Impressing your loved ones with gifts can hold great importance, and a way of showing that they are special, and that you have great hopes for the relationship. Well, giving your spouse something they have been considering buying for a while is a good way to show your love. Think about what is important, and what makes him or her happy. A gift of lingerie corsets is a lasting reminder of your relationship especially during Valentine’s Day. Further, don’t forget about giving flowers, though they may seem traditional but flowers brighten a day and are romantic. How about you guys, have you choose what makes your better-half happy?
Gifts That Can Hold Great Importance
January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Those Junk Food Hormones
January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Everyone knows that junk food is injurious to health, but still, who among us can resist that juicy burger or that refreshing cola? The ads make them look so tempting too. But it is those same ads that might actually be the problem. German researchers at the Max Planck Institute say those glossy pictures of junk food trigger hormones that make the viewer hungry and this may be the cause of increasing obesity.
This once again puts the focus on what health specialists in many countries have been trying to do: restrict certain kinds of junk food ads. In Canada, recent surveys have shown support for an outright ban on ads of products with high sugar, high fat or high salt content. A bit drastic, perhaps, but with child obesity becoming a growing problem, the day may not be far off when burger packets will carry warnings saying “Junk food can be injurious to your health”. Europe has imposed heavy taxes on such products and have even stopped their sale in schools. [Read more...]
Appetizing Food Ads To Blame For Obesity Epidemic
January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Researchers have confirmed what many people have long suspected – mouthwatering images of food in advertisements is fuelling obesity epidemic.
A team at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry has found that it only takes a picture of tempting food to cause a change in the level of ghrelin hormone which control people’s appetite – and this makes many hungry, the ‘Daily Mail’ said.
In fact, the effect of the hormones are so powerful that a photograph can make you want to eat a slice of cake just two hours after breakfast , says the study. The researchers suggest that people trying to shed the flab should avoid looking at pictures of tempting food. [Read more...]
Can I Eat Pears While Pregnant?
January 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Pears are safe to eat during pregnancy; they are low in calories and contain several nutrients that are especially important for expecting moms. Add variety to your daily diet with the many pear varieties available, including Bosc, Bartlett, Anjou, Starkrimson and Comice. Although you can eat pears plain, you can also cook them in other ways or put them in smoothies to reap the health benefits.
Folic Acid
Pears provide approximately 12 micrograms of folic acid per piece of fruit, according to the Pear Bureau Northwest. Although that may not seem like much, when it comes to folic acid, you should get as much as you can during pregnancy. [Read more...]
Tax Could Make Junk A Weighty Choice
January 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
THE statistics tell a story of a divided city – where geography can determine your waistline.
The NSW Ministry of Health’s new Health Statistics website reveals residents of Sydney’s west and south-west are far more likely to be overweight than their wealthier counterparts in the city centre or the north.
The proportion of women from northern Sydney who are overweight or obese is 38.8 per cent, compared with 50.4 per cent in the Nepean Blue Mountains area, for example.
Local government areas that have ”significantly higher” hospital admissions than the state average – owing to obesity – include Bankstown, Wollongong, Campbelltown, Wyong, Liverpool Plains and Queanbeyan, according to the website. [Read more...]
Type 2 Diabetes And Coffee; Heavy Java Drinkers May Have A Lower Risk Of
January 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Research shows that heavy coffee drinkers have a lower risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, and now scientists in China may have discovered why.
Prior studies have shown that people who drink four or more cups of coffee a day have a 50 percent lower risk of Type 2 diabetes, and that every extra cup of coffee brings another decrease in risk of almost seven percent.
Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan University, and Wuhan Institute of Biotechnology in China have cited the protective benefits of compounds in coffee that inhibit a substance called human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP), which has been linked to diabetes, stated science and health news website Science Daily last week in a report on the new study. The study appears in the latest issue of the Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemisty. [Read more...]
Tuna-Eating Teenagers Less Likely To Suffer Depression
January 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Oily fish such as sardines are a rich source of Vitamin D. New research from the Children of the 90s study at the University of Bristol, which has been charting the health of 14,500 children since their birth in the early 1990s, shows that the link between low levels of vitamin D and depression is established in childhood and that ensuring children have a good intake of vitamin D could help reduce depression in adolescence and adulthood.
The link between depression and vitamin D (which we get from exposure to sunlight and from certain foods, like oily fish and fortified breakfast cereals) has already been established in adults but this is the first study to look at the vitamin’s effect in children. [Read more...]
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