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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...
According to Gharib, the impact of the study is the emphasis on trying to maintain body weight as opposed to allowing the weight to increase if someone is already overweight. Part of that maintenance, as Sun recommends, is moderate to rigorous physical activity and keeping total calorie intake...
...scientists confirmed Corot-7b is not a giant gas ball like Jupiter--a finding that heartened experts who believe potential alien life would require a firm surface. The planet, some 500 light-years away, is similar in size to Earth. One key difference: Corot-7b's proximity to its sun raises its daytime surface temperature to a balmy 3600?...