Tagged “health”
"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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