Yoga can help cure cancer
A cancer treatment through Yoga that does away with the need for chemotherapy to arrest and cure the disease is just a year away, union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Naik said last week. Speaking on the sidelines of the AYUSH expo organised by the Central Ministry near Panaji, he said his ministry is in the process of vetting documentation submitted by a Bengaluru-based deemed yoga university, which is said to have cured patients suffering from cancer using yoga. “We’ve collected all documentation and the process is going on,” Naik told reporters. He said that prima facie he was confident about the “cancer cure” claimed by the Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, a deemed university headed by HR Narendra, a mechanical engineer who worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1970 and subsequently had a stint at Harvard University.
Breastfeeding for ear infections in babies
Higher rates of breastfeeding, use of vaccinations and lower rates of smoking by mothers may reduce the risk of ear infections in babies. Researchers from The University of Texas, Medical Branch at Galveston, US, led by Tasnee Chonmaitree, professor in the department of pediatrics, found that the rates of ear infection dropped from 18 to 6 per cent in three month olds, from 39 to 23 per cent in six month olds and from 62 to 46 per cent in one year olds. From October 2008 to March 2014, 367 babies were observed as a part of the study. They gathered information on family history of ear infections, cigarette smoke exposure and breast versus formula feeding.
Add protein to your diet to sleep well
Protein-rich diet can improve sleep quality. Increasing the amount of protein in daily diet can improve the quality of sleep, a US study claims. Researchers from Purdue University enlisted 44 people in the age group of 35 to 65 years for a four-month diet and weight loss programme. A series of questionnaires revealed that many did not sleep well. The researchers asked half of the participants to follow diet with the recommended amount of protein and the other half to take a diet with higher amounts of protein. Participants who had a higher protein diet reported improvement in their sleep quality. The study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.