Tag: health

Two (Unfortunately Limited) Keys to Minimizing Your Risk of Anxiety Attacks

Women and people under the age of 35 at greatest risk of anxiety ...

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Human Resources Shocker: Suffering Heart Failure is NOT Good for Career Motivation!

One-third of heart failure patients do not return to work ...

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Eat Less, Exercise More. No. Exercise More, Exercise More. What Really Beats Obesity?

Exercise, more than diet, key to preventing obesity ...

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Absolut-ly Shocking. Children, and the Impact of Alcohol Advertising

Middle-school kids see several alcohol ads a day ...

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Have Another Lamb Chop. Red Wine’s Resveratrol Counteracts Fatty Diets

Resveratrol found in red wine could help counteract the negative impact of high fat/high sugar diets...

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More NHS Weekend Staff Won’t Change Mortality Rates, says The Lancet

Link between weekend hospital staffing and patient deaths represents 'major oversimplification', say two new studies ...

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Breathe it in Deep! Cycling and Walking are Healthy, even with Air Pollution

Walking and cycling are good for health even in cities with higher levels of air pollution ...

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In With a Bad Crowd? Long Term Effects of Your Child’s Social Network

A 28-year study reveals that the social relationships nurtured in childhood may have physiological consequences...

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Melty Yum. The Chemistry of a Low Fat Chocolate that Might Actually Taste Good

Clever boffins work on ways to make low fat chocolate taste less like Babybel rind...

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Traction Alopecia – Is Your Scrunchie Turning You Bald?

Updos, Weaves, Braids. The styles that strain, and how to manage them...

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Baby, I’m a One-Hominid Hominid. Early Humans Preferred Monogamy

Peer pressures and fear of sexually transmitted infections may have turned early humans into monogamists ...

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Elastic Bandage and Titanium Screws: Counting the Cost of Skateboard Injuries

Study finds skateboarding sent about 176 youths to US Emergency departments every day ...

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What You Need to Survive Cancer (or at least shift the odds in your favour)

How marriage, race and ethnicity and birthplace affect cancer survival ...

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Like Drugs? Like Booze? You May Have a Heightened Suicide Risk

Simultaneous cocaine and alcohol use linked to heightened suicide risk ...

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Hoops or Alphabetti? Tracing the evolutionary history of wheat, for better pasta

Wild and landrace varieties along with genetic diversity are the keys to improving wheat's nutritional value...

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Forget Lipstick on the Collar, Viral Tracking Reveals Exactly Where You’ve Been

Your viruses could reveal your travel history, and more ...

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Creative Mind-Wandering or Disastrous Zone-Out, Which do You Do?

Whether your mind-wandering is intentional or accidental makes a difference to how useful it is...

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No Nookie for the Picky: How Sexual Perfectionism Puts Women Off

When women feel their partner demands perfection, sex life suffers ...

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‘More alike than we are different’. noeverything I AM (Interview)

Their music blends innovative electronics, pop-influenced sweetness, and spiritual elements. Codex Europa interviews noeverything....

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Can Your Name Shorten Your Life? Um…Kinda.

What's in a name? In some cases, longer life ...

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The Wince Test. How to Tell if You Suffer From Empathic Pain

Emotions consist of general components that are also elicited by similar impressions and specific components...

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Too Much, Too Soon. How High Intensity Training Could Hurt You

Warning: High-intensity training could hurt you if you're not an athlete ...

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Genocide By a Thousand Tory Cuts. (Employment and Support Allowance Slashed)

Make no mistake about it: Persistent Tory cuts to disability benefits are a gradual, unglamorous, and barely reported-upon genocide. Essay...

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Can You Remember These Effects of Long Term Stress?

Long-term stress erodes memory. Study in mice places blame on immune system...

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What Can I Take to Help Me Lose Weight? Oh, That!

Drinking more water associated with numerous dietary benefits, study finds ...

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Chill, Dude! Or Maybe Not. Cannabis Users Have Difficulty Processing Emotions

Colorado State University study points to cannabis' muddling effect on emotion processing ...

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Keep Those Leg-Hinges Smooth and Silky with Knee Botox

Researchers use Botox-like injection to treat runners and cyclists with knee pain ...

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The Weird Cause of Obesity You NEVER Imagined

Exposure to air pollution increases the risk of obesity ...

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First Look at the Stretchable nano-scale device That’ll Soon Be in Your Contact Lenses

Researchers create a stretchable nano-scale device to manipulate light...

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Give Me Fifty, or I’ll Give You Zilch. Workplace wellness gets nasty

Withholding incentives is a more effective motivation than guaranteed rewards, when pushing employees to exercise...

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