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...really wanted to look at what can be the overall impact of lifestyle on death,” van Dam said, adding that he was interested in getting precise statistics...
Mark Orlowski, the founder and executive director of the Cambridge-based Sustainable Endowments Institute that produces the report, said he thinks that universities can play a “critical role” in educating students on how to reduce environmental impact and hopes that the report encourages these initiatives...
...first large-scale study estimating the impact of a combination of lifestyle factors on mortality, the research team found that subscribing to healthy lifestyle factors—not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight and diet, and exercising regularly—dramatically reduces the risk of dying...
...four primary factors considered in the study (the researchers also studied the impact of alcohol intake), smoking is the only one that public health policy can feasibly influence...
...Asked what impact this trillion-dollar crisis might have on his expansive and expensive array of policy proposals, Obama essentially answered, Maybe none. That's defensible in theory, because each of Obama's big ideas could be, in the long run, good for the U.S. economy. Overhauling the energy sector by selling credits to emit carbon could ignite a big new industry around alternative fuels. Reforming the inefficient health-care system could rein in the cost of insurance and allow employers to put more money into wages rather than into benefits. Drastically improving education ought to lead to a more...