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Increased use of bikes for commuting offers economic, health benefitsQuoteCutting out short auto trips and replacing them with mass transit and active transport would yield major health benefits, according to a study just published in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspec
Physical activity reduces the effect of the 'obesity gene'QuoteThe genetic predisposition to obesity due to the 'fat mass and obesity associated' (FTO) gene can be substantially reduced by living a physically active lifestyle according to new research by a large international collaboration, led by Ruth Loos from the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, in Cambridge, UK, and published in this week's PLoS Medicine.
um... this is research?
socially funded resume padding
I forgot science is mainly a resume padding market
Quote from: vziard on November 02, 2011, 03:24:38 AM
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Increased use of bikes for commuting offers economic, health benefits
Physical activity reduces the effect of the 'obesity gene'
um... this is research?
I'm actually taking an inquiry research class where we have been looking at some of the locally funded studies and I can't get over how fucking absurd some of these are. How absolutely meaningless. They're more in the social sciences realm of but you get the vibe.
Forget actually studying a phenomenon that actually
might yield some critical and usable results. Can't have that...
Yeah those studies sound like a good use of money.
I feel like this about a huge proportion of studies I hear about, which is sad, really.