Windows 10, Wearables, Internet Wizardry To Converge At Taipei Show It’s hard to tell this year and last year apart by looking at headline figures for Computex Taipei, the world’s second largest computer show. Around 5,000 stalls at the show that opens June 2 will flog everything from new laptops to Internet-based schemes to make home appliances run on their own, a lot like ...
Yoga is Popular, and it May Also be Healthy (CC BY 2.0) Espen Klem/Flickr There are many forms of yoga, and any effects on health likely vary with the type and amount. Some forms of yoga place more emphasis on physical postures and stretching or flexibility, others on breathing or meditation. Other forms of yoga include faster-moving series of movements. Studies on yoga and its healthy benefits are often small short-term, and without clear comparison groups, so for now conclusions are tentative, but early research is promising. The research is thin, but here’s what it says A recent review of multiple studies found some evidence that those who do...
Tracking the Taxation Movement In the struggle to reverse the childhood obesity trend, one of the most pervasive tropes about junk food is to “tax it like tobacco.” In 2008, at the National Childhood Obesity Congress, Dr. Pretlow met Steven K. Galson, who was at the time the acting U.S. Surgeon General. They talked about the feasibility of taxing junk food, and the official felt that neither consumers nor food companies would allow it to happen. The anti-tobacco movement had, and has, unavoidable political implications. Nicotine was proven to be habit-forming, and many of the 400-odd ingredients of cigarettes were shown to be carcinogenic....
