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		<title>The Latest Tool for Tracking Obesity? Facebook Likes</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/25/turning-to-facebook-to-address-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obesity is a big problem that needs big solutions, and Facebook may be coming to the rescue. In a way that&#8217;s never been possible before, people can record their interests, habits and daily activities that at first blush might seem to have only trivial meaning. But such data can be accessed by almost anyone (depending on privacy settings, of course), and that includes researchers. Scientists are turning to Facebook as a way to track how obesity trends, for example, correlate with geographically-specific trends in diet and exercise,  and hope that such information can lead to more targeted ways of reversing the obesity epidemic. The researchers, from Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital, aggregated data on Facebook users&#8217; interests and discovered that the higher percentage of people with interests that related to healthy and active lifestyles in a given area, the lower was that region&#8217;s obesity rate. The opposite was true for areas with a large percentage of people with Facebook interests that related to television, for example. To come up with the link, the scientists studied what national Facebook users posted on their timelines, what they &#8220;liked,&#8221; and what they shared with their friends to come up with nation-wide associations.They also looked specifically at users within New York City and found similar trends at the neighborhood level, documenting that communities with more residents expressing interest in healthy lifestyle behaviors and products showed lower obesity rates than those where residents tended to show more interest in television shows. (MORE: Why Facebook Makes You Feel Bad About Yourself) Nationwide, obesity rates were 12% lower in areas where the highest percentage of Facebook users had exercise-related interests. In New York City, Coney Island, which had the highest percentage of users with activity-related interests had a 7.2% lower obesity rate than Southwest Queens, which had the lowest percentage of Facebook users with active interests. The power of the strategy, the scientists said, lay in the social media&#8217;s ability to focus on both national as well as local trends. &#8220;Definitely in public health [Facebook] is a great source<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=85631&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Lose Weight? Leave it Up to Your Smartphone</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/15/using-your-smartphone-to-lose-weight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diet & Fitness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an app for practically everything now, and the latest study shows that when it comes to weight loss, some apps may be more effective than traditional dieting methods.  Smartphones are an ideal way to communicate and remind people of everything from to-do lists to food and fitness goals, so researchers in the UK decided to investigate how effective weight loss apps alone might be in helping people to shed pounds. The University of Leeds scientists, funded by a grant from the UK&#8217;s National institute or Health Research, worked with software developers Blueberry Consultants to create My Meal Mate, an app that helps users track their food intake and exercise as well as set weight loss goals. The app sends users reminder text messages each week about their progress. For the study, published in the Journal of Internet Medical Research, the researchers recruited 128 overweight volunteers and split them into three groups for a six month study period. The first group relied on the My Meal Mate app, the second an online food diary and the final group used a paper version of a food diary. (MORE: The Secrets to Weight Loss: Keep a Food Journal, Don’t Skip Meals, Eat In) At the end of six months, the researchers measured changes inthe participants&#8217; weight, as well as their compliance with their assigned weight loss management tool. On average, participants those relying on the online weight loss website and the paper food diary made entries about once a week, the smartphone app users relied on their weight loss helper every other day. Over the six month study period, the app users lost an average of 10 lbs., the paper diary users lost 6.5 lbs. and the website users lost about 3 lbs. Previous research showed that food diaries can be an effective way of helping people to keep track of what they eat throughout a day in order to remind them of how many total calories they&#8217;re consuming. And numerous apps already help dieters to stay on top of these tallies<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84630&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Feeds to Follow for Health, Fitness and Family Matters</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/25/twitter-feeds-to-follow-for-health-fitness-and-family-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TIME&#8217;s editors and writers have been busy sifting through tweets to come up with our 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013. For Healthland readers, we&#8217;ve compiled the top 10 health, fitness and family feeds to follow. These standouts will keep you up-to-date on everything from healthy eating tips to rock climbing adventures. Of course, you can always rely on our Twitter feed to stay informed about the latest in health news and trends. Check out the list here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82925&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South By Southwest (SXSW): Will Collecting Data on Your Body Make You Healthier?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/14/south-by-southwest-sxsw-will-collecting-data-on-your-body-make-you-healthier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not familiar with the “Quantified Self?” It&#8217;s latest trend in obsessively tracking every possible health measure, in real time, that emerged as a major theme at South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival this year. With more body-tracking gadgets that can record everything from running blood pressure to respiration to perspiration rates and more, the next question is — so what? What are we supposed to make of the massive amounts of data that these constantly tracking devices amass? We&#8217;re not talking about the familiar pedometer that clunkily clicked away the number of steps you took a day. There are a new generation of medical monitoring devices originally meant to evaluate patients in the hospital that have been made over into sexier, wearable versions for the health conscious or merely health-curious. The result? Sophisticated and personalized health monitoring that may be generating a lot of information that we are still learning to interpret. (MORE: The Quantified Self Evolves: A South By Southwest (SXSW) Vision of How Gadgets Will Teach Us About Ourselves) Take BodyMedia, a wearable body monitoring-systems company that spent its first ten years developing products for the medical research sector before switching gears to consumer devices in 2009, targeting individuals who need to lose weight. Their public-friendly product is a clinically-validated armband that gathers physiological information from three small, sensors underneath the armband. The sensors start collecting a flood of  5,000 data points per minute, including measurements of heat flux (the rate at which heat is dissipating from the body), motion, skin temperature and the skin&#8217;s electrical conductivity, which are then converted into more meaningful measurements such as the number of calories burned, sleep quality and how efficient the body is overall in performing its metabolic duties. &#8220;That manifests itself into accuracy, personalization and more of a health orientation. We are more than an activity tracker or fitness device, we are actually a health management tool,&#8221; says Christine Robins, CEO of BodyMedia, who held a &#8220;Wearing Your Health on Your Sleeve (Literally)&#8221; session on Sunday. BodyMedia users upload their data online where<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82223&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your Facebook &#8216;Likes&#8217; May Be More Revealing Than You Think</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/12/your-facebook-likes-may-be-more-revealing-than-you-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study shows that what you &#8216;like&#8217; on Facebook can predict, with remarkable accuracy, everything from your race to your sexual orientation, political affiliation and personality type. Researchers studied more than 58,000 people who had volunteered to participate in the “myPersonality” application on Facebook, in which subscribers allowed access to their list of &#8216;likes,&#8217; as well as the results of online personality tests that the scientists asked the participants to take. The researchers wanted to see whether such information, which is publicly available on many Facebook pages, could predict a number of aspects about Facebook users&#8217; lives that they presumably kept to themselves, such as sexual orientation, ethnic origin, political views, religion, personality traits, substance use (including cigarettes, alcohol and drugs), and intelligence level. Feeding people’s “likes” into an algorithm, information hidden in the lists of favorites predicted whether someone was white or African American with 95% accuracy, whether they were a gay male with 88% accuracy, and even identified participants as a Democrat or Republican with 85% accuracy.  The &#8216;likes&#8217; list predicted gender with 93% accuracy and age could be reliably determined 75% of the time. The pattern of online liking predicted drug use with 65% accuracy and whether someone was likely to drink alcohol with 70% accuracy. (MORE: Our Personalities Are Constantly Changing, Even If We Think They&#8217;re Not) “The most important thing that we found is that you can predict a very wide variety of individual traits and preferences based on seemingly simple and generic types of records of online behavior like Facebook ‘likes,’” says Michal Kosinski, director of operations of the Psychometrics Centre at Cambridge University in England, a consultant for Microsoft on machine learning and the lead author of the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Some predictors were obvious: gay people were more likely to “like” anti-homophobia campaigns and Democrats liked Obama.  Others matched common stereotypes:  for example, gay men tended to like “Wicked The Musical” and Mac cosmetics and smart people were fans of “Science.” (MORE: Is Twitter Really<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82053&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Facebook Improves Memory</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/01/how-facebook-improves-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Checking status updates on Facebook may be just the distraction your memory needs. Facebook and other social media are generally considered distractions, rather than aids, to building memory. Interrupting whatever you&#8217;re doing to check your status or watch that cute cat video seems unlikely to help you retain the information you need, particularly for older people whose attention can be more fragmented. But new research suggests that certain kinds of distractions can actually help memory among the elderly — and that Facebook itself may also enhance recall. Renée Biss of the University of Toronto explored the surprising fact that when older adults are distracted from a task, they unknowingly retain more irrelevant information than younger people do. To determine whether this tendency could be tweaked to improve memory for important information, she and her colleagues designed a recall experiment designed to distract participants from remembering what they had seen. The research, published in the journal Psychological Science, involved more than 200 older adults with an average age of 67 or 68 and younger adults who were 19 to 20 years old on average, in Canada. In a series of experiments, participants tried to memorize a list of 20 words and were tested on them almost immediately afterward. Then they were told that there would be a second surprise test 15 minutes later. (MORE: Do E-Books Make it Harder to Remember What You Just Read?) During those 15 minutes, they were shown line drawings on a computer screen and asked to push a button when the most recent picture was exactly the same as the preceding drawing. Some of the drawings had some of the words from the list on them, while others had nonsense words: participants were told to ignore the words and simply identify the matching pictures. Only 10 of the words from the list were repeated so that researchers could determine if recall for these words was better than for those that were not included. (MORE: Why You&#8217;re More Likely to Remember a Facebook Status Than a Face)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=81346&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want a Better Relationship? There&#8217;s an App for That</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/13/want-a-better-relationship-theres-an-app-for-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francine Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next time you see a couple at a cafe focused intently on their phones instead of each other, don’t assume their relationship is in trouble. They might actually be working out their conflicts, using well-known approaches from couples therapy. Except, of course, with a digital update. She could be texting, “Picking this restaurant shows you really know me! XOX” Or he may be searching among ten words to explain his feelings about her being late…again. It was probably inevitable that even that most intimate and complicated of things — romance — found its way into an app. Is this a good way for lovers to spend quality time? No research yet. But several of these apps are built on the best research available on what makes successful couples. MORE: How Speed Dating Works: In the Brain Take the ideas developed by John Gottman, emeritus professor of psychology at University of Washington and co-founder of the The Gottman Relationship Institute. After 40 years of studying more than 3000 couples in his lab, Gottman developed a relationship recipe that allowed him to separate the happy couples from those who would eventually split.  One key predictor of a couples&#8217; success together involved how much their positive communications with each other outweighed their negative ones. There was no secret to Gottman&#8217;s formula, so building on his findings, he developed relationship tools to help couples who weren&#8217;t able to make it to the Institute to connect more effectively: there were weekend workshops, books and DVDs. And now, with the ubiquity of cell phones, most of those tips and skills have migrated into an app that helps couples enhance their relationship wherever, and and whenever they are together. Love Maps, from the Gottman Relationship Institute, for example, includes ten special-focus apps. Download “Open-Ended Questions,&#8221; and your phone will flash: “What do you want your life to be like, say, in three years from now?” or “Is our child like anyone in your family?” If you don&#8217;t like those, just shake your phone to get another. The<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=80111&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Facebook Makes You Feel Bad About Yourself</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/24/why-facebook-makes-you-feel-bad-about-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love & Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No surprise — those Facebook photos of your friends on vacation or celebrating a birthday party can make you feel lousy. Facebook is supposed to envelope us in the warm embrace of our social network, and scanning friends&#8217; pages is supposed to make us feel loved, supported and important (at least in the lives of those we like). But skimming through photos of friends&#8217; life successes can trigger feelings of envy, misery and loneliness as well, according to researchers from two German universities. The scientists studied 600 people who logged time on the social network and discovered that one in three felt worse after visiting the site—especially if they viewed vacation photos. Facebook frequenters who spent time on the site without posting their own content were also more likely to feel dissatisfied. (MORE: Why You’re More Likely to Remember A Facebook Status Than a Face) &#8220;We were surprised by how many people have a negative experience from Facebook with envy leaving them feeling lonely, frustrated or angry,&#8221; study author Hanna Krasnova from the Institute of Information Systems at Berlin&#8217;s Humboldt University told Reuters. &#8221;From our observations some of these people will then leave Facebook or at least reduce their use of the site.&#8221; The most common cause of Facebook frustration came from users comparing themselves socially to their peers, while the second most common source of dissatisfaction was &#8220;lack of attention&#8221; from having fewer comments, likes and general feedback compared to friends. The study authors note that both men and women feel pressure to portray themselves in the best light to their Facebook friends, but men are more likely to post more self-promotional content in their &#8221;About Me&#8221; and &#8220;Notes&#8221; sections than women, although women are more likely to stress their physical attractiveness and sociability. (MORE: Who Wields The Most Influence On Facebook?) The authors write [PDF]: Overall, however, shared content does not have to be “explicitly boastful” for envy feelings to emerge. In fact, a lonely user might envy numerous birthday wishes his more sociable peer receives on his FB Wall. Equally, a friend’s change in the relationship status from “single” to “in a relationship” might cause emotional havoc<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78642&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Manti Te&#8217;o Could Have Fallen in Love with Someone He Never Met</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/18/how-manti-teo-could-have-fallen-in-love-with-someone-he-never-met/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what must be the most jaw-dropping sports story to emerge in a week of jaw-dropping sports stories (hello, OprahLance!), it emerges that star Notre Dame footballer Manti Te&#8217;o had a girlfriend who never existed. That would not be much of a tale—who hasn&#8217;t had at least one fake dalliance?— except that Te&#8217;o, a probable first round pick in the NFL draft in April, became famous when his grandmother and that girlfriend were said to have died in the same 24 hour period in September and he still went out and left nothing on the field for the fighting Irish. &#8220;I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online,&#8221; Te&#8217;o said in a statement. &#8220;We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her.&#8221; Romantic stories of their ill-fated relationship were woven into many profiles about the rising sports star—as she was dying of leukemia, his voice over the phone would improve her vital signs, she&#8217;d send him letters timed to arrive before every game. As of this writing, it&#8217;s unclear whether Te&#8217;o is the victim of an elaborate ruse or whether he is complicit in a plot to hoodwink the media. There are many questions still to be addressed, but one of the most fascinating is whether it&#8217;s possible to really be in love with someone you&#8217;ve never met. The answer, surprisingly, is yes, or at least to believe you are. History and literature are, after all, full of examples of star-crossed lovers who communicate by letters or rarely see each other. Part of the romance is that the love is unfulfilled. Some of the great love stories of yore (remember Heloise and Abelard)—were conducted almost entirely by letters. Why not email, Twitter or IM? (MORE: The Manti Te’o Hoax: 6 Questions About the ‘Fake’ Girlfriend That Has the Sports World Reeling) As brain activity goes, love is pretty complicated, involving a mix of chemical, cognitive and goal-directed behavioral processes. The<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78276&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why You&#8217;re More Likely to Remember A Facebook Status Than a Face</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/17/why-youre-more-likely-to-remember-a-facebook-status-than-a-face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember a year ago, when the cousin of your college roommate posted a Facebook status that she got engaged? Sure you do. In fact, according to a recent study, you remember that Facebook status more than a line from a book or a stranger&#8217;s face. Even if the quips are from complete strangers, new research published in the journal Memory &#38; Cognition found these Facebook posts are about one and a half times more memorable than sentences in books and two and a half times more memorable than faces. (MORE: Who Wields The Most Influence On Facebook?) To understand how we process information absorbed from social media, researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Scranton asked 280 undergraduates to read 100 sentences pulled from Facebook pages, 100 sentences extracted from books — none of which were more than 25 words long — and a series of pictures of human faces. The participants were then prompted with the same phrases and pictures and asked to recall which ones they had seen previously. Which were more memorable? The students remembered more of the Facebook posts than either the reading passages or the faces. And because the scientists removed extraneous punctuation, leaving only words, the sharper recall wasn&#8217;t due to  smiley emoticons, writing in all caps or those ubiquitous multiple explanation points to &#8220;I&#8217;m having the BEST day EVER!!!!!&#8221; that pepper Facebook writings. Instead, the researchers speculate that Facebook posts&#8217; unforgetableness could be related to their coherency and &#8220;gossipy&#8221; tone. It&#8217;s easier to recall a chatty or witty post about the antics of someone&#8217;s cat, for example, than it is to remember a line from Great Expectations. To test this, the research team repeated the experiment using news headlines from CNN, lines from CNN stories about either breaking news or entertainment, and reader comments. The headlines were recalled better than random sentences from the stories, and entertainment headlines were more memorable than those from news stories. But of all the bits of text, what the participants remembered the most were the readers&#8217;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78122&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Smartphone Apps That Promote Smoking</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/24/five-smart-phone-apps-that-promote-smoking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regulation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marketing cigarettes ain&#8217;t what it used to be. Gone are the days of Joe Camel billboards and T-shirts or caps branded with cigarette makers&#8217; logos. But Big Tobacco hasn&#8217;t given up on getting its message out. A 1999 settlement banned tobacco companies from advertising outdoors or at stadiums but there&#8217;s another grey zone where the definition of an ad remains fuzzy — smartphone apps. According to the latest research from Australia, apps are loosely regulated, sold worldwide, and increasingly popular—all appealing features for cigarette makers. They&#8217;re even open to kids. In their report, published in the journal Tobacco Control, researchers at the University of Sydney searched the Apple and Android app stores with keywords like &#8220;smoke,&#8221; &#8220;cigarette,&#8221; and &#8220;tobacco,&#8221; to see how many promotional apps they could find. They tallied up anything that looked to be pro-smoking — apps showing branded images or info about where to buy tobacco products — even if the product claimed to be an aid for quitting. The final count? More than 100 different mobile-phone applications that appear to promote smoking. (MORE: And the World’s Top Smokers Are&#8230;) It&#8217;s doubtful all the promos come straight from tobacco companies. The researchers, however, believe that some may. Speaking to Bloomberg earlier this week, author Nasser BinDhim said he finds it &#8220;suspicious&#8221; that smoking apps are typically released by developers who work under nicknames rather than business names, unlike in other industries. TIME selected five of the most creative pro-smoking apps described in the study, so you can judge for yourself: 1) myAshtray Most apps identified by the Sydney researchers were tools to simulate or mimic the act of smoking. In this one, users click on the screen to drop ash into the virtual ashtray. Although the app&#8217;s download page claims it can be used to help to quit smoking, BinDhim and colleagues felt the messages that users receive when they drop ash into the ashtray might actually encourage smoking behavior. One such message: &#8220;Would be even better with a beer in your hand!&#8221; The scientists also say<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=72253&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get Out the Friend Vote: How Facebook Spurred 340,000 Extra Votes in 2010</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/12/get-out-the-friend-vote-how-facebook-spurred-340000-extra-votes-in-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love & Relationships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[arab spring]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your Facebook friends may be more influential than you think. In the first study to demonstrate the effects of social media on real-world voting, a Facebook post encouraging people to get to the polls was found to have brought in 340,000 additional votes during the hotly contested 2010 Congressional elections, which resulted in a Republican majority in the House and the biggest turnover of seats since the 1930s. Researchers have long known that face-to-face social networks profoundly influence human behavior — an effect that has been accelerated by digital networks like Facebook, Twitter and the like. They&#8217;re crucial pathways through which information, advice and other resources now travel between people, likely impacting decision-making and real-world behavior among millions. The Arab Spring protests, which ousted dictators in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya and spurred uprisings in Syria and elsewhere, is believed to have been heavily influenced by Facebook, Twitter and other social media, for example — yet the real impact of such digital social signals has been difficult to measure. (MORE: Who Wields The Most Influence on Facebook?) Studies of social influence are largely observational, so it&#8217;s difficult to figure out whether changes in behavior are due directly to peer influence or to the fact that people in the same social network are also likely to share the same interests and be exposed to similar environmental influences — at work and at home — making them likely to engage in similar behaviors. For instance, after Facebook added information about organ donation to people&#8217;s profiles in May, there were reports that thousands of new donors had enrolled in state programs, but no controlled research was done on what effect social media had. The new study, published in Nature, was a massive experiment to do just that: quantify the impact of social networks on individual behavior — in this case, political expression. Researchers randomly assigned more than 61 million American Facebook users to receive either a &#8220;social message&#8221; encouraging them to vote, an &#8220;informational message&#8221; also supporting voting, or to receive no message at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=68724&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Great Health Apps You Should Download Now</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/16/5-great-health-apps-you-should-use-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diet]]></category>
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		<title>Who Wields the Most Influence on Facebook?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/22/who-wields-the-most-influence-on-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to social influence, what type of people lead and who follows? It&#8217;s a question pondered by parents and marketing companies alike. Researchers at NYU sought to figure it out by tracking more than a million users on Facebook. Sinan Aral, a NYU Stern assistant professor of information, operations and management sciences, and Dylan Walker, a research scientist at Stern, started out with 7,730 users of a single Facebook app that allowed them to rate movies, actors and other Hollywood types. Each time the user rated something, Facebook would randomly send a message to some of that user&#8217;s friends with the user&#8217;s rating and information about the app — about 42,000 messages were sent to 1.3 million friends. The idea was to see who among the network was mostly likely to be convinced to try the app too. Overall, the researchers found, the app wasn&#8217;t overwhelmingly popular. Just under 1,000 people signed up to use the app. But the scientists were still able to see how influence spread and pick out certain patterns in who was mostly likely to influence whom. (MORE: The Upside of Peer Pressure: Social Networks Help Kids Exercise More) Among the study&#8217;s findings: —Men are overall 49% more influential than women, but women are 12% less susceptible to influence than men —Women exert 46% more influence over men than over other women —Single and married people are more influential than others: Single people are 113% more influential than people &#8220;In a relationship&#8221; and 128% more influential than those whose status reads &#8220;It&#8217;s complicated&#8221; Married people are the most influential people of all: 140% more so than those in a relationship and 158% more than the &#8220;It&#8217;s complicated&#8221; group —&#8221;It&#8217;s complicated&#8221; types were the least influential and the most likely to be influenced by others; the opposite was true for married folks, who are not only the most influential, but also the least susceptible to others&#8217; influence —Older people — anyone over 30 — are more influential and less susceptible to influence than younger people —Influence<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=62586&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Talk About Ourselves: The Brain Likes It</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/08/why-we-overshare-the-brain-likes-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science has now proved what kindergarten teachers, reality-show fans and Catholic priests discover anew every day: humans can&#8217;t help talking about themselves. It just feels too good. In a new study [PDF] published in the respected Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard University researchers conducted a series of experiments to assess how much people liked talking about themselves and why. In one study, they scanned people&#8217;s brains while those people either revealed personal information about themselves or judged the personalities or opinions of others. In another experiment, researchers tested whether people preferred to answer questions about themselves, other people or neutral facts — participants got differing levels of monetary compensation depending on the question they chose. Yet another study explored whether people wanted to share their answers with others or keep them to themselves. No matter the test, the researchers, led by Diana I. Tamir and Jason P. Mitchell at Harvard&#8217;s psychology department, found the results pointed the same way: humans get a biochemical buzz from self-disclosure. (MORE: The Upside of Gossip: Social and Psychological Benefits) That&#8217;s why we spend almost 40% of conversation talking about ourselves, says the study — our brain chemistry drives us do it. In the experiment in which participants talked about either themselves or others during an fMRI scan, researchers found that sharing personal information led to activity in the reward areas of the brain — the same ones that are engaged in response to rewards like sex and food. Talking about other people did not trigger the circuits as much. In the study in which researchers offered people tiny amounts of money (between 1¢ and 4¢) for answering questions about themselves or others, people were willing to forgo 17% of their earnings in order to answer questions about themselves. When the payoff was equal, people chose to talk about themselves two-thirds of the time. The researchers noted that people particularly enjoyed self-disclosure if they knew other people were listening. When people were given a choice to share their responses with others or to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=59001&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Status Update: Organ Donor</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/05/01/facebook-lets-organ-donors-tell-their-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 17:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not content with merely changing the world, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can save a few lives too. Users of the site can now post their organ-donor status to their Facebook timeinlines. See the full story on our companion blog Techland.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=58586&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Status: Drunk. Can Facebook Posts Help ID Problem Drinkers?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/10/04/status-update-drunk-facebook-posts-can-help-id-problem-drinkers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next time some blustery college kid boasts on Facebook about how wasted he was last night, don&#8217;t just roll your eyes. He may be telegraphing he&#8217;s got a drinking problem, according to research published Monday in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. The study focused on college students, nearly 1,700 of whom die each year as a result of alcohol-related overdoses, injuries or car accidents. Because college students don&#8217;t regularly go to the doctor, alcohol abuse isn&#8217;t often picked up through the health-care system. In the absence of clinical data, though, sites like Facebook might offer a clue about whether a person&#8217;s drinking is harmful. &#8220;Social media gives us a new way to look at behaviors that are tough to identify on the surface,&#8221; says Megan Moreno, lead author of the study and an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Moreno looked at 307 public profiles of underage college students at two public universities, then developed a coding system to categorize students: &#8220;non-displayers&#8221; were college students who didn&#8217;t mention alcohol use on Facebook; &#8220;alcohol displayers&#8221; were those who shared news or pictures about alcohol use; and those who posted about being seriously drunk were &#8220;intoxication or problem drinking displayers.&#8221; MORE: How Teen Drinking Is Influenced by Romantic Partner&#8217;s Pals The students were then asked to fill out a standard survey used to assess alcohol use problems; 224 students agreed. Based on their reported patterns of drinking and potential for harm, they received a score indicating possible at-risk behavior. Score an 8 or higher, and that means you could be a problem drinker. Overall, 35% of students scored high enough to be placed in the at-risk category. The researchers then compared the students&#8217; scores to their Facebook profiles to see whether their alcohol-related updates, photos and comments had any bearing on their actual problem-drinking risk. Not surprisingly, a greater percentage of students whose profiles indicated that they&#8217;d been very drunk were considered at risk for problem drinking. Compared with students in the &#8220;alcohol displayers&#8221; group (those who<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=44014&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>T.M.I., Mom. Parents and Adults Overshare on Facebook Too, Study Says</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/07/15/t-m-i-mom-parents-and-adults-overshare-on-facebook-too-study-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many dire warnings have been sounded about kids using social media, particularly because teenage-sized wisdom tends to mix dangerously with Facebook-sized measures of public display. But a new study suggests that it&#8217;s not just kids who overshare online. Grown-ups and parents are doing it too. Researchers at the University of Guelph in Canada say that adults are just as careless as kids are with their private information and just as willing to do whatever it takes to be popular on Facebook. &#8220;Both parents and teens share and show more about themselves than they might in other social settings,&#8221; said psychology professor Serge Desmarais, who conducted the study with Ph.D. students Amy Muise and Emily Christofides. &#8220;And the same psychological factors underpin that behavior.&#8221; (PHOTOS: Life Inside Facebook&#8217;s Headquarters) While it&#8217;s true that teens — along with the estimated 7.5 million users who are younger than Facebook&#8217;s required age of 13 — reveal more information online than older users, that&#8217;s only because they spend more time on the Internet. The 288 study participants who were younger than 19 spent an average of 55 minutes a day on Facebook; the 285 participants aged 19 to 71 spent an average of 38 minutes a day on the site. (LIST: Top 10 Technology Bans) The two main predictors of revealing too much information on the social-networking site were the length of time people spent on it and their desire for popularity, both of which fed off each other, the study found. Adults may not be on Facebook for as long as teens are, but the study suggests they have just as much desire to get their posts &#8220;liked&#8221; by others or to draw comments. &#8220;People with a high need for popularity may indeed care about their privacy,&#8221; said Christofides, &#8220;but they may not be willing to sacrifice their popularity by implementing privacy controls.&#8221; Surprisingly, the study also found that that grown-ups are actually less conscious than teens of the perils of revealing too much. All of which means the next time you log on to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=38165&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing the Healthland Podcast</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/21/introducing-the-healthland-podcast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cloud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Healthland Podcast! Click this little arrow for a lively, off-the-cuff discussion of the week&#8217;s health/science news. Host John Cloud, senior writer at TIME and Healthland, leads the conversation with Sora Song, the editor of Healthland, and Belinda Luscombe, editor-at-large of TIME magazine and a Healthland contributor. This week we discuss: *The psychology of the Casey Anthony trial: why so many people can&#8217;t turn away. *New studies of fatherhood that suggest the proportion of fatherless (and under-fathered) children is growing. *The new FDA regulations on sunscreen labeling. Do you need SPF 100? Finally, we have brief &#8220;Field Notes&#8221;: bits of health and science reporting from our notebooks. Below you will find links for the topics we discussed. The Healthland Podcast is still a work in progress, and we welcome any comments and suggestions. Please send them to john_cloud@timemagazine.com. Also, you can follow us on Twitter @JohnAshleyCloud, @sora_song, and @youseless. MORE: The psychology behind the Casey Anthony obsession The forensic science of the Casey Anthony trial &#8220;The Fathering Gap&#8221;: The pitfalls of modern fatherhood At long last, the FDA makes sunscreen labeling less confusing FIELD NOTES: The flavored-milk ban The power of magic mushrooms How dead men become parents<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=36544&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In a Way, Haven&#8217;t We All Been a Weiner Online?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/08/in-a-way-havent-we-all-been-a-weiner-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Melnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Anthony Weiner&#8217;s &#8220;Tweet cheating&#8221; has got commentators falling over themselves to condemn him by pointing out the virtues of his wife, Huma Abedin. Yes, she was gorgeous in Vogue. Yes, she is an accomplished political operative in her own right. But let&#8217;s not go so far as to intimate that Weiner was seeking an online mistress to compensate for some shortcoming in his wife. It&#8217;s rarely the case that when powerful men cheat it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re looking for some other better woman than the one they&#8217;ve got. Rather, it has more to do with the man. Maybe he&#8217;s a narcissist and a risk-taker; maybe he&#8217;s simply unable to rein in his compulsions. In Weiner&#8217;s case, maybe it&#8217;s all of the above. (More on TIME.com: The Weiner Case: When Is Tweeting Cheating?) But whatever the reason for a husband&#8217;s inclination to stray, the Internet and social media have made it easier for him to scratch the itch without crossing a real-world line. Online flirtations — on Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and the like — are tricky to contend. At least in the real world, an affair can be dealt with by establishing real rules: no more contact with the mistress, for instance. But in the online world, there isn&#8217;t even a mistress to banish — only an avatar or a random disembodied Twitter handle. It hard to say whether Weiner&#8217;s risqué online behavior really qualifies as infidelity, but it is certain that cyberrelationships have the power to undo or forever alter a marriage. In Sherry Turkle&#8217;s recent book Alone Together — an exploration of technology&#8217;s effects on human relationships — she describes an extramarital affair that unfolded in the online alternate universe Second Life. Pete, a middle-aged father of two with high cholesterol and a &#8220;disappointing&#8221; marriage, reinvents himself as the young, buff avatar Rolo in Second Life and finds virtual happiness with another hot, young avatar, Jade. (More on TIME.com: Erica Jong on Anthony Weiner, Sex and Power) &#8220;Second Life gives me a better relationship than I have in real<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=35357&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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