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...research suggests that longevity hinges in part on women maintaining an optimal body mass starting in their 20s and 30s, said Qi Sun ’07, a research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...really enjoy optimal health status at age 70 or higher, women should keep a healthy body weight since very young adulthood and maintain that,” said Sun, whose research was inspired by a similar study on male Japanese-Americans in Hawaii. He said he wanted to see if the same trend appeared in women given that they live longer than men and they have a higher Body Mass Index...
Utilizing the ongoing Nurses’ Health Study, which periodically surveys over 120,000 registered nurses via questionnaires, Sun and his research team tracked and analyzed data for 17,000 nurses from 1976 to 2000. He searched for trends in multiple aspects of health, from physical and cognitive function to mental health and chronic diseases...
...works and duly subsidize or commission media campaigns targeted at lesser-known, cost-effective drugs. Even better, it should support new types of treatments, bringing their effectiveness into public consciousness and increasing the placebo effect associated with them. But even more importantly, the government should extend the provisions for research on the comparative effectiveness of different treatments and of different treatments against a placebo. We should be pleased that placebos provide these opportunities for saving money to use in health care—now we must pursue them...
...scale of the disaster or lessen the damage it caused. Manila, they say, was always bound to face such catastrophe, and more should have been done to help its millions of residents prepare. A recently published study by the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSA), a research group based in Singapore, ranked metropolitan Manila as one of the provinces in Southeast Asia most vulnerable to flooding. The capital region is perched on a marshy isthmus that is crisscrossed with streams and rivers. An ever-growing population - Manila is now a sprawling mega-city of some 12 million people...