Action on Sugar, a group of specialists concerned with sugar and its effects on health, proposes a 7-point plan to discourage children from consuming foods and soft drinks with high levels of added sugar. They want measures brought in to cut added sugar in food by 40% by 2020, to cut fat in foods and to ban sports sponsorship by "junk food" co
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A new study suggests prolonged stress causes a surge in the hormone cortisol, which can result in short-term memory loss among older adults. Short-term increases in cortisol are critical for survival as it helps prepare our mind and body against potential threat by activating our flight or fight system. But prolonged high levels of cortisol, which happe
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It’s 12.00. You’ve been lying on bed for nearly two hours now but still you can’t find your way to a quiet and restful slumber. You’re starting at the big round clock on the wall and with every tick, you feel more anxious. You fret about how much time you only have before your alarm clock rings. If this happens to you regularly,
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Cancer remains to be one of the biggest health threats in the world. It brings fear and anxiety to almost everyone who hears it. This debilitating illness can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender or socioeconomic status. Whilst some people survive, most do not. And even those who survived still face a significant risk of developing the disease again.
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Do you have times when you just feel low and grumpy for no apparent reason? Here are some quick fix tips to make a difference. 1. Think about how you’d like to feel instead. Look up and to your right (if you’re left handed this will be reversed) and imagine what you’d like to see instead. Picture you
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Ever confused of what career path to take, where to settle down, what business to pursue, or whether to marry someone or not? Making decision is often a hard thing to do, especially if you are bombarded with a lot of options. Fortunately, there are science-backed ways that can help make decision making an easier process. Here they are: Dim the lig
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For people with type 2 diabetes, canola oil is among the best oils to use in their diet, according to David Jenkins, head of the hospital’s Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre. In his study, he found that people with Type 2 diabetes who ate either a low glycaemic index diet that included bread made with canola oil experienced both
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Everyone at mid-life goes through different challenges. Maybe you’ve got kids who are giving you headache. Maybe you’re too busy making a living that you rarely have time for yourself. Maybe your marriage is facing its end, or maybe you are in career you never wanted. Perhaps you are wondering if there is more to life than what you have accompl
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Ever feel so alone? Isolated? Not doing enough? Ever feel like you are taking the wrong path? Whilst situations like these feel so uncomfortable, they provide us with fertile ground. Difficult moments like these give us the opportunity to reconnect with our higher mind and determine what our heart, body and mind really needs. So whenever stress gets in
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Like what neurocomputational theorists have long suspected, researchers at the Dignity Health Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Ariz. and University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that the human brain locks down episodic memories in the hippocampus, committing each recollection to a distinct, distributed fraction of individual c
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