Health
Finding good health news amidst a pandemic can be quite daunting. That’s not the case with The Optimist Daily, where positive news is in high supply. Our Health section covers the latest good news from the health sector, featuring solutions ranging from mental and physical health to immunity, nutrition, and cutting edge medical research.
Study: Fish slime could be a potential source for new antibiotics
Antibiotic resistance is one of the most urgent threats to global health nowadays. In order to find a solution to this growing problem, scientists are searching for new bacteria-killing drugs in all kinds of environments. Recently, researchers have started looking at the layer of mucus that coats Read More...
To get more people on the bus, we need to look towards Auckland, New Zealand
The city of Auckland in New Zealand has seen their population grow steadily since 2000—at around 2 percent per year. Despite this, transit ridership numbers were stagnating, something that many growing cities have struggled with. Eager to get citizens away from their cars and into public Read More...
Unmanned drones are now delivering blood to a hospital in North Carolina
The cargo for the first revenue-generating drone delivery in the United States wasn’t an Amazon package or 7-Eleven Slurpee — it was blood. On Tuesday, UPS launched a new service using drones to transport blood and other medical samples between the various buildings at Read More...
Fiber is the ultimate superfood. Here’s how to add more of it to your diet
This week we’re talking a lot about food, and for good reason: an overwhelming number of health conditions these days are linked to poor diets that lack diversity and good nutrition. One of the main things that people are missing in the fiber, which is the closest thing we have to a true Read More...
How diversifying the foods we will eat is a must if we want to spare the planet
Why would a wildlife conservation organization be involved in a campaign to push people to diversify their diets? As it turns out, the way we humans eat is very much linked to preserving wildlife — and many other issues. This was the topic at a recent conference in Paris where the World Wildlife Read More...
Could a high-tech toilet help save people from heart failure?
It may sound extremely odd, but in the future, your toilet could help save your life. At least, that could be the case if a team of researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology get their way. They have created a “toilet seat-based monitoring system” that could help hospitals monitor Read More...
Add these metabolism-boosting foods to your diet to lose weight more easily
While good fitness can help cue your body to burn fats and lose weights, eating the right foods can get your body to do the same. Take seaweed, for example. This salad of the sea is rich in iodine, which is the master nutrient of our thyroid gland, which plays a central role in our metabolism. Read More...
Including nuts in your daily diet can do wonders for your brain health
Yesterday we wrote about nuts, and how feeding them to your children when they're above 6 months of age can help them avoid lifelong allergies to nuts. Making sure they avoid nut allergies is pretty important, especially after new research found that including nuts within our diets could be key to Read More...
Want to look a bit younger? Try adding these foods to your diet
There’s no magical pill you can take to keep yourself from aging, but there are some foods you can eat that will delay the aging process. These foods are typically full of powerful antioxidants that keep your skin healthy and your body young at the cellular level. Take coconut oil, for Read More...
The amount of people dying from heart attacks sharply declined since 1995
In the 1990s, having a heart attack was basically a death sentence for some 20 percent of the people who suffered one. By 2014, that number fell to just 12 percent. So what led to these significant declines in fatality rates for heart-attack patients? Much of it has to do with a concerted effort on Read More...