UWW310 Technology & Health

Blog about the benefits from avocado's high Vitamin E content

Try this Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator to know your ideal weight...or NOT! (Maybe after the holidays!)

Discovered this interactive fitness and wellness website fivi.com. You can share nutrition ideas, set up a virtual running route, & workout ideas. This blog talks about a recent WSJ article on heart disease.

Digital Nation showed us the positive impact of social media during the revolutions in the Middle East, but this article discusses how it's impact does not advance the cause for women's rights....sad! "The Islamic people didn't have a voice, and new media gave them a voice," she tells me. The web coalesced "a million people who have the same thoughts and ideas." Once the Muslim Brotherhood implements those ideas, laws already on the books limiting women to second-class status and curtailing freedom of speech in the guise of fighting "blasphemy" could be increasingly enforced.

Hmmm.....Like! Drinking one extra cup of coffee a day is linked to a 3 percent reduction in cancer risk.

The past several decades have seen major strides in technology of all kinds. Improvements in semiconductors have allowed faster computation and communications, as well as the construction of databases that outdo themselves every year. In many industries, technology development has spurred further improvements in efficiency-a virtuous cycle. In health care, this process is happening at a much slower rate. It has taken decades to complete even relatively simple tasks such as digitizing medical records.

I don't know if this applies to this group but - holy cow - it was fascinating! It relates to innovative technology and the human body so I thought I'd include it here. I love all forms of biology and this article talks about creating nanomachines to mimic what the protein molecules do in our bodies. Our cells are like mini machines in their functionality, can you imagine duplicating this with our muscles - only synthetically, with machines? This technology will lead to the development of artificial muscles! This is unbelievable and a bit scary at the same time.