One of the secrets to long-lasting relationship is resilience. Psychologists define it as the ability to bounce back from the stresses of life. Marriage is not a closed system that operates in a vacuum. It is affected by so many factors, including environmental and social stressors that make the couple vulnerable to conflicts and misunderstandings. For insta
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You have probably tried a few natural ways to promote good sleep. Maybe you swear by a cup of chamomile tea, a warm bath or regular exercise. Well, you can try all the best sleeping aids nature has to offer but they would be useless of you are still making the following mistakes: You’re drinking too much coffee. Your midday coffee pick-me-up could
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Many parents partake in infant feeding and activity behaviours that increase their child’s risk of obesity later in life – a new study revealed. Researchers from the University of North Carolina found that many of these “obesogenic” behaviours were highly prevalent among all of the parents, regardless of their race or ethnicity. Fo
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You probably heard that dark chocolate is good for your heart but sceptical of the reason why. Just recently, scientists from the Louisiana State University found that the bacteria in our stomach ferment dark chocolate into useful anti-inflammatory compounds that boost heart health. In the new study, which was presented during the American Chemical Societ
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When it comes to mental illness, people often say the darnedest things. Even those in the medical field, like doctors and nurses, also make insensitive remarks sometimes, which leave people with mental illness hopeless and more ashamed of their condition. Here are 10 things we should avoid saying to people who are struggling with mental health illness:
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We all experience pain from time to time. Whether its headache or migraine, joint ache, sore muscles or back pain – pain is often so difficult to bear. Whilst popping a pill provides fast relief, its soothing effect is only temporary and does not usually address the root cause of the problem, which in most cases, is inflammation. Moreover, medications
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Neuroscientists at Vanderbilt University found that patients with schizophrenia have an impaired ability to imitate, which could explain why they tend to have poor social interaction skills. The researchers were the first to use functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the brain activity of schizophrenia patients while performing basic imitation
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Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Harvard Medical School tested chemotherapy drugs and found that several have a serious side effect: Inducing hyper proliferation in stem cells that could lead to tumour recurrence. They discovered that chemotherapeutics that stop fast growing tumours have the opposite effect on stem cells &ndash
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Like depression, anxiety is often an overrated mental health issue these days. We all suffer from anxiety sometimes. But how do we know that it’s time to seek help? What are the real symptoms of anxiety? And what are its causes? The lack of awareness, plus the circulating myths, makes dealing with anxiety problems even more difficult for many. So to
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Whilst some bacteria are known to cause certain diseases, there are thousands more (many are already living inside the human body) that boost human health. Now, a team of researchers, headed by Caltech Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering Sarkis Mazmanian, found that these good bacteria might also prepare the immune cells in our blood to fight inf
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