| Online: | |
| Visits: | |
| Stories: |
This week in obvious science
Shayne Jacopian for redOrbit.com – @ShayneJacopian
….And we’re back with some more obvious science on this fine and glorious Sunday! As always, we’ve got some great (?) studies where a lot of money was spent to find out something that we (most of the time) already knew!
In this week’s extravaganza of extra obviousness, we learn from great scientists that a sedentary lifestyle is bad for your heart; fried food is bad for your heart; employees don’t like being bothered with work emails after work; and the key to curing cancer lies in the halting of uncontrollable cell growth!
But before we get to the show, we’d like to offer a disclaimer:
If we are wrong (which we probably are) about your research being obvious, feel free to hit us with a rebuttal, explaining where we were wrong (probably everywhere) and how awesome your study actually is. We’ll gladly publish it and acknowledge our mistake. Email the editor-in-chief, Christopher Pilny, at [email protected].
Now, back to the show…
THIS WEEK IN OBVIOUS SCIENCE
1. Excess sitting linked to coronary artery calcification, an early indicator of heart problems via American College of Cardiology
Let’s play fill in the blank. As we’ve mentioned before, there are two types of studies we often see while scanning the interwebs:
1. [Type of exercise] makes you healthier
2. Too much [food, beverage, sex, high-impact training, etc.] is bad for you
This study really combines both: Too much [sitting] is bad for you; a little exercise would make you healthier.
So…thank you American College of Cardiology. You are now in the running for the highly coveted “Most Obvious Science of the Year” award, right up there with Penn State a few weeks ago, when they ran, “Greenland Ice: The warmer it gets the faster it melts”.
What do you have to say for yourselves?
“The study found no association between coronary artery calcification and the amount of exercise a person gets, suggesting that too much sitting might have a greater impact than exercise on this particular measure of heart health.”
Wait…what’s the alternative to sitting besides some form of movement–in other words, some kind of exercise? Just standing?
“‘The lesson here is that it’s really important to try to move as much as possible in your daily life; for example, take a walk during lunch, pace while talking on the phone, take the stairs instead of the elevator and use a pedometer to track your daily steps.’”
So you mean…exercise? But you just said…?
We’ll see you in December, American College of Cardiology.
2. UT Arlington study shows employees become angry when receiving after-hours email, texts via University of Texas at Arlington
Like…just like…
Our mood upon reading this:
3. Fried foods tied to raised heart failure risk via HealthDay
Quoth the raven (WebMD), March 3, 2015:
“This study suggests that it might be wise to reduce the frequency and quantity of fried foods consumed weekly in order to prevent heart failure and other chronic conditions.”
Quoth the movie trailer for Supersize Me, circa 2004:
4. Restoring ability to halt cell division may protect lung cells from cancer via University of Illinois at Chicago
Halting cell division may protect the lungs from cancer.
Cancer = the un-halting division of cells.
Therefore, halting cell division may protect the lungs from the un-halting division of cells.
Yes…yes. That makes sense.
Ok, this one is another in a long line of obvious titles, but not-so-obvious research. We highly suggest reading it, as it’s far more interesting than most of the stuff we’ve seen this week.
—–
Follow redOrbit on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram and Pinterest.
redOrbit.com
offers Science, Space, Technology, Health news, videos, images and
reference information. For the latest science news, space news,
technology news, health news visit redOrbit.com frequently. Learn
something new every day.”
Source: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113348357/this-week-in-obvious-science-030815/
