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How Might Religion and Spirituality Promote Better Health?

How Might Religion and Spirituality Promote Better Health?
Social connections Robert Putnam is an Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. He has written or co-written a dozen books that chronicle changes in American civic and religious culture over the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st. A new film, Join or Die, features Putnam explaining the importance of belonging to…
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Regular Sleep Predicts Better Health

Regular Sleep Predicts Better Health
Summary The message of the following studies is simple: Creating a regular sleep schedule will likely improve your health. Develop the simple habit of going to bed about the same time most every night and getting up at the same time most every day. The sleep regularity index In 2017, Andrew Phillips and colleagues developed…
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Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load, and Health

Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load, and Health
Summary Diets that emphasize foods with higher glycemic index and higher glycemic load predict worse health. Find foods that you like to eat and which have lower glycemic loads. Increase your consumption of non-starchy vegetables (as in leafy green veggies), fruits (apples, berries), and whole grains, while reducing your intake of sugar (as in soft…
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Fermented Foods May Promote Better Health

Fermented Foods May Promote Better Health
Lose weight with yogurt Perhaps what we eat, rather than simply how much, more strongly affects whether we gain or lose weight. Researchers at Harvard used data from 120,877 men and women participants in three large, long-term cohorts (Nurses’ Health Study, Health Professionals Follow-up Study, Nurses’ Health Study II) from 1986 to 2006 to address…
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