When science 'counts' the obvious

There are things that seem obvious, such as coffee that makes people awake, or go to the emergency as quickly as they die ., but scientists have proved them with experiments and numbers .

Children who play poor sports are less loved at school

Janice Causgrove Dunn from the University of Alberta studied 99 boys and 109 girls in Western Canada from grades 4 to 6, and found that the children who were recognized as more athletic were also loved by many friends. more, while the group of children playing worse sports often feels dissatisfied and lonely.

Sleep and coffee lose sleepiness

French scientists gave 12 volunteers in their 20s and 12 people in their 40s or drank coffee, or drank regular or short 30-minute naps in a car, and then checked their sanity. they were on a 125-mile drive on the highway.

As a result, coffee won the final, making most of the drivers head high on the trip. Short sleep is also helpful for young people, but not very supportive for older groups.

It is better to turn off the phone when you go on vacation

Organizational psychologist Dov Eden and colleagues at Tel Aviv University studied 800 university professors in the US, New Zealand and Israel. He found that people who still communicate with work through devices like mobile phones don't really escape the chronic stress that a holiday is expected to bring.

Rock stars live fast, die young

Killjoy Mark Bellis and colleagues at the Community Health Center, Liverpool John Moores University (UK) investigated the lives of 1,064 North American and European singers and musicians named in the Top 1,000 All-Time book. Albums, comparing their mortality rates while at the top of the reputation list for the general population. Turns out, from the 2nd to 25th years after becoming famous, a, rook music stars have 2-3 times higher mortality rates than their peers but not the rooker.

The farther away the emergency distance is, the sooner you die

Understanding four ambulance services in the UK, carrying 10,315 patients between 1997 and 2001, the researchers determined that every 9 km increase in the distance between patients and hospitals, the risk of death increased by 1 percent. This risk is even greater in people with severe respiratory problems: they are 20% more likely to die if the hospital is further 19 km away.

You are prone to flu in the winter

Experiments on flu-infected guinea pigs have revealed that the virus spreads most easily in conditions of relatively low warmth and cold weather, which are common conditions in the winter.

And to avoid flu, simply close the door. You can also fight them by keeping the room temperature warm or increasing the humidity.

Loneliness makes people sick

Researchers at the University of Chicago investigated the effects of loneliness on the general health of the elderly, middle-aged and young people. As a result, continuous loneliness in people aged 50 to 68 is associated with hypertension, a risk factor for the elderly.

Standing is better than sitting

Marc Hamilton and colleagues from the University in Missouri-Columbia, found that maintaining 30 minutes of exercise a day was not enough to cope with the health risks posed by sitting and sleeping for 23.5 hours. rest. Research on the metabolic mechanism of mice, pigs and humans shows that after a few hours of practice, our bodies turn off the mechanisms of fat and cholesterol burning, but standing up helps "turn on" these mechanisms. come back, and burn calories twice as efficiently.