Why Monday is a good day to start
with a fitness regimen
If you’ve
been wanting to start with a new fitness regimen or go on a diet or just make
that doctor’s appointment, Monday is the best day, say scientists.
A new
study analyzing weekly patterns in health-related Google searches reveals a
recurring pattern that could be leveraged to improve public health strategies.
Investigators from San Diego State University, the Santa Fe Institute, Johns
Hopkins University, and the Monday Campaigns, analyzed ‘healthy’ Google
searches (searches that included the term healthy and were indeed
health-related, e.g., ‘healthy diet’) originating in the US from 2005 to
2012.
They found
that on average, searches for health topics were 30 percent more frequent at
the beginning of the week than on days later in the week, with the lowest
average number of searches on Saturday. This pattern was consistent year after
year, week after week, using a daily measure to represent the proportion of
healthy searches to the total number of searches each day.
‘Many
illnesses have a weekly clock with spikes early in the week,’ SDSU’s John W.
Ayers, lead author of the study, said. ‘This research indicates that a similar
rhythm exists for positive health behaviors, motivating a new research agenda
to understand why this pattern exists and how such a pattern can be utilized to
improve the public’s health,’ he said.
Joanna
Cohen, PhD, a co-author of the study and professor at the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health, added, ‘We could be seeing this effect
because of the perception that Monday is a fresh start, akin to a mini New
Year’s Day. People tend to indulge in less healthybehaviors on the
weekend, so Monday can serve as a ‘health reset’ to get back on track with
theirhealth regimens.’ The study is published in the American Journal ofPreventive
Medicine.
Source: http://health.india.com
22.04.2014
Now a drug that can help reduce
alcohol consumption!
A new
study has found that anti-seizure drug ezogabine reduced alcohol consumption in
an experimental model. Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine
(BUSM) found that alcoholism can be treated by this newly discovered mechanism
that helps to regulate brain activity known as Kv7 channel modulation.
Clifford
Knapp lead author of the story said that the finding is of importance because
ezogabine acts by opening a particular type of potassium channel in the brain,
called the Kv7 channel, which regulates activity in areas of the brain that are
believed to regulate the rewarding effects of alcohol.
The
researchers believe these finding will encourage the search for other drugs
that act on this system to discover more effective treatments for alcoholism.
The study was published in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol
Abuse.
What is
adverse health effects of over-consumption
It’s not
considered a disease by many.
Ill
effects
The
effects of alcoholism are far-reaching. Because of alcoholism, the alcoholic
can suffer lot of health issues. It includes:
·
poor nutrition,
·
memory disorders,
·
difficulty with balance and walking,
·
liver disease (including cirrhosis
and hepatitis),
·
high blood pressure,
·
muscle weakness (including the
heart),
·
heart rhythm disturbances,
·
anaemia,
·
clotting disorders,
·
decreased immunity to
infections
Source: http://health.india.com
22.04.2014
Don’t
spoil what you have,
by desiring what you don't have
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