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Your weekly dose of evidence
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Dear Reader,
It’s been a year since we launched Thrive, a newsletter featuring the best of our health, well-being and lifestyle coverage. We’ve brought you stories on the things that matter to you – in particular, mental health, nutrition, exercise, parenting, sleep, work-life balance, and gender equity. And we’ve given you the evidence to make informed choices about how to live your life.
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Fron Jackson-Webb
Deputy Editor/Senior Health + Medicine Editor
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The procedure is still experimental and there’s so much we don’t know about it.
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Karin Hammarberg, Monash University; Luk Rombauts, Monash University
Don't get too excited about the prospect of freezing ovarian tissue to postpone menopause. The costs, risks and unknowns are likely to outweigh the potential benefits.
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Eating healthy foods doesn’t just improve our physical health. It can benefit our mental health, too.
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Ralph Martins, Macquarie University
Many chronic diseases increase our risk of Alzheimer's disease. This link between our bodies and our brains means certain healthy choices could protect our cognitive function.
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Bacteriophages are viruses that attack and infect bacteria.
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Cynthia Mathew, University of Canberra
While some viruses make us sick, others can fight against bacteria, or protect us from more harmful viruses.
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Most new apartments were not designed with families in mind and parents of young children can struggle to make social connections.
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Elyse Warner, Deakin University
Almost half of apartment residents in Australia are families, but few high-rise dwellings were built with them in mind. Many find these apartments present barriers to building social connections.
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Women have heart attacks too and can have different symptoms to men, like jaw pain, breathlessness or nausea, as well as the familiar chest pain. So why don’t we see this on TV?
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Deborah Lupton, UNSW
It's time characters on TV reflected not only women's experience of heart disease but those of men from diverse backgrounds if we want to prevent more people dying from heart disease.
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Expert answers to serious, weird and wacky questions
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Getting older? If you grunt when you bend over, you’re not alone.
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Andrew Lavender, Curtin University
Is grunting a sign that we’re ageing fast? Or is it just one of those things that come with the middle years, like reading glasses, greying hair and 'dad jokes'?
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If you have been drinking more water than your body needs, the body tells the kidney filters to get rid of the spare water. That’s when your urine will look paler.
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Jaquelyne Hughes, Menzies School of Health Research
One of the waste products that your kidneys put into your urine is a chemical called urobilin, and it is yellow.
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