According to this article, walking will cut down your risk of heart attack and stroke. To read the article, CLICK HERE.
Category: WebMD
Goodbye, Trans Fats!
Yes, you read right! The FDA is preparing to say, “So long, Trans Fats.” But don’t worry, many companies are altering their recipes to accommodate the ban. To read the article, CLICK HERE.
Could Facebook Bring You Down?
A new study found that Facebook might actually decrease your happiness, not increase it, despite all the likes you may get on a status. Using 82 young adult Facebook users, researchers discovered that overtime, the more the participants used Facebook, the more their satisfaction levels declined. Yet, when the participants engaged in more face-to-face interactions with others, they began to feel better over time. For more information on the study, click HERE.
Images Encourage Skin Cancer Exams
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but could it also inspire self-examination for skin cancer? It just might. A new study reported by WebMD found that people who saw pictures of skin cancer were more motivated to check their skin more often and accurately. Evidently, text descriptions alone were not enough to inspire a self-check. For more information on the published study, read the full article HERE.
Reduce Risk of Stroke with Exercise
The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s researchers conducted a new study in which they examined the relationship between stroke and exercise in a large biracial sample of American men and women. Participants were asked to self-report on their daily physical activity while the researchers compared that information to incident of stroke, if any. After five years, the results demonstrated that the physical inactivity was associated with a 20 percent increased risk of stroke. Recently published in the American Heart Association journal, you can find out more about the study and its results right HERE.
