Tag Archives: Mortality

Beth Schafer lay in a hospital bed, bracing for the birth of her son. The first contractions rippled through her body before she felt remotely ready. She knew, with a mother’s pit-of-the-stomach intuition, that her baby was not ready either. At just 23 weeks of gestation, her son teetered on the cliff edge of viability, the fragile threshold where modern …

1-2 cups a day seem to hit the sweet spot Analysing data from more than 46000 adults across two decades of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, researchers found that drinking 1-2 cups of caffeinated coffee per day was linked to a 14-16% lower risk of death from all causes compared to no coffee at all. The protective effect …

A new study found that 15 minutes of fast walking each day may lower mortality risk by 19%. Fast walking lowered overall mortality risk and had an especially large impact on heart health-related deaths. While slower walking can be a great form of exercise, smaller quantities of fast walking may offer extra benefits. Walking is one of the simplest and …