from dairy foods and eggs, was also shown to be associated with an elevated risk for both overall and cardiovascular disease mortality.

Basically, these findings provide detailed information about how increased intake of dietary fat from plant sources may help improve human health and related mortality outcomes. Particularly fat from grains and vegetable oils. In contrast, fats from animal fat, dairy products, and egg fats were associated with an increased risk for mortality for overall and CVD mortality. And now that question no longer lingers within your brain chambers.

Item #2

Our last one this week is called, “Brosnan B, Haszard JJ, Meredith-Jones KA, Wickham S, Galland BC, Taylor RW. Screen Use at Bedtime and Sleep Duration and Quality Among Youths. JAMA Pediatr. Published online September 03, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.2914” by Brosnan et al and published in JAMA Pediatrics on September 3, 2024 and one word, two syllables…..Day-um….that’s hot, people.

Brosnan B, Haszard JJ, Meredith-Jones KA, Wickham S, Galland BC, Taylor RW. Screen Use at Bedtime and Sleep Duration and Quality Among Youths. JAMA Pediatr. Published online September 03, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.2914

Why They Did It To examine whether evening screen time is associated with sleep duration and quality that night in youths.

How They Did It This repeated-measures cohort study was performed in participant homes in Dunedin, New Zealand. Participants included healthy kiddos aged 11 to 14.9 years. Data analyzed from October to November 2023. Objectively measured screen time, captured using wearable or stationary video cameras from 2 hours before bedtime until the first time the youth attempted sleep (shut-eye time) over 4 nonconsecutive nights. Video info was coded using a reliable protocol to quantify device and activity type. Sleep duration and quality were measured objectively via wrist-worn accelerometers. The association of screen use with sleep measures was analyzed on a night-by-night basis using mixed-effects regression models including participant as a random effect and adjusted for weekends.

What They Found Of the 79 participants, all but 1 had screen time before bed. Screen use in the 2 hours before bed had no association with most measures of sleep health that night All types of screen time were associated with delayed sleep onset but particularly interactive screen use. Every 10 minutes of additional screen time in bed was associated with shorter total sleep time The mean difference in total sleep time was −9 minutes for passive screen use. In particular, gaming and multitasking were associated with less total sleep time.

Wrap It Up In this repeated-measures cohort study, use of an objective method showed that screen time once in bed was associated with impairment of sleep, especially when screen time was interactive or involved multitasking. These findings suggest that current sleep hygiene recommendations to restrict all screen time before bed seem neither achievable nor appropriate.

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