fruits, veggies make you feel happy
Eating more fruit and vegetables can substantially increase people’s happiness levels later, a new study has claimed. The study is one of the first major scientific attempts to explore psychological well-being beyond the traditional finding that fruit and vegetables can reduce risk of cancer and heart attacks, researchers said. Happiness benefits were detected for each extra daily portion of fruit and vegetables up to eight portions per day. Researchers found that people who changed from almost no fruits and veggies to eight portions of these a day would experience an increase in life satisfaction equivalent to moving from unemployment to employment. The well-being improvements occurred within 24 months, researchers said. “Eating fruit and vegetables apparently boosts our happiness far more quickly than it improves human health,” said Andrew Oswald from University of Warwick in the UK. The study followed more than 12,000 randomly selected people.
how Aerobics helps heart patients
Aerobic exercises such as running, swimming or cycling may restore cardiac protein quality control system in heart failure, a new study has found. The study conducted in rats suggest that heart failure development is associated with disruption of cardiac protein quality control system and reinforces the importance of aerobic exercise training as a primary non-pharmacological therapy for treatment, researchers from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) said. Heart failure is a common endpoint for many cardiovascular diseases. This syndrome is characterised by reduced cardiac output that leads to dyspnea, exercise intolerance and later death, researchers said.
red may evoke mischief in some people
Certain people are more likely to rebel against the norm when seeing red, even though the colour is linked to inducing compliant behaviour with warning lights and corrections on a graded assignment. The new study was inspired by a problem faced by a child helpline that offered free counselling to children ages eight to 18. leaders of the organisation that ran the service were frustrated because a high percentage of the calls were from pranksters who had no interest in counselling. Previous studies suggested that red leads to more compliant behaviour. With this in mind, researchers launched an experiment that showed three colours on the chat screen while callers were on hold for a counsellor. They expected that red would reduce the number of prank chats. “To our surprise, prank chatting was higher with the red background,” said Ravi Mehta, Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois.