Posts Tagged ‘Stress’
The cellular aging is a very wide spread problem that is caused by stress and anxiety but now the US researchers have found vigorous exercises that can reduce cellular aging with the prevention of shortening of telomeres due to stress.
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This study was taken in University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the publication has been made in open access journal PLoS ONE on 26 May.
The exercise has always being a very affective thing for the health but now this new goodness of it seems really exciting.
Co-lead investigator, Dr Elissa Epel, an associate professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry while discussing about this study said that “Telomere length is increasingly considered a biological marker of the accumulated wear and tear of living, integrating genetic influences, lifestyle behaviors, and stress.”
Stress is something or a kind of effect on our body which can bring long term impacts for the physical as well as mental health so handling stress at its early stages is very important.
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The effective stress management is a vital part of healthy living and it can also keep your heart in the top health.
The stress management is not a big issue but a little consistency and determination is required otherwise you can’t be able to get rid of the stress.
In this article some suggestions have been provided which can really prove to very effective for the people who are facing stress in their daily routine.
A new survey has been designed around studying how moms feel about including fruits and vegetables in their daily diet. This survey conducted between January 18 and January 22, 2008 in collaboration between ‘Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH)’ and the ‘Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’ in cooperation with other partners. They choose a sample of women between the ages of 24 and 41, all of whom had at least 1 child under18 living in their household out of which 1,000 women responded to this online survey.
Around 70% of the women expressed happiness and satisfaction after eating healthy foods like fruits or vegetables. Extra sweetened foods or food laced with extra saltiness and spices are likely to trigger negative emotions like sadness or stress. They felt the same after consuming salty snack foods and heavy foods like cheeseburgers and also found themselves ridden with a feeling of guilt after eating sweets.
The researchers when compared the results of the different responses of moms, found that majority of the proportion of the women were happier and felt good about their own selves after consuming generous portion of vegetables and fruits.
Scientists at the ‘University of Saskatchewan’ spotted a gene that which the plants in fighting against the stress. This is altogether a new discovery which could open an entirely new world of thought. It could lead to the development of those agricultural and forestry plants which could depict more tolerance towards the environmental strains like the ultraviolet light and other harmful radiations which affect the plant’s health.
This new revolutionary study conducted by a microbiologist Wei Xiao and a biochemist Hong Wang. Findings of this research study have been published in the January issue of the plant journal “The Plant Cell”.
“Arabidopsis”, a customary research model plant, closely linked to canola and already carried the four genes held of playing a role in the plant’s tolerant nature to take the environmental pressures. The researchers observed that the plants in which one of the four genes had turned off gave birth to the seedlings which showed slow growth and also died when they were exposed to a stressor which could easily damage the DNA of the plants.
