Jason MerrittGetty Images Will Smith and the rest of his family appeared on his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith’s Facebook Watch series, Red Table Talk. They spoke about bodies, health, and wellness, including Will revealing that he reached his highest weight ever: 225 He also said that he could go three days without passing a bowel… Read More: Will Smith Says He Sometimes Goes Three Days Without Pooping »
Research shows that adults who spend as few as 4 years in economic hardship could be at risk of accelerated aging in comparison with adults who do not experience periods of poverty. New research examines the effects of financial difficulties on aging. The term accelerated aging describes people who are physically less capable at an… Read More: Medical News Today: Financial hardship may accelerate aging »
Dive Brief: About 6,500 nurses at 12 Tenet hospitals are walking off the job in three states Friday after failing to come to new contract agreements with the for-profit chain, National Nurses United said. Dallas-based Tenet said it will have replacement nurses tending to patients during the one-day strike. The Florida and California nurses’ contracts… Read More: Tenet nurses hit the picket line in 3 states »
The storage capacity of the human mind is amazing. One estimate of the size of the brain’s “RAM” is as high as 2.5 petabytes (a million gigabytes). The number is based on the total number of neurons in the brain and the total number of possible connections per neuron. I suspect it is an overestimate, given the… Read More: It’s OK if doctors can’t memorize everything »