Tagged “health”
Ammonia from farms the biggest source of PM2.5s in UK
What I learned losing 70 pounds
One big reason for that is that while imitating the lifestyle habits of healthy people sounds like an intuitive strategy, I think it’s actually a pretty bad one...
to manage alcohol consumption more effectively and I’d tell him … try to drink less alcohol? Except maybe it’s okay to cut loose sometimes… but not too often? Ultimately, I just don’t know; it’s not a problem I have.
Effectiveness of physical activity interventions for improving depression, anxiety and distress: an overview of systematic reviews
exercise!
Paper drinking straws may be harmful and may not be better for the environment than plastic versions, researchers warn
many contain PFAS
Reproductive health needs more hard science, not just more apps
Microplastics effect on brain underestimated - worse with weathered plastics
Maurice Hilleman
According to one estimate, his vaccines save nearly eight million lives each year.
Why America is going backward: Being the richest nation in history isn't enough
microplastics trigger more severe inflammatory response in the brain than previously though
made worse by the effects of weathering on the plastic
Senior Safety: Learning to Fall
sucks that most of these are "overcome all your instincts and natural reactions and do this instead".
Stay loose, don't hit your head.
Extreme hoarding
Bryan Johnson spends $2 million a year to be 18
TLDR get enough sleep and exercise
Ask HN : What 60 folks can give career and general life advice for 40 folks
look after your health
SARS-CoV-2 infection and viral fusogens cause neuronal and glial fusion tha
this seems like something you do not want
Ingesting microplastics may increase fat absorption by 145 per cent
Stretch 15
stretching exercises for people who sit a lot
Current streak: 1 day
My relapse years
If there is a choice between changing and not changing, I can assure you the latter is the much easier road. How splendid it feels to revert to form. How cool and lovely and sweet. I believe that most of us, in our gut, know what we need to do in this life: We need to leave that job. We need to leave that relationship. We need to stop smoking, stop stuffing our face with peanut butter and fudge, stop hiding in that closet, whatever that closet happens to be for you. But change is hard, man. Ask Obama. Ask anyone who’s ever tried to change.
What I wish I had known when I was drinking in that ridiculous closet is that change requires failure. It requires screw-ups and a mouthful of grass and shins covered in bruises and I’m sorry, but I don’t know any other way around that. It also requires time and patience, two things I don’t particularly like, because I was raised in the school of epiphany and instant gratification, which is why I loved alcohol, because it was fast, immediate, pummeling.
End-of-Life Dreams
COVID-19 Is a Vascular Disease: Coronavirus’ Spike Protein Attacks Vascular System on a Cellular Level
The COVID Heart—One Year After SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Patients Have an Array of Increased Cardiovascular Risks
Don’t panic about social media harming your child’s mental health – the evidence is weak
Honestly, it's probably the phones
Exercises for people who sit a lot
microsoft/BioGPT
Generative Pre-trained Transformer for Biomedical Text Generation and Mining
Fixing Back Pain Permanently
Did anyone else lose their marbles?
Some of these experiences sound terrifying.
Microclots and long COVID
Glass | The First Digital Notebook Designed for Doctors
"My best estimate is that gas stoves decrease life expectancy by 53 days on average"
Big thread on masking
A multivalent nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine against all known influenza
Is the soaring use of ADHD stimulants a cause for concern?
Probably yes
Why so much drug use in the United States?
Ask HN : How did you stop drinking? : Hacker News
The Curious Afterlife of a Brain Trauma Survivor
Coming back as someone different after a traumatic brain injury, and overcoming symptoms.
“I Use Weed for My ADHD”: A Qualitative Analysis of Online Forum Discussions on Cannabis Use and ADHD
On Tea and the Art of Doing Nothing
no projects, not side hustles, not reading to learn.
just sitting
‘Ticking away in the back of my mind’: what does it mean to know the risk embedded in your DNA?
does knowing the risk help, or cause added worry
The relationship between car shedding and subjective well-being
Subjective well-being improves with car shedding, if it's not done for financial reasons.
From Dry January to Fake Cocktails, Inside the New Temperance Movement
I quit
huh, weird that I already had a tag for smoking
Importantly, it helped me overcome my fear that if I quit smoking, I wouldn’t be able to write anymore, since I’d always done the two activities together (today I tell writing students not to smoke at all, but if they must, not to smoke while writing, lest they prolong their addiction to protect their artistic production).
But what really helped me kick was Alan’s advice about motivations: “You’re 33 years old. You might smoke for 40 more years before you get sick. Not getting sick in forty years won’t be much of a motivation next week when you’re craving a cigarette. You need a motive for next week, not forty years from now.”
The next-week reason he came up with was "I spend two laptops per year on smokes". So he now buys a laptop each year.
The Dorito Effect - the story of food through the lens of flavor
Maybe this is what Flavortown is all about.
Why, I wondered, does flavor have such a hold over us? And why do so many scientists carry on as though nutrition starts from the neck down, that what truly matters in food is carbs, protein and fat, and flavor is just some meaningless and frivolous indulgence?
Our flavor sensing equipment—the nose and mouth—takes up more DNA than any other bodily system. Why is there so much DNA devoted to a sense we tend to think of as superfluous?
Angus Wallace
Known for his work in "in-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware"
"What happened after 2010?"
The state of burnout in tech, 2022 edition
Virtual Reality: My Digital Dojo for Mental & Physical Fitness
Related: VR Exercise Equivalent ratings. Apparently modded Audioshield is the highest intensity
Association between low density lipoprotein cholesterol and all-cause mortality: results from the NHANES 19992014
The Haddon Matrix for injury prevents
Matrix of three factors for three stages (before, during, after). The word "host" made some of the explanations sound funny to me
Separate the agent from the host.
Provide protection for the host.
Medications - non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
How do anti-inflammatories work? What do they actually do? Bodies are crazy
Breaktimer Linux app
Britain Infected Volunteers With the Coronavirus. Why Won’t the U.S.?
Burning out and quitting
The Newest Face of Diet Culture Is the Instagram Butt
Our anti-science science advisors, yet again
To clarify: The increased nutrient absorption they observed wasn’t actually
Podcasting "I quit" - Cory Doctorow
When I quit smoking 17 years ago, a wise doctor counselled me that if I was going to resist cravings, I needed a more immediate reason than "I won't get cancer in 40 years." My answer: "I spend two laptops per year on a product whose makers want to murder me and my friends."
A Chemical Hunger – Part I: Mysteries
The mysterious and meteoric rise in obesity since the late 70s. Part 2 includes a reference to The Australian Paradox
The Centuries-Old Sport of Karate Finally Gets Its Due at the Olympics
“True karate is about competing with yourself, not with other people,” agrees Da Luz of the Okinawa Karate Information Center. This also makes it a lifetime practice
There's a Second Brain in Your Gut
How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life
Overview of a century of breakthroughs and other improvements to health and longevity. The many small changes that stack up to reduce mortality.
The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer
I love this for many reasons. Mostly for some people continuing with approaches that aren't just brute force deep neural nets. Goes into better detail than the original headline, which implied it could just automatically detect cancer cells (it was years of work going from pastry detector to other uses). Hard things are hard.
Can't Get Comfortable In Your Chair? Here's What You Can Do
Excellent tips, and good pictures explaining what they mean (this is often overlooked in descriptions of actions). Sit forward, sit up. Leg angle closer to 120 that 90 is a good one
Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to Young People: “Learn to Be Alone,” Enjoy Solitude
Pork for a Change?
More negative knock-on effects from decades of demonizing fat
Preventing Injury: 8 Best Hand and Wrist Exercises for Computer Users
Also remember to take damn breaks
Learning to swim again
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