‘Traditional societies’ parenting
methods could benefit children’
According
to a Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist, babies carried upright by their parents
grow into more self-assured and poised kids compared to those who are just made
to sit in prams.
‘We
are struck by how emotionally secure, self-confident, curious and autonomous
the members of those small-scale societies are, not only as adults but already
as children,’ said Jared Diamond in his new book ‘The World Until Yesterday’.
Diamond,
a professor who spent 50 years working with traditional societies in New
Guinea, notes that basic parenting methods which have been discarded by the
West but are being followed in more traditional societies could benefit
children. ‘That’s surely the result of how they are raised as children. I think
that we can foster those admirable qualities in our own children, by emulating
some hunter-gatherer child-rearing practices,’ he adds, the Telegraph reports.
Indigenous
people living in the African rain-forest, for example, use a variety of
behaviours which evolved over hundreds of thousands of years but which have
been discarded in the modern world, Diamond says. ‘It would be impossible,
illegal, or immoral to carry out rigorous controlled experiments on Western
children, in order to test outcomes of different child-rearing methods,’ he
adds. ‘But a huge variety of different methods has in effect already been
tested by natural experiments: different societies have been raising their
children differently for a long time, and we can see the results,’ he
concludes.
Source:
http://health.india.com
08.01.2013
'Tomato
skin' pill can cut stroke, cancer risk
Scientists have claimed that a pill containing a
chemical found in tomato skin could cut the risk of stroke
and slow the progression of cancer.
The pill, called Ateronon, contains a chemical known as lycopene which had previously been shown to help unclog blocked arteries, and which is thought to be one of the main health benefits of the Mediterranean diet, the Telegraph reported.
Now a further trial has shown the natural remedy also made patients' blood vessels more efficient, boosted their blood flow and softened arteries which had hardened with age.
Researchers believe the pill may be able to limit the damage caused by heart disease, although further studies will be needed to determine whether the positive signals translate into fewer strokes and heart attacks.
It uses a lycopene compound which has been modified to become more easily absorbed by the blood than the natural version found in tomatoes.
Ian Wilkinson, director of Cambridge University's clinical trials unit, said that the results are good news and potentially very significant, but needed more trials.
Peter Kirkpatrick, medical adviser to CamNutra, which has developed Ateronon, added that it was too early to come to any firm conclusions, but the results from this trial are far better than they could have hoped for.
Source:
www.timesofindia.com
08.01.2013
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