Exercising for Body Image, Ideal Deadlines, Longer Days from Climate Change
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
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🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how a 30-minute workout can boost your body image; the ideal deadline to avoid procrastination; and how climate change could make the day longer.
A 30-Minute Workout Is A Surefire Way To Boost Your Body Image by Anna Todd
- MacMillan, A. (2017, June 16). How to Feel Thinner in 30 Minutes. Time; Time. https://time.com/4821689/exercise-feel-thin-fast/?xid=newsletter-brief
- Salci, L. E., & Martin Ginis, K. A. (2017). Acute effects of exercise on women with pre-existing body image concerns: A test of potential mediators. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 31, 113–122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2017.04.001
- E, C.-R., J, M.-J., W, S.-R., & G, A.-V. (2021). The acute effect of different intensity aerobic and resistance training exercise on the body image in adult women. International Journal of Physical Education, Fitness and Sports, 22–31. https://doi.org/10.34256/ijpefs2144
Study finds the ideal deadline length to avoid procrastination by Cameron Duke
- Haupt, A. (2021, July 9). Why do we procrastinate, and how can we stop? Experts have answers. Washington Post; The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/procrastinate-why-stop-advice/2021/07/09/13b7dc2c-e00e-11eb-9f54-7eee10b5fcd2_story.html
- Knowles, S., Servátka, M., Sullivan, T., & Genç, M. (2021). Procrastination and the non‐monotonic effect of deadlines on task completion. Economic Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13042
- Urban, T. (2013, October 30). Why Procrastinators Procrastinate — Wait But Why. Wait but Why. https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastinate.html
- What deadline length is best for avoiding procrastination and completing tasks? (2021, November 3). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/933369
Climate change could make the day longer by Steffie Drucker
- If all of Earth’s ice melts and flows into the ocean, what would happen to the planet’s rotation? – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet. (2021). Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet. https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/30/if-all-of-earths-ice-melts-and-flows-into-the-ocean-what-would-happen-to-the-planets-rotation/
- Scientists ID three causes of Earth’s spin axis drift. (2018, September 27). Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet. https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2805/scientists-id-three-causes-of-earths-spin-axis-drift/
- NASA Study Solves Two Mysteries About Wobbling Earth. (2011). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-study-solves-two-mysteries-about-wobbling-earth
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today you learn about how a 30 minute workout can boost your body image, |
| 0:12.0 | the ideal deadline to avoid procrastination, and how climate |
| 0:16.4 | change could make the day longer. |
| 0:18.9 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:22.0 | What if I told you there was a way to feel skinnier and stronger in just 30 minutes? |
| 0:28.0 | You'd probably think I was trying to sell you something. |
| 0:31.0 | But, according to research research there really is such a |
| 0:34.9 | wonder drug, exercise. Well science says that you can boost yourself image from |
| 0:41.1 | just one 30-minute workout. One study that looked into this back in |
| 0:46.2 | 2017 involved 60 active college-aged women with body image issues. |
| 0:51.8 | Researchers surveyed the women about their own perceptions of their |
| 0:56.1 | appearance and then they had them spend 30 minutes either sitting and reading quietly or |
| 1:01.1 | engaging in a challenging cycling workout. |
| 1:05.0 | Then everyone completed the same survey again. |
| 1:08.0 | The women who experienced the challenging workout |
| 1:11.0 | reported significant improvements in their body image immediately. |
| 1:16.2 | And they felt the same psychological benefits even 20 minutes later. |
| 1:21.0 | Specifically, the women in the exercise condition said that they felt thinner and stronger, which |
| 1:27.0 | made them feel better about their bodies overall. |
| 1:31.1 | Another study from 2021 compared compared the body image boosting effects of a few different |
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