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Is “The Neighborhood” Making you Fat?
NW– The theory that weight problems could be spread via social networks isn’t new. In 2007, researchers found that people were up to 57 percent more likely to become obese if a friend or family member did the same during a certain period of time. For this study, the team wanted to answer whether living in […]
Are you a Weekend Warrior???
I think its fair to say that the majority of young-working Americans fall into the “Weekend Warrior” category. Typically in Bed at 10:30pm Monday through Thursday and then Friday 4pm hits… All routine, structure and daily habits are put on pause and random acts of weekend vibes ensue. Not a bad thing at all. Well, […]
It’s Just Five Pounds…Huh
NYT – An ambitious new study published this month in Cell Systems, however, promises to shed some new light, enumerating for the first time the thousands of changes in genes and various biological systems that may occur after even a small amount of weight gain, and which may — or may not — be reversed […]
It’s Hard Work – To Work Hard
Its Hard Work to Work Hard Thinks about this statement for a little, let it light up your brain as you try to decipher the code, its inner meaning. To me this sentence can also be presented the following way : “Working Hard is Hard Work”. Working hard has always been an outspoken pillar to […]
Would you be Friends with your Identical Clone?
NYT – Researchers in China reported on Wednesday that they have created two cloned monkeys, the first time that primates have been cloned with the technique that produced Dolly the sheep more than 20 years ago. The long-tailed macaques, named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, were made from fetal cells grown in a petri dish. […]
Should you take Your Vitamins this Morning?
PS – From Gwyneth Paltrow to Alex Jones of Info Wars, it seems like everyone is promising that vitamins— and their creepy alter ego, supplements—can soothe what ails us. Supplements are now a multi-billion-dollar industry that many say will continue to grow. But we’re not getting any healthier. Last year, U.S. life expectancy declined for […]
Most Doctors aren’t comfortable Prescribing Weed……And Pretty Much Anything Natural
EH– Marijuana is now legal — at least for medical purposes — in more than half the states in the country, the researchers said. Curriculum deans at 101 medical schools completed surveys about marijuana education. Just over two-thirds said their graduates weren’t prepared to prescribe medical marijuana. One-quarter said their graduates weren’t even able to […]
Fitness, Nutrition and Fashion…Wait What?
Remember when people had two sets of cloths, you know – for when its warm and for when its cold. Life was simple, for those in-between months you’d just take a guess and live a little. Then some real sharp tools in the shed thought: “Hey, we need cloths for all four seasons . Lets […]
Your Gut is Smarter Than You Think
HHP- Interest is also developing in the so-called “brain-gut axis.” It has been theorized that changes in intestinal bacteria may play a role in neuropsychiatric conditions such as anxiety or depression. The intestine has its own separate nervous system, and generates many of the same neurotransmitters (including acetylcholine and serotonin) that the brain generates. These […]
Are Parents Making Kids Heavyweights?
NYT –There’s an underlying assumption here about what adults can control, and about how children can be controlled, if only their parents would take the trouble, or make and enforce healthy rules for the whole family, or read the nutritional information on the back of the cereal box. Certainly, there’s some confusion and […]
Your Office is a Hostile Environment
NYT – Americans spend over 90 percent of their lives indoors. Until recently, little was known about how this was impacting us. But evidence is now mounting that we are paying a physiological price for spending all those hours cooped up unnaturally within four walls. Levels of the stress hormone cortisol tend to be higher […]
More Fitness Technology & Data… Same Doughnut Love Affair
WSJ –High-tech interventions also have failed to encourage people to live more healthily. For an October 2016 paper in the journal Lancet, researchers at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore randomly assigned employees from 13 organizations to one of four groups, in an effort to encourage exercise. One group got Fitbit Zip trackers, two other […]