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Treatment of the day- Laughter

de daniela, November 5th, 2011

For decades, researchers have explored how humor helps patients relieve stress and heal.

Laughter is a powerful antidote to stress, pain, and conflict. Nothing is more effective in bringing your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh. Humor lightens your burdens, inspires hopes, connects you to others, and keeps you grounded, focused, and alert.

Scientists tried to discover the effects of humor in various contexts such as: supporting medical professionals to cope with their stressful job, helping the elders to stay open and fit, increasing the communication at workplace, in the relationship between employee-manager.

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Less Sleep, Less Learning Capacity for Kids

de daniela, November 4th, 2011

Recent studies have discovered a strong link between the children ability to learn, their weight and facing sleep difficulties. These three factors have the power to influence each other.

The hypothesis of the study was that having hard time to learn for some children comes from not getting enough sleep and from being overweight. This hypothesis works  also vice-versa, learning difficulties being able to put children at a higher risk for obesity and sleep problems.

The study was applied on 351 elementary school children with an average age of 8. It is one of the first studies to use so young children and also one of the first to analyze the interaction between these 3 factors: lack of sleep, intelligence and obesity.

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The Disclosure of Early Dementia Is Not Easy to Tell

de Evelyn Fox, December 25th, 2010

The United States—Many people are afraid that the forgetting syndrome they have, like forgetting where they put their car key, might be the initial sign that they may suffer from dementia in the future. Many paramedics stated that many of their patients are coming to them with the same worries; whether their absence-minded will caused them to have dementia when they are older. Based on the latest journal, the dementia matter is feared by many people that the selling of supplements that promise on avoiding dementia are very demanded and even increased nearly 50% in the last ten years.

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Fried Fish Has a Strong Relation with Stroke

de Evelyn Fox, December 24th, 2010

Atlanta—It is reported in the newly published study that people that consume fried fish regularly have a bigger chance of risking stroke than those who do not. It is based on the record that people from the area where the consumption of fried fish is high like Georgia, North and South Carolina, Arkansas, and Louisiana, have a larger number of stroke victims than people from any other place in the country. Despite the fact that fish has the omega-3 fatty acid that functions to avoid people from having a stroke, it is said that the heated oil to fry the fish has destroyed the good substance of the fish.

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Cartilage Piercing – How to pierce, infections, healing, risks

de Robert Mint, August 14th, 2010

Cartilage or Ear piercing is a trend since ages and seems to be catching up with even the present day youth. A trend that used to be looked upon as a feminine act is now fast becoming a guy-thing too. Wide range of metals are being used for piercing including gold, platinum, silver, stainless steel, crystal, diamond studs and precious or semi-precious stones.

Cartilage piercing involves piercing the external upper parts of the ear like daith, helix, tragus, antitragus, conch, snug and rook whereas ear piercing is the term used only for piercing of earlobe.

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