The health benefits of giving, joining in and having a plan

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Helping others, joining in and having some kind of life plan or at least goals, aspirations and ambitions seem to make for enhanced mental health. Certainly, it’s a better strategy than popping supplements and introspection. There is even some scientific evidence that spending money on others, rather than yourself, makes you happier, as does laughter, singing, socialising, taking part, all apparently good for the immune system in ways we are only starting to understand. …

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Carbon emissions and reproductive health

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Is there a link between carbon emissions in the developing world and reproductive health?

High carbon emissions correlate with poorer reproductive health among women in nine countries of 74 assessed, according to US researchers. Conversely, economic development seems to have no significant association with female reproductive health.

FangHsun Wei and Vijayan Pillai of the University of Texas, in Arlington, …

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Just do one thing to boost your health

Posted in Science at 4:19 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment  

For 23.5 hours each day you can sit, slouch, sleep, whatever…but whatever the whatever, make sure you walk for the remaining 0.5 hours in the day. It is the single best thing you can do for your mental and physical health. It is the “green prescription” the cash-free Rx we can all self-prescribe to improve quality of life. It does assume you can walk, of course, so one might say it’s for the 99%…

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House and hypochondriacs

Posted in Science at 4:30 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment  

My wife and I have become addicted to viewing the serial exploits of Dr Gregory House MD, you know, the character played by the inimitable British actor Hugh Laurie. House MD has not only made Laurie very rich and famous and convinced a whole generation of Americans that the nouveaux blues singer is surely an Amercun not a Brit, but has underpinned …

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