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1.
Aerobics for the brain
2. Green
offices make happy employees
3.
10 Health benefits of Laughter
4.4
Pillars of cancer
prevention
5.
Wisdom comes with age
6.Can exercise
prevent addiction?
7.Who
is to blame for the food shortage?
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Aerobics
for the brain
Just
as aerobics improves the functioning of the heart
neurobics (exercises for the brain) improves the
functioning of the brain and helps keep it sharper.
Here
is a list of easy-to-perform neurobics that sharpens a
dull brain. When performed regularly, it could even help
reverse cognitive damage.
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Learn something new: Learning something new, results in new
pathways in the brain. Learn a new language, learn to
cook a new recipe, learn a new skill. It not only
sharpens the brain, but is rewarding as well.
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Try something different:
Repetition puts the brain in the auto-pilot mode and
prevents formation of new pathways. Hence try
something new such as a different cuisine, a different
dress, a different route etc.
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Challenge the brain: Feed the brain with crossword puzzles, jigsaw
puzzles, visual puzzles, logic puzzles, math puzzles
etc.
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Use non-dominant hand and both hands at the same time:
Use your non-dominant hand for brushing the teeth,
opening the door, dialing a phone number, operating
the laptop etc. Practice pouring water from two mugs,
stirring sugar in two cups, bouncing two balls at the
same time.
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Explore Braille and sign language
: It stimulates the sensory organs and sharpens the
brain. In addition it helps interact with people who
can’t hear or talk.
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Try recognizing people by voice:
Listen carefully to the vocal variation in the voice
of different people and recognize people by their
voice instead of looking at the caller-id.
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Try identifying food by taste
: Keep your eyes closed while eating and try to find
the food by its taste. It’s not only fun, the food
tastes better as well.
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Green offices make happy employees
Dr.
Tina Marie Cade, Associate Professor, Texas State
University conducted a research to investigate whether
employees who worked in offices with windows and views
of green spaces and workers who had green plants in
their offices, perceived greater job satisfaction than
employees who did not have access to these environmental
components.
Employees who worked in offices with plants and windows
reported that they felt better about their job.
Employees who worked in offices without plants rated
their job satisfaction low, while employees who worked
in offices with live plants rated their job satisfaction
higher.
Additionally, employees in offices with plants rated
their statements relating to bosses, coworkers and their
overall nature of work more positively when compared to
employees in offices without plants.
When asked about their overall quality of life, results
suggested that employees with plants in their offices
tended to consider themselves happier or more content
when compared to employees without plants in their
offices.
Dr. Tina’s suggestion to employers who want to keep
their employees happy – Open the windows and bring in
some green plants.
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10 Health Benefits of Laughter
Laughter
benefits body as well as mind. Writer Norman Cousins
attributed his recovery from his crippling disease to
his regimen of laughter. In his book ‘Laugh after
Laugh’, Dr. Raymond Moody, MD says. “I have encountered
a surprising number of instances in which patients have
laughed themselves back to health.” “Laugh ha-ha-ha or
ho-ho-ho and not he-he-he or hay-hay-hay, as the former
is considered infectious laughter whereas the latter is
viewed as sarcasm,” says Karstein, author and seminar
leader.
Laugh
and enjoy these health benefits.
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Laughter improves cardiovascular functioning by reducing the
levels of stress hormones, such as cortisol and
adrenaline.
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Laughter raises immunity against diseases by increasing the
production of T-cells and thereby reduces the chances
of falling sick.
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Laughter helps overcome depression and acts as an
anti-depressant by promoting the secretion of
serotonin, a mood elevating hormone.
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Laughter exercises the diaphragm and massages the vital
internal organs like heart, liver, stomach. gall
bladder, pancreas etc.
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Laughter helps in weight management by acting as an aerobic
exercise and helping to burn 50 calories in 10
minutes.
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Laughter increases mental stamina by releasing the bottled up
emotions and providing the same benefits as that of
crying.
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Laughter increases physical stamina by increasing the oxygen
supply to the muscle tissues.
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Laughter promotes cheerfulness and optimism by releasing
endorphins, the feel-good chemicals, in the
bloodstream.
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Laughter improves social relationships and bonding by
increasing attractiveness, lovability and likeability.
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Laughter
reduces snoring and promotes sound sleep by
strengthening the soft palate and throat muscles.
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4 Pillars of Cancer Prevention |
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Chemotherapy,
the cancer-treatment widely used at present carries a
lot of side-effects including organ failure, damage to
healthy tissues, deafness, unbearable pain, remission
etc. That too, only if it is detected in the early
stages. The best approach is to focus on prevention as
prevention is always better than cure.
Here
are the 4 pillars that help prevent cancer.
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Stay away from tobacco
: Never ever consider using tobacco. If you are
already using it, stop straightaway. Tobacco is the
number one cause of many cancers, such as lung cancer,
oral cancer, esophagus cancer etc. Cigarette smoke
contains more than 50 carcinogens (cancer causing
substances). In addition it contains tar, which binds
the carcinogens to the lung tissues. You need to avoid
not only smoking but passive smoking as well.
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Eat more plant-based diet
: Consumption of meat increases the risk of several
cancers such as colon cancer, stomach cancer, prostate
cancer, uterus cancers etc. Reduce meat consumption
and eat more vegetables, fruits, whole-grains, seeds
and nuts.
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Lead a physically active life
: Flowing water never stinks. It’s the stagnant water
that helps germs breed. Lead an active life. Climb the
stairs instead of using the lift. Walk short distances
instead of driving. Take up some hobby such as playing
tennis, swimming, cycling or dancing.
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Avoid Carcinogens
: Research has confirmed that pesticides, cosmetics,
oral contraceptives, X-rays, microwave devices,
asbestos etc. are some of the known cancer causing
agents. Avoid exposure to these substances
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Wisdom comes with age |
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 Dr.
Florin Dolcos, assistant professor of psychiatry
and neuroscience at the University of Alberta has
proven that wisdom really does come with age.
The researchers asked the younger and older
volunteers to rate the emotional content of
standardized images as positive, neutral or
negative. Their brain activity was monitored with
a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a
high-tech device that uses a large magnet to take
pictures inside the brain.
The older volunteers rated the images as less
negative than the younger volunteers. The fMRI
scans helped the researchers to observe the
reaction inside the brain. The scans of the older
volunteers showed increased interactions between
the amygdale (the brain region involved in emotion
detection) and the anterior cingulate cortex (the
brain region involved in emotion control).
“These findings indicate that emotional control
improves with aging and that it’s the increased
interaction between these two brain regions that
allows healthy seniors to control their emotional
response so that they are less affected by
upsetting situations,” according to Dr. Dolcos.
This knowledge can be applied to understand and
treat mental health issues with a negativity bias,
such as depression and anxiety disorders, in which
patients have difficulty coping with emotionally
challenging situations.
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Can exercise prevent
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It
is a scientifically demonstrated fact that
exercise helps weight management, improves health
and increases life span. New evidence suggests
that exercise might help prevent addiction to
smoking, drinking and drugs.
Dr. Nora Volkow, chief, National Institute of Drug
Abuse, found from her scientific experiments that
the brain likes physical activity and exercise
seems to invigorate neurochemicals that sense and
reinforce pleasure.
In a study conducted by
Brown
University, it was found that attending gym three
times a week, doubled the chances of quitting
smoking. Another study found that tweens and teens
who exercised daily were half as likely to smoke
than children who did not exercise.
Studies of school children suggest that exercise
predicts better performance on math, verbal and
other academic area. Better academic performance
is linked to lower substance abuse.
It is a known fact that depression, anxiety and
stress increase the risk of smoking, alcoholism
and drug abuse. Exercise acts as a mild
antidepressant and relieves stress, thereby
preventing the dependence on nicotine, alcohol or
drugs for stress relief.
Exercise increases the secretion of serotonin, the
feel-good brain chemical that activates the
pleasure and reward centres in the brain. In turn,
it could substitute the pleasure derived from
nicotine, alcohol or drugs and ultimately help
quit these habits or help prevent forming these
habits.
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Who is to blame for the food
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The
United States has accused the Indians and Chinese
for eating more and causing food shortages. But
what are the facts?
According to US Department of Agriculture, an
American consumes 1046 kg of cereals (wheat, rice
etc) per year. In contrast, an Indian consumes
only 178 kg of cereals per year. The fact is that
an American consumes twice as that of a European,
thrice as that of a Chinese and five times as that
of an Indian.
When it comes to meat consumption, it is like
comparing an elephant to a mouse. An American
consumes 120 kg of meat per year, whereas an
Indian consumes just 4 kg of meat per year.
And what about the billions worth of food wasted
every year in UK alone? WRAP (Waste and Resources
Action Programme) found that £10.2 billion worth
of food is thrown away in England and Wales every
year. The study found that
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18% of all food purchased is thrown away
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5500 whole chickens are thrown away each day
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1.3 million pots of yoghurt are thrown away each
day
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Meat and fish contributed 18% of the total money
wasted on food
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Vegetables contributed 18% by weight, of all food
wasted
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Ready meals made up 21% of the total cost of waste
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Bakery foods made up 19% by weight
And the Americans blame the Indians for the food
shortage!
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