Spring Tired? What’s behind it?
Spring fatigue almost everyone knows. Finally, it is warmer and place of joy and zest, a leaden fatigue spreads in the limbs, which complicates everyday life. But what exactly is the spring fatigue and what can be done about it? The spring fatigue is not an illusion. It is the result of a biochemical process, and thus certainly no excuse, just when the force seems to be lacking to do something. Reason is typical for spring hormonal changes. This physiological change is initiated by the increasing sunlight. The body gets the signal that winter is over. As a result, men make more testosterone and women have more estrogen. At the same time, the formation of the sleep hormone melatonin decreases and the happiness hormone serotonin. Actually, people must now be especially alert and energetic, but this change is stressful...
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Interrelation of stress and obesity?
Many know the situation: You hold a new diet for a few days, but then the old cravings breakthrough again, and often you weigh afterwards more than before. The common cause: Stress. But this relationship can break through, as shown by new studies. To lose weight often it is not enough to change the food. Today we know rather than the emotional situation plays a major role. Particular stress provoked binge eating, and makes it so hard to lose weight permanently. This also explains why most diets are doomed to fail. Slimming begins in the mind. That also means – less stress less overweight, recently a research paper from the United States has confirmed. Women from poor areas who suffered from chronic stress, it was made possible through government support to move to wealthier areas. The environment in which...
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What is the most dangerous disease?
According to the new “Global Burden of Disease” study, cancer the world’s biggest killers. Number one killer is rather high blood pressure. For the second time the “Global Burden of Disease” -Project (GBD) has published, in a kind of world atlas of diseases, statistics on causes of death, life expectancy and risk factors. The health data of several million people from 187 countries were evaluated this time for. An international consortium has five years working with the data and analyze of this information. The study shows that hunger in childhood does not cause most case of deaths. The world’s largest health risk is rather high blood pressure, followed by smoking and alcohol. 9.4 million people died in 2010 from complications of hypertension. Worldwide every fourth death due to cardiovascular disease. According to statistics, in the past decade, even obesity...
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Transmitted by cats infections – a risk?
A topic for many animal friends are zoonoses transmitted from pets to humans diseases. After the cat the dog long since overtaken with nearly 8 million as a four-legged members of the household number one in America, the question arises: How safe are cat owners and especially their children from infectious diseases? Disease risks associated with the attitude of a cat, are especially: Toxoplasma, unicellular parasites who, by the cat with the feces Roundworms, which are transmitted from cat or dog to man An infection caused by the transmitted by ticks and fleas bartonella henselae bacteria. The course of such infection depends on the immune status of the patient and is expressed for example in the Bartonella bacteria by anorexia, acute allergic skin rash and swollen lymph nodes coupled with fever. The bacterium is transmitted from one cat to...
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Can MBSR strengthen the immune system?
The MBSR meditation program can reduce stress, strengthen the emotional well-being. That it can also have positive effects on the immune system, has demonstrated an American study. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is one of the best evaluated through studies meditation programs at all. That it can provide lasting relaxation and promote the mental balance, there is no doubt. Again and again, studies have pointed out that MBSR may have a positive impact on physical health – though with not quite as clear results. To investigate the effects of MBSR on our immune system, Temple University in Philadelphia cancer researcher organized group from 24 subjects, each of them took a part in eight-week MBSR program. Participants completed a questionnaire at baseline and two weeks after about their mental constitution and blood test sample. As expected, significant improvements in anxious symptoms...
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