Measles outbreaks have gone global because of anti-vaxxers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8giUUkD8sE

How do psychopaths behave as children, especially around other children their age?

I find it interesting that 1% of the population are psychopathic, which is an innate condition, whereas another 3 to 4% are sociopaths, which is acquired through environment.  Either way, these people completely or mostly lack empathy for other people.  Psychopaths also don't feel anxiety the way other people do.  Bad things don't stress them as much.

It is sad that people are this way, but I am a bit curious about the fact that we have all these people running around in society.  They claim that most corporate CEO's are psychopaths, which sounds plausible, and many claim that Steve Jobs was a psychopath, which also sounds possible.  

Maybe it is an evolutionary survival strategy.  In the event that "the shit hits the fan", maybe the psychopaths will be more likely to survive.  I am certain of it.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-psychopaths-behave-as-children-especially-around-other-children-their-age/answer/Athena-Walker

STRAPPED INTO A SINKING HELICOPTER (with U.S. Marines)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-53kaP6dZeI

Still Not Convinced You Need a Flu Shot? First, It’s Not All About You - The New York Times

In a good year, we might see as few as 114,000 people hospitalized with flu-associated illnesses. In a bad year, that number rises to more than 700,000.

In 2014, more than 57,000 people died of influenza/pneumonia. It was the eighth-most common cause of death, behind diabetes (just under 80,000 deaths). It's also the only cause of death in the top 10 that could be significantly reduced by a vaccine. Lowering risks of heart disease, cancer or Alzheimer's are much, much harder to do.

In 1995, the worst year of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, fewer than 51,000 people died of it. In 2014, just over 6,700 deaths were attributable directly to H.I.V. Yet it is H.I.V., not the flu, that people dread far more.

Because the flu is so common, we tend to minimize its importance. Consider the contrast with how the United States responded to Ebola a few years ago. We had a handful of infections, almost none of them contracted here. One person died. Yet some states considered travel bans, and others started quarantining people.

Worldwide, just over 10,000 people died in the 2014-15 West African outbreak of Ebola: a relatively new, frighteningly contagious illness that people feared could become a global pandemic. It's not surprising that it got a lot of attention. Yet the tens of thousands who died of influenza in the United States the same year barely made the news.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/15/upshot/flu-shot-deaths-herd-immunity.html

Association of dairy intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 21 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study - The Lancet

Higher intake of total dairy (>2 servings per day compared with no intake) was associated with a lower risk of the composite outcome, total mortality , non-cardiovascular mortality, cardiovascular mortality, major cardiovascular disease, and stroke. No significant association with myocardial infarction was observed. Higher intake (>1 serving vs no intake) of milk and yogurt was associated with lower risk of the composite outcome, whereas cheese intake was not significantly associated with the composite outcome. Butter intake was low and was not significantly associated with clinical outcomes.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31812-9/fulltext

Life lessons from 100 year olds

https://youtu.be/9AThycGCakk

Why we are wasting our lives away

https://youtu.be/5W16YFgJ_RU

Fwd: Liver disease deaths spike among young Americans

the study -- published Wednesday in the BMJ -- found that deaths in the United States due to cirrhosis rose 65% and deaths from liver cancer doubled from 1999 to 2016. In that period, cirrhosis-related deaths increased for every ethnic group and for both men and women.

From 2009 to 2016, the greatest increase in death rate from cirrhosis was among people 25 to 34

Tapper cited a rise in binge-drinking among young people to account for the increase in cirrhosis-related mortality

https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/07/19/health/liver-cirrhosis-death-rate-study/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2F

Eat this, don’t eat that — wait, never mind

I get tired of all the contradictory information out there.

https://riverheadlocal.com/2018/07/15/eat-this-dont-eat-that-wait-never-mind/

Interesting perspective.

  Being Fat Is NOT OKAY...Deal With It.

Sperm count falling sharply in developed world, researchers say

​https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-sperm/sperm-count-falling-sharply-in-developed-world-researchers-say-idUSKBN1AA28K​

11 Reasons Chocolate Is Good for You

https://www.thedailybeast.com/11-reasons-chocolates-good-for-you

I am eating 4 to 5 pieces of 85% dark chocolate per day for the supposed health benefits. It is not too high in sugar, with only one gram of sugar per piece. I might get the same benefit from just 2 to 3 pieces.

BTW, I have noticed that eating dark chocolate before playing chess helps. This is probably due to the 15mg of caffeine per piece, but there may be other nutritional benefits for the brain.

What Is The Resolution Of The Eye?

https://youtu.be/4I5Q3UXkGd0

Homeopathy Explained – Gentle Healing or Reckless Fraud?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HslUzw35mc

Study: For those over 90, alcohol better than exercise for longevity

I'm very skeptical. Winston Churchill was an immense drinker, and lived to age 90, but he also suffered a series of strokes.

​  Alcohol is very bad for the liver, and your liver is very important for your health.​

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/ct-drinking-alcohol-living-past-90-20180220-story.html