Effective exercises, beliefs & attitudes that benefit fitness and physical health
Submitted by procreative-admin on Sat, 18/09/2010 - 10:38am
It's to me quite amazing how much we can ignore some simple concepts that are so hugely important to our wellbeing.
In a LGGO meeting recently we got talking about what "great outcomes" really mean.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Fri, 02/09/2011 - 11:08am
A healthy social life may be as good for your long-term health as avoiding cigarettes, according to a massive research review released Tuesday by the journal PLoS Medicine.
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those with poor social connections had on average 50% higher odds of death in the study's follow-up period (an average of 7.5 years) than people with more robust social ties.
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The immune systems of people with lots of friends simply worked better, fighting off the cold virus often without symptoms.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Wed, 08/06/2011 - 4:37pm
Science has finally confirmed what anyone who's ever been in love already knows: Heartbreak really does hurt.
In a new study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers have found that the same brain networks that are activated when you're burned by hot coffee also light up when you think about a lover who has spurned you.
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"What's exciting about these findings," he says, "is that they outline the direct way in which emotional experiences can be linked to the body."
Submitted by procreative-admin on Sun, 08/05/2011 - 1:33pm
Los Angeles Times report:
Physicians are now making diagnoses in individuals who wouldn't have been considered sick in the past, and it's raising healthcare costs.
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The threshold for diagnosis has fallen too low. Physicians are now making diagnoses in individuals who wouldn't have been considered sick in the past.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Thu, 21/04/2011 - 5:51am
Factors in living a long-life.
Friedman and Martin unhesitatingly say the single strongest social predictor of long life is a strong network. Widows outlive widowers; women tend to have stronger social networks. Interestingly, neurotic widowers tended to outlive their less neurotic peers – they were more likely to take care of their health after their wives were gone.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Wed, 06/04/2011 - 12:53pm
Meditation can deliver powerful pain-relieving effects to the brain with even just 80 minutes' training for a beginner in an exercise called focused attention, a study released on Tuesday found.
"This is the first study to show that only a little over an hour of meditation training can dramatically reduce both the experience of pain and pain-related brain activation," said Fadel Zeidan, lead author of the study and a post-doctoral research fellow at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre in North Carolina.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Sat, 18/09/2010 - 12:05pm
Here's more data to call into question the standard approach to dis-ease, of finding a quick pill or potion to encourage and facilitate health and wellbeing.
PUBLIC health experts have called for an independent body to monitor drug safety after it emerged that young children were more likely to end up in hospital because of side effects from a flu vaccine than they were from the disease itself.
