Tag: health
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For best results, start early: Healthy meal-prep kits boost children’s long-term ‘health’
CW: Discussion of BMI and health in relation to socio-economic status Your childhood might shape your eating habits more than you know, a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Bath suggests. With poor diet posing a major risk factor for the development of a multitude of disorders, such as…
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Poverty can leave a mark on our DNA
A team at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA, have announced that experience of poverty can leave a mark on a person’s DNA, specifically in the epigenetics of their genome. Poverty, discussed here as a low socioeconomic status (SES), has long been associated with poor health and reduced life expectancy. This has been used in practice, with…
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Health trackers: help or hindrance?
CW: Mental health, eating disorders, exercise Health trackers have a huge presence in our lives, whether it’s the health app in iPhones or wearable devices such as Fitbits. They quietly record our steps, heart rate, sleep patterns and symptoms, as well as store personal information, all with the aim of helping us monitor and improve our overall health, or, in…
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Can mushrooms stimulate healthy ageing?
Mushrooms are divisive, as far as foods go. Some people love their earthy flavour that seems to absorb the best parts of the food it’s served with. Others complain about their bland, rubbery texture. Most people don’t even realise that mushrooms aren’t vegetables. As fungi, they’re actually more closely related to animals than to plants…
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What is that caramel flavoured e-cigarette doing to your lungs?
When Ernst and Young, one of the largest accounting firms in the world, conducted a global survey as to why people chose to use e-cigarettes, the most common reason was that ‘vapes were less harmful than regular cigarettes’. However, research conducted by Quan Lu and Joseph Allen, researchers at Harvard University, has revealed that the…