Tag: health
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Life, Unplugged
Read more: Life, UnpluggedNYT’s Unplugged Challenge–series of articles and video from participants. The latest article profiles research into how plugged-in life affects attention: Echoing other researchers, Mr. Strayer says that understanding how attention works could help in the treatment of a host of maladies, like attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia and depression. And he says that on a day-to-day basis, too much…
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Friends for Life
Read more: Friends for LifeNYT: A New Risk Factor: Your Social Life Social relationships are just as important to health as other common risk factors like smoking, lack of exercise or obesity, new research shows…The researchers concluded that having few friends or weak social ties to the community is just as harmful to health as being an alcoholic or smoking…
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Brush Right!
Read more: Brush Right!Not therapy: 10 Toothbrushing Mistakes (WebMD). But I just had a cavity filled. Toothbrushing Mistake No. 1: Not Using the Right Toothbrush Consider the size of your mouth when picking a toothbrush, says Richard H. Price, DMD, the consumer advisor for the American Dental Association. “If you are straining to open wide enough to let…
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Not Smoking
Read more: Not SmokingJane Brody looks at smoking. [O]ver the course of a day, as the brain continues to be exposed to nicotine, partial tolerance develops and each subsequent cigarette produces less of an effect. But during sleep, nicotine comes off the receptors and smokers awaken with an intense craving for a cigarette.
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Dostoyevsky, Halitosis, and Online Dating Lies
Read more: Dostoyevsky, Halitosis, and Online Dating LiesThree from the morning feed… Brooding Russians: Less distressed than Americans (ScienceDaily) Bad Breath Troubles? (WebMD) The Big Lies People Tell In Online Dating (OKCupid)