Category: Health & Wellness
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Low Hemoglobin Blood Levels
Recently somebody asked me about “what causes low hemoglobin level in the blood?” which I had no idea about. Therefore I did a brief research, here is what I found. What is hemoglobin? Healthline describes the “hemoglobin” as a protein that is found in our red blood cells which “carries oxygen to the rest of […]
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Our Body is Not Designed to Last 100-Yrs or More
In this very interesting 2015 Scientific American article What a Body Built to Last 100 Years Would Look Like, authors S. Jay OlshanskyBruce A. CarnesRobert N. Butler highlight the fact that how body is not designed for longevity otherwise they argue it would have looked or evolved very differently then they look today. The living […]
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Three Rules of Happiness
The Atlantic contributing writer Arthur C. Brooks, who writes column about “Happiness” writes in a recent article ” happiness is only about getting all the little details of life right. Each of us should also keep in mind some large truths from the science of happiness that can transcend circumstance and time, guiding us across […]
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The New Science of Metabolism
In this The Guardian article, David Cox quoting findings from a Science article writes that challenged one of the universal truths of our body metabolism. “For decades, scientists have accepted that metabolism begins to slow down in early adulthood, initiating a steady descent that continues through middle age and later life, inevitably resulting in the […]
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Health Benefits of Daily 10,000 Steps
In a 2019 article on Domino, a home and life style magazine, Reven Ishak describes What Happens to Your Body When You Walk 10,000 Steps Every Single Day. While the Centers for Disease Control doesn’t specifically recommend this exact number of steps per day, it does suggest getting at least 30 daily minutes of moderate […]
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Is Standing an Exercise?
In a recent issue of The Atlantic magazine, Maggie Mertens, a writer from Seattle, writes that after the pandemic and remote working, Standing Now Counts as Exercise. Perhaps now we can collectively redefine what counts as exercise. As parts of our life continue to be mediated through a screen, moving our body with intention can […]
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Is Being Fat Unhealthy?
In this post, Chris Coyier writes referring from a slide posted to Instagram that “Isn’t being fat just unhealthy?” Chris dwells on the issue of “fat” and “fat-phobia” just like “trans jokes” or similar other jokes and writes: As a fat, I’m mostly I’m annoyed at the world for all the fatphobia. Fat jokes, like […]