Is Social Pressure Damaging Our Love Life?

The pandemic drove us further into overuse of screen time. Recent studies estimate we pick up our smartphones over 85 times per day and spend around 25 hours online each week. Friends and frenemies can now be tracked more easily; status changes can be monitored almost constantly. Often, social pressures make it more difficult for us to keep our personal information private (and many do not want to). Some of us are willingly staring into the goldfish bowl that is other’s social media, and as we know, this is associated with envy and damaging and negative comparisons. Continue reading Is Social Pressure Damaging Our Love Life?

Risk Factors of Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Accumulate in Children with Poor Aerobic Fitness

A new study from the University of Eastern Finland found that the traditional way of expressing aerobic fitness in proportion to total body mass overestimates the role of aerobic fitness in identifying children at an increased risk of these diseases. Continue reading Risk Factors of Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Accumulate in Children with Poor Aerobic Fitness