Some Health Matters
From the big name media outlets:
Yahoo Canada reports on a Japanese study showing "chubby" people live longer than underweight people. I haven't read the article but it sounds an awful lot like the Canadian study (not even mentioned in the ar which I spoke about here.
Plus, if there is still a need for Health Education among lay people, BBC reports that lower IQ is associated with increased risk of certain diseases, making the conclusion that public health messages need to be dumbed down. That link is not particularly surprising, but the conclusion to dumb-down should be taken with a grain of salt. How about new strategies to public health and understanding of scientific appreciation? How about showing people how taking care of their health directly benefits them, and not just in an abstract way.
Yahoo Canada reports on a Japanese study showing "chubby" people live longer than underweight people. I haven't read the article but it sounds an awful lot like the Canadian study (not even mentioned in the ar which I spoke about here.
Plus, if there is still a need for Health Education among lay people, BBC reports that lower IQ is associated with increased risk of certain diseases, making the conclusion that public health messages need to be dumbed down. That link is not particularly surprising, but the conclusion to dumb-down should be taken with a grain of salt. How about new strategies to public health and understanding of scientific appreciation? How about showing people how taking care of their health directly benefits them, and not just in an abstract way.
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