The way people talk, you’d think that there are only two options for a health care system in a civilized society:
1) public health care, as found in, say, Britain, run by the government; health care is basically free;
2) private health care using insurance companies and privately run hospitals, as found in the united states.
People [...]
A protein that acts as a possible cure for radiation sickness has been invented by Israeli and American scientists.
This would be a more effective defense against nuclear weapons than anti-missile SDI technology. A combinatin of SDI and radiation cure would massively undercut the threat of nuclear weapons. They would still be a deadly threat, but [...]
Breakfast is good for you.
25 steps to a healthier you, including “get an exercise partner”, go for a 30 minute walk, and fix your posture at work.
Helping a town’s residents live longer and healthier:
The project’s strategies are simple: eat more fruits and vegetables, walk instead of drive, stay productive and social well into old age, [...]
It’s official. Energy healing, distance healing, and magnet therapy don’t work. Likewise, saw palmetto won’t help your prostate problem and Black cohosh won’t help for menopausal hot flashes.
The US government has spent around 2.5 billion (a drop in the ocean these days) running controlled studies on alternative medicine, and found that most of it is [...]
It’s official, video games lead to social isolation (no, really?), depression, and is associated with OCD type behaviours.
One in 12 video game players have an unhealthy “addiction” to the pastime, an Australian study shows.
Researchers at the University of Sydney conducted an online poll of almost 2,000 gamers from across the globe.
They were quizzed on their [...]
A major longitudinal study has found seven factors that predict healthy ageing.
Employing mature adaptations
Education
stable marriage
not smoking
not abusing alcohol
some exercise, and
healthy weight.
You might at this point be tempted to quote Clement Freud: “If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.”
Perhaps taking actions that slow ageing and lengthen lifespan [...]
Political blog Huffington Post is credulous of all kinds of woo-woo nonsense. The latest is on alternative remedies for flu (via Respectful Insolence):
The good news is that there are many alternative medicines, herbs, and treatments that can be quite effective in the fight against a wide variety of viruses and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, to which mainstream [...]
Bodies have multiple stable body weights. Once you’re in one stable state, it’s hard to shift to the next.
That’s why some people can seemingly eat what they like without gaining, and others can starve themselves and never lose it.