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Do Standing Desks Actually Do Anything?
The original version said the effect probably fades. Newer evidence tracking full-day sitting to twelve months says otherwise. What still has not been shown is the…
Does Creatine Do Anything for Your Brain?
The headline says memory improves. The subgroup analysis says it improves for people over 65 and not for people in their twenties.
Does Eating Every Few Hours Keep Your Energy Up?
The government review could draw no conclusion. Two randomised-trial meta-analyses have since arrived, and they do not support the grazing advice either.
Does a Drink Before Bed Actually Help You Sleep?
The most cited review on this was formally contested by eight sleep specialists. The original version of this article could not retrieve their argument. Now it…
Do Ergonomic Keyboards Prevent Wrist Pain?
Two reviews, one of which separates mouse use from keyboard use and finds only one of them associated with anything. That distinction was missing from the…
Does Working Out at Night Ruin Your Sleep?
The meta-analyses cleared evening exercise years ago. Then a study of four million nights complicated it. The two findings turn out to be compatible.
Does Breakfast Actually Improve Concentration?
The claim that breakfast sharpens your focus rests on a research base that looks very different once you separate adults from children. Here is what the…
Does Dark Mode Reduce Eye Strain?
Dark mode is the default aesthetic of technical work, but the research on display polarity mostly points the other way. Here is what the studies measured,…
How Much Exercise to Offset Sitting All Day? The Number Got Smaller When Researchers Stopped Asking People to Guess
Accelerometer studies put the figure at roughly 30 to 40 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous activity a day, lower than the familiar hour drawn from self-reports. Here is…
Why Do I Get Tired After Lunch? Mostly Not the Food
A review of the post-lunch dip reports it can occur even in people who ate no lunch and did not know the time of day. Here…
Can You Catch Up on Sleep on Weekends? Two Literatures, Two Answers
Two bodies of evidence answer the weekend catch-up question in opposite directions: short-run laboratory markers and a 13-year mortality cohort. Here is what each one can…
Does Drinking Water Help You Focus? The Studies Were Not Done at a Desk
The dehydration-and-cognition studies induced fluid loss with treadmill walking in a warm room and a prescription diuretic, and the pooled effect concentrates above 2% body-mass loss.…
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