How Exercise Can Calm Anxiety
In an eye-opening demonstration of nature’s ingenuity, researchers at Princeton University recently discovered that exercise creates vibrant new brain cells — and then shuts them down when they shouldn’t be in action.For some time, scientists studying exercise have been puzzled by physical activity’s two seemingly incompatible effects on the brain. On the one hand,...
Could Using Antibiotics As A Child Make You Develop Eczema?
The use of antibiotics in the first 12 months of life may increase the chance of developing eczema by up to 40%, according to a new study.The report also found that each additional course of antibiotics further raises the risk of eczema by 7%.Researchers reviewed existing data from 20 studies that explored the link between antibiotic exposure prenatally and in the baby's first year, and the...
Study Says PMS Moodiness Is Just a Myth
Not that reluctant attitudes about menstrual mood swings were ever a legitimate excuse to exclude women from activities, but now New Zealand researchers have formally debunked the mythology surrounding PMS.In a recently published review of the existing scientific literature on the human menstrual cycle, the scientists find reason to challenge the pervasive idea that menstruation causes negative...
Listening to Complainers Is Bad for Your Brain
Exposure to nonstop negativity actually impairs brain function.Do you hate it when people complain? It turns out there's a good reason: Listening to too much complaining is bad for your brain in multiple ways, according to Trevor Blake, a serial entrepreneur and author of Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life. In the book, he describes how neuroscientists have learned to...
Exercising for more than 30 minutes a day may be wasted effort
60 Minutes Of Working Out Doesn't Make You Lose More Weight Than 30 MinutesIf you want to lose weight, exercising for more than 30 minutes a day may be wasted effort, a new study from Denmark suggests. In the study, participants who exercised for 30 minutes a day for three months lost just as much weight and body fat as those who exercised for an hour a day for the same time period.This...
Childhood Abuse Linked to Food Addiction
Severe abuse suffered by girls during childhood may be linked to a subsequent food addiction, new research suggests.Analysis of more than 57,000 women who participated in the Nurses' Health Study II (NHSII) showed that those who experienced physical or sexual abuse as children and/or adolescents were twice as likely to have a current food addiction as the women who did not suffer past abuse....
Vegetarian Diet Linked to Longer Life
LOMA LINDA, California — In a large observational study of generally middle-aged American Seventh-day Adventists, the vegetarians in the group--ranging from vegans to those who ate meat once a week--were 12% less likely to die within six years than their meat-eating peers [1]. Men who ate a vegetarian diet were significantly less likely to die from ischemic heart disease or CVD. Does this...
What exactly are Generic Medicines?
Medicines will often have more than one name: a generic name, which is the active ingredient of the medicine, a brand name, which is the trade name the manufacturer gives to the medicine. The generic name is the official medical name for the active ingredient of the medicine. Although they may not be associated with a particular company, generic drugs are subject to the regulations of the...
