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Widespread medical efforts to prescribe more physical activity could significantly reduce the nation’s health care costs. About 53% of adults meet national physical activity guidelines, or practice moderate exercise at least 150 minutes per week
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Anger over COVID-19 layoffs keeping hospitality workers from returning to jobs. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the hospitality industry lost nearly 8 million hospitality jobs were lost, making it the hardest-hit industry in the U.S. by the pandemic in terms of workforce reduction.
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Measuring exposure to misinformation from political elites on Twitter | Observe an association between conservative ideology and misinformation exposure| Estimated ideological extremity is associated with more misinformation exposure to a greater extent for users estimated to be conservative
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Adult children are over four times more likely to be estranged from their fathers than their mothers, a new long-term national study found. But for most adult children, the estrangement is only temporary – 81% of estrangements with mothers end, as do 69% of those with fathers.
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Diets that involve intermittent fasting can help with weight loss — but returning to normal eating habits often means regaining shed pounds. Scientists now have an explanation for this: short-term fasting alters the composition of gut microbes, which, in turn, changes the way the body absorbs fat
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Psychology researchers are taking a serious look at ‘cumshots’: “There was no evidence that males or females scoring higher in psychopathy had more positive perceptions of the images, regardless of affect, again suggesting that degrading women is not a main focus for consumers,”
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Study finds that a higher vegetable, but not potato, intake might help mitigate type 2 diabetes risk, partly by reducing BMI. However, when researchers separated boiled potatoes from mashed potatoes, fries or crisps, boiled potatoes were no longer associated with a higher risk of diabetes.
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