Sedentary lifestyles increase all causes of mortality, double the risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and obesity, and increase the risks of colon cancer, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, lipid disorders, depression and anxiety. What are the major risk factors for sedentary lifestyle disease? Physical inactivity increases all causes mortality, doubles theRead More →
But that has fallen steadily over time. From 2005 to 2014, the adult smoking rate declined from 20.9 percent to 16.8 percent. Public health officials are hoping to to drive that rate below 12 percent by 2020. 2) Cigarette smoking has fallen sharply among 18- to 24-year-olds. Why has theRead More →
The ocean appears to be in chemical equilibrium; that is, the proportion and amounts of dissolved salts per unit volume of ocean are nearly constant and have been so for millions of years. So, no, the ocean is not getting saltier and this is because the processes that add andRead More →
Does CETV increase with age? Largely, yes – however, that doesn’t make it a reliable means of making your final decision. The below graph shows that, typically, the closer an individual gets to their retirement age, the higher their CETV will be. Are pension transfer values increasing? Defined benefit pensionRead More →
“Polymer prices are high since imports are still a problem. Imports of polymers have been affected due to various problems, including shipping woes,” said an industry source on condition of anonymity. Why is PVC so expensive 2021? In fact, PVC prices went up three times in two months as aRead More →
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) calculated that meat consumption declined for the first time in 2019, after decades of steep increases. … Better alternatives are also driving the decline in meat consumption. Is U.S. meat consumption decreasing? Then, meat consumption fell from 2007 to 2013, reaching a lowRead More →
Earth is an active place and earthquakes are always happening somewhere. … On average, Magnitude 2 and smaller earthquakes occur several hundred times a day world wide. Major earthquakes, greater than magnitude 7, happen more than once per month. “Great earthquakes”, magnitude 8 and higher, occur about once a year.Read More →
The derivative of a function can be used to find out where its graph is rising (increasing) or falling (decreasing). If over an interval then the function is increasing over the interval. If over an interval then the function is decreasing over the interval. How do you find the increasingRead More →
Limits on redundancy pay There are limits to how much redundancy pay you can get. You can only get it for up to 20 years of work. This means, for example, that if you’ve worked for your employer for 22 years you’ll only get redundancy pay for 20 of thoseRead More →
Although more taxpayers will claim the standard deduction as a result of the changes, and the standard deduction will help lower your taxes, you may find that you can still itemize your deductions to get a bigger tax refund if you take a little time to gather some of yourRead More →