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Airplane noise is bad for your health
In my opinion, the title of this article, “Airplane Noise May Be Bad for Your Health” should have read “Aircraft Noise Is Bad for Your Health,” in light of the strong research that links noise, including aircraft noise, to adverse mental and physical health effects.
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Airplane Noise May Be Bad for Your Health
Researchers find that exposure to aircraft noise is tied to a higher body mass index, which can increase risk of heart attack and stroke
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✴︎ HealthWhy insomnia provokes performance anxiety that keeps you awake
Anxiety about sleep can be self-perpetuating. When the effort to sleep backfires, we feel even more desperate, resulting in more arousal.
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The plastics we breathe
Every time you take a breath, you could be inhaling microplastics. See how tiny and dangerously invasive they can be.
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Noise Hurts Much More than Our Ears
Experts describe ways to turn down the volume, from earbuds to smartphone apps that detect harmful noise levels
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✴︎ HealthWhy are so many young people getting cancer?
Cancer used to be a disease of the old. Not anymore.
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✴︎ HealthIrregular sleep and late bedtimes associated with worse grades for high school students
NIH-funded study also links later bed and wake times with school conduct problems.
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Study finds 3 big risk factors for dementia
Diabetes, air pollution and alcohol consumption could be the biggest risk factors for dementia, a study has found.
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The key to a longer life: high unemployment
New research confirms it: The worse the economy gets, the longer we live. But why?
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Climate change is undoing decades of progress on air quality
A Report finds that 1 in 4 people in the U.S. breathe unhealthy air as rising temperatures and bigger fires create a “climate penalty.”