#health (187 links)
- New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function sciencealert.com
- The myopia boom | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
It's a long article, but the essential point is that insufficient time spent in bright light >10k lux (roughly corresponding to being in shade on a bright day) during early childhood increases the risk of developing myopia.
- The Evolution of Diet nationalgeographic.com
cooking not only gave early humans the energy they needed to build bigger brains but also helped them get more calories from food so that they could gain weight. In the modern context the flip side of his hypothesis is that we may be victims of our own success. We have gotten so good at processing foods that for the first time in human evolution, many humans are getting more calories than they burn in a day. “Rough breads have given way to Twinkies, apples to apple juice,” he writes. “We need to become more aware of the calorie-raising consequences of a highly processed diet.”
- Traditional treatment for depression is not always the answer theguardian.com
The bottom line here is that this idea would punish people for not accepting the route one version of how to combat an extremely complex and multi- faceted condition, one which experts are constantly labouring to better understand.
- New Statesman | How mistakes can save lives: one man’s mission to revolutionise the NHS newstatesman.com
Chapanis had recognised that human beings’ propensity to make mistakes when they are tired is much harder to fix than the design of levers. His deeper insight was that people have limits, and many of their mistakes are predictable effects of those limits. That is why the architects of CRM defined its aim as the reduction of human error, rather than pilot error. Rather than trying to hire or train perfect pilots, it is better to design systems that minimise or mitigate inevitable human mistakes.
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- Can Mindfulness Help You Quit Smoking? psychologytoday.com
- Goodnight. Sleep Clean. - NYTimes.com nytimes.com
Sleep, it turns out, may play a crucial role in our brain’s physiological maintenance. As your body sleeps, your brain is quite actively playing the part of mental janitor: It’s clearing out all of the junk that has accumulated as a result of your daily thinking.
- Managing a Mind ◆ 24 ways 24ways.org
- Sleep: The Ultimate Brainwasher? | Science/AAAS | News news.sciencemag.org
- Waiting to inhale: are you breathing in the best way? theguardian.com
"Taking frequent, shallow breaths is inefficient, and tends to have a detrimental effect on performance," says McConnell. She suggests two to ensure that you are controlling your breathing. Firstly, learn how to breathe rhythmically during movement (more of that in a moment). And secondly, improve your inspiratory (inhalation) muscle function.
- Psychiatrists: the drug pushers theguardian.com
One of my oldest friends is a consultant psychiatrist who I've actually seen practising in just this way, with preternatural flair and compassion.
In both their cases, however, I feel about them rather the way I do about the last archbishop of Canterbury: I consider Rowan Williams to be a wise and spiritual man mostly despite rather than because of his Christianity; and I think many psychiatrists are good healers mostly despite rather than because of the medical ideology of mental illness to which they subscribe.
The spectre of competition means that at work, school, everywhere we think we have to work/study/run as fast as we possibly can, all the time. But, says Bjergegaard, much of that is counterproductive. "We get tired, we don't work as well under constant stress. We don't always need to be there anyway – many of my best ideas have come when I'm running, or on holiday."
- The Science of Insomnia io9.com
- Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie | Men's Journal Magazine archive.mensjournal.com · Archived on
- Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011) | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- » Why You Can’t Eat Healthier :zenhabits zenhabits.net
I should note that this idea is the same for any other addiction: biting your nails, smoking, drugs, alcohol, etc. We use them as crutches to cope with our needs, and to beat them we need to find healthier methods of coping and meeting our needs.
- WalkJogRun Running Routes walkjogrun.net
- Fixing Your Feet - Home fixingyourfeet.com
- MovNat®: Explore Your True Nature™ movnat.com
- Dare to Bare: The Truth about Barefoot Running - General - Runner's World runnersworld.co.uk · Archived on
- Why our food is making us fat | Business | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
Don’t listen to runners that say it is hard. I don’t disbelieve them when they say that. But I suggest it is hard because they run for ulterior motives. People don’t feel they deserve certain things unless they are hard.
- The Perfected Self - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
- Britain's best bike rides | Travel | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
- Barefoot running: bare your sole | Sport | The Observer guardian.co.uk
"I asked Galahad Clark, the brand's creator, if he thinks the general public's shoe-coddled feet will be able to handle running with such little support. "Yes," says Clark, "but it will be a big transition for people accustomed to wearing highly cushioned, inflexible shoes. The foot muscles are weak and need to time to adjust." Not such a bad thing, he believes. "Trainers artificially allow unfit people to run longer than their bodies are conditioned for. It's rather like hitting yourself over the head while wearing a crash helmet: it might not hurt immediately but the long-term harm is obvious."
- Phys Ed: How Interval Training Can Improve Health - NYTimes.com well.blogs.nytimes.com
- Cardiff University - Common Cold Centre cardiff.ac.uk
- Action for Happiness actionforhappiness.org
- My dying friend found kindness to be the rule, not the exception | Henry Porter | Comment is free | The Observer guardian.co.uk
The health service is portrayed as an intractable managerial nightmare. We spend so much time deploring the waste and inefficiency that we often forget that at the heart of the whole unwieldy system is a routine compassion, which is simply magnificent. And even more remarkable is that we attempt to guarantee this consideration to every person in the country who needs care.
Via blech.
- It's Time to End the War on Salt: Scientific American scientificamerican.com
I've never been at war with salt myself.
minor9th: Trust me on the vaseline - Seven things I've learned the hard way about running http://bit.ly/j4MSL7