Health
Finding good health news amidst a pandemic can be quite daunting. That’s not the case with The Optimist Daily, where positive news is in high supply. Our Health section covers the latest good news from the health sector, featuring solutions ranging from mental and physical health to immunity, nutrition, and cutting edge medical research.
Happy international chocolate day!
There are many reasons to celebrate chocolate, not least of all for the surprising health benefits a bar of high-quality dark chocolate brings with it. What are you waiting for? Today is International Chocolate Day, quite possibly the best day of the year. While chocolate is loved by many, it has Read More...
Study: Neurofeedback brain training helps control emotions
Training the brain to treat itself is a promising therapy for traumatic stress. The training uses an auditory or visual signal that corresponds to the activity of a particular brain region, called neurofeedback, which can guide people to regulate their brain activity. However, treating Read More...
Can apps improve your mental wellbeing?
To the smartphone-addled among us, advising the use of apps to fix mental health problems might seem like telling someone who needs to get fit to live on jam and fags. But it’s happening all the same. While gadget and social media addiction are lampooned for increasing teenage depression, and Read More...
Dubai’s sustainable city includes urban farming
The city’s urban farm produces more than 20 kinds of herbs and will soon start growing fruit and vegetables once the productive landscape matures. About 2,000 date palms are on the property. Read More...
What's the best work schedule for your age?
Your work schedule can influence your health, studies suggest Starting work or school later in the morning benefits teens and young adults, experts say A work week of no more or less than 25 hours may be best for adults 40 and older (CNN)The moment you may have been dreading is here. Lazy summer Read More...
Vitamin D supplements halves risk of serious asthma attacks
News about the importance of vitamin D—the sun—for our health keeps coming in. Now a major research review suggests that people with mild or moderate asthma who take vitamin D halve their risk of serious attacks requiring hospital treatment. The risk of severe attacks fell from 6 to 3 percent Read More...
In this food desert, kids learn to farm veggies—out of the back of a truck
“Has anybody heard of rainbow chard?” Larry Moore asked a group of elementary school children. No one answered. “What about this?” Moore asked again, pointing to green leaves emerging from the dirt, their orange base peeking through the brown soil. “That’s a carrot!” several young Read More...
4 ways to end hunger in Africa
For the first time in human history, the end of hunger is well within our reach. While courageous and passionate individuals have been working to end this scourge for decades, a recent confluence of political will, public-private partnerships and funding has made this ambition possible. We have, of Read More...
A controversial plan to solve the threat of the most dangerous animal in the world
Mosquitoes are the most dangerous animals in the world. They kill half a million people a year, mostly through spreading malaria but don’t forget dengue, yellow fever and now zika. Mosquitoes live off humans. We are their only source of food. At the same time, they don’t contribute much. Yes, Read More...
How agriculture can be intensified in Africa without causing harm
Sustainable agriculture is a popular concept. It's warmly embraced as a guiding light for the future of food production. But there is still a great deal of disagreement about what the concept actually means and entails. There is broad agreement about what sustainable agriculture's main aim should Read More...