No more nightmares

Dream therapy could show a way out of recurring nightmares, says a new study. The previously discredited approach is drawing the interest of clinicians, because it can treat nightmares by training the victims to dream lucidly, so they can consciously wake up.

Lucid dreaming- when you are aware of dreaming- is a state between sleeping and being awake. It creates distinct patterns of electrical activity in the brain similar to the patterns made by psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia.

The links between lucid dreaming and psychotic conditions offers potential for new therapeutic routes based on how healthy dreaming differs from unstable mental states.

New data affirms the connection by showing that, while dreaming lucidly, the brain is in a dissociated state, according to Ursula Voss from the University of Frankfurt.

Silvio scarone, of universita degli studi di milano in Milan, said, “Neuroscience investigators could explore how to extend their work to psychiatric conditions, using approaches from sleep research to interpret data from acute psychotic and dissociated states of the brain-mind. Exposure to real threatening events supposedly activates the dream system, so that it produces simulations that are realistic rehearsals of threatening events in terms of perception and behaviour”.

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Healthy life- mixed diet and balanced diet

Health is a state of well being. It is a general state of a person’s physical, mental and social viability. Good health is freedom from sickness and diseases and more than that freedom from anxiety and from social and psychological tensions. All the environmental conditions are necessary for a healthy life. Unclean personal habits of individuals make it difficult to maintain a healthy environment.

Proper diet, personal and domestic hygiene, clean food and water, fresh air, enough exercise, relaxation and good habits are the basic conditions for leading a good healthy life.

A good diet should have the combination of a variety of foods like milk, leafy vegetables, wheat, rice, fish etc. right and suitable type of food in sufficient quantity is necessary for a healthy body. The essential nutrients are carbohydrates, proteins, fats, water, vitamins and mineral salts.

A balanced diet is that which has all the nutrients in proper proposition. It should contain the nutrients in the right proportion for particular age, sex, nature of work, physical condition etc. for instance, an elderly person’s diet differ from that of a hard labors and so on. Adults required a balance with less fatty food. Growing children need plenty of energy giving and body building food. Persons recover from illness need extra vitamins. Proper diet, hygiene, clean good habits, regular physical activity are necessary conditions for leading a healthy lifestyle. A balanced diet is one that has all the nutrients in the right proportion.

Milk is considered a wholesome food. We knew that new born babies have only milk as their food, especially when they are breast-fed; it provides immunity against certain diseases.

Milk is a food item which can be taken by all young or old, healthy or sick and much more. It contains calcium, phosphorus, fluorine, protein, fats and vitamins. In about 100 gm, it has 3.3 gm of proteins and 3.8 gm of fats.

Honey is other simple food item that is easily digestible and suitable for all age groups. It has got medicinal and nutritive value.

Eggs have also high nutritive value. It has got proteins, fat, iron, nitrogen, sulphur and vitamins.

Fresh greens contain many minerals and vitamins.

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Nutrition and fitness

Regular physical activity is a vital part a healthy lifestyle, ideally constituting a total of at least 30 minutes on most days of the week, while also including some resistance activities. Physically active people show lower risks of cardiovascular disease such as coronary heart disease and stroke, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, obesity and other common chronic diseases. Also a better nutrition can provide a healthy lifestyle and stick with disease-free life. Every people have a desire to remain fitness in the body and want to look gorgeous and healthy. In such cases, nutrition and regular exercise are the best support to attain the goal.

Nutrition plays a min role in sports personalities. They ought to have healthy body to support their academic life. If they are lack of nutrients, it is hard to shine in their industries. People must be physically fit to enter in the sport academies. Proper nutrition can obviously aid to succeed in their any sorts of sports. Regular physical activity can also encourage heart function, less injury, better sleep habits, and improvement in body composition. It can also reduce blood pressure and cholesterol, blood glucose regulation and over all immune function. It also aid to control weight and being healthy.

It is best to incorporate fresh fruit and vegetables to remain fitness. During involving in physical activity, it strengthens bones and muscles. It also benefits every parts of the body. The muscles will be tighten and looks pretty. It will also encourage the rate of metabolism. One should focus on the long-term benefits to attain good health. Soft drinks are typical sources of alternative sweetness for many of us. Moderate use of these products poses no health risks for most people. Regular intake of fruits and vegetables has been linked to a decreased risk of both hypertension and stroke.

It is inevitable to achieve an adequate water intake, either through drinking water or by adding water-rich foods to the diet. Drinking of more water can provide more energy and feel fresher always. It aids to balance the body throughout the day. The calories are free in this weight-loss drug. The main role of water is to remove wastages from the body and allow leading a healthy life style. Parents should encourage proper nutrition best in childhoods. Mostly, the children may refuse to eat some fruits and vegetables and always they go beyond with delicious foods. It can encourage obesity and further complications in health benefits. They can educate on nutrition at school or home by personal cares.

It is essential to see health care professional men and women at any stages. He can guide the right path and stick with sensible diet. Adequate vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats and like should be consumed by every sorts of people. It is also reliable to maintain food diary which helps to strict the foods. Fatty and fried foods must be avoided at any cost foe well-being.

Physical fitness benefits the entire body. People are also active simply because they enjoy it, whether they are swimming, playing basketball, walking briskly, or engaging in any innumerable other activities. Some of the people are not showing interest to engage in regular physical activity because of laziness. Sometimes, laziness encourages obesity. Regular physical activities only help overweight people but also maintain the physical fitness allover the body. One who engages it, benefit it.

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Fruits can make you obese

Some of the people only know that fruits can develop obesity. It is because of that fructose, the natural sugar found in fresh fruits is a main cause for obesity. Many of the fruits are rich in sugar content and snacking on them every day can gain weight to the consumers, you can feel more pounds especially in the abdominal area resulting in a big pot belly.

It is not essential to stop eating fruits. It serves good to the consumers. But the recommend serving is 1-3 pieces per day. Fruits like apples, oranges, pears and others are not fattening but have heaps of natural sugar content, which like all things – is good in small amounts. The problem arises if you eat 20 pieces of fruit each day. Other items to be slowed down on are juices and jams which are also high in fructose content. One should also look after this issue and have a limited proportion for general well-being.

Most people think they are safe by having fresh fruit juices instead of soft drinks but still adding more fat. It is because artificial sugar is being added to fruits to make juices which are already sweet in nature, it is nothing but people are inviting troubles. It is bad to know that fruit juices contain more carbohydrates and energy than sweeten drinks. In about 100 ml of fruit juices it contains 11.5 g of carbohydrates, while a sweetened cool drink has only 10.3g per 100 ml. Fruit juices also contain vitamin and fibers, but energy and carbohydrates are practically identical.

When one adds table sugar to fruits in salads or juices that increases the level of sugars and cause fattening problems. Eating the skin of the some fruits which has important nutrients can help negate sugar content. Even though fruits are caused by obesity, one can breathe easy knowing that fructose (fruit sugar) is less harmful than sucrose (table sugar). It is because by eating sucrose your body goes out of sync with the sugar processed in the body extremely fast. Fructose is broken down more slowly which allows the body more time to react.

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