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Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease

WEBMany studies have indi-cated that several of the benefits of intermittent fasting are dissociated from its effects on weight loss. These benefits include improvements in glucose regulation, blood pressure, and heart rate; the efficacy of endurance training26,27; and ab-dominal fat loss27 (see Supplementary Section S1).

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Extending human healthspan and longevity: a symposium …

WEBOn May 19, 2021, experts in geroscience met virtually at the New York Academy of Sciences symposium, “Extending Human HealthSpan and Longevity,” organized by Stephanie Lederman, Glenda Greenwald, Orla Smith, Nir Barzilai, James L. Kirkland, and Judith Campisi, to dis-cuss the molecular mechanisms that contribute to longevity and …

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Intelligence, health and death

WEBNext, we turn to possible causes of intelligence’s associations with health and death. The first paper that described the association between higher childhood intelligence and lower risk of all-cause mortality up to old age1 offered four non-exclusive possible explanations for the association.

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Does the rise of robotic technology make people healthier

WEBFocusing on the IV estimates, a 10% increase in robot exposure is associated with a 1.8p.p. and 0.8p.p. decline in the share of low‐skilled men reporting work disability and ever quit a job because of health reasons. For women, the corresponding effects are much lower at 0.8p.p. and 0.3p.p., respectively.

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The Health Effects of Prison

WEBWorse lifestyles, for instance, could directly increase the former inmates’ expo-sure to violence while the associated financial and emotional strains can translate into poor health outcomes and behaviors including high blood pressure, depression, anxiety, poor eating, smoking, or substance abuse.

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Effects of Public Green Space on Acute Psychophysiological

WEB6 Environment and Behavior 00(0) nature-based interventions and programs on mental, social, and physical health, this review centers specifically on experimental and quasi-experimen-

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The new genetics of intelligence

WEBThe new genetics of intelligence. Abstract | Intelligence — the ability to learn, reason and solve problems — is at the forefront of behavioural genetic research. Intelligence is highly heritable and predicts important educational, occupational and health outcomes better than any other trait.

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Violence and mental disorders: a structured review of

WEBViolence and mental disorders: a structured review of - Gwern 2020)

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Do Changes in Personality Predict Life Outcomes

WEBAs such, personality traits constitute one of the best psychological predictors of broad life outcomes (Roberts et al., 2007). A considerable amount of research has established that personality traits are not immutable and can change across time (e.g., Bleidorn et al., 2022; Roberts & Nickel, 2021; Wright & Jackson, 2023).

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Exercise-based, nature-based and socially interactive-based

WEBexercise- nature- and sociall interactive-based initiatives improve mood and self-esteem 90 Perspectives in Public Health l March 2012 Vol 132 No 2 Peer reIew It is also important for maintaining physical fitness, strengthening the

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Long-Term Effect of Randomization to Calcium and Vitamin D

WEBcancer and mortality in WHI. Further, we were able to evaluate for any differential effects of random assign-ment to CaD supplementation in relation to prior sup-

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Showing that you care: The evolution of health altruism

WEBHuman hunter-gatherers care for sick or injured associates. Among the Ache of Paraguay, for exam-ple, people get sick or injured with a median period of 30 days, and remain sick for a median of 3.5 days, though occasionally people are sick for months or years. 26% of such events were injuries, and 13% were birthings.

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High-perform n e medi ine: the onvergen e of hum n nd rtifi i …

WEBArtificial intelligence for clinicians. Almost every type of clinician, ranging from specialty doctor to paramedic, will be using AI technology, and in particular deep learning, in the future. This largely involved pattern recognition using deep neural networks (DNNs) (Box 1) that can help interpret medical scans, pathology slides, skin lesions

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Mental Health Issues in Long-Term Solitary and Supermax …

WEBARTICLE Mental Health Issues in Long-Term Solitary and fiSupermaxfl Confinement Craig Haney This article discusses the recent increase in the use of solitary-like confinement, espe-

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Electricity generation and health

WEBSecondly, the health burden is assessed not just for generation stage but also for the other stages of the full cycle of the process, including the extraction of the fuel, its transportation, transformation into electric energy, disposal of the waste, and the transport of the electricity. So, for example, accidents in transportation are included.

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What’s Behind Her Smile

WEB360 AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL: APPLIED ECONOMICS APRIL 2024 developed countries, and the socioeconomic gradients in dental health outcomes are large (Gallego et al. 2017).

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Could Exposure to Everyday Green Spaces Help Treat ADHD

WEBThis study examined whether routine exposures to greenspace, experienced through children’s everyday play settings, might yield ongoing reductions in ADHD symptoms. Methods: Data on 421 children’s ADHD symptoms and usual play settings were collected using a national Internet-based survey of parents. Results: Findings suggest that …

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Would You Be Happier Living in a Greener Urban Area

WEBThus, if green space has a ben-eficial effect on psychological health, we would expect the relationship to be negative for GHQ but positive for life satisfaction. Results from the fixed-effects model (Table 2) supported this hypothesis, GHQ: b = −0.0043, p < .001; life satisfaction: b = 0.002, p = .003.

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