HealthTrekker - Health And Wellness Tips
Health & wellness tips + hacks. -Backed by !SCIENCE! and studies, not bros & Voodoo. Why just survive when you can thrive? Become "The Better You", 1% at a time – starting today. If you're already healthy & want to nerd-out on how to get even more rad, HT is the place for you.
First They Saved Your Health, Now Your Skin!:
You might remember our previous post on the EWG’s great work on produce safety and pesticides.
If you don’t, The Dirty Dozen with Garrick Dee Tan’s infographics is a good & worthwhile read.
Especially for the addition of The Clean 15, and The Hazardous 3.
Well just in-time for sunny weather, the EWG is at it again for Sunscreens. And their results are pretty surprising…
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An Old Spectre Returns, Bearing Unexpected Gifts:
So forever you’ve been told that Steaming is the healthiest way to go for vegetables.
-And that anything other than the pyrotechnic-majesty of outdoor-grilling was nutritional-suicide. Maybe oven-roasting was a close second.
And so far, we’ve thought the experts were right.
Well some new experts have chimed in on an old bogeyman-cooking-method, and there is some light [if-qualified] at the end of the tunnel for that old health-nemesis: Deep Fat Frying…
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An Interesting Measurement -Of The Wrong Thing:
For quite awhile, BMI has been used as an indicator of obesity.
And for most of that time it’s been considered as good as any measure out there.
But a recent study by 2 universities in Canada is trying to put the final punctuation-mark on many people’s recent critiques of its shortcomings.
And they just might have succeeded…
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Not Just For LOLs:
And now as a reward for surviving tax season, I give you: The Healing Power Of Cats!
While she may put the benefits down to just purring, infographic artist Gemma Busquets is still on the right track.
Several health benefits have been attributed to general pet ownership. For Example: slightly reducing your stress for next tax season by saving you money.
-Because you’ll have to visit the doctor a total of 4% less than a dog owner, and 12% less than someone without a pet. And speaking of health benefits…
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Personal Electronics Get Even More Personal:
At one time or another, many of us have had a health issue that needed more than just 1 fire-and-forget appointment to the doc.
And resolving it needed follow-up & active participation from you to succeed. -Especially since doctors are very busy, there are only so many hours in the day, and healthcare is already 4x more expensive here than anywhere else.
Well, aside from all the new phones, iPads & watch bands, one of the most interesting & compelling parts of Apple’s “Loop You In” event was something called CareKit…
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A Famous Man Once Said, “We Create Our Own Demons”:
In this video, Kurzgesagt, or “In-A-Nutshell” talks about the future of antibiotics and a few of the problems that are already beginning.
In a very Matrix-y reversal of what’s going on into an idea, they say it this way: Most of Humanity right now is collaborating on the engineering of a Superbug.
And if we don’t change in several ways, the consequences of our actions will let Nature’s worst machines win…
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DNews Talks Sunny-D!:
So in addition being just plain cold, we’ve probably all felt a little different in-general in the wintertime.
Well Discovery’s DNews dives into some of the possible causes & complications in this here video.
In general, most everything is written-down to the Lack of Sunlight.
That in-turn creates a lowering of Vitamin D and an increase of Melatonin in your body…
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More Than Just Manners:
So we’ve all been taught it’s good manners+hygiene to grab a hanky or an elbow.
Well now, the strangely-obsessed fluid-dynamics researchers at MIT are putting some more weight behind that.
And anyone near as strangely-obsessed might have watched the MythBusters episode on the same subject.
What both of them found might make you reconsider leaving the house between November and March ever again…
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