Here is further research proof that fostering wellbeing is good for you and good for society. This was my reason for starting SR 33 years ago. Helping people to be informed about the trends affecting our future and making the point that fostering wellbeing was always the best option to choose from those available. This is how you change the culture you live in for the better for everyone, including yourself.
Doing good is good for you, research shows. Credit: George Wylesol / The Washington Post
If you want to increase your happiness and well-being, spend your money, time or energy on someone else.
Research consistently finds that acts of altruism, such as donating money, volunteering or giving blood, benefit both the receiver and the giver — even when the giver does not expect anything in return.
“Finding joy in helping others is fundamental to who we are as a species,” said Elizabeth Dunn, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.
American volunteering and charitable giving have been on the decline in recent years. But helping others may set up a positive feedback loop: Because doing good feels good, altruism can beget more altruism and better well-being. Continue reading
“If things are hard, you often don’t feel like going out of your way to do the things that will help other people around you,” said Abigail Marsh, a professor of psychology and the interdisciplinary neuroscience program at Georgetown […]
Matthew Field, Senior Technology Reporter - The Telegraph
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This is why the weaponization of lies has become such a powerful factor in the shaping of culture in the developed democracies, particularly in the United States. As local media dies, and major corporate media is taken over by billionaires who also own the major social media platforms the survival of democracy becomes ever more problematic, and the power of the oligarchy ever greater.
Gen Z doesn’t want to eat if it means putting down their phones Credit: New Yokr Post
People aged between 18 and 24 were online for an average of six hours and one minute per day in 2024, according to a study by media regulator Ofcom.
That was a sharp increase on the four hours and 36 minutes that this age group spent online when the study was conducted last year.
However, Ofcom said previous figures for YouTube use may have been understated as a result of a methodology change.
Gen Z women were the most “online” group, according to the study, spending six hours and 36 minutes on the internet every day compared to five hours 28 minutes among male peers.
According to the study, which monitored smartphone and internet use among 10,000 volunteers, three quarters of people aged 18 to 24 are now using TikTok, spending an average of 64 minutes a day on the video-sharing app. That is up from 55 minutes […]
The unassuming yet popular white button mushroom has cancer-fighting abilities, according to the results of a human clinical trial on the use of food as medicine. Not only does it slow tumor growth, but it also allows cancer-fighting immune cells to do their job effectively.
Coined in 1989, the term nutraceutical, a portmanteau of ‘nutrition’ and ‘pharmaceutical,’ has become somewhat of a buzzword. Used to denote food, or parts of food, with medicinal properties, the term is typically attached to something whose health benefits were recognized thousands of years ago by traditional medicine practitioners.
While the widely consumed white button mushroom has been promoted as a nutraceutical with anticancer properties, its mechanism of action has not been understood. Now, a new study by researchers at City of Hope, one of the US’s largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations, has uncovered how the popular fungus exerts its health effects.
“City of Hope researchers are investigating foods like white button mushroom, grape seed extract, pomegranate, blueberries and ripe purple berries called Jamun for their potential […]
Madeleine Aggeler, Lifestyle and Wellness Reporter - The Guardian (U.K.)
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Robert Kennedy, Jr. is a raw milk advocate and would like to see the laws changed to allow the sale of unpasteurized milk, and would try to make this change if his nomination is approved by the Senate. If Kennedy and the people around him are successful in this expect to see a notable increase in illnesses caused by germs such as campylobacter, cryptosporidium, E coli, listeria, brucella, and salmonella. It is all part of the anti-vaxxer, anti-science trend that is shaping the culture of the United States.
Dairy cows on a farm in Crestwood, Kentucky, in 2021. Credit: Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg / Getty
The discovery comes amid an increasingly heated public debate about the merits and drawbacks of raw milk. Robert F Kennedy Jr, the anti-vaccine activist and Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services (HHS), is a proponent of raw milk and has claimed that as HHS secretary, he will support farmers who sell it. At the same time, public health experts have continued to advise against drinking raw milk, which is more likely to contain an array of harmful bacteria.
Here’s what you need to know.
What is raw milk and why are people talking about it?
Raw milk comes straight from the cow (or sheep or goat) and has not been pasteurized. Developed by Louis Pasteur at the end of the 19th century to help kill harmful bacteria in wine, pasteurization is the process of heating liquids in order to eliminate harmful […]
For the first time since the United States was created we have a President who is a convicted sex offender, multi-felon, and traitor. A man who seeks to end democracy and make the country a christofascist authoritarian nation ruled by an oligarchy. It will be interesting to see what the U.S. is in March.
Donald Trump gestures after speaking at a November 14, 2024 event at his Mar-a-Lago club. Credit: Alex Brandon / AP
Donald Trump has gotten away with causing a violent attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, as part of scheme to overturn the 2020 election, hiding top secret documents from the federal government, and other alleged crimes.
Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday made official what Trump’s election victory made clear, moving to dismiss the election interference case in which Trump was charged with promoting conspiracies to defraud the United States, obstruct an official government proceeding, and deprive Americans of their civil rights through his attempts to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s victory. Smith said he was dropping the case due to a Justice Department policy that bars prosecuting a sitting president.
“The Government’s position on the merits of the defendant’s prosecution has not changed,” Smith said in the filing.
The motion leaves Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis’ prosecution of Trump and various former aides as the only standing criminal case related to Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election. Willis […]
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