Lack of sleep
causes road accidents, fight with partner
London, Mar. 02: A
new study has revealed that lack of sleep often makes a person grumpy, which
ultimately leads to a fight with their partner. It showed that 19 percent of
adults get an average of only six hours’ sleep a night instead of the full
eight and a third of people take their tiredness out on their partner, the
Daily Express reported.
A restless night can also make people late for work and
more likely to lose our wallets or phones. And it makes parents more
bad-tempered and likely to scold their children. Six percent admitted that they
have left their home unlocked while five percent have had a road accident
caused, in part, by tiredness.
Source: www.thehealthsite.com
03.03.2015
Shocking! Weight
shaming can have the adverse effect
Turning conventional wisdom on its head, researchers have
found that portraying overweight individuals negatively in the media may lead
them to gaining more weight.
Weight-stigmatising messages presented by the media — the
ones that characterise overweight individuals as lazy, weak-willed,
self-indulgent and contributing to rising health care costs — may be tipping
the scales in the wrong direction, said the researchers.
‘Our research shows that weight stigma leads to
behavioural responses that can ironically contribute to weight-gain,’ said
co-author Jeffrey Hunger from University of California at Santa Barbara.
The findings suggest that weight-loss campaigns and
programmes should resist paining a negative picture of overweight and obese
individuals negatively. The researchers observed that self-perceived overweight
women who read a weight-stigmatising news article consumed more high-calorie
snack foods compared to overweight women, who read a neutral article.
‘Simply reading about the potential for weight stigma was
enough to impair self-regulation among overweight women,’ Hunger explained.
The research suggests that the mere threat of stigma can
have important behavioural effects, even in cases where an individual does not
directly experience weight-based mistreatment. The findings were presented
at the recently concluded Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
16th Annual Convention in Long Beach, California.
Source: www.thehealthsite.com
03.03.2015
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