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.
Meat tax ‘inevitable’ to beat climate and health crises, says report
“Sin taxes” on meat to reduce its huge impact on climate change and human health look inevitable, according to analysts for investors managing more than $4tn of assets. The global livestock industry causes 15% of all global greenhouse gas Read More...
Scientists have discovered a protein that helps direct our T-cells to fight tumors
One way scientists are manipulating the body's natural defenses is called adoptive cell transfer, which involves extracting a patient's own T-cells, genetically modifying them to target the specific proteins that mark cancer cells, and then injecting them back into the patient. While this kind of Read More...
The Keto diet can help the you beat diabetes
The drastic influx of carbohydrates and sugar in the American diet has created innumerable physical and mental diseases that are easily prevented when an addiction to certain foods is curbed. We know overcoming any addiction is challenging, but until the medical industry treats our obesity epidemic Read More...
Air pollution has a massive impact on early brain development
The effect that polluted air can have on the lungs is well-documented. Now, a new UNICEF report provides evidence that it can be similarly harmful to the developing Read More...
This portable laboratory will change how we combat disease outbreaks
When an outbreak of a disease such as Ebola occurs, mobile labs are set in place to help speed up diagnostic processes. Still, these mobile labs often come in the form of container-based or truck mounted labs, which are difficult to employ to areas where roads are poor. Now, through a combination Read More...
Canadian researchers say you can improve memory with this one weird trick
Here's a study tip just in time for exam season: if you want to remember something, read it out loud. It's called the "production effect" — a term coined by the Canadian researcher who discovered it, Colin Read More...
US health care is incredibly wasteful. To clean it up, we should look to India
We may not think about it much, but the medical industry produces plenty of waste from treatments, tossing disposable gowns, caps, booties, gloves and blankets, in addition to using loads of energy to drive machines needed in diagnosis and surgery. And that's not even talking anesthesia, which is a Read More...
The Economist’s food sustainability index ranked Ethiopia above the US
The Economist released its most recent assessment of food sustainability in 34 countries this week. The index ranks Ethiopia, the poorest country featured in the study, higher than the UK and the US. Glimpses into Ethiopia’s farming revolution could give other lower-income countries clues on how Read More...
This all-natural drink can help you beat insomnia
While simply drinking warm milk at night may be enough to help you fall asleep, there’s an all-natural drink that you can make that is sure to ground your body before slipping off to sleep. The drink is being called Moon Milk, and it makes use of adaptogens such as the stress-reducing herb Read More...
Study: Poor lifestyle causes half of all cancers
Smoking is by far and away the single major cause of cancer, but being obese, drinking too much alcohol, having a poor diet and being physically inactive combined are the second major cause. Overall, 42 percent of the 659,640 new cancer cases reported in the US every year were directly caused by Read More...