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Who could ever have imagined that sleep could be the triggering factor of a veritable epidemics? To make matters clear, we're not talking about oversleeping, but rather about poor quality sleep, which, scientists have proven, can lead to anything from obesity to chronic exhaustion. It sabotages our jobs by makin... |
26 May 2008
08:42 GMT |
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What they say about men being from Mars and women from Venus is now an almost established fact, as is also that they have different brains and different behaviors. However, this becomes all the more obvious when it comes to them coping with stress. Women facing stressful situations are more prone to depression and an... |
13 May 2008
04:35 GMT |
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The La Mer Hand Treatment has been hailed as a veritable miracle cure for those of us whose hands endure the daily ordeal of dryness - sometimes accompanied by red, itchy skin and that nasty burning sensation that is perhaps the most common signal of skin in distress. The hands are undeniably one of the most exposed ... |
5 May 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Social stress induced by lower rank may be the factor that leads humans to drug consumption. At least, this is the case in monkeys, as revealed by a new research made at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and presented at Experimental Biology 2008 in San Diego. Dominant monkeys facing the same stress amount ha... |
7 April 2008
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To all of us, Leona Lewis has been a wonderful musical revelation, living proof of the fact that the "rags to riches" fairy tales we once used to hear at bedtime do sometimes come true. A short few years ago, Lewis was working as a receptionist and part-time waitress to help pay for recording sessions in a London stu... |
31 March 2008
06:36 GMT |
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Well, racking your brains does have its consequences. Stress is a big enemy of the brain, as showed by a new research published in the journal of Biological Psychiatry. Military combat implies the experience of an extreme stress, and many ex-soldiers involved in fights are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorde... |
20 March 2008
04:09 GMT |
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This life-threatening danger touches women's health and femininity. In many western countries, breast cancer is already the leading type of cancer. The gradually increasing number of breast cancer cases in the last decades can be explained through a series of factors, like the growing obesity, higher alcohol con... |
10 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The fact that stress decreases a woman's fertility is known. But a new research published in the "Annals of Behavioral Medicine" shows that daily stress can go much further than that, decreasing women's immune system capacity to defend a common sexually transmitted disease, leaving them vulnerable for devel... |
20 February 2008
03:29 GMT |
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It was a breakthrough when, in September 2007, a research made at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and The Rockefeller University in New York City detected a gene encoding for one odor receptor (of over 400 smell receptors in humans) thought to be a pheromone perceiver.The pheromone androstenone (a der... |
18 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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It is clear that men and women come from different planets, and what's good for women can be nonsignificant for men. Another chapter in this issue has been revealed by a new research carried on at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and published in the journal "Health Psychology".The biggest stres... |
3 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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What's the connection between black hair, body weight and stress? Just one gene encoding for proteins previously believed to be involved in the immune system. This is the conclusion of a research carried on dogs at Stanford University and published in the journal Science. Defensins appear to be rather involved i... |
28 November 2007
06:10 GMT |
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Are you going through some stressful situation in your life? In this case, that can ruin your good night's sleep even 6 months after your problems are solved...This is the result of a five-year long research led by Dr. Jussi Vahtera, of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in Helsinki, Finland, made on a... |
2 November 2007
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Why are you pulling your hair out while others don't even care about what happens? New molecular brain patterns could explain why some individuals are easy prey for stress. "While the research was done with mice, the findings could eventually lead to better treatments for chronic stress, depression and the post-... |
22 October 2007
02:47 GMT |
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You eat the same food, do the same exercises and almost the same things and yet… something is different. Are extra pounds the reason why the metabolism slows down? No, it's the stress. The main negative effects of the stress are caused by the cortisol, secreted during tension moments. In the wild, we had to prep... |
11 October 2007
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Is meditation really beneficial? The integrative body-mind training (IBMT), a type of meditation, has been tested by a team from Dalian University of Technology in Dalian, China, and University of Oregon on college undergraduate Chinese subjects, assigned to 40-person experimental or control groups. The control group... |
10 October 2007
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Cancer is an alarmingly increasing danger to the women's health and femininity, threatening their lives. The always higher number of breast cancer cases in the last decades can be explained by a series of factors, like the growing obesity, higher alcohol consumption, the fact that few women nowadays breast-feed ... |
1 October 2007
16:06 GMT |
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This is just what we needed: now they even have a scientific excuse for destroying our brains. Little by little. Women not trying to express verbally during marital discussions seem to present a four times higher risk of dying, because this can make them more vulnerable to depression and irritable bowel syndrome, as ... |
30 August 2007
13:51 GMT |
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Which hand you use is more than a matter of choice. After left handedness has been discovered to be linked to a higher risk to some mental illnesses like schizophrenia, now the way a mother holds her baby has been also linked to her mental stability. Women cradling their babies with their right arm appear to be more ... |
30 August 2007
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The knife cannot solve everything and it is not the elixir of youth. A healthy life style is much cheaper and more effective. Bad habits make you grow old too soon. These, however, are the worst:1. Stress. People who are not able to get rid of it get older earlier. It decreases our immunity (thus infection resistance... |
22 August 2007
13:36 GMT |
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The bachelor status could make you proud, but will make your life shorter. A team of psychologists at University of Chicago tracked down social loneliness and its physical effects, connected with aging, right down to the cell level. The scientists found that even if loneliness could be mild and unnoticeable in early ... |
20 August 2007
05:51 GMT |
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A study conducted by the Glasgow and the Paisley universities revealed that most of the computer workers are stressed by emails and need to check their inbox several times per hour. The study included 200 workers and was led by researcher Karen Renaud from Glasgow University and by Judith Ramsay, a psychologist from ... |
14 August 2007
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We know that you lose your hair, fertility and potency because of stress. Maybe your mind, too. Now a new review has found a strong relationship between stress and periodontal diseases; 57% of the studies included in the review found a strong link between periodontal diseases and psychological factors like stress, di... |
9 August 2007
06:06 GMT |
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It is well known that stress can indeed suppress reproduction in humans. Researches showed that stress-reducing therapy made women regain their fertility. Scientists at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, found cognitive behavior therapy alone was enough to restore periods in some women. High levels of stress hormo... |
4 July 2007
11:56 GMT |
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You may believe that you eat double because of the stress and you store a double quantity of fat. That's right, except for a little detail: you store four times more fat! That's because stress makes you not only eat more, but also store more from the same food amount, as revealed by a team from the Georgeto... |
2 July 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Fat food not only makes you look like a potato and ruins your health (from heart to vessel, brain, gut, liver and so on) but even pushes up your stress level. This is the result of a research made at the University of Calgary. The researchers discovered that even just one, high-fat meal increases you predisposition... |
23 April 2007
09:50 GMT |
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