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As if HealthKit weren’t good enough already, Apple is making a move that looks pretty darn selfless, using its weight to do some potentially-massive public good.
It arrives in the form of a new app-development framework, called ResearchKit and it’s aimed at getting researchers & docs closer to their goals through more & better data.
Contrary To Some Experts USDGAC Drops Bombshell:
-That’s right, I said it.
Surprisingly-enough, for the first time in decades, the US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has opined about coffee-consumption. -And it’s good news for caffeine-heads.
In spite of what “The Ultramind Solution”‘s Dr. Mark Hyman would tell you, the USDGAC says it’s safe to drink caffeinated-coffee.
-Up to 40 oz. of it a day, or…
Chalk another one up for The Hygiene Hypothesis and good old-fashioned Chance.
In a somewhat-risky move, scientists have found a way to help children who weren’t already allergic to peanuts to stay that way.
And the lead doc got the idea when he noticed his faraway friend’s patients had much fewer allergies. -Because giving peanut-snacks to babies over there was something they just do.
So after testing them first to make sure no fatal reactions would occur,…
A new meta-analysis review of the 70s-80s low-fat-diet recommendations of The McGovern Report is out.
And the controversial Zoe Harcombe’s team concludes the science behind the report was so undercooked and incomplete as to be false.
So because of that, they suggest the floodgates on high-fat diets have been opened, and it’s: F*** The Fettuccine, Full Butter Ahead!
-Or so it would seem…
This whole thing seems more like a Technical Doctor’s Note more than anything for civilians.
Because, you can now officially worry less about Cholesterol in your food.
But if it comes in food full of Saturated Fats, or Trans-Fats (which it usually does),
-You’re probably going to get more Cholesterol in your blood (and thus a higher risk for heart-disease) anyway?
So: It’s a wash?…
Coffee and Tea drinking have been linked [perhaps a little tenuously at times] to a whole host of health benefits, like this, this, and this.
Well now we can add another one to that growing list.
It also turns out that coffee may prevent some cancer; on your skin; -seriously.
In a study of 400,000+ participants over about 10 years, taking into account diet and some environmental factors, drinking up to 3 cups of coffee a day was associated with a 10% reduction in…
In this video, ASAPScience goes over some of the interesting and profound ways that meditation can affect your health.
Among the things they cover are empathy, learning, physical changes to the brain & stress.
And although it’s worth a watch, they did not go quite into the depth of the posts here and here,…
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Using historical procedures coupled with some clever architecture tricks, two Northeastern U. scientists have created at least the beginnings of 1 new antibiotic, 25 other candidates, and maybe even a whole new Class of them.
(funny how strangely-similar their process was to what those Hygeine Hypothesis guys advised)…
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