Friday, March 8, 2013

Too Much Salt is Bad



The salt people use in diet could be the reason in driving their own immune systems to revolt against them leading to diseases like multiple sclerosis. Salt may well turn on a part of the immune system that can aim the body making their defenses against illness go wrong and lead to autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, Type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. Experts think they have the initial proof that the amount of salt people use in diet may also be a causative factor.

Diagnose Alzheimer’s Early and Avoid Dementia



Cure for Alzheimer's is near. The build up of a waste protein called amyloid, left over when membranes of the brain are replaced are cleared by most people but can slowly build up in others later in life, causing dementia after 30 years. Discovering levels that can be detected accumulating in the brains of people, who may suffer from dementia fifteen years before they suffer extensive memory loss, has been found. This will enable doctors whom to aim with drugs for anti-dementia.

Improve your Concentration by Chewing Gum


Chewing gum helps people concentrate on jobs requiring constant monitoring for a long time. Volunteers listened to numbers read out for some time and noted when there was a sequence of odd-even-odd. It was found that people chewing gum during the job reacted quickly and got more precise results than others. Members who didn't chew gum did somewhat better at the beginning but were outdone in the end. It is understood that at least eight areas of the brain are involved in the act of chewing.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Women Think More Efficiently than …

Researchers say that women’s brains work competently than men’s although women’s brains are smaller in size. They studied the relationship among hippocampal structural differences in hundred young people (59 women & 45 men), using high-resolution scans, along with a set of cognitive functions which included spatial tasks, attention on statistics, keeping track of tasks and inductive reasoning along with others. The hippocampus has a key role in memory, cognition and emotion.

Improve Self Control with Short Spells of Exercise



A new study has established that short spells of physical exercise can help cheer up higher functions of the brain such as decision-making, planning, concentration as well as memory. The study has also stated that physical exercise might be a positive treatment for conditions characterized by damaged higher brain functions, like autism and ADHD or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and may also assist in delaying the negative effects of dementia, as per research.