Health
How other people's looks affect what we eat
When you next pop into a café for a snack or lunch, you may not be aware of how your food choice is influenced by the appearance of the waitress or waiter.
Jun 15, 2018
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News tagged with lifestyle choices
Cardiology
Heart issues affecting younger people
Many of the heart disease risk factors are the same for everyone. Lifestyle choices, such as lack of exercise, obesity, smoking and drinking alcohol excessively, are risk factors that affect many adults. But Dr. Regis Fernandes, ...
Feb 23, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Working memory positively associated with higher physical endurance and better cognitive function
Mount Sinai researchers have found a positive relationship between the brain network associated with working memory—the ability to store and process information relevant to the task at hand—and healthy traits such as ...
Dec 5, 2017
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Overweight & Obesity
Obesity is about much more than an unhealthy lifestyle
Despite an abundance of evidence illustrating that weight gain is caused by a complex cocktail of factors, obesity is often solely attributed to poor individual lifestyle choices – such as diet and exercise.
Sep 22, 2017
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Neuroscience
When it comes to keeping our brains young, we need to rise to new challenges
As we get older, our thinking skills often deteriorate: we get slower, more forgetful, less good at learning new things. Yet not everyone experiences these changes to the same degree. Some remain mentally sharp into their ...
Sep 4, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Male hepatitis B patients suffer worse liver ailments, regardless of lifestyle
Why men with hepatitis B remain more than twice as likely to develop severe liver disease than women remains a mystery, even after a study led by a recent Drexel University graduate took lifestyle choices and environments ...
Jul 25, 2017
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Health
In 2017, focus on reset rather than resolution
While resolutions tend to make their way into our lives every January, research has shown that many people give them up after just a few weeks. A nutrition expert with Baylor College of Medicine suggests focusing instead ...
Dec 27, 2016
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Health
Lower life expectancy likely caused by lifestyle choices
For the first time in two decades, the life expectancy of Americans declined slightly, and the overall death rate rose, according to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics.
Dec 16, 2016
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Attention deficit disorders
Children with ADHD may benefit from following healthy behaviors, new study suggests
A new study shows that children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder follow fewer healthy lifestyle behaviors than non-ADHD youth, suggesting that they may benefit from improving lifestyle choices such as increasing ...
May 2, 2016
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Genetics
People in their nineties reveal the secrets to ageing well
There are many reasons why some people live long healthy lives while others don't, but one of them is undoubtedly genes. That doesn't mean we should be negative about our chances of ageing in good health. Although our genes ...
Feb 25, 2016
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