Tips for surviving the last days of Earth alone

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 12 March, 2010 to the comment subset

There’s some definite overtones of The Road here, if you became the last person on Earth, what would you do?
The world is going to be vastly different in only 5-years time. Buildings will collapse from non-maintained roofs. Cars and Trucks won’t operate off of stale fuel. Uncut lawns will overgrow and cripple streets along [...]

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I want to be forever young, how to live to be 100 years old

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 8 March, 2010 to the comment subset

Adhere to these 11 pointers and you may just live to see your one-hundredth birthday:

Drink green tea
Floss
Embrace new technology
Lie in
Laugh
Be outgoing
Eat nuts
Do not smoke
Have a baby later in life
Take more holidays
Drink a little wine

Via Chris Glass.
Also, from New Scientist, people who smile like they mean it tend to live longer lives than who fake [...]

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Separating vitamin supplements from snake oil

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 1 March, 2010 to the comment subset

A handy infographic that ranks a plethora of well known vitamins and supplements by their proven medical and scientific probity.
Green tea and Noni juice couldn’t be further apart.

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There are fifteen things you should know about breasts

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 25 February, 2010 to the comment subset

Very educational. The infographic is quite safe for work, should you really want to read this while at work.

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We can diagnose a broken heart but we can’t quite cure it

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 19 February, 2010 to the comment subset

Heartbreak can result in a concussion of the heart, and is an actual physical condition, not something that is imagined.
The condition is “typically triggered by acute emotion or physical trauma that releases a surge of adrenaline that overwhelms the heart. The effect is to freeze much of the left ventricle, the heart’s main pumping [...]

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Beer, good for your soul and good for your… bones

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 11 February, 2010 to the comment subset

When it comes to beer, it’s the silicon content – rather than the alcohol content – that you should be paying attention to. Beers with higher concentrations of silicon may help fend off bone related disorders later in life.
The pair found that lighter-coloured beers made from pale malted barley and hops, such as pale [...]

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Boredom is so deadly it requires a government health warning

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 10 February, 2010 to the comment subset

Boredom can reduce life expectancy, with those trying to escape its clutches taking to drinking and drug abuse.
Those who reported feeling a great deal of boredom were 37 per cent more likely to have died by the end of the study, the researchers found. Scientists said that this could be a result of those [...]

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The somewhat serious business of understanding jokes

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 5 February, 2010 to the comment subset

Jokes, and other forms of humour, are the subject of some serious study as the way they stimulate parts of the brain may advance research into depression, and other medical conditions.
Yet humour is a far more complex process than primeval pleasures like sex or food. In addition to the two core processes of getting [...]

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It’s not so much the TV that’s bad, it’s the sitting around

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 21 January, 2010 to the comment subset

While spending hours watching TV continually can become unhealthy, the real danger is in sitting for extended periods, something our desk based, car driving, and TV watching lifestyles promote.
“For many people, on a daily basis, they simply shift from one chair to another – from the chair in the car to the chair in [...]

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What’s in a name? Possibly a long life span

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 11 January, 2010 to the comment subset

People with names beginning with the letter A tend to live longer than people with a name starting with D, with one study finding a correlation with school grading systems, A being a successful grade, D obviously not so good.
The study, led by academics at Wayne State University in Detroit, America revealed that people [...]

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