Category: Health

A deep learning tool for personalized workout recommendations from fitness tracking data

Tom Patriot

Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego have developed FitRec, a recommendation tool powered by deep learning, that is able to better estimate runners’ heart rates during a workout and predict and recommend routes. The team will present their work at the WWW 19 conference May 13 to 17 in San Francisco. Researchers trained FitRec on a dataset of more than 250,000 workout records for more than 1,000 runners. This allowed computer scientists to build a model that analyzed past performance to predict speed and heart rate given…

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A 5-STEP SKIN-CARE ROUTINE FOR BEAUTY MINIMALISTS

Tom Patriot

If you’re searching for tips on how to build an effective skin-care routine that won’t consume hours of your day, we’re sharing an easy, five-step system that can fit into even the busiest of schedules, ahead! Let’s face it, that ten-step skin-care routine is great but for minimalists, it can feel like ten steps too many. If you’re the kind of person who prefers to keep it simple, you’re going to want to adopt this routine ASAP! A MINIMALIST’S SKIN-CARE ROUTINE With a minimalist skin-care routine, you’ll only want to concern yourself…

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No safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy

Tom Patriot

An international group of researchers has taken one of the first major steps in finding the biological changes in the brain that drive fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). New work using chaos theory to analyze brain signals, discussed this month in the journal Chaos, from AIP Publishing, shows the long-term effects. Researchers found that teenagers who were exposed to alcohol while in the womb showed altered brain connections that were consistent with impaired cognitive performance. Their findings were reached by measuring the responses from a brain imaging technique called magnetoencephalography (MEG)…

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Half of all American workplaces offer health and wellness programs

Tom Patriot

Workplace health promotion programs are increasing in the U.S., according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and RTI International. Nearly half of all workplaces in the nation offer some level of health promotion or wellness programs and 17% of workplaces with 50 or more employees offer comprehensive workplace health promotion programs. Laura Linnan, professor in the Department of Health Behavior at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and founding director of…

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4 THINGS YOUR DERMATOLOGIST WISHES YOU DID IN THE SPRINGTIME

Tom Patriot

Winter is arguably the toughest season on your skin — from the chilling temperatures to the harsh winds and just overall lack of moisture in the air. When spring finally rolls around and temperatures start to creep up,  our complexions are often in need of some major TLC. Thanks to the dry air and artificial heat, our winter skin-care regimen tends to be centered around deep hydration, which begs the question: What should be our skin-care focus in the spring? To get some answers — and make strides towards our best skin of the…

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