Arsip: January, 2008
Chronic Back Pain Effects Brain Power
People have known negative effects of chronic back pain to health and human performance. Besides anxiety and depression, chronic back pain also limits our capability to work, rest, or any other daily activities. Recently, a research from Northwestern University found that chronic back pain also limits our brain power, since it can cause significant and long-lasting [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • January 31st, 2008
Identification of Key Factor In Stress Effects On The Brain
Uncontrollable stress is a major contributing factor for neuropsychiatric disorders. For many years, people try to avoid stress, since it is known that acute and chronic stress can have serious effects on the brain. And, recently the researchers from Yale School of Medicine have succeed to find a receptor that plays a key role in that [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • January 29th, 2008
Physical Decline In Elderly Connected to Vitamin E Level
Low concentration of vitamin E in the blood is linked with physical decline in older persons, Scientist from Yale School of Medicine found. In the research, they collected blood samples of 698 people age 65 or older to measure the levels of micronutrients including folate, iron and vitamins B6, B12, D and E. After that, they [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • January 29th, 2008
Exercising in the Cold
When it’s cold, people naturally want to stay indoors. It’s nice and warm to be in our house, why should we go outside? A good way to overcome this is by warming up in the comfort of your own home. A few sets of pushups, sit ups, pull ups, and jumping jacks. Do we need to [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • January 25th, 2008
Air Pollution Shrinks Fetus Size, Study Suggests
Science Daily reported, Brisbane scientists found that exposure to air pollution significantly reduces fetus size during pregnancy. The study compared the fetus sizes of more than 15,000 ultrasound scans in Brisbane to air pollution levels within a 14km radius of the city, and found that mothers with a higher exposure to air pollution had fetuses that [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • January 25th, 2008
Developing a Positive Attitude
People have their own problems. Same problem doesn’t mean same perspective to everyone on solving their problem, of course it depends on our thought, belief, culture, how we set up our mind to think. About this mind-setting issue, some latest researches shows that the best way to have something done successfully and satisfying is having a [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • January 19th, 2008
Benefits of Liquid Vitamins
Sometimes, people in diet is not getting the sufficient amount of nutrient supplements as needed to maintain healthy diet. Our body is incapable of functioning properly without some essential nutrients. In fact, we may not be alive without few indispensable substances, and one of the significant nutrient is vitamin. We can get vitamin in either solid [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • January 15th, 2008
New Genomic Screen Method in HIV Propagation
Harvard Medical School researchers have now identified 273 human proteins required for HIV propagation. They decided to take a different approach centered on the human proteins exploited by the virus, because they thought that antiviral drugs are currently doing a good job of keeping people alive, but these therapeutics all suffer from the resistance problem. Over [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • January 15th, 2008
Anxiety Hikes Heart Attack Risk, New Research Found
New research shows that longstanding anxiety markedly increases the risk of heart attack. Biing-Jiun Shen, Ph.D. (an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles) explained, besides blood pressure, obesity, cholesterol, age, cigarette smoking, blood sugar levels and other cardiovascular risk factors, the role of anxiety in hiking heart attack risk [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • January 15th, 2008
Speed Up Metabolism, Lose Weight
Are you about trying to lose weight? More and more people want a quick way to have an ideal weight. Yeah, we always want something in an instant, but sometime we don’t take a good care about the effects and safety. But, if then many people believed that one of the most effective ways to lose [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • January 13th, 2008
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