Healthy diet lowers dementia risk
A recent study suggests that those who ate the healthiest diet at the average age of 50 had an almost 90 percent lower risk of dementia in a 14-year follow-up study than those whose diet was the least healthy. The study was the first in the world to investigate the relationship between a healthy diet as early as in midlife and the risk of developing dementia later on. The researchers based their study on the consumption of a variety of foods. Vegetables, berries and fruits, fish and unsaturated fats from milk products and spreads were some of the healthy components, whereas sausages, eggs, sweets, sugary drinks, salty fish and saturated fats from milk products and spreads were indicated as unhealthy.
Smartphone can bring you wrinkles
Using smartphones can give you wrinkles as looking down at handheld devices and computers for countless hours develops a line around the neck and chin, experts have warned. This terrifying new scourge has been dubbed “tech neck” and could affect modern gadget-owners. However, the effect may last only for a short period of time, Mirror reported. The “tech neck”, the latest bizarre face furrow, was identified after a surge of neck-related enquiries for non-surgical, knife-free face-lifts by CACI international, a firm that specialises in “non-surgical beauty solutions”. “Following the enquiries, we identified a correlation between the rise of technology and the growth of the ‘tech neck,” said Dean Nathanson, Managing Director of CACI international.
Smoking and emotional responses
A new study has revealed that chronic smokers have altered emotional reactions when they are exposed to negative and positive images associated with tobacco. The study conducted by the Institut universitaire en sante mentale de Montreal and Universite de Montreal found that the brains of the smokers were more aroused by images that showed smoking in a positive light than by images that encouraged them to stop. Smokers were also found to be more affected by aversive non-smoking related images than by images of negative consequences. Stephane Potvin, co-author of the study, said that their findings show that brain regions associated with motivation are more active in smokers when they see pleasurable images associated with cigarettes and less active when confronted with the negative.