Does junk food make your kids dumb?
Junk food may be causing a decrease
in your child’s IQ. A new study has found that babies and infants fed junkfood
has a reduced IQ as compared to babies who were fed healthy food. The study,
looked at the link between the eating habits of children at six months, 15
months and two years, and their IQ at eight years of age.
The study of more than 7,000
children compared a range of dietary patterns, including traditional and
contemporary home-prepared food, ready-prepared baby foods, breastfeeding and
junk foods. “Diet supplies the nutrients needed for the development of brain
tissues in the first two years of life, and the aim of this study was to look
at what impact diet would have on children’s IQs,” said Smithers.
“We found that children who were
breastfed at six months and had a healthy diet regularly including foods such
as legumes, cheese, fruit and vegetables at 15 and 24 months, had an IQ up to
two points higher by age eight,” said Smithers. “Those children who had a diet
regularly involving biscuits, chocolate, sweets, soft drinks and chips in the
first two years of life had IQs up to two points lower by age eight. We also
found some negative impact on IQ from ready-prepared baby foods given at six
months, but some positive associations when given at 24 months,” she added.
Source:
http://health.india.com
09.08.2012
Telling lies bad for
health
Honesty is the best
policy after all! Researchers have found that telling fewer lies can improve
your physical and mental health.
A study found that
people experienced about four fewer mental health complaints such as feeling
tense or sad by telling three fewer lies in a 10-week period.
They also had three
fewer physical problems - including sore throats and headaches, the Daily
Mail reported on Wednesday.
A total of 110 people,
their age ranging from 18 to 71, took part in the study conducted by the
University of Notre Dame researchers.
About half the
participants were instructed to stop telling lies during the study. The other
half served as a control group that received no special instructions about
lying.
Results showed the link
between less lying and better health was significantly stronger for
participants in the no-lie group.
They experienced four
fewer mental health complaints and three fewer physical problems - after
telling three fewer lies.
Source:
www.dnaindia.com
09.08.2012
On birthday, 41-yr-old
gets new lung
Jayshree Mehta’s 41st
birthday on July 11 was lucky for the Vile Parle resident as she got a lung
donor on that day to become the first Indian to undergo lung transplant in
India.
She is the sixth patient
in the last 50 years to undergo lung transplant in India, but is the first
Indian, as the others were all foreigners. Jayshree had been suffering from
lung fibrosis, a progressive disease for the past eight years, and was living
on an external supply of oxygen.
Parag Mehta, Jayshree’s
husband, said, “Since she was diagnosed eight years ago, we had been following
up with the doctor for every possible treatment. For the last one and a half
years, she was completely dependent on oxygen cylinders.”
The first ray of hope
for the family came in the first week of July this year, when they got a call
for a probable donor. “She was quite excited. We came to hospital only to
realise that the donor family backed out. Jayshree was shattered. Before
leaving the hospital, she told the doctor that she wanted to get operated by
July 11 (her birthday),” Parag added.
Miraculously, they got a
donor call on the same day. Dr Jnanesh Thacker, lung transplant surgeon at PD
Hinduja Hospital, said, “It was no less than a miracle. I came to know about
the donor that matched with Jayshree’s lung size requirement at 2pm on July
11.”
The surgery started at
7pm and went on for 12 hours. The doctors performed a single lung transplant of
the right lung.“She has been recovering well. We will keep her on strong
anti-rejection drugs so that her body doesn’t reject the new organ. She will
also require physiotherapy and a rehabilitation therapy, after which she will
be discharged,” added Dr Thacker.
Source:
www.dnaindia.com
09.08.2012
Learn from
yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow
Albert Einstein
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