Topic
Health & wellbeing
Health numbers are easy to misread: a risk can double and still be tiny, and a famous cause of death can be far rarer than a quiet one.
These clips come from health agencies and journals, say plainly when a figure is an estimate, and never give medical advice.
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Every clip here states its source and the period it covers, and carries the underlying numbers on its page as a table you can copy.
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What it covers
- 1What the leading causes of death really are
- 2How big a risk is in absolute terms, not just relative terms
- 3Which health measures have improved and which have not
- 4How much sleep, exercise and diet the evidence supports
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