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Symptom Checkers & Misdiagnosis: Cyberchondriacs Can Get Things Wrong More Than 50% Of The Time

Filed Under: Stupid Health Tricks

Symptom Checkers & Misdiagnosis: Cyberchondriacs Can Get Things Wrong More Than 50% Of The Time
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Symptom Checkers & Misdiagnosis. Even The Good Ones Miss:
This post is going to sound a bit contradictory on HT, but it’s still important.

While there are plenty of reasons to do research and educate ourselves,

There are at least a few reasons to be cautious on the internet when looking for health information.

Not the least of which are any of the $25,000/visit crazy wasp-based hacks over on GOOP.

More worrisome still than that: a few recent surveys & studies have found that self-diagnosing using the internet may not be such a great thing…

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Running & Longevity: A Little High-Quality Cardio May Lower Your Risk Of Early Bucket-Kickage

Filed Under: Exercise

Running & Longevity: A Little High-Quality Cardio May Lower Your Risk Of Early Bucket-Kickage
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Running & Longevity. Kick-Up The Cardio, Not The Bucket!:
When most people think about their health, it’s almost always about weight-loss.

And as we’ve shown many times before, Nutrition is king when it comes to that.

The question then becomes, “Why Exercise?” “Isn’t that just for vain gym-rats?”

As PE programs seem to dwindle away from schools and we get fatter as a nation, those might seem like increasingly-valid questions.

But as Science progresses, it finds new proof for old ideas; Ex: Food-as-Medicine.

And an Australian team just found out some concrete info on why you might want to consider getting back into exercise…

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Trans-Fats + Dementia: Tiny Amounts Of ‘Dietary-Plutonium’ May Increase Risk Of Brain Disease

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Trans-Fats + Dementia: Tiny Amounts Of ‘Dietary-Plutonium’ May Increase Risk Of Brain Disease
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Trans-Fats. A Little Bit Goes A Long Way Toward Dementia & Alzheimer’s:
We owe an awful lot to technology.

Everything we use to occupy our free-time, improve job-performance, and just become better-educated people can be tied to it in one way or another.

In the future, people who need help with their Health will get help from it too.

Whether it’s precision-surgery, high-resolution imagery, or even AI + Big Data finding & inventing things no human could,

But Technology isn’t always a good thing. And a team from Japan are finding that sometimes its unintended consequences can destroy your health…

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Personality Type & Lifespan: Your Score On The Big 5 Is Even More Important Than Your Credit Score

Filed Under: Aging

Personality Type & Lifespan: Your Score On The Big 5 Is Even More Important Than Your Credit Score
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Personality Type vs. Longevity. One Of The Big 5 Will Keep You Alive:
Chasing down the more esoteric aspects of health can be a tricky proposition.

For most people it comes down to the new fad diet in the checkout aisle.

But it can be so much more than that.

It might not be just the food that you eat and the genes that you have,

But a part of you that regulates almost everything else that isn’t genetic.

And the mystery-element researchers from the University of Helsinki found: Personality…

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Overactive Brain & Lifespan: Surprising Research Shows 1 Factor Can Make Your Life Shorter

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Overactive Brain & Lifespan: Surprising Research Shows 1 Factor Can Make Your Life Shorter
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The Overactive Brain’s Effect On Lifespan. One Factor May Decide:
So living longer is a mystery we’ve been trying to decode forever.

That’s why “The Fountain Of Youth” is such an enduring symbol/catchphrase.

And one of the best things Science can do is to solve that problem; especially if we can also stay healthy at the same time.

Unfortunately, news and innovation in the longevity department is really slow to arrive and few developments offer some kind of magic fix.

But in some recent work by a Harvard team, researchers might have found the first few steps in a new direction; they might even have some ancient precedent…

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Fish Oil & Mental Health: Can Supplements Lift The Dark Clouds Of Depression & Disorder?

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Fish Oil & Mental Health: Can Supplements Lift The Dark Clouds Of Depression & Disorder?
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Omega 3 Fish Oil Vs. Depression, Do Supplements Make A Difference?:
Sometimes when modern medicine and prescription meds don’t solve things, we go looking elsewhere.

Mankind’s long tradition of medication with herbs can also make us turn to supplements, too.

But recently the FDA has cracked-down on many companies claiming results, so there is a lot of doubt out there.

But an Australian team just came up with some promising supplement-based results for one of society’s big problems: Depression…

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Flavonoids & Living Longer: Eating The Right Food May Give You ‘Body Armor’ Against Disease And Aging

Filed Under: Aging

Flavonoids & Living Longer: Eating The Right Food May Give You ‘Body Armor’ Against Disease And Aging
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Flavonoids & Living Longer, “Body Armor” Against Aging & Disease:
So Fall is now upon us and the assault of Pumpkin-Spice everything is here.

But Fall is also prime-time for Apple season!

And that is a reminder of two good things. Eating Seasonally and Hidden Benefits.

Most people don’t think too much in-terms of what good a certain food could do them,

And that would be a big mistake according to a new study by ECU researchers who’ve found that foods with properties similar to apples may have some surprising hidden benefits…

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Inflammation vs. Intermittent – Fasting: The Newest Miracle Diet Has A Few More Tricks Up Its Sleeve

Filed Under: Popular Diets

Inflammation vs. Intermittent – Fasting: The Newest Miracle Diet Has A Few More Tricks Up Its Sleeve
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Intermittent-Fasting & Inflammation. Another Unexpected Miracle:
Weight Loss seems like the universal health problem. Everyone talks about it.

Because of that, we’ve got grocery checkout lines stuffed with BS celebrity fad-diets that are supposed to get you down to 6% bodyfat in 8 weeks.

So as a result, most diet plans tend to get a bad rap.

But a recent spin on a very old way of eating has cropped-up with some impressive new supporting-evidence,

And some work by Mount Sinai researchers is making Intermittent-Fasting look amazing one more time…

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