Healthy Living
Walking in the countryside is good for the brain as well as the body.
Scientists have shown that ‘interacting with nature’, even in the middle of winter, boosts memory and concentration levels. In contrasts, a walk through busy streets, perhaps shopping for sales bargains, has no improving effect on the brain at all. The research was carried out at the University of Michigan. One group was sent out on a 50 minute walk through streets lined with office buildings and busy with traffic while the other took a secluded, tree-lined route. The result showed that those who took the ‘nature route’ improved their short term memory by 20 per cent. There were no improvements after walking down city streets.
Vegan answers for optimum nutrition?
Research from University of Winconsin-Madison recently revealed in the journal ‘Cell’ that a diet with too many nutritionally empty calories can lead to metabolic inflammation. Metabolic inflammation is a chronic, low grade condition consisting of inflammatory-like responses at the molecular level. It’s thought it has many consequences including causing cellular dysfunction, which can decrease the regulation of several psychological processes, including metabolism. Metabolic inflammation may also be at the core of many chronic, obesity-related metabolic disorders that are so common today.
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