Australian scientists came up with an interesting and innovative way to get rid of jet lag: with a pair of green glasses. The glasses, which look like ordinary sun glasses, emit green light which has the ability to reset our internal clock. The glasses, called Re-Timers, have recently hit the Australian market, just in time […]
Our grandmothers knew a thing or two about herbs. In a renewed effort to isolate active compounds of many commonly used herbs, scientists are looking at many old remedies. One of them is rosemary, well known for its effects on memory. In a study recently published in the Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science journal, scientists […]
There is nothing like soaking in a hot bathtub, with soothing smell of aromatherapy candles lined all around you. You could spend hours enjoying it and feeling all the stress going away. Scientists now say that one hour is the limit. Longer than that and aromatic oils will do more damage than good.
Using hypnosis to treat physical ailments is being heavily researched, because of many successes so far, but also as a way to cut costs for medical care. While scientists used hypnosis before to treat diseases, it was done in strictly clinical conditions. The new study conducted by a group of Swedish scientists found a way […]
Using a treadmill to use up calories is a good plan and it might be a bit more helpful if you learned how many calories you actually burned in your running session. There are several factors that determine treadmill calories burned and these include weight, stride length, exercise intensity, speed, efficiency, incline and holding onto […]
In one of the older practices of the medical field, even if it is not as widely spoken of, hypnosis has a tool has been around over two hundred years. Hypnosis began its life as a clinical tool first as a means of treating and correcting hysterical conditions of the mind, and then later progressed […]
Every year, as the flu season approaches, our doctors and CDC experts recommend early flu vaccination. And millions of Americans ignore them. As a consequence, up to 39,000 people die from flu complications every year. The latest study by the scientists from TIMU Study Group and Network for Innovation in Clinical Research believe that this […]
There is nothing like soaking in a hot bathtub, with soothing smell of aromatherapy candles lined all around you. You could spend hours enjoying it and feeling all the stress going away. Scientists now say that one hour is the limit. Longer than that and aromatic oils will do more damage than good.
Getting rid of bed bugs once they get established in your home is a major problem. They are becoming resistant to many commonly used sprays, they hide in the tiniest spaces, and they travel all over the world in our luggage. While not actually dangerous to our health, bed bugs are nuisance we can do […]
Raising children is never an easy thing, especially when doctors and scientists do not agree about what is the right thing to do. Childhood asthma has been on the increase in the last 30 years and now more than nine million American kids are whizzing, coughing and depending on their inhalers in order to have […]
