Gaming has taken over young lives
Tubes of a pain relief cream, countless packs of cigarettes and tangled power cables sit atop a table in a dimly-lit room of a residence in the upscale locality of Sushant lok-1 in Gurugram. It’s 1 pm on a Saturday and 10 young men, aged between 23 and 26, wearing half pants, loose T-shirts and headphones, stare at a computer screen, playing Dota 2, a multiplayer online video game, in which where they battle one another to defend their bases. The room, filled with cigarette smoke, is their home till Sunday night. lAN parties like this — where gamers bring computers and hook it up to the network to take part in multiplayer computer games — often last for entire weekend, with little sleep and sunlight. One of the gamers in the room revealed how he lost out on relationships due to the time he would spend playing. “When I was in college,
I would start playing at 8 am and would continue till 3 am the next day. I had more friends online than I had in real life.”
Blemishes turn out to be worms!
In a rather worrisome case, a 32-year-old Russian woman was shocked to see her blemishes moving. From a tiny blemish under her eye, the scars moved up her eye and then downwards, swelling her lips. It was later revealed that the blemish was a parasite, living under her skin. The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a report titled ‘Migrating Dirofilaria repens' on this case. The unnamed Russian woman experienced itching and burning when the worm moved under her skin. The creature called Dirofilaria repens, a long parasitic roundworm, is usually found in mosquitoes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Yoga could help fight depression
Yoga helps reduce the severity of depression by increasing levels of certain chemicals in the brain according to a recent study by AIIMS Delhi. The study was conducted by the laboratory for Molecular Reproduction and Genetics in collaboration with Department of Psychiatry. It studied the impact of yoga on depression after a 12-week yoga intervention on around 236 subjects. The study found that introducing yoga into lifestyle results in a decrease in cortisol, the main stress hormone, and reduces levels of certain inflammatory molecules in the body and brain, thereby reducing oxidative stress. It also slows the pace of aging by reducing levels of oxidative and psychological stress and aids in maintaining the length of the telomere, Rima Dada, Professor-in-charge of laboratory said.