'Healthy' web searches peak early in the week: study

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'Healthy' web searches peak early in the week: study

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/healthy-searches-peak-early-week-study-122729677.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/YmIAIU_eAJ.xpRcjlu.i2A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/US-AFPRelax/shutterstock_13.c9747142104.original.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Mondays bring out our healthy side, new research finds." align="left" title="Mondays bring out our healthy side, new research finds." border="0" /></a>A new study finds that people search for &quot;healthy&quot; topics on Google 30 percent more often at the beginning of the week than at the end. Investigators from San Diego State University, the Santa Fe Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and non-profit organization the Monday Campaigns analyzed &quot;healthy&quot; Google searches -- meaning searches that included the term healthy and were confirmed to be health-related -- originating in the US from 2005 to 2012. &quot;We could be seeing this effect because of the perception that Monday is a fresh start, akin to a mini New Year's Day,&quot; said Joanna Cohen, PhD, a co-author of the study and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.</p><br clear="all"/>

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