Dr. Howard Smith Reports

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Spending 2 or more hours a week outdoors in nature is associated with better health.  This conclusion stems from a study at Britain’s University of Exeter.

The investigators studied close to 20,000 men and women, and they surveyed them for time spent in natural environments and their self-reported health status.  The odds of a person reporting excellent, very good, or good general health only begins to significantly increase after 2 to 2.5 hours per week out in nature.

An exploration of the data shows that it mattered little if the outdoor exposure occurred close to home or during a day trip to a park.  Exercising while outdoors was not a factor though those doing so seemed to gain psychologic benefits.

So get outdoors as much as you possibly can but do push for at least 2 hours in nature.

Mathew P. White, Ian Alcock, James Grellier, etal.  Spending at least 120 minutes a week in nature is associated with good health and wellbeing.  Scientific Reports 9, Article number: 7730 (2019).  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44097-3

#Outdoors #health #exercise

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/p0RaIAnS2mY

Spending 2 or more hours a week outdoors in nature is associated with better health.  This conclusion stems from a study at Britain’s University of Exeter.

The investigators studied close to 20,000 men and women, and they surveyed them for time spent in natural environments and their self-reported health status.  The odds of a person reporting excellent, very good, or good general health only begins to significantly increase after 2 to 2.5 hours per week out in nature.

An exploration of the data shows that it mattered little if the outdoor exposure occurred close to home or during a day trip to a park.  Exercising while outdoors was not a factor though those doing so seemed to gain psychologic benefits.

So get outdoors as much as you possibly can but do push for at least 2 hours in nature.

Mathew P. White, Ian Alcock, James Grellier, etal.  Spending at least 120 minutes a week in nature is associated with good health and wellbeing.  Scientific Reports 9, Article number: 7730 (2019).  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44097-3

#Outdoors #health #exercise

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A new meta-analysis just published by the Oregon Health and Science University identifies nearly 400 important changes in medical and surgical therapy guidelines as a result of over 3000 randomized, controlled studies.  This type of official policy shift by medical authorities is officially called a “medical reversal.”  

I want you to know about the most important reversals so that you can take advantage of the latest recommendations and pass them along to your family and friends.  Let’s take a look at 8 key reversals mentioned by the researchers:

• When a pregnant women’s membranes break, it is better to wait then to induce immediate delivery.
• Routine screening mammography for all women under 50 is unnecessary.
• Wearable devices do not promote weight loss despite their promotion of more exercise.
• Use of machines to deliver chest compressions for CPR outside the hospital offers no advantages over a person pushing on the chest.
• External hip protectors do not prevent hip fractures in the elderly.
• Coronary artery bypass procedures should be performed with the heart stopped and the patient on the heart-lung pump.
• Epidural steroid injections do not help spinal stenosis.
• Arthroscopic knee surgery and partial cartilage removal may not be better than initial physical therapy.

I’ll be keeping you informed about other medical reversals as they become available.  Meanwhile, if you are facing surgery or intense medical therapy, read all you can about it.

Diana Herrera-lPerez, Alyson Hallam, Tyler Crain, etal.  Meta-Research: A comprehensive review of randomized clinical trials in three medical journals reveals 396 medical reversals. Elifesciences; DOI: 10.7554/eLife.45183.

#Medicalreversals #guidelines #RCT #randomizedtrials

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A new meta-analysis just published by the Oregon Health and Science University identifies nearly 400 important changes in medical and surgical therapy guidelines as a result of over 3000 randomized, controlled studies.  This type of official policy shift by medical authorities is officially called a “medical reversal.”  

I want you to know about the most important reversals so that you can take advantage of the latest recommendations and pass them along to your family and friends.  Let’s take a look at 8 key reversals mentioned by the researchers:

• When a pregnant women’s membranes break, it is better to wait then to induce immediate delivery.
• Routine screening mammography for all women under 50 is unnecessary.
• Wearable devices do not promote weight loss despite their promotion of more exercise.
• Use of machines to deliver chest compressions for CPR outside the hospital offers no advantages over a person pushing on the chest.
• External hip protectors do not prevent hip fractures in the elderly.
• Coronary artery bypass procedures should be performed with the heart stopped and the patient on the heart-lung pump.
• Epidural steroid injections do not help spinal stenosis.
• Arthroscopic knee surgery and partial cartilage removal may not be better than initial physical therapy.

I’ll be keeping you informed about other medical reversals as they become available.  Meanwhile, if you are facing surgery or intense medical therapy, read all you can about it.

Diana Herrera-lPerez, Alyson Hallam, Tyler Crain, etal.  Meta-Research: A comprehensive review of randomized clinical trials in three medical journals reveals 396 medical reversals. Elifesciences; DOI: 10.7554/eLife.45183.

#Medicalreversals #guidelines #RCT #randomizedtrials

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Health News You Should Use, the latest medical discoveries and commonsense advice that you can use in a practical way to keep yourself and your family healthy.  

Here are this weeks stories :

Chocolate Packaging Influences Its Flavor

Teen Boys Have Different Eating Disorders Than Girls

Constipation Frequently Unrecognized

Food Tastes Better Sitting Down

Air Is Polluted Indoors Too

Word Choice Reveals Your Romantic Style

The Internet Is Brainwashing You

Teen Use of Dietary Supplements May Be Deadly

Irregular Sleep Patterns Create Body Turmoil

The Wall For Human Exertion

Chicken And Steak Both Bump Up Cholesterol

Should GMO Be A Dirty Word

Kids Get Lazy At Age 9

Children’s Clothing  Could Make Them Overeat 

Extroverts Excel In The Workplace

For show notes and references to for the stories, check out my website at: https://www.drhowardsmith.com/june-2019-2nd-week-health-new

#chocolate #packaging, tastetest #branding #eatingdisorders #biohacking #anorexia #bulemia #supplements #steroids #constipation #sitting #standing #eating #pollution #formaldehyde #gypsum #pronouns #relationships #lovelife #we #I #internet #attention #distractability #memory #acceptance #rejection #Supplements #FDA #Sleep #circadianrhythms #varaiability #metabolism #obsesity #diabetes #lipids #marathon #running #biking #cholesterol #LDL #extrovert #introvert #workplace #psychology #redmeat #chicken #plantprotein #GMO #GMfood #teens #activity #obesity #exercise #parenting #obesity #childwear #fastfood

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/IcqzirlDbU8

Health News You Should Use, the latest medical discoveries and commonsense advice that you can use in a practical way to keep yourself and your family healthy.  

Here are this weeks stories :

Chocolate Packaging Influences Its Flavor

Teen Boys Have Different Eating Disorders Than Girls

Constipation Frequently Unrecognized

Food Tastes Better Sitting Down

Air Is Polluted Indoors Too

Word Choice Reveals Your Romantic Style

The Internet Is Brainwashing You

Teen Use of Dietary Supplements May Be Deadly

Irregular Sleep Patterns Create Body Turmoil

The Wall For Human Exertion

Chicken And Steak Both Bump Up Cholesterol

Should GMO Be A Dirty Word

Kids Get Lazy At Age 9

Children’s Clothing  Could Make Them Overeat 

Extroverts Excel In The Workplace

For show notes and references to for the stories, check out my website at: https://www.drhowardsmith.com/june-2019-2nd-week-health-new

#chocolate #packaging, tastetest #branding #eatingdisorders #biohacking #anorexia #bulemia #supplements #steroids #constipation #sitting #standing #eating #pollution #formaldehyde #gypsum #pronouns #relationships #lovelife #we #I #internet #attention #distractability #memory #acceptance #rejection #Supplements #FDA #Sleep #circadianrhythms #varaiability #metabolism #obsesity #diabetes #lipids #marathon #running #biking #cholesterol #LDL #extrovert #introvert #workplace #psychology #redmeat #chicken #plantprotein #GMO #GMfood #teens #activity #obesity #exercise #parenting #obesity #childwear #fastfood

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A new mega-study by workplace psychologists at the University of Toronto shows that extroverts  have definite advantages at work.   These pluses appear applicable to any type of work and to all work settings.

Extroverts’ advantages fall into 4 general categories: exceptional motivation, positive emotions, excellent interpersonal skills, and overall job performance.  The investigators admit that other characteristics contribute to success on the job such as cognitive ability, conscientiousness, and a positive outlook.   Successful introverts have these traits in common with extroverts.

Most of us are not pure extroverts or introverts, and there is a little bit of actor in each of us.  If you are an introvert, turbocharge yourself so that you literally bubble over at work.  If you are an extrovert, be certain to channel your energies in ways that prevent your positivity from coming across as overwhelming and counterproductive.

Michael P. Wilmot, Connie R. Wanberg, John D. Kammeyer-Mueller, Deniz S. Ones. Extraversion advantages at work: A quantitative review and synthesis of the meta-analytic evidence.. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2019; DOI: 10.1037/apl0000415

#extrovert #introvert #workplace #psychology

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A new mega-study by workplace psychologists at the University of Toronto shows that extroverts  have definite advantages at work.   These pluses appear applicable to any type of work and to all work settings.

Extroverts’ advantages fall into 4 general categories: exceptional motivation, positive emotions, excellent interpersonal skills, and overall job performance.  The investigators admit that other characteristics contribute to success on the job such as cognitive ability, conscientiousness, and a positive outlook.   Successful introverts have these traits in common with extroverts.

Most of us are not pure extroverts or introverts, and there is a little bit of actor in each of us.  If you are an introvert, turbocharge yourself so that you literally bubble over at work.  If you are an extrovert, be certain to channel your energies in ways that prevent your positivity from coming across as overwhelming and counterproductive.

Michael P. Wilmot, Connie R. Wanberg, John D. Kammeyer-Mueller, Deniz S. Ones. Extraversion advantages at work: A quantitative review and synthesis of the meta-analytic evidence.. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2019; DOI: 10.1037/apl0000415

#extrovert #introvert #workplace #psychology

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Kids’ apparel all too often bears food graphics and two-thirds of those images depict unhealthy foods.  These are just some of the worrisome conclusions from a University of Michigan study now published in the journal Eating Behaviors.

Developmental pediatricians there investigating the reasons for childhood obesity reviewed nearly 3900 clothing items in the lines of 4 major children’s retailers.  One in every eleven items bore pictures of food.

Girls clothing were covered with pastries and other fattening desserts.  Boys apparel featured fast foods including burgers, hot dogs, fries, and pizza.  Many of the items targeting the youngest kids featured their cartoon characters wolfing down junk food, hungrily eyeing it, or making funny comments about it.

Don’t allow your children’s clothing to suggest unhealthy eating and a general emphasis on junk food to themselves and to their friends.  If their clothing must have graphics, how about Minnie beating Daisy Duck on a road run and not stopping to pick up a dozen Krispy Kreme Donuts.

Megan H. Pesch, Tiffany Munzer, Cassidy M. Pont, Clare S. Lauer, Danielle P. Appugliese. Donuts on our daughters: Gender differences in food categories on children's apparel. Eating Behaviors, 2019; 34: 101303 DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2019.101303

#parenting #obesity #childwear #fastfood

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/wM-_Cv1ZBLY

Kids’ apparel all too often bears food graphics and two-thirds of those images depict unhealthy foods.  These are just some of the worrisome conclusions from a University of Michigan study now published in the journal Eating Behaviors.

Developmental pediatricians there investigating the reasons for childhood obesity reviewed nearly 3900 clothing items in the lines of 4 major children’s retailers.  One in every eleven items bore pictures of food.

Girls clothing were covered with pastries and other fattening desserts.  Boys apparel featured fast foods including burgers, hot dogs, fries, and pizza.  Many of the items targeting the youngest kids featured their cartoon characters wolfing down junk food, hungrily eyeing it, or making funny comments about it.

Don’t allow your children’s clothing to suggest unhealthy eating and a general emphasis on junk food to themselves and to their friends.  If their clothing must have graphics, how about Minnie beating Daisy Duck on a road run and not stopping to pick up a dozen Krispy Kreme Donuts.

Megan H. Pesch, Tiffany Munzer, Cassidy M. Pont, Clare S. Lauer, Danielle P. Appugliese. Donuts on our daughters: Gender differences in food categories on children's apparel. Eating Behaviors, 2019; 34: 101303 DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2019.101303

#parenting #obesity #childwear #fastfood