Can health food improve vision?
Many people suffer from deterioration of eyesight. Now researchers have found that a specific diet that contains high doses of lutein, zeaxanthin and omega-3 fatty acid, can improve vision. In US, about 4.5 million people suffer from age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Trigger for the disease of the retina is changes in the blood vessels. AMD can severely limit the daily lives of those people who suffer from such disorders. It becomes increasingly difficult to reading or watching TV or even make this actions impossible. AMD is – not only an age-related disease, but may also depending by the lifestyle – in particular through the eating habits. therefore researchers at the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Hospital in Leipzig have examined what nutrients can improve the metabolic processes in the eye. Dietary supplements can stop age-related macular degeneration. At...
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Day of Pharmacy: Trends in the pharmacy market, power spectrum of a modern pharmacy
The day of Pharmacy held once a year. Under the headings dealing with the issues that matter most to customers. This year the pharmacy is scheduled for June 5, 2015 and will provide information on the topic of “drug-drug interactions and food products”. How helpful are the additional benefits of a pharmacy, is particularly evident at the upcoming day of Pharmacy: Interactions with other medicines are often at high risk for the consumer. A fact that is also aggravated by the fact that many patients do not read the information leaflet thoroughly enough or do not understand. How extensive a pharmacy actually works, many customers will only become clear when you need more than just pain killers or medication prescribed by the doctor. Pharmacists are therefore still important contacts dosage, side effects, and alternative remedies. Advise, clarify and thus make...
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Can music protect the heart ?
Pleasant music has a positive effect not only on our mental health, but also can improve heart function. This is a study that was presented at the last Congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in Amsterdam. With beautiful music we get a “warm feeling” almost literally. As American researchers recently reported, pleasant music can improve vascular function in patients with coronary artery disease. You can get even better results if you combine pleasant music with special exercises. “In the case of cardiovascular disease was lost the to functionality of endothelium, which is the inner wall of blood vessels” explained one of the study authors. Endothelium of the vessels plays an important role in the formation of nitric oxide (NO). Today the improvement of endothelial function is an most important goal of therapy in coronary patients.” Therefore the...
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The Day of Organ Donation
For the past 31 years, he is held annually, always on the first Saturday in June, instead of: the date of donation. The aim of this day of action is to raise awareness of the issue and reduce tension. America with about 10,000 seriously ill people for an organ that could save their lives. Only 8,000 patients need a kidney; the average waiting time is more than six to eight years. For too long: Countless organ recipients succumb in the meantime their disease. This lack of donor organs already exists, since it is possible to carry out transplantation. According to a survey conducted by the for Health Education, the half of the citizens feel adequately informed to make a personal decision for or against organ donation can. Scandals – for example in the form that physicians falsify the records...
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Help for others made us happy
Who can help other people, even doing good for yourself. This has now been even scientifically proven. Thus activated prosocial behavior that is reward center in the brain – and that makes happy. There are many ways to influence one’s own mood positive: meditation, relaxation, sport, good food, socializing. But this altruistic behavior can also improve mood, has now been established even in a scientific study. It shows: Who can help others, is even happier. In the study, psychologists Tristen Inagaki and Naomi Eisenberger from University of California (Los Angeles) use the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and check the reactions of women whose partners were given painful electric shocks. While some of the women were allowed to hold the arm of her partner, other women had only watch the procedure, without being able to touch their husbands. Altruistic behavior...
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