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To understand the new smart monitors and other pro devices of tech health, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Routinely evaluating your risk factors for various medical conditions, screening for cancer and other diseases, and assessing your lifestyle habits helps you stay healthy. It’s…

To understand the new smart monitors and other pro devices of tech health, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Routinely evaluating your risk factors for various medical conditions, screening for cancer and other diseases, and assessing your lifestyle habits helps you stay healthy. It’s…

To understand the new smart monitors and other pro devices of tech health, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Routinely evaluating your risk factors for various medical conditions, screening for cancer and other diseases, and assessing your lifestyle habits helps you stay healthy. It’s…

To understand the new smart monitors and other pro devices of tech health, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Routinely evaluating your risk factors for various medical conditions, screening for cancer and other diseases, and assessing your lifestyle habits helps you stay healthy. It’s…

To understand the new smart monitors and other pro devices of tech health, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Routinely evaluating your risk factors for various medical conditions, screening for cancer and other diseases, and assessing your lifestyle habits helps you stay healthy. It’s…

By Sharon Atieno (Science Writer) With people living in informal settlements in urban areas being more prone to extreme weather events, such as floods and extreme heat, than those living in formal settlements, early weather information could be a timely intervention to help them cope. The Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI) working in liaison with the Kenya Meteorological Department in 2018 came up with such an arrangement in a project dubbed, DARAJA (Developing Risk Awareness through Joint Action) to help residents in the informal settlements of Kibera cope with flooding and other weather events. According to the World Bank’s Climate Knowledge…

A district in Rwanda is curbing the spread of air pollution by use of electric motorbikes.

Kijiji cha Namelock eneo la Maungu kaunti ya Taita Taveta ni kijiji ambacho jamii ya Wamaasai ambao ni wafugaji wanaishi. Na kama desturi yao wametegemea sana ufugaji wa ng’ombe katika kukidhi mahitaji ya maisha yao. Lakini jamii hiyo kwasasa inakumbwa na changamoto chungu nzima za ufugaji. Hii ni kutokana na mabadiliko ya tabia nchi ambayo yanashuhudiwa ulimwengu mzima. Miriam Kasumuni ni mzee wa nyumba kumi katika kijiji hicho.Ni mama wa watoto 8 na ni mjane. Anasema anahisi mume wake aliaga dunia baada ya kupatwa na ugonjwa wa shinikizo la damu mwilini.Hii ni baada ya wao kupoteza zaidi ya ng’ombe 100…

A district in Rwanda is fighting malnutrition in children by planting kitchen gardens.

By Koffi Barry (Science Africa Correspondent) Forest cover in Kisumu County stands at less than one percent -0.44%- according to a recent forest mapping making it one of the counties with the lowest forest cover in the country. The loss of natural forest cover in the region is mainly blamed on cooking practices that rely on firewood as sources of fuel. The other sources of fuel for cooking in the County include charcoal, paraffin and liquefied petroleum gases (LPGs). The main drivers contributing to a reduction of forest cover in Kisumu County are population pressure, cutting down trees for firewood,…