0 Want to Improve Memory? Try This Trick

By Unknown | At 10.01 | Label : Parent's | 0 Comments

Want to Improve Memory? Try This Trick 

For those students who are preparing for exams , or employees who prepared for the presentation , the following trick may help you to remember your lesson or presentation materials :

When reading the material you want to remember them , make a fist with your right palm . When you want to remember what you 've memorized , make a fist with your left palm .

A new study led by Ruth Propper from Montclair State University shows that it is indeed proven tricks to help your memory . The study, partially funded by the U.S. Army published its results in the journal PLoS ONE .

" Our findings show that some simple body movements can improve memory , " said Propper . " Future research will examine whether a fist can also enhance other forms of cognition , such as speech or spatial . "

Propper and her colleagues recruited 50 non - right-handed people to study them . Most of them are women . They were given a list of 36 words to memorize and then asked to recall as many words as they could .

All 50 subjects were divided into five groups : one group is holding a rubber ball in their right hand for about 45 seconds when reading a list of words as much as possible before writing the words that they remember , the other groups do the same thing with the left hand . Another group holding a rubber ball in right palm while reading , then on the left palm while you write down as many words that they remember , the other group did the opposite . The control group did not clench their hands at all .

When Propper and his team conducted the assessment, they found that the group with the best score on a memory test that is their right as memorizing clenched palm and left palm while remembering the words . The group was given an average of ten words , than those in the other groups were given an average of only six words .

brain activation

How the brain affects the palms clenching ? Clenched palms known to influence emotional state . Previous research has also shown that the clenched left hand or right increases brain activity in the opposite hemisphere . Propper and her colleagues suspect that the left and right hemispheres of each play an important role in memorizing and remembering . When you clench your right hand , you turn on the left side of the brain that helps keep the memory and then when you clench the palm of the left , you turn on the right side of the brain to recall information .

For the left-handed

The current study does not offer a memory trick for left-handed people , the famous brain is more difficult to know how it works . If you are left-handed , which might otherwise prevail .

0 Tips for Safe Produce Asi The Current And Lots

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Breastfeeding Mothers

Tips for Safe Produce Asi The Current And Lots

After giving birth , mothers are often faced with the harsh reality that he must immediately give breast milk to their babies . For the mother who has enough knowledge about breastfeeding , there may not be any trouble. But what about a new mother who lack knowledge about breastfeeding ?

In the early days of breastfeeding, new mother often have a hard time giving milk to the baby , such as breast milk does not directly come out , come out just a little milk , the baby refuses to suckle at the mother , the baby having nipple confusion , and many other problems . Confusion when mounting mother found her baby cry . Finally , whether due to frustration , lack of patience , or the sorry excuse for hungry crying baby , new mothers are resorting to formula milk .

Reality as that is what often happens to mothers lack knowledge about breastfeeding . In fact , she actually just need a little patience and keep trying . Besides, it never hurts to learn new mothers produce milk safety tips are smooth and a lot of the following :

• Fix maternal diet , consumption of nutritious foods , reduce caffeine , and avoid bad habits , such as smoking , drinking alcohol
• Consumption of enough water
• Avoid giving milk or formula through the dot pacifier
• Support from various parties ( husband and family )
• Increase the frequency of breastfeeding / pumping / expressing milk .
• After breast feeding empty blush way .
• Perform breast care , such as : massage / massage and warm water and cold compresses alternately .
• Breastfeeding baby with relaxed or casual
• Avoid stress or frustration
• Consult a lactation clinic

In addition to the above tips, there are many safety tips that produce milk well and many of them are with natural ingredients that are all around us. What is it? Consider the following:

• Tips for Safe Produce Asi The Current And Drink Lots of Black Seed Oil
• Consumption of some vegetables that are proven to smooth milk, for example cinnamon leaf, bitter melon, spinach, and others.
• Consumption of nuts, such as almonds, green beans.
• Consumption of papaya fruit
• And many others.

Breastfeeding mothers should not give the state a little quantity of milk, keep trying. Find lots of information about safety tips smoothly and produce a lot of milk. Will be very useful when feeding mothers know this information.

0 10 Practical Tips for Keeping Baby In Content To Stay Healthy and Normal Growing

By Unknown | At 22.42 | Label : Parent's | 0 Comments

10 Practical Tips for Keeping Baby In Content To Stay Healthy and Normal Growing

How to keep the baby in the womb - Pregnancy is a time where you will feel something different happens to you . Many of the new parent couples who want a baby so soon get the atmosphere in the family more complete . So many ways done by the following sets of parents with children or doing the program . Over time , development of a baby in the womb provide some pleasure for maternal effects such as nausea , dizziness , fatigue that sometimes makes mother must face menngani careful in the matter.

Mother

In the womb which may already look great make you feel something might happen like a baby moving , kicking the mother's abdomen to react and get himself between mother and child . With it 's good you have to be extra mile in caring for the baby in your womb . So , it would be important if the mother knew about how to keep the baby in the womb due care and maintain can be started when the baby is in the womb .

Perhaps for those of you who want to know how caramenjaga baby in the womb that makes you curious , the following detailed information:

1. Control is always your baby's development during the investigation .
2. Avoid consumption of Makana or anything related to the chemicals that will make you and your baby poisoning .
3. Avoid cigarettes. Either directly or as passive smokers.
4. Drink plenty of water .
5. Much consumption of foods high in nutritional adequacy to meet their baby and mother .
6. Folic acid and vitamin tablets blood booster
7. Do not be afraid to ask ahliny such as a parent or a doctor so that your baby is healthy bladder .
8. When pregnant , you should still perform routine activities as usual however , should reduce the portion when you move .
9. Adequate rest .
10. Avoid soaking in the bath with warm water when in a state of pregnancy .

Of some way to keep the baby in the womb at the top , it's good you have to adjust your lifestyle so that your baby's birth can be born healthy and perfect .

0 How to Get Your Children to Eat Their Greens

By Unknown | At 19.00 | Label : Parent's | 0 Comments

How to Get Your Children to Eat Their Greens - As adults we know just how important it is that we get our greens and our fruit in our diet. We know that it's here that we get the all-important minerals and nutrients that ensure we have strong bones, that ensure we have healthy teeth and nails, and that help us to avoid getting colds and other illnesses by keeping our immune system strong.

However the unfortunate fact is that kids don't know all this as well, and that they only really see vegetables and fruit as a frustrating obstacle to getting their pudding. This is the reason for the age old war between kids and parents that come every dinner time and makes meals a lot more dragged out and a lot less pleasant than they otherwise could be.

Here we will look at how to keep your kids happily eating their greens so that you can avoid a fight and keep them healthy and strong.

Don't Make a Big Deal of It
One mistake a lot of parents make is to make a big deal of their children eating their greens and to draw a lot of attention to them in the process. If you say to your children 'make sure you eat all your greens' before they have even started eating, then this is only going to have the effect of making them not want to at all; no one ever wants to do something they're told to do...

Likewise if they really don't want to eat something then there's no point in absolutely forcing them to or making them sit there for hours – it's not worth it for one last carrot and all it will do is scar them and completely put off vegetables forever. Let them win some battles, as long as you win the war...

Mix Them In
At the same time you can easily trick your children into eating a lot of fruits and vegetables without them really being aware if you mix them into bigger meals. Stews for instance are ideal ways to sneak the veg into their diet, and this way even if they are crafty and decide to try and eat around the vegetables, they will still get a lot of goodness simply from the gravy and the sauce which will have absorbed some of the nutrients and goodness – let's see them wriggle out of that one!

Likewise you can also include fruit and vegetables in other ways that are less obvious – for instance you can put fruit onto your children's morning cereal (bananas or strawberries for instance) and you can even include it in deserts – like meringue but with sliced fruits on top. This way they will actually look forward to their fruit.

Think Outside the Box
If your child absolutely loathes the sight of broccoli then there's no point in having an unpleasant stand off every night – dinner time should be an enjoyable time for the whole family. Instead then concede to the vegetables they don't like, and instead think about using some of the fruit they maybe don't know about next time. Maybe you could have some aubergine or some cauliflower, or some swede. There must be something they like... right?

Change the Presentation
Meanwhile you might also find that they simply don't like the vegetables the way you're doing them. If they won't eat cauliflower for instance, then they may eat cheesy cauliflower. Likewise if they don't like carrots, then try grated carrot with suede.

Blend
And in general grating things is a great way to get your children to eat them. So they won't eat the carrots in your bolognaise? Then try just grating the carrot on top of the spag and they won't even be able to see it. Likewise you can blend fruits up into a juice, or you can even give them soup or ice cream with the nutrition too finely chopped to see.

Don't Be Fooled
Don't be fooled last of all by foods and particularly puddings that claim to be one of your children's five a day. Very rarely is this true, and even if it is it probably won't contain the same fiber content. Real fruit and veg is always preferable to things claiming to have the same benefits.

0 Tips for Preventing Osteoporosis

By Unknown | At 21.03 | Label : Parent's | 0 Comments

Osteoporosis can be a devastating disease, but the good news is that it’s preventable. Here are some steps you can take to decrease your risk:

Osteoporosis

Your Diet

Drink your milk. Low-fat and skim milk, nonfat yogurt, and reduced-fat cheeses (except cottage cheese) are healthy sources of the calcium you need to build strong bones. Fortified milk products also have the vitamin D needed for proper calcium absorption.

Go fish. Canned sardines and salmon, eaten with their bones, are also rich in calcium. Mackerel and other oily fish are rich in vitamin D.

Eat greens with gusto. Leafy green vegetables have lots of calcium, plus the potassium and vitamin K you need to block calcium loss from bones. Fill up on broccoli, bok choy, kale, Swiss chard, and turnip greens. Bananas also supply a potassium boost.

Serve yourself soy. Soy contains not only calcium but also plant estrogens, and it seems to help maintain bone density. Substitute soy flour for regular flour in recipes from pancakes to cupcakes. Nibble on roasted soybean “nuts” instead of peanuts. Reach for soy cereal and soy cheeses. Make malts and smoothies with soy milk.

Don’t overdo protein. High protein intake can raise your excretion of calcium. Limit yourself to the RDA of 50 grams daily for women, 63 grams for men. Many Americans eat twice that much.

Limit caffeine. Limit your caffeine intake to the equivalent of three cups of coffee a day, since caffeine causes the body to excrete calcium more readily.

Eat your onions. In male rats, those fed one gram of dry onion daily experienced a 20% reduction in the bone breakdown process that can lead to osteoporosis — slightly more than with the drug calcitonin.

Your Exercise Plan

Get with the program. A regular program of weight-bearing exercise helps stop further bone loss and may be one of the few ways to build bone as you age. By improving your posture, balance, and flexibility, it also reduces your risk of falls that can break fragile bones. Exercise for at least 30 minutes three times a week. Try walking, running, weight lifting, stair climbing, tennis, or volleyball. Swimming won’t do; your bones and muscles must work against gravity for a bone-building effect.

Medical Options

Test your bones. Bone-density tests are the only way to predict your fracture risk and definitively nail down a diagnosis of osteoporosis. All women over 65 should be scanned, as well as younger postmenopausal women with one or more osteoporosis risk factors. Some doctors recommend that women have a baseline scan at menopause. When repeated at intervals of a year or more, the scans can determine your rate of bone loss and help monitor prevention and treatment efforts. Most experts recommend a dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) test.

Get measured. Ask your doctor to measure your height on an annual basis. A loss of one or two inches is an early sign of undiagnosed vertebral fractures and osteoporosis.

Seek treatment. Confer with your doctor about conditions that can threaten bone density and what countermeasures you may need. Conditions include hyperparathyroidism, hyperthyroidism, hypogonadism, certain intestinal and kidney disorders, and certain cancers.

Supplement

Choose calcium. Both women and men need 1,000 mg of elemental calcium a day during midlife. The need rises to 1,500 to 2,000 mg daily after menopause in women and after age 65 in men. Most people don’t get enough in their diets, so supplements are recommended. Because the body can absorb only a limited amount of calcium at once, take supplements in two or three doses during the day, preferably with meals. Make sure the supplement contains vitamin D, which facilitates the absorption of calcium.

Lifestyle Factors

Quit smoking. Among 80-year-olds, smokers have up to 10% lower bone-mineral density, which translates into twice the risk of spinal fractures and a 50% increase in risk of hip fracture. One in eight hip fractures in women is linked to long-term cigarette use. What’s more, fractures heal slower in smokers, and are more apt to heal improperly.

Avoid excessive alcohol. Too much alcohol prevents your body from absorbing calcium properly. Limit yourself to one drink a day for women and two drinks a day for men.

Don’t let depression linger. Depression causes your body to produce cortisol, a stress-related hormone that saps minerals from bones. One study showed that women with clinical depression had lower bone densities in their hips and spines. So see a doctor or therapist for treatment.

0 Five Step Alzheimer's Prevention Plan

By Unknown | At 01.00 | Label : Parent's | 0 Comments

Five Step Alzheimer's Prevention Plan - Maybe you forgot where you set your keys. It happens to everyone, right? But what about forgetting a good friend’s name? Or an important appointment? Left on its own, your brain actually begins to shrink when you hit midlife.

Whether you’ve had a family member who’s suffered from Alzheimer’s, you’re starting to notice your memory is not as sharp as it used to be, or you want to protect yourself for the future, it’s time to strengthen your brain. Research now shows that you can not only slow down brain shrinkage, but you can actually increase the size of our brain at any age. Here, Dr. Oz and renowned neurologist Dr. Majid Fotuhi reveal their memory cure – a miracle plan to help you prevent Alzheimer’s in just five simple steps.  

Brain Booster 1: DHA Supplement

If you’re only going to take one supplement, DHA is the one you need. DHA, or docosahexaenoic acid, is an omega-3 fatty acid that makes up a significant portion of your brain tissue. Lower DHA levels are associated with a smaller brain size, so it’s important to supplement your natural DHA intake (which comes primarily from cold-water seafood). Taking a DHA supplement reduces inflammation, combats the plaque buildup associated with Alzheimer’s, and increases blood flow to your brain. In fact, studies have shown that taking 600mg of DHA supplement daily for 6 months boosts your brain so much that it functions as though it were 3 years younger!

Brain Booster 2: Brain Stimulating Switch-Ups

Just as it’s important to add variety to your physical exercise routine, adding variety to your daily mental routine cross-trains different muscles in your brain. Simple switch-ups, such as putting your watch on your opposite wrist, using your opposite hand while brushing your teeth, doing your hair and eating, and even writing backward activate brain regions that might otherwise go unstimulated. This stimulation can lower your risk of memory impairment and Alzheimer’s disease.  

Brain Booster 3: The 7-7-7 Stress-Busting Breath

We all know stress is bad for our health, but you may not have known it can be deadly when it comes to your brain. Stress is like poison for your hippocampus – the part of brain responsible for memory – as it leads to chronically high levels of the hormone cortisol. High cortisol levels can cause brain cell dysfunction, kill brain cells, and cause atrophy of the brain. Busting stress, therefore, is vital to preserve your memory.Three times a day, close the door, remove your shoes and socks, and lower the lights. Breathe in for 7 seconds; hold it for another 7; then exhale for a final 7 seconds. Repeat the technique seven times to help “reset” your brain and get your cortisol levels under control. Research has shown that mindful relaxation techniques are associated with an increase in the size of your hippocampus in as little as 8 weeks.

Brain Booster 4: Tease Your Memory

While we may feel our memories just aren’t what they used to be, we actually have an innate ability to remember just about anything – so long as we train ourselves to use the right mechanisms. It may shock you, but you have the ability to memorize a list of 20 or 30 items, simply by forming big, important, or even silly associations with each item. For example, say you need to remember the word “baker.” If you think of a friend with the last name “Baker” you may have some success. If, however, you think of a bread baker, wearing a white hat and apron, doused in flour, surrounded by the aroma of freshly baked croissants, you won’t forget the word “baker” for days! You can do the same with a shopping list, a to-do chart, or just about anything, so long as you associate high-importance with all 20 items. Doing so will have a positive, expansive effect on your hippocampus, fighting off Alzheimer's.

Brain Booster 5: Brain Push-Ups

Dr. Fotuhi believes push-ups – yes, just good old-fashioned push-ups – are the most important step to strengthening your “brain muscles” and preventing Alzheimer’s. Proper form, however, is key. Start on the floor, with your hands set at about a shoulder-width distance, angling your hands in a way that feels comfortable. Extend your legs, with your feet also in a comfortable position, generally shoulder-width apart or wider for more stability. Be sure your body is in one straight line from your head to your heels; avoid having your butt or belly either sagging or sticking up. Clenching your butt cheeks and tightening your abs will ensure you’ve engaged your core. Keeping your gaze forward, slowly lower until your elbows form a 90-degree angle, keeping your arms in tight to your body. Then, push yourself back up, still keeping your elbows tight and your core engaged. For additional support when first starting out, keep your knees bent on the floor and do modified push-ups. Either way, 7 push-ups or more a day will help stimulate blood flow to your brain and generate new brain cells, which is the most effective weapon in fighting cognitive disease.

0 Find 10 Ways to Prevent Diabetes

By Unknown | At 12.00 | Label : Parent's | 0 Comments

Find 10 Ways to Prevent Diabetes

1. Exercise

Regular exercise is a key element in maintaining optimal health. Studies have shown that exercise improves blood circulation and cleanses the blood sugar level. This leads to increased metabolism and decreased risk of diabetes.

2. Fresh fruits

Natural sugar fruits are the best options, such as food additives, as they provide the necessary vitamins and minerals needed. Studies have shown that adequate intake of vitamin C and supports the blood and bone health. Include fresh citrus fruits such as oranges, apples, pineapples, grapes and lemons in your diet. Eat moderately bananas, sugar, because their structure is more complex than citrus.

3. No sugar

Moderate intake of sugar to keep blood sugar levels under control. However, unbridled consumption of artificially sweetened processed foods will prevent the production of insulin and cause the development of diabetes. Thus avoiding sugar completely is the best approach in the prevention of diabetes.

4. Weight Management

Take control of your weight is the first step to prevent the risk of developing diabetes. Weight is controlled not only helps to keep blood sugar levels under control, and support general well-being.

5. No smoking

Smoking increases the chance of contracting diabetes, as it begins to affect the cardiovascular and hormonal secretions in the long term. Carbon deposition in the blood gives inhibits absorption of nutrients absorbed. Give up your smoking habit will thus improve your health and keep diabetes away.

6. No refined carbohydrates

Avoid white rice, pasta, popcorn, rice swells and white flour, if you want to control your blood sugar levels. In diabetes, the body loses its ability to digest complex carbohydrates that cause the storage of sugar in the blood sugar frantic. How to avoid complex carbohydrates mentioned above will ensure that your insulin production remains unchanged.

7.Fresh Vegetables

Fresh vegetables are rich in iron, zinc, potassium, calcium and other important nutrients. These nutrients help to restore balance and health to the cardiovascular and nervous in general. This causes the body to metabolize proteins and produce insulin to optimal levels.

8. Green tea

Green tea is not less than a miracle cure for ailments. Drinking a cup of green tea without sugar regularly you rid the body of free radicals and antioxidants may be contained within the normalization of blood sugar levels. This will help reduce diabetes and helps to keep the chances of the bay.

9. Avoid trans-fats

Trans fats lower the body's ability to metabolize proteins, insulin secretion is stored in the body. This represents an increase in blood sugar levels. Avoid trans fats from processed foods will help keep the risk of diabetes, in the distance.

10.Coffee

Although caffeine has been known to increase chances of cardiovascular ailments, a moderate consumption tends to curb the increase of blood sugar levels. Caffeine has been known to suppress hunger pangs, which in the long run can curb an unruly sweet-tooth syndrome, from loading up the body with unnecessary calories.