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💺 Electric cars won't fix sitting: The health costs of designing cities around cars
#health

Electric cars won't fix sitting: The health costs of designing cities around cars
Commuters feel this in their bones—time spent in traffic is bad for your health.

Spoiler: it's not by increasing GST
Australia’s health system is in intensive care
#Health

Australia’s health system is in intensive care
GST revenue is failing to keep up with the demands of our health system. There is a simple solution if government is brave enough to take it.

"Air pollution may be linked to increased risk of motor neurone disease, our new study indicates"
#Pollution #AirPollution #Health

Air pollution may be linked to increased risk of motor neurone disease, our new study indicates
A new study from Sweden links long-term air pollution exposure to higher risk of motor neurone disease and faster progression.

I'm trying out a new health app to try to replace Fitbit. The Fitbit app doesn't really do anything for me and costs $100 per year. I can get my smart scale and my blood pressure cuff to pipe data into the new app. I also bought a smart ring to pump data into it. I like this, so far.
#Health #Metrics #Fitness

At end of day, I sit down and open a news website and I can't figure out if I should expect to see their morning updates, midday updates, or evening updates.
Too much and too frequent #travel across multiple #timezones is really taking its toll. 😟
#health

Everyday microplastics could be fueling heart disease #health

Everyday microplastics could be fueling heart disease
Microplastics—tiny particles now found in food, water, air, and even human tissues—may directly accelerate artery-clogging disease, and new research shows the danger may be far greater for males. In mice, environmentally realistic doses of microplastics dramatically worsened plaque buildup, altered key vascular cells, and activated harmful genes linked to inflammation and atherosclerosis, all without changes to weight or cholesterol.

#ChatGPT #Health soll Nutzern helfen, Gesundheitsdaten zu analysieren und sich auf medizinische Gespräche vorzubereiten. Die Lösung, die vorerst nicht in Deutschland verfügbar sein wird, vernetze sich mit Apps wie Apple Health und sei mit Ärzten entwickelt worden, schreibt Retail News.

Good Morning #Canada
Last week I registered with Ontario's Healthcare Connect program to help us get a family doctor in the Barrie area. Our previous family doctor retired in November and we were still covered by the clinic but it's in Brampton, more than 90 minutes away. So I'm now relying on Dougie to keep his promise to find a family doctor for all Ontarians by June 2026. I mean he's done so well with housing, environmental goals, Eglinton Crosstown....
Did you know that 83% of Canadians now report they have regular access to a family doctor which means an approximate 500K improvement in the past two years. That still leaves about 6M of us without a family physician. Family physician shortages are the highest in the territories (>55%), Quebec (21.5%) and British Columbia (17.7%), and the provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia have the fewest family physicians per 100 000 persons in the population.
#CanadaIsAwesome #HealthCare
https://www.cihi.ca/en/taking-the-pulse-measuring-shared-priorities-for-canadian-health-care-2025/primary-health-care-2025/most-canadians-have-a-regular-health-care-provider

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
HEALTH:
🎵 VIBE COP
#HEALTH
https://youwillloveeachother.bandcamp.com/track/vibe-cop
https://open.spotify.com/track/5VpU7RLnmjjG3tulGJsg2H

"Traces of cancer-linked pesticide found in tests at UK playgrounds"
#Environment #Health
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⚖️ Underweight children cost NHS as much per child as children with obesity, study finds
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-underweight-children-nhs-child-obesity.html

Underweight children cost NHS as much per child as children with obesity, study finds
The NHS incurs an estimated £340 million in additional health care costs annually due to weight-related health problems in children—but it is not just obesity driving the costs. New research from the University of Oxford reveals that underweight children need comparable medical support as those who are severely obese, challenging assumptions about childhood health priorities.

Sleeping less than 7 hours could cut years off your life #health

Sleeping less than 7 hours could cut years off your life
Sleep isn’t just about feeling rested—it may be one of the strongest predictors of how long you live. Researchers analyzing nationwide data found that insufficient sleep was more closely tied to shorter life expectancy than diet, exercise, or loneliness. The connection was consistent year after year and across most U.S. states. The takeaway is simple but powerful: getting seven to nine hours of sleep may be one of the best things you can do for long-term health.

Creating triage #chatbots to address failures in critical #MentalHealth infrastructure isn’t a solution to the problem: it simply adds another hoop to jump through en route to adequate, human-mediated care and treatment. #health

Great job right-wing/anti-vax fools. Great job.
#CanPoli #Health #Measles #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/livestory/canada-measles-elimination-status-9.6973195

Anxiety and insomnia linked to sharp drops in key immune cells #health

Anxiety and insomnia linked to sharp drops in key immune cells
Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both conditions were linked to significantly fewer NK cells—especially the circulating types responsible for destroying infected or abnormal cells. As anxiety severity increased, NK cell levels dropped even further, suggesting a stress-driven weakening of immune defenses.

"Vaccine panel chair says polio, measles, and other shots should be optional"
I want to quote the dumbest thing he said, but I can't decide which of the many dumb things he said is actually the dumbest.
#NYT #USA #vaccines #health #children #polio #measles

🩻 I Tried to Use #AI to Read My Friend’s Mom’s #MRI 🩻
spoiler: don't trust Ai 😏
#medgemma #health

#Drumpf #Health appointee ousted after more controversy over forged #PhD on resume and other conflicts that cause falling out of favor with #RFKjrRegime

Trump health official ousted after allegedly giving himself a fake title
Steven Hatfill had a notable history before his abrupt ouster.

Would love to hear someone in the media ask a Conservative MP.
"Some MPs in your party are self-described as "anti-vax” or “vaccine sceptics”... is the Conservative Party of Canada concerned by today's news that Canada is no longer considered “measles-free”? What health measures are Conservatives proposing to return Canada to measles-free status?”
#CdnPoli #CanPoli #Health #Measles #AntiVax

"‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given sceptical briefing on climate science"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Health

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
HEALTH:
🎵 DARKAGE
#HEALTH
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://youwillloveeachother.bandcamp.com/track/darkage
https://open.spotify.com/track/17Ljid2CbINapvp2Xvp6DY

The health tracking app says that I'm not getting enough antioxidants, so I'm trying to rectify that.
#Food #HealthTracking

"A shift in food taxes could cut emissions and make diets healthier, researchers say"
#Emissions #Food #Health

Can a food tax help fix diets and the climate crisis?
Putting a tax on climate-intensive food could reduce impact, new study shows

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
HEALTH:
🎵 THOUGHT LEADER
#HEALTH
https://youwillloveeachother.bandcamp.com/track/thought-leader
https://open.spotify.com/track/4DbMAt0AcU1b1MLDVvJpiu

Sunday: 2°C outside (felt like -1) and figured it was a good time for a hike in the woods, hills, and fields of #Bavaria on a trail I've been eyeing for a couple of years now. Muddy trails for about half the distance but easily negotiated.🚶‍♂️🌲
Would've liked if the walk was longer but 10.7kms felt good, especially after a 2-month break in any such activity.
#hiking #walking #health #Germany #Deutschland #nature

"Struggling to stay awake in a meeting? Here’s what to do"
Someone needs to send this link to the White House. 😁
#sleep #meetings #health #joke

Good news for WCGH in #PortAlberni! Hoping the ICU can open again in a few months once the hiring is complete!
“The three nurses are expected to begin working at WCGH early this year, with start dates between January and March,” wrote Island Health in an email to Ha-Shilth-Sa. “Recruitment activity remains strong, with four candidates completed interviews and five more in the interview stage. We are also seeing diverse interest, with candidates from the United States, United Kingdom, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria.”
#BCPoli #Healthcare #Nurses #ICU #Health #recruitment

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MiddayShow
HEALTH:
🎵 DARKAGE
#HEALTH
https://youwillloveeachother.bandcamp.com/track/darkage
https://open.spotify.com/track/17Ljid2CbINapvp2Xvp6DY

"Rx Inspector". Look Up Where Your Generic Prescription Drugs Were Made:
#health #medicine #prescription #investigation #service #ProPublica

"Severe Heat Linked With Developmental Delays in Children"
#Children #Health #Climate #ClimateChange

Severe Heat Linked With Developmental Delays in Children

Oh look, the west is all growed up and "invented" the thousands-of-years old "kashaaya", I mean "golden milk". 🙄
#recipe #Ayurveda #milk #inventions #appropriation #health #beverage #sarcasm

Trump about bruise on right hand: Because I shake a lot of hands.
Trump about bruise on left hand: Do you think Biden can do that?
(PS: I made up Trump's response about his left hand but you know he would say something like that.)
#dodge #USA #health #hypocrisy

"kashaaya" (#Kannada ಕಷಾಯ #Sanskrit **कषाय**) means "medicinal decoction", with many #Ayurvedic and other #recipes around for literally thousands of years.
Pic: kashaaya powder at a store in #Udupi #India. Add a teaspoon to warm milk/water.
PS: Consult someone qualified for a recipe right for your #health.

I really like to get back to frequent 10-mile fasting hikes/walks. I did 2-4/week in 2023-24; but very few in 2025 due to other interests and opportunities that are incompatible with that goal. If only I can do both.🤲
#health #walking #hiking #fasting #goals #conflicts #wish