Schlagwort: Healthy
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Science interview on working from home, parental leave and productivity
Coburg/Germany, February 20, 2025. The USA is already leading the way: Companies want to tighten home office regulations again and bring the workforce back into the ‘office’ to boost the economy. Prof Dr Niko Kohls is a lecturer at the Faculty of Applied Natural Sciences and Health in the Department of Health Sciences and Health…
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Nutrition has a strong influence on health
A conscious and healthy diet provides the body with vital nutrients, increases well-being and prevents illness. Innsbruck/Austria, Februar 12, 2025. An unbalanced and unhealthy diet can cause chronic inflammatory bowel diseases or metabolic disorders. Eating too much is not only unhealthy, it also often leads to malaise. Perhaps the limit of food intake is to…
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Green food revolution
Alternative protein sources are intended to feed the world’s population and reduce emissions. Researchers are investigating how responsible innovations in protein transformation are. Berlin/Germany, February 12, 2025 Plants, algae, insects and fungi – they are all considered alternatives to animal protein sources and are expected to feed the world’s population in the future. Their advantage:…
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Charge your phone just by moving your body
Innovative device could power electronics with your body movements while you use them. „Breaking Dielectric Dilemma: Polymer Functionalized Perovskite Piezocomposite with Large Current Density Output,“ appears in the November edition of Nature Communications. Waterloo/Canada, November, 20, 2024. A new technology that can generate electricity from vibrations or even small body movements means you could charge your…
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Less stress, more balance Changed lifestyle de-stresses the immune system in Crohn’s disease
Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease in which immune cells are out of balance. Stress can exacerbate the symptoms and accelerate the course of the disease. A research team from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Bamberg Social Foundation recently showed that a multimodal programme of stress management…
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Cyclists are the real drivers of innovation
Maximilian Hoor on Berlin as a hotspot of urban cycling culture and how knowledge of the city’s diverse cycling scene would promote a transport transition towards a bike-friendly city Berlin, October 29, 2024. Achieving a transport transition that aims to transform cities to make them safer, more liveable and ‘greener’ is not feasible without a…