Sitting Is Bad For The Brain As For The Body, Study
The UCLA study reports that people who are more sedentary have thinning in brain regions linked to memory—and even high-levels of exercise don’t seem to undo the effects of sitting too much.
The team looked at the connections between sitting, exercise, and the thickness of his or her medial temporal lobe, which is involved in memory formation, as well as its subregions. Participants, aged 45 to 75, answered questions about how much they’d sat on average over the past week and how much exercise they got at low, medium, and high intensities. Some physical measures were taken, and they were all tested for the “Alzheimer’s gene” variants (APOE). Finally, their brains were scanned with MRI to measure the thickness of regions in the medial temporal lobe.
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More is not necessarily better when it comes to antibiotics, and the rise of superbugs is testament to this fact. Now there’s another good reason to avoid overusing them: It can reduce the efficacy of cancer treatment.
A group of researchers shed light on the reasons why older adults experience muscle loss, and therefore become frail and weak. Their findings suggest that muscle wasting in older adults comes as a result of changes in the nervous system. Researchers report that when a person turns 75 years old, he or she has 30 to 50 percent less nerves controlling his legs. This disconnects part of the muscles from the nervous system and renders them useless. Deprived of their normal functions, the muscles start wasting away.
As early as 1990, before there even was a consumer cellphone industry, at least two dozen epidemiological studies on humans indicated a link between EMF and/or RF and serious health problems, including childhood leukemia. Most recently, two government-funded studies one on mice and one on rats — found evidence of heart tumors and damage to the brain and DNA.
A study revealed that energy drink consumption is linked to anxiety, depression, and stress in young male adults. The study was carried out by a team of researchers from The University of Western Australia and Telethon Kids Institute in Australia who looked at the longitudinal links between energy drink consumption and symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress in young adults.