Your College Major Might Predict Your Midlife Health
So it turns out Underwater Basket Weaving wasn’t just a four-year junket with a diploma souvenir. It was actually an investment in your midlife health. Really? Really.
It turns out that your college major might predict your midlife health.
New research suggests another telling indicator could be added to that list: What was your college major?
A first-of-its-kind study finds one’s chosen field of undergraduate study “is a statistically significant, and substantively important, predictor of health status in midlife.”
“Compared to adults who majored in one of the most health-advantaged fields—business—adults majoring in some fields, such as psychology/social work and law/public policy, have nearly twice the odds of poor health,” reports a research team led by Syracuse University sociologist Jennifer Karas Montez. (Source: PSMag.com)
Humbug. Curious if your college major did / didn’t set you up for a midlife crisis? Read the full article HERE.
Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease?
“An experimental treatment completely reversed Alzheimer’s disease in mice by reducing the levels of a single enzyme in the animals’ brains. The results further bolster the theory that amyloid plaques are at the root of this mysterious brain disease, and that addressing these plaques could lead to an eventual cure for Alzheimer’s.” (Newsweek)
Although the promising results of this study may show that research is on the right track, mice are too different from humans for the results to mean a sudden cure and it would be a minimum of five to seven years researchers would know if the same approach is helpful in humans.
For more information about the study (published Feb. 2018 in Journal of Experimental Medicine) and its findings read the full article, “Alzheimer’s Disease is Completely Reversed by Removing Just One Enzyme in New Study.”