An Illness With Many Effects Too many people have fibromyalgia, perhaps up to 4% of Americans, but nobody knows why. Much controversy has followed work by Zahnle et al. who argued studies linking fibromyalgia with viruses like XMRV actually found nothing but artifacts, denying their results altogether. This has increased the public sense of murkiness […]
Physical Activity + Social Rest = Less Depression (and Fewer Colds) – 11/2/10
It’s a Matter of Moving Forty thousand Norwegians can’t be wrong. They were studied by groups from Kings College, London, and the University of Bergen with a simple question – does exercise decrease depression? The answer was – yes – by about half. With depression now affecting up to 30% of Western populations, that is […]
Is my chair dangerous to my health? (10/27/10)
First Read This Sitting Down Chairs are not dangerous to you as sculpture. Some Carlo Mollino and other 20th century designer chairs are now going for a million bucks. These types of chairs are perfectly safe as they are much too expensive to sit in. The dangerous ones are the chairs of cloth, polyvinyl, naugahyde, […]
Can We Walk Away from Alzheimer’s? (10/15/10)
Can we personally avoid Alzheimer’s? Many books have been written on the subject, with suggestions varying from coffee to apple juice to flossing your teeth. Yet one of the most effective strategies may be to take a walk – preferably every day. University of Pittsburgh researchers looked at the brain MRI scans of 299 people […]
