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Kava eases anxiety
Anxiety is a normal reaction to some situations in life but we all know that it can get out of control. By definition, anxiety is a feeling of fear, ...
News from: Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
Yoga, phones, and blood pressure
Somewhere between a quarter and a third of the population in any given Westernised country suffers from high blood pressure (hypertension). That is a big deal because high blood ...
News from: American Society for Hypertension
Botox blocks feelings
Feedback is a really important thing. Without a little fashion feedback from those who care about you it’s possible you might still be wearing that pair of toreador pants ...
News from: British Psychological Society
Seeking self-control
Paulo Coelho wrote, “If you conquer yourself, you conquer the world.” This is true, but how easy is it to conquer or control the self? Oscar Wilde famously observed, “I ...
News from: Psychological Science
Golf for long life
There are those who say that golf is a good walk ruined. Then again, there are millions of people around the world who take up that ruination every weekend and ...
News from: Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
Exercise breeds sleep
Sleep is at least one of the foundation’s of good health, if not the foundation of good health. In yesterday’s article in this news column we talked about research ...
News from: National Sleep Foundation
Tired hearts
Shakespeare said that sleep “knits up the ravelled sleeve of care” but what if you don’t need a bit of midnight mending? Does sleep really have a lot to offer ...
News from: European Heart Journal
Exercise soothes the mind
We all like to think we have free will and can’t be told what to do. This has never been more true than it is today in a world where ...
News from: European Journal of Neuroscience
Love and other bruises
You are a noble creature…aren’t you? I mean, you make sacrifices for the sake of your partner, right? Just last night, even though your boss asked you to rewrite that ...
News from: Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Heavy metal lips
The things we do for love have been immortalised in too many songs to mention. While we do undoubtedly turn ourselves inside out for the sake of romance, there is ...
News from: Environmental Health Perspectives
Kicking pain away
In a world obsessed with having the “next generation” of things (whether it be smartphones, cars or underwear), there is an unconscious tendency to believe that anything older is somehow ...
News from: Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
Emerald cities
Cities have come a long way from the torrid places they were in, say, the 16th century. Five hundred years ago London, for instance, was an aggregation of narrow, smelly, ...
News from: Psychological Science
Hard data on soft drinks
According to the market research group MarketLine, the global market for soft drinks stands at around US$300 billion annually. The soft drink industry spans sparkling drinks, concentrates, juices, bottled water, ...
News from: Diabetologia
The velvet voice
Scientists are a quixotic lot. Show them a challenging windmill and will take a tilt at it with scanners and chromatographs in hand. Yes, somewhere and somehow some optimistic scientific ...
News from: PLoS ONE
A memory grab
The human hand has been used in human art from the very beginning. We have always been fascinated by this appendage at the end of our arms that can twiddle, ...
News from: PLoS ONE
Lean and green
It makes sense that gardening is a healthy activity. It gets your body moving, keeps your mind active, gets you in touch with the seasons and cycles that surround you, ...
News from: American Journal of Public Health
Caffeine capers
Caffeine is the most socially accepted stimulant in the world and in the history of the world. Approximately 90 per cent of all adults today consume caffeine in their daily ...
News from: University at Buffalo
Mango magic
We have a deeply ingrained perception that “medicine” has to taste bad. The phrase “you’ve just got to take your medicine” is testimony to this. Equally, we tend to think ...
News from: Journal of Pharmacy and Nutrition Sciences
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