health
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The Royals Tend To Live 3 Decades Longer Than Regular Folk & Here’s Why
In the U.K. it is customary to receive a personalized message from the queen on your 100th birthday – such is the relative rarity of reaching the milestone. Prince Philip was just a couple months off, dying at the age of 99 years and 10 months on April 9, 2021. The last notable royal…
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These Smart Scales Are Currently on Sale
If you have a creaky set of bathroom scales you’ve been desperate to replace, this smart scale sale is just the thing you’ve been waiting for. Aside from simply measuring bodyweight, smart scales read a range of things like BMI (Body Mass Index), bone density, muscle mass, water percentage, and BMR (basal metabolic rate —…
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The Winter Covid-19 Peak Is Finally Starting to Slope Downward
For the first time in a long while, there appears to be some hope on the horizon, even as the U.S. official death count flies past 400,000. The winter peak of the pandemic is finally turning downward, as daily new cases and total hospitalisations continue to slowly decline. Unfortunately, we’re still very much in the…
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Are Wearables Accurate at Detecting Calorie Burn?
It’s easy to attribute omnipotence to one’s devices. I’d hate to know what my iPhone knows about me. That said, there are still aspects of existence that Silicon Valley has yet to quantify (though not, I’m sure, for lack of trying). Calorie-burn might be one of these. While countless apps/devices profess to track it with…