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The importance of physical activity
The role of genetics in lifespan
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Social Jet Lag
Irregular sleep schedules and broken sleep-wake times are not just an occasional traveling phenomenon, but a wider problem due to our social lives conflicting with our sleep patterns.
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Poor Sleep
As our sleep patterns shift, leading to poor or no rest, there are a bunch of diseases that become more likely:
- Obesity
- High blood pressure
- Alzheimer's disease
- Metabolic imbalances and diabetes
- Heart disease.
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Night Shifts
The World Health Organization has listed night-shift work as a cause of cancer in our bodies.
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Our Internal Alarm Clock
Our internal body clocks are better programmed to help us sleep and wake up, according to our unique body chemistry and energy levels.
Ignoring our internal clocks in favor of the alarm clock, and following our social obligations, sacrificing on sleep, is taking its toll on our health.
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Social jet lag
A term describing the difference between people’s sleep schedules on workdays and free days. It highlights the difference between how they’d like to structure their days and how they have to structure their days in order not to lose their jobs and friends.
Social Reality
Our brains can actually consider physical objects and impose new or different functions on it even if it is not a part of its physical nature, using only our collective minds. This phenomenon is called social reality.
It has an amazing level of influence on our lives, ...
Social structure
Social structure is the organized set of social institutions and patterns of institutionalized relationships that together make up a society.
Social structures are not immediately visible, but they are always there and affect all dimensions of our experience. They operate on three l...
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