By Ben Buckley, Senior lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University; University of Liverpool
Exercise is one of the best things we can do for a healthy heart. Yet research shows that endurance athletes have up to a four times higher risk of atrial fibrillation (an irregular or fast heartbeat) than non-athletes. This heart condition increases risk of both heart failure and stroke.
If regular exercise and being fit reduces our risk of many chronic diseases and preserves mental and physical health, why is it that people…
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By Myrna Dawson, Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Guelph
More than 1,100 Canadian women and girls have been killed by men since 2018. So why is the federal government dragging its heels in adding femicide to the Criminal Code?
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By Shannon Welbourn, Assistant Professor and Technological Education Program Coordinator, Brock University
For women in the trades to have safer workplaces, the work of preventing gender-based violence must start long before anyone steps onto a job site.
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By Sanam Mahoozi, Research Associate, City St George's, University of London
Nima Shokri, Professor, Applied Engineering, United Nations University
Salome M. S. Shokri-Kuehni, Lecturer in Environmental Engineering, United Nations University; Technical University of Hamburg
Schools are closing and hospitals are admitting patients suffering from lung diseases as Tehran and other Iranian cities face a severe air pollution crisis.
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By Gio Dolcecore, Assistant Professor, Social Work, Mount Royal University
Celeste Pang, Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Mount Royal University
Alberta’s Fairness and Safety in Sport Act, though it claims to be rooted in equity and safety, is a discriminatory law that excludes transgender girls and women from sports.
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By Renzo Lanfranco, Principal Researcher, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
The brain’s sense of “this is my body” is tightly bound to conscious awareness – far more than many theories assume.
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By Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
The UK government makes a lot of money from cars. It taxes car ownership, it taxes the fuel, and it is about to charge drivers of electric vehicles by the distance they travel.
But Britons’ reliance on their 34 million cars also comes at great expense to the economy. Heavy traffic and congestion costs £7.5 billion a year in wasted time. An
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By Sven Batke, Associate Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange - Reader in Plant Science, Edge Hill University
If you walked into a supermarket during a supply hiccup, storm, fuel protest, or even the early days of the COVID pandemic, you will remember the sight of empty shelves. For most people in the UK, these moments are surprising, even unsettling, precisely because they are rare. We are a generation largely spared the rationing, shortages and hunger our grandparents and great-grandparents once endured.
But that rarity is exactly why we must not become complacent. Food security (the reliable availability,…
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By Manal Mohammed, Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster
You might think good sleep happens in your brain, but restorative sleep actually begins much lower in the body: in the gut.
The community of trillions of microbes living in your digestive tract, known as the gut microbiome, plays a powerful role in regulating sleep quality, mood and overall wellbeing. When the gut microbiome is balanced and healthy, sleep tends to follow.…
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By Abi Lafbery, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Lancaster University
Centuries after the upper class flocked to the coast for therapeutic sea bathing, outdoor swimming is having a renaissance. Swimmers enter cold water for the many physical and mental health benefits it offers.
Despite the dangers – hypothermia, cardiac-related death and drowning – for many women, outdoor swimming feels like a safe space. My PhD research, which…
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