Your forecast can affect your mood
Do you take predictions seriously or do you laugh them off? A recent study suggests that negative readings in crease self-indulgent behaviour. For example, those who read a bad forecast indulge in shopping or run to the spa to make themselves feel better. According to research, following your stars can actually be bad for your mind and how you feel, as those signs, which have negative forecasts will be more emotional and indulgent.
Negative reading will make you more prone to temptation. The study in the Journal of Consumer Research showed that those who had bad forecast had erratic behaviour. Says astrologer Namita Vadera, "Do not become obsessed with predictions. Everything you do cannot and should not be determined by your forecaster. Some astrologers will make you scared and nerv ous. Others can be positive and encouraging on the same prediction."
However, scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, found that those with unfavourable star sign readings preferred to "do good and change their karma". The study also suggested 37 per cent of the people read their horoscopes before making big decisions! The psychic industry in the United Kingdom is worth an estimated £100 million a year. Popstar Madonna is a follower of horoscopes; actor Naomi Watts, who played Princess Diana in the recent film adaptation, has also spoken about using psychics. Says feng shui expert and healer SBS Surendran, "Astrology is only about giving guidance and advice on what one needs to do in case the time is having bad energy. If the predictions are strongly negative, then it does have a huge impact on human minds."
Source: www.timesofindia.com
06.01.2015
Rotating night shift may cut your
life short!
Rotating night shift work deteriorates health in
general, enhances the development of lung cancer and cardiovascular disease
(CVD), and contributes to higher mortality, new research has confirmed.
Women working rotating night shifts for five or more years had a modest increase in all-cause and CVD mortality and those working 15 or more years of rotating night shift work had a modest increase in lung cancer mortality, the findings showed.
Women working rotating night shifts for five or more years had a modest increase in all-cause and CVD mortality and those working 15 or more years of rotating night shift work had a modest increase in lung cancer mortality, the findings showed.
Rotating night shift was defined in the study as working at least three nights per month in addition to days or evenings in that month.
"These results add to prior evidence of a potentially detrimental relation of rotating night shift work and health and longevity," said Eva Schernhammer, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Sleep and the circadian system play an important role in cardiovascular health and antitumor activity.
This study "is one of the largest prospective cohort studies worldwide with a high proportion of rotating night shift workers and long follow-up time", she added.
For the study, the authors analysed 22 years of follow-up data from the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) that included almost 75,000 registered US nurses.
Mortality from all causes appeared to be 11 percent higher for women with 6-14 or 15 years of rotating night shift work.
CVD mortality appeared to be 19 percent and 23 percent higher for those groups, respectively.
Those who worked rotating night shift work for 15 or more years had 25 percent higher risk of lung cancer mortality.
The study appeared in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Source: www.timesofindia.com
06.01.2015
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