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Yoga’s Impact on Your Mental Health

Duke University researchers recently published a review of more than 100 studies looking at the effect of yoga on mental health. Lead author Dr. P. Murali Doraiswamy, a professor of psychiatry and medicine at Duke University Medical Center told Time Magazine:

“Most individuals already know that yoga produces some kind of a calming effect. Individually, people feel better after doing the physical exercise. Mentally, people feel calmer, sharper, maybe more content. We thought it’s time to see if we could pull all [the literature] together… to see if there’s enough evidence that the benefits individual people notice can be used to help people with mental illness.”

According to their findings, yoga appears to have a positive effect on:

• Mild depression
• Sleep problems
• Schizophrenia (among patients using medication)
• ADHD (among patients using medication)

Some of the studies suggest yoga can have a similar effect to antidepressants and psychotherapy, by influencing neurotransmitters and boosting serotonin. Yoga was also found to reduce levels of inflammation, oxidative stress, blood lipids and growth factors. As reported by Time:

“Embracing yoga as a complementary treatment for mental disorders is not uncommon. Yoga is a feature in many veterans’ centers throughout the country, backed by research funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Huffington Post reported that many troops use yoga as a form of treatment for PTSD, for example, with companies like Warriors at Ease training instructors in yoga techniques specifically catered to those in the military. A study published earlier this month of 70 active-duty troops found daily yoga eased anxiety and improved sleep.

The researchers say there’s enough evidence to warrant a larger study on the effects of yoga on mental health, and it should be considered as part of treatment for more disorders...

'What we are saying is that we still need to do further, large-scale studies before we are ready to conclude that people with mental illnesses can turn to yoga as a first-line treatment,' says Doraiswamy. 'We are not saying throw away your Prozac and turn to yoga. We’re saying it has the promise and potential. If a large national study were done, it could turn out that yoga is just as good and may be a low cost alternative to people with unmet needs.' In the meantime, he says it doesn’t hurt to add yoga to existing treatments so patients can take advantage of any potential benefits.”

       I bet you know this already ....

And i also believe we must NEVER GIVE UP
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Rich and Poor .

The act of Giving is NOT a Luxury of The Rich But The Privilege of The Poor .
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
BUT if you are poor today , it can actually means you are somewhat in the rich circle 30 yrs ago. Most poors today owns or drives a car, which 30 yrs ago will not qualify them to be in the poor bracket.  

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 .    how peculiar it comes to when describing what poor is nowadays.  and how easy it is for the poor to become rich . . .when they put their minds to it.....  

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definition of poor  .... 

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100lbs Axed after 60 days .

Joe, while an Australian, is in terms of health very much a stereotypical American. And, like so many others, came to realize that without your health, nothing else much matters. 

By the time he hit 40, he was “professionally successful but physically bankrupt,” tipping the scales at 300 pounds and taking multiple medications for an autoimmune disease doctors could not find the root cause of. His weight, his mysterious medical condition, and side effects from the drugs were sapping his life away and destroying his quality of life.

“When I turned 40, I realized that I had been all talk and no action for years,saying that someday I would change my life and do something to reclaim the robust health I had enjoyed as a younger man,” he says.²

“It was a sobering realization – I had focused my capacity for action, determination and discipline on nothing but creating wealth. It was time to harness those skills to create health.

It occurred to me that I was not alone. Yes, my disease was very rare – but lots of people are sick. And you certainly don’t need to be a rocket scientist to see that most of us in the developed world are unhealthily fat. Like lots of people, I had been outsourcing my health problems to doctors, but no one had been able to fix what ailed me. What if I could take control of the problem, and my own role in creating the situation?”

Shunning his steady diet of processed food for real, whole foods – the stuff that grows in the ground and on trees and is sold without a nutrition label – was the logical place to start. For the first 60 days, he juiced his way across the United States with film crew in tow, talking to people about their diets along the way. Says Joe:

“Making this movie changed my life, opened my eyes and re-focused my mission on something that is startling simple and utterly effective: helping people reclaim their health and vitality as I did by consuming more fruits and vegetables... It is amazing what can happen. I can vouch for this by first-hand experience. After 60 days of juice and another 70 days of eating just fruit, vegetables, nuts, beans and seeds I was 100 lbs lighter and off all medication. I've been that way ever since.”

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Weight Loss and Sex .

Sex might be good for our general health –– but it's not likely to help us lose weight.
A new study has found that six minutes of activity –– which a 1984 study found is the average length of intercourse –– only uses up about 14 more calories than six minutes watching TV.
Researchers from the University of Alabama in the US debunked the "sex for weight loss myth" and dozens more health myths in their paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

So goes the result of a latest research study on weight loss  -  BUT Losing your extra weights sure goes a long way in improving sex life ... 


what say you ? 

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mommy ...

At 3 yrs "Mommy, I love you". At 10, "Mom whatever". At 16, "My Mom is so annoying". At 18, "I wanna leave this house". At 25,"Mom, you were right". At 30, "I wanna go to Mom's house". At 50, "I don't wanna lose my Mom". At 70, "I would give up EVERYTHING for my Mom to be here with me". You only have 1 Mom. Post this on your wall if you APPRECIATE & LOVE your Mom no matter if she is here or not!!

how true ... 

and would you say that  

 Life would be perfect if, some girls had mute buttons, some guys had edit buttons, bad times had fast forward buttons, and good times had pause buttons.

 

 

 

 

 

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Learn In Your Sleep

You spend a third of your life asleep. Wouldn’t it be great if you could put that time to use? New research suggests you can. A recent study, published in Nature Neuroscience, contains groundbreaking findings that may change the way we view our time in bed. For the first time, researchers demonstrate that you can learn new information while you sleep and with no conscious knowledge of it.

Learning while you sleep isn’t a new idea. But while several studies have shown that you can enhance prior learning during sleep, until now no studies have shown that you can learn new information during sleep. One problem with demonstrating new learning in sleep is that you can’t test for it without waking up the subject.
To skirt this problem, a team of researchers in Israel took advantage of a reliable and sneaky measurement tool—the nose. The nose is useful because humans tend to sniff more when a pleasant smell is present, and less for a bad smell. Sniffing, therefore turns out to be a measurable and reliable indicator of odor preference. And odor preference can be used to measure learning.
Add to that the fact that smells don’t tend to wake people up, and you’ve got a way to measure learning in sleep. The researchers exploited this and measured the amount of sniffing among subjects in the presence of various odors, from shampoo to rotten fish. Finding that, indeed, sleeping subjects sniffed less for rotten fish, they then used sniffing to measure learning in an ingenious sleep study.
There were 55 subjects in total. After suiting up for an EEG recording (to ensure that they were actually asleep), subjects went to sleep for the night. While subjects slept, researchers paired odors with different auditory tones. One tone might be paired with the smell of shampoo, another with the smell of rotten fish. Researchers measured the sniff volume for each tone.
Later on in sleep, and again once the subjects awoke, the researchers played the tones without presenting the odor. The big finding? The subjects sniffed as if the odor was present—more for the tones that had previously been paired with good smells; less for tones associated with bad smells.
In other words, the subjects learned to associate a tone with an odor, having no conscious knowledge that they’d been trained. And importantly, they retained this knowledge upon waking.
While the idea of learning while we sleep has been around forever, demonstrating it has been another story. With a little ingenuity, these researchers have made it official. Still, a lot of questions remain. One of the questions they wish to better address is the role of REM versus non-REM sleep in learning. Also, the learning they demonstrated—simple associations—is not rich in immediate practical value.
So what are the limits of what we can learn?
If the learning were more complex, would the new knowledge be accurate or mixed up? How might this affect quality of sleep? Can children learn during sleep? The elderly? Could sleep-learning become psychological therapy for certain disorders or addictions? Treatment for neurodevelopmental or neurological conditions? Learning disabilities? The potential usefulness makes this discovery exciting, even if preliminary.
While it’s not exactly enough to suggest you should play recordings of that new language you’ve wanted to learn tonight, this study offers a new research paradigm for studying learning in sleep and opens the door to other studies to address some of the exciting questions that remain. It goes to show that we still have a lot to learn about the power of sleep; not only its importance for our well-being but its unknown range of potential utility.
 Interesting right .

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