A newly released study from Duke University’s Pontzer Lab, housed in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology in Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, looks at the correlations between economic development, daily energy expenditure and the rise in a country’s obesity level. While many experts have offered that rising obesity rates are due to declining physical
The researchers were able to analyze how the hair shaft changes over time. See, under an intense microscope, you can tell a lot about a hair’s journey: Each strand is made up of dead cells, but those cells are very much alive before they’re uprooted for the scalp. “While hairs are growing, cells receive chemical
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Participants and study design The data was from a follow-up study of college students at Binzhou Medical University in Yantai, Shandong Province20,21. The first wave of data was collected between August 23 and September 23, 2019. Baseline information including questionnaires and blood samples22. The questionnaire contained the following: Demographic data (age, sex, BMI). Lifestyle information
