10.6.11

Coffee To Cause Hallucinations?

Consuming coffee is fun. However, coffee also save the adverse effects. Take it in excess can cause hallucinations. Similarly, research conducted by experts at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

The study involved 92 people found that those who consumed up to five cups of coffee or more likely to hallucinate. This is due to the high content of caffeine in coffee. Caffeine is the most commonly used psychoactive drug.

Simon Crowe, head of research said that there is a correlation between high levels of stress and psychosis, and caffeine was found to correlate with areas prone to hallucinations. The combination of caffeine and stress affect an individual experiencing similar psychosis symptom.

Excessive coffee consumption may also increase the stress that can lead to an attack of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a brain disease caused by an imbalance of dopamine, which is one of the chemicals in the brain cells.

Schizophrenia is also the most common psychotic mental disorders, with characteristic loss of feelings of affective or emotional response and withdrew from the normal interpersonal relationships. The attack of the disease followed by delusions and hallucinations.

9.6.11

Stop fatty foods To Avoid Diabetes

Did you know that the incidence of metabolic and endocrine diseases currently quite high? These diseases are chronic and progressive so that the monitoring and continuous control to prevent or delay the chronic complications is needed.

In fact, metabolic and endocrine diseases-diabetes, thyroid, pituitary tumors, parathyroid glands, adrenal, gonadal, calcium and bone metabolism, as well as several other hormonal diseases-are often found too late due to the prevalence has not knowledge in this field, in addition to patient noncompliance.

Once affected by diabetes, so long as life will continue to diabetes. The best that can be done is to take reasonable precautions, including routine blood sugar control, control your intake of fat and cholesterol the body, and further measure abdominal circumference.

The easiest way to detect whether someone is at risk of developing diabetes is to measure abdominal circumference. Beware if the abdominal circumference exceeded 80 cm for women and 90 cm for men. Because diabetes mellitus is a genetically inherited disease, it is important for patients to be screened family against the possibility of diabetes.

8.6.11

Improve Memory With Music

Music according to Aristotle, has the ability to reconcile a troubled heart. He added that listening to music is a recreational therapy that can also foster patriotism. Some people judge, good kind of music you heard was just a matter of taste. But on the other hand believes that music can affect the emotional, physical, mental, spiritual to someone.

For some parents might think that music can disrupt children's learning process. Especially if the child preferred to memorize the songs they listen to rather than have to memorize physics formulas. Did you know that music is actually able to improve memory?

One study states that music can give children an advantage in the learning process. In recent research conducted by experts, revealed the music can also be a therapy that effectively improve memory.

Studies conducted Laurel Trainor, professor of psychology, neuroscience and behavior from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario to prove, after a year studying music, a child will score better on memory tests than others who did not study music. No wonder that in modern schools in America and Europe, music is used to improve student academic achievement.

While at the rehabilitation center, music therapy is widely used to handle the problem of dementia and memory loss. This can happen because of the brain that processes music is located adjacent to the memory. So when someone train the brain with music therapy, it is automatically also trained memory.

In a study conducted by Dr. Felicity Baker, senior lecturer at the University of Queensland (UQ) School of Music revealed that music can even prove itself as a savior for people with dementia who have lost their ability to interact with a partner because of loss of memory.

Music has several advantages, namely because the music is comfortable, soothing, relaxing, structure, and universal. As a musical, the process of our lives, actually also have a rhythm. For example, our breathing, heart rate, and pulse, it all happened over and over and rhythmically.

7.6.11

Prevent Stroke with Banana

Do not ever underestimate a banana. Bananas have many benefits. One is to reduce the risk of stroke, just by eating three bananas every day. That is the result of experts' research  from the UK and Italy.

According to the results, three bananas that contain lots of potassium when consumed every day can reduce the risk of blood clots in the brain. Blood clots in the brain is a major cause of stroke. The potassium in bananas can also help to stabilize blood pressure and control the fluid balance in the body.

In the study also revealed, spinach, beans, and fish also contain a lot of potassium content. These foods can also help reduce the risk of stroke.

Leaders of studies suggest that potassium intake in most countries, well below the recommended daily amount. Yet only by increasing the intake of foods rich in potassium and reducing salt intake, can minimize the global annual death rate due to stroke.

6.6.11

Flu Can Trigger Asthma?

Flu is annoying. For those who have asthma, the arrival of flu will be very excruciating. Because the flu will trigger a recurrence of asthma.

A study conducted by experts in Boston, United States, found that flu activate immune cells known as, a natural helper cells. Activation of these cells stimulates the secretion of which will lead to a recurrence of asthma. Asthma relapse of flu will be worse and lead to severe shortness of breath, if not immediately addressed.

Dale Umetsu, leader of the study, said that nearly 100 percent of people with asthma deteriorated condition due to a viral infection. Previously they really do not know how it happened. But now they have an explanation.

5.6.11

Less Sleep Can Increase Weight Loss

Do you often have difficulty sleeping? Take care, lack of sleep can cause obesity. Lack of sleep causes the day was getting longer. Not only that, your metabolism slows down so that the body uses less energy.

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and research in Europe mentioned that lack of sleep can cause weight gain. Not only increase hunger, but also reduce the speed of the rhythm of burning calories.

Christian Benedict, one of the researchers from the University of Uppsala in Sweden revealed that sleep a lot can prevent weight gain.

Previous research linking sleep deprivation with weight gain and also showed that disrupted sleep is also disturbing levels of stress and hormones associated with hunger during the wake.

To help identify the exact mechanism of why lack of sleep can cause these effects, Benedict and several university colleagues examined 14 students in a series of "conditioning" sleep - no sleep, limited sleep, and normal sleep - in a few days, then measured changes in the number food consumed, blood sugar, hormonal levels and measure the level of metabolism.

The scientists found, with only one night of missed sleep the next morning your metabolism slows, reducing the energy expenditure for a number of jobs such as breathing and digesting of five to 20 percent, compared to those with adequate sleep.

A group of young men also have high blood sugar levels, such as hunger-regulating hormone ghrelin, and stress hormones, like high cortisol after a troubled sleep. However, lack of sleep does not increase the amount of food consumed by the men.

Numerous studies have watched that people who slept five hours or less per day to be more susceptible to weight gain and weight-related diseases such as type-2 diabetes. But these studies do not prove that lack of sleep as a cause of weight gain.

Some experts say several factors such as lifestyle and diet likely increase the risk of obesity and it's not clear whether lack of sleep causes obesity.

Sanford Auerbach, head of the Sleep Disorders Center at Boston Medical Center, responded that lack of sleep is a complex problem, with drugs as well as some things that affect sleep, and urged that the findings should be further clarified.

National Sleep Foundation, a foundation that examines sleep, suggesting that adults should sleep as much as seven - nine hours of sleep per night.