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Work Vs. Dementia: Don’t Do Physical Work If You Want To Stay Sharp. Science Freakonomics Strikes Again!

Filed Under: Aging, Highlights

Work Vs. Dementia: Don’t Do Physical Work If You Want To Stay Sharp. Science Freakonomics Strikes Again!
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The Freakonomics Of Work. Office Vs. Physical Jobs Brain Health Outcomes:
One of the things we all need to maintain our health over time is Exercise.

It seems pretty straightforward at first.

So much so that in many posts here, we often cite the recent mantra, “What’s good for the heart is good for the brain.”

Even some recent work suggests there is no limit to the benefit of exercise.

But of course since things in application are always weirder than they are in theory,

We get a new piece of work suggesting that as far as you job goes, your brain health might not be as easy to look out for as your heart health…

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Food Choices And Longevity: The Decision Between Walnuts Or Hot Dogs Could Take Years Off Your Life

Filed Under: Highlights, Nutrition

Food Choices And Longevity: The Decision Between Walnuts Or Hot Dogs Could Take Years Off Your Life
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Food Choices & Lifespan. Your Life Could Get Shorter If You Choose Poorly:
So we’ve written extensively in the past about nutrition on this site.

Not just the standard stuff, but the freaky-outliers on both ends of the spectrum.

From Superfoods, to Micronutrients, to foods that seem to have their own biochemistry built-in.

But interestingly-enough, we don’t have much of an actual ratings-system for food.

You know how much octane is in certain fuels, and what ratings all the movies have.

Well, a U. Michigan team got together and assembled that system; and they also added some really-interesting “mileage” information, too…

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New Coronavirus Waves Coming Even With Vaccine Imminent, Don’t Let Your Guard Down. Winter Is Coming!

Filed Under: Disease, Highlights

New Coronavirus Waves Coming Even With Vaccine Imminent, Don’t Let Your Guard Down. Winter Is Coming!
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New Coronavirus Waves. Two Vaccines Means We’re Saved, Right?:
Now that we have two coronavirus vaccines, and possibly a third if AstraZeneca can get their data straight,

You’d think that the worst is now behind us, and that we can all relax.

But that’s just not true because carriers are still spreading the disease.

Or even people who have mild symptoms they don’t recognize and then turn into non-ironic “Karen”-style reviews of scented-candles!

Because especially for this pandemic, as the saying goes: things will still get worse before they get better…

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Coronavirus Could Have Second + Subsequent Waves Of Unexpected Scope Starting This Fall, Ending…

Filed Under: Disease, Highlights

Coronavirus Could Have Second + Subsequent Waves Of Unexpected Scope Starting This Fall, Ending…
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Successive Waves Of Coronavirus May Be Coming:
With lockdown protests in at least a dozen states including Michigan, California, Washington, and Minnesota,

And the upcoming spectre of those restrictions being eased, even at the pace of the White House plan,

That temporary relief could actually create a greater problem.

Many scientists have opined on the dangers of ending lockdowns too soon.

And 100 years ago, our country had almost the same exact problem…

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Olive Oil & Living Longer: Deep-Dive Of Mediterranean Diet Finds A Secret Code For Longevity

Filed Under: Aging, Highlights

Olive Oil & Living Longer: Deep-Dive Of Mediterranean Diet Finds A Secret Code For Longevity
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Olive Oil & Living Longer An Unexpected Find, With A Twist:
A doctor friend once said, “When you finish medical school, they tell you that half of what you just learned is wrong. The problem is, we don’t know which half.”

So a lot of what we think we know is really just general observations and anecdotes.

Like the success of The Mediterranean Diet.

We know it’s one of the best plans out there, but for the “Why?”, we only have educated-guesses.

Until now. Because a UMinn team looked into some of the more interesting benefits and found they come from really odd places…

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Soybean Oil & Brain Health: Most Widely-Used Food Oil May Have Stealth Metabolism & DNA Impact

Filed Under: Highlights, Nutrition

Soybean Oil & Brain Health: Most Widely-Used Food Oil May Have Stealth Metabolism & DNA Impact
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Soybean Oil Vs. Brain & Metabolism. Micro Changes, Macro Consequences:
The App Store has a fun smartphone & tablet game called, “Fruit Ninja”.

As SCIENCE! focuses on smaller threats, people who study nutrition are finding things you might call “Food Ninjas”.

They appear unexpectedly, wreck the place, and then disappear into the night.

Just like Ninjas, they can be found in ordinary places we used to think were safe.

Like every item we see in a store that we assume is health-ninja-free.

But as fate would have it, UCR has discovered another heavy-rotation food component that just might shuriken the hell out of your body…

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Milk Fat Vs. Aging: The Weird Science Of How Something That Always Seemed Healthy May Not Be

Filed Under: Highlights, Nutrition

Milk Fat Vs. Aging: The Weird Science Of How Something That Always Seemed Healthy May Not Be
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Milk Fat Levels Vs. Aging. Cellular Research Finds Stealth Threats:
Sometimes when researchers go hunting, they can approach things from increasingly-unexpected directions.

And even though SCIENCE would seem a pretty arithmetic endeavor,

It makes sense that they need to get increasingly-creative to find new solutions.

And so just the way we hear of more discoveries in the genetic-testing field from companies like 23 And Me,

One such scientist found a cellular-level health-risk in one of the most unexpected places of all…

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Stress & Aging: SCIENCE! Finds Out How Too Much Speeds-Up Your Decline + Possible Target For Fix

Filed Under: Aging, Highlights

Stress & Aging: SCIENCE! Finds Out How Too Much Speeds-Up Your Decline + Possible Target For Fix
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Stress & Aging. How Too Much Accelerates Your Body-Clock:
The Fountain Of Youth is an old but seductive myth.

In fact, the idea is one of the main focuses of this site; because finding it is the journey we’re all really on.

How do we fix our problems and live for as long as possible, through improved and advanced science?

Because Aging is The King of all health problems.

And as-such, will probably be the last one to get solved, if at-all.

And to that end, researchers in Poland & UNSW just found a big piece of the puzzle…

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