#health (171 links)
- The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010 • Running Shoe Score runningshoescore.com
Weirdly practical guide.
Giant hogweed is not to be messed with. Most concise, useful info I could find.
- Everything I knew about stretching was wrong tylertringas.com
- Can fasting help you live to 100? economist.com
Savouring my first post-fasting meal, I thought I had caught a glimpse of what Longo’s ideas could mean for improving my longevity. But I also knew how difficult it would be for me (or realistically, anyone) to commit to a lifelong regular fasting regimen – especially if that meant eating powdered mushroom soup until I reached 110 years old.
- Why ultra-processed foods matter: the state of world hunger - Food Politics by Marion Nestle foodpolitics.com
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. released its annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report last week. Its conclusions are sobering. Global hunger is still far above pre-pandemic levels.
- Snake Oil Supplements — Information is Beautiful informationisbeautiful.net
Scientific evidence for popular health supplements
- Banning ultra-processed food is not a nanny-state issue. It’s common sense | Simon Jenkins | The Guardian theguardian.com
As the amount of UPF we eat rises, so do rates of cancer and diabetes. Riddled with additives that are crammed into tiny print on the sides of packs, such food constitutes 57% of Britons’ energy intake. This is the highest in Europe, comparing with 14% in France and 13% in Italy. Being overweight or obese affects 63% of adults in England, among the highest percentage in Europe. There now appears to be incontrovertible evidence that such a diet heightens the risk not just of diabetes and cancer but cardiovascular disease and dementia.
- The housing theory of everything - Works in Progress worksinprogress.co
Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates.
- Waking Up with Sam Harris – Unlock your mind wakingup.com
- Beware of Being "Right" | Psychology Today UK psychologytoday.com
Much of the emotional suffering in the world comes from the substitution of power for value. The curse of our times is that so many people have developed the habit of seeking to feel temporarily more powerful when they feel devalued. This leads almost inevitably to power struggles and some degree of abuse of others, if acted out, or if held in, to some level of depression.
- Trail Router trailrouter.com
Our routing algorithm prefers paths that go through parks, forests or by water, and avoids busy roads wherever possible.
- RunGap - Workout Data Manager on the App Store apps.apple.com
- HealthFit on the App Store apps.apple.com
- +1 for healthfit. So glad I discovered it! I do exactly the same as you. I bar a... | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
+1 for healthfit. So glad I discovered it! I do exactly the same as you. I bar any other fitness apps from writing data directly to Apple Health (but allow them to read), with the exception of my Withings scales that are allowed to only write weight data.
- Club Soda Guide - Club Soda Guide clubsodaguide.com
- Improving the worst chair in the office | Serviced Office Company servicedofficecompany.co.uk
- Health hackers: the patients taking medical innovation into their own hands | Life and style | The Guardian theguardian.com
When people talk about innovation in healthcare, they have in mind a new malaria vaccine or a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. But these breakthroughs, despite the continued investment of hundreds of millions of pounds in research and development, are increasingly rare. The big gains in the future are likely to involve adaptations of existing technology such as mobile phones to enable the delivery of new forms of care in new ways by new players.
- Run An Empire - A real world strategy running game runanempire.com
- Nightly 8-Hour Sleep Isn't a Rule. It's a Myth. psychologytoday.com
- Distance vision is all a blur to more of us latimes.com
<blockquote>Some suspect both an increase in our close-up work time (think computer use) and a decrease in time spent outdoors.</blockquote>
- New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function sciencealert.com
- The myopia boom | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
<blockquote>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.</blockquote>
- The Evolution of Diet nationalgeographic.com
<blockquote>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.”</blockquote>
- Traditional treatment for depression is not always the answer theguardian.com
<blockquote>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. </blockquote>
- New Statesman | How mistakes can save lives: one man’s mission to revolutionise the NHS newstatesman.com
<blockquote>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.</blockquote>
- Looking for sleep-inducing podcasts ask.metafilter.com
- Can Mindfulness Help You Quit Smoking? psychologytoday.com
- Goodnight. Sleep Clean. - NYTimes.com nytimes.com
<blockquote>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.</blockquote>
- 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
<blockquote>"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.</blockquote>
- Psychiatrists: the drug pushers theguardian.com
<blockquote>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.</blockquote>
<blockquote>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."</blockquote>