Health and Fitness Articles From around the Web - Diary of a Pole Addict

A collection of health and fitness articles from around
the web!

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The articles on this page are shrouded in my own opinion of them. Whilst trying to be fair I'm also trying to workout what it is the article is actually saying.

Comments here are always welcome! So far we've covered the role of porn in the brain, female fertility, red meat, housework and whether mens faces are made for smacking.

If you like this but need a giggle check out my blog for a dose of fitness humour and the occasional existential crisis!

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Friday 11th July - Weight Loss Ops for Diabetics. A Good Idea or a Lack of Accountability?

7/11/2014

"More weight loss operations for diabetes" via BBC news

TL;DR - The NHS spends 10% of its budget on diabetes. NICE is suggesting we operate on overweight people to lower this cost.

I don't know how you feel about this. To be quite honest, it makes me sort of cross.

Knee-jerk reaction maybe...

Monday 30th June - Tut Tut Facebook

6/30/2014

"Facebook emotion experiment sparks criticism" via BBC
news

TL;DR Facebook messed about with some peoples feeds a couple of years ago and now people are pissed.

Sorry. Am I being a wee bit judgemental?

It's easier when you simplify things right down to the very basics, but in reality, it's rarely ever that simple.

Friday 27th June - Why Do Good People Do Bad Things?

6/27/2014

'He saved my life that night' via BBC
news

Sometimes it's all to easy to judge someone.

Take the first case of the delinquent teenager. How easy is it to pass off as just a "bad person"? How easy is it just to label him as a troublemaker for no other reason than boredom?

Don't get me wrong, I don't condone illegal behaviour but I'm keen to explore the reasons behind WHY people indulge in such behaviour.

It's easy to pass psychologists off as

Friday 13th June - What Are We - Babymakers? Pffft.

6/13/2014

"Does female fertility 'drop off a cliff'?" Via BBC news

"TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp has urged women to put off higher education and a career in favour of having children because their "fertility falls off a cliff"."

Is it just me who gritted their teeth as they read that sentence? And was it just me who noticed the related stories had emotionally-emotive heaped language like "Can women HAVE IT ALL?" or I WISH IVF had never been invented".

This story made me sort...

Thursday 12th June - Red Meat and Breast Cancer

6/12/2014

"Red meat 'linked to breast cancer'" via BBC news

TL;DR young adult females who eat a lot of red meat have been linked to higher rates of breast cancer in later life.

I've been umming and ahhing (yes, they are words THANK YOU) about whether to touch this article or not...

Wednesday 11th June - Walking Saves Lives....No, Really!

6/11/2014

Walking more 'would save thousands' of lives in the UK via BBC news

Well, this is a bit of a no-brainer really.

TL;DR - if people did more exercise (i.e. the recommended 150 minutes per week) it would stop as many people dying per year, prevent cases of breast cancer, prevent us having as many cases of colorectal cancer and would lead to a decrease in type 2 diabetes (which we saw in yesterday's featured article).

The Ramblers and Macmillan Cancer Support suggest...

Thursday 10th June - Diabetes, Pre-diabetes and What To Look For

6/10/2014

One in three adults in England 'on cusp' of diabetes via BBC news

TL;DR we have increasing amounts of people at the higher end of the glucose tolerance range - not realising it but almost at the point of being type two diabetic.

I chose this article today because it holds a lot of personal significance to me.

Friday 6th June - Wait. Housework ISN'T exercise!?

6/6/2014

Housework " Not Strenuous Enough" for Exercise Targets via BBC news

TL;DR: housework doesn't count as exercise because it doesn't raise your heart rate consistently enough.

Well.

Big surprise.

How many of us have used this sort of exercise as our daily exercise?

Friday 6th June - Male Faces are Made to be Punched...

6/6/2014

"Male faces 'buttressed against punches' by evolution" via BBC news

Well.

Not sure what I can say here that won't get me into trouble.

Thursday 5th June - Is It the Light or the Calories? 0_o

6/5/2014

"The Plague of Light in our Bedrooms" via BBC news

TL;DR - the amount of light getting in to our rooms when we're sleeping is affecting our
lives.

The study from this article suggests that the amount of light that we're getting in our rooms (from streetlamps/phones/clocks/cars) is having enough of an effect on our bodies that it is causing obesity.

They also found that women who had enough light in their rooms to "see across it" had larger waistlines.

Now, without wanting to overtly offend anyone