How your mindset determines your health - BBC News website

[TiredSam]

New research has revealed a surprising connection between people’s beliefs and their health: by being too negative about their physical activity, some people may “think themselves unfit”.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180410-how-your-mindset-determines-your-health

Another "Fancy that!" cutting-edge science report from the BBC website.

 

[Esther12]

I saw no mention of the possibility that subjective feelings about fitness may relate to greater physical problems with doing exercise and therefore be associated with, but not cause, physical health problems. eg if doing a certain level of exercise takes more effort that could correlate with both a greater chance of physical health problems and a greater chance of rating oneself as doing less exercise than ones peers.

The author, Claudia Hammond, was the facilitator at this Wellcome Event on Exhaustion with Wessely and Anna Katharina Schaffner.

https://wellcomecollection.org/events/exhaustion-then-and-now

 

[Manganus]

Another "Fancy that!" cutting-edge science report from the BBC website.

There is too much stupidity in this world!

 

[John Mac]

The author, Claudia Hammond, was the facilitator at this Wellcome Event on Exhaustion with Wessely and Anna Katharina Schaffner.

What is exhaustion? Join broadcaster Claudia Hammond for a panel discussion as she explores our changing ideas about both physical and mental exhaustion, with a psychiatrist, a historian and a poet.

Says it all really

 

[chrisb]

What a coincidence. I have recently been wondering whether Wellcome Foundation has an agenda, or just too much money. Iwas struck by the fact that Wessely's and also David's early groundbreaking work was funded by Wellcome Foundation grants. We must be grateful for their generosity.

Edit I have just noticed this elsewhere, written by Sharpe.

"I wish to acknowledge my collaborators in the Oxford Chronic Fatigue Project........The project isfunded by the Wellcome Trust"

It's a small world.

Non pharmacological approaches to treatment. Michael Sharpe 1993.

 

[wdb]

If anyone fancies reading it
Abstract: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28726475
Full PDF: http://octaviazahrt.com/wp-content/...Perceived-Physical-Activity-and-Mortality.pdf

RESULTS:
Perceived physical activity relative to peers was associated with mortality risk. Individuals who perceived themselves as less active than others were up to 71% more likely to die in the follow-up period than those who perceived themselves as more active. This finding held across 3 samples and after adjusting for actual levels of physical activity and other covariates.

Physical activity. Respondents’ actual levels of physical activity were assessed through a comprehensive self-report battery (NHIS, 1999 –2002 NHANES) and accelerometry (2003–2006 NHANES). For brevity, these measures are henceforth referred to as “actual (physical) activity,” with the caveat that while they are widely used and validated measures, they still may not perfectly capture actual activity levels because of self-report biases and measurement error.

 

[alktipping]

in a very simple test ie thought process I found human mortality at 100%. its just a matter of time.

 

[Snow Leopard]

It's funny how the author proposed three explanations, completely ignoring the most obvious: people who are less healthy are less active as a result.

 

[wdb]

It's funny how the author proposed three explanations, completely ignoring the most obvious: people who are less healthy are less active as a result.

Don't they claim to have controlled for that ?

 

[Little Bluestem]

Correlation is not causation. <Imagine this emoji 10 time bigger.