The Dream Diet: Losing Weight While You Sleep. Can more sleep really help us control our weight? Three top experts explore the possibilities. Lose weight while you sleep. It sounds like something you’d hear on a late night infomercial — just around the time you are reaching for that bag of cookies because, well, you can’t sleep. But as wild as the idea sounds, substantial medical evidence suggests some fascinating links between sleep and weight. Researchers say that how much you sleep and quite possibility the quality of your sleep may silently orchestrate a symphony of hormonal activity tied to your appetite. “One of the more interesting ideas that has […]
Natural as it is, it can be challenging. Are there natural ways to manage through this difficult period? As we grow older, life changes are inevitable and to be aware of them and increase our understanding means, we will have the advantage of being better prepared to cope with them. The necessary steps which are essential for dealing with these changes can be taken in order for women and their partners to overcome any hurdles and go through the steps more knowledgeable. Menopause is a normal condition that all women experience as they age. The term can describe any of the changes a woman goes through either just before or […]
Prevention, magazine, Mar. 1998, reminds us that eating the right foods helps keep the mind clear, quick and sharp and helps to fight off diseases. “Abstemiousness in diet is rewarded with mental and moral vigor.” CDF:126. Here is a list of eight (8) Laws that positively affect and improve the mind Law of Mental Exercise (also see Lifestyle blog on physical exercise) “It is a law of the mind that it will narrow or expand to the dimensions of the things with which it becomes familiar.”- Mind, Character, and Personality, Volume 1, page 101, Law of Beholding “It is a law of the mind that it gradually adapts itself […]
You’re physically fit: You eat your vegetables daily and run three times a week. But what about your mental fitness? Sure, it’s a little harder to evaluate — you can’t measure it with calipers or a scale. Yet, given the deep connections that researchers have found between mental and physical health, it is crucial that you pay attention to your psychological well-being. According to experts, many of us don’t realize we are suffering psychologically because we aren’t exhibiting “classic” signs like exhaustion, panic attacks or frequent crying. But, specialists warn, psychological problems can take many forms. ” Mental health problems are massively under-diagnosed in men,” says William Pollack, M.D., […]
Those parental pleas for children to go to bed can now be delivered with a little extra heft. Beginning with elementary schools in Duluth, the National Institutes of Health is undertaking a publicity campaign to persuade children to get more sleep. For years, the NIH has targeted specific groups, including drivers, soldiers and astronauts, with the message that they need solid sleep to be healthy and perform well. Now the message is being brought to children ages 7 to 11. “Whatever children do, they will do it better if they are well rested,” said Carl Hunt, director of NIH’s National Center on Sleep Disorders Research. Hunt said research shows that […]
For 20 years, social epidemiologist Jeff Levin, Ph.D., M.P.H., has been collecting data to see if there’s a link between faith and health. His conclusion, coming on a holy week for the nation’s Christians and Jews: “About 80 percent to 90 percent of these studies show there is something positive going on. We’re swimming in empirical evidence.” Among those documenting the case is Harold G. Koenig, M.D., associate professor of medicine at the Duke University Medical Center: “Our studies have shown those who benefit most are those who both attend religious services and practice personal belief at home such as reading religious literature and prayer,” he says. According to […]
A 10-minute nap is better than a half-hour snooze at improving work performance, according to new Australian sleep research. Associate Professor Leon Lack and postgraduate student Amber Tietzel studied the effect of varying nap lengths in the School of Psychology Sleep Laboratory at Flinders University in Adelaide. They conclude that 10 minutes is the most effective nap length for improving performance for up to 3 hours afterward. “We were testing the notion of whether power naps, as they’re known in the United States, are really as effective as they are claimed to be,” Lack told Reuters Health. He explained that participants in the study underwent a series of performance tests […]
Get a good night’s sleep after piano practice: It may prove crucial to learning new skills such as tickling the ivories. Scientists have long known that adequate sleep is important for forming different types of memories. People can do better on a test with proper rest than by pulling an all-nighter, for example. But learning motor skills involves a different part of the brain, and often a lot more practice, than memorizing facts. Is sleep important for that, too? Very, German scientists report. Scientists at the University of Lubeck taught healthy young students different finger-tapping sequences, and then either let them sleep or kept them awake for eight hours. When […]
By Will Boggs, MD BALTIMORE, Apr 30 (Reuters Health) – High school students who watch wrestling on television may also be more likely to drink, chew tobacco, carry a gun and fight with their dates, according to North Carolina researchers who presented their findings Saturday at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Robert DuRant of Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem and associates used confidential questionnaires completed by 2,228 high school students to measure the amount of professional wrestling they watched on TV in a 2-week period and compare it with other behaviors, such as alcohol consumption, fighting, illegal drug use […]
TV Linked To Kids’ Attention Problems April 5, 2004 CHICAGO (AP) — Researchers have found that every hour preschoolers watch television each day boosts their chances — by about 10 percent — of developing attention deficit problems later in life. The findings back up previous research showing that television can shorten attention spans and support American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations that youngsters under age 2 not watch television. “The truth is there are lots of reasons for children not to watch television. Other studies have shown it to be associated with obesity and aggressiveness” too, said lead author Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a researcher at Children’s Hospital and […]
The amount of time a woman takes before returning to a full-time job after childbirth may affect her child’s mental development. That’s the finding of a report, published in Child Development magazine, that links early full-time maternal employment to slower intellectual development in kids. The report was based on data collected from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care, which involved 900 white non-Hispanic children in 10 cities over three years. Researchers found that children whose mothers worked 30 hours or more per week by the time the children were 9 months old scored lower on school-readiness tests at age three. These […]
Do you feel sick or run down every time you work overtime?. You could work in a building that produces what health experts call “sick building syndrome.” May 30, 2006, (The New York Times News Service) Poor indoor air quality or other pollutant and toxin problems can leave workers suffering from such acute health problems as eye, throat and nose irritation, headaches, coughing, dizziness and nausea. And if your home isn’t offering a respite, chances are the environment there contains pollutants or toxins, too. While some cases of sick building syndrome are more serious than others, in many instances relief can be found with better maintenance, getting rid of mold and mildew […]
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