People who are perpetually happy… often to annoying levels are gullible and poor at decision making. An Australian psychology expert has found that grumpy and miserable people are less gullible and better at decision-making. Bad moods breeds attentiveness, careful thinking and are overall, good for you.
People in bad moods can cope better in tough situations that moronically happy people because people in bad moods have brains that “promote information processing strategies.” Experiments conducted (that involved “juggling the truths of urban...
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A research study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, shows that people who eat a diet high in processed food increase their chances of depression. The study showed that those who avoided processed food and instead ate a healthy amount of vegetables, fruit and fish, or what is known as the Mediterranean diet, actually lowered their risk of depression.
Now you would imagine that a study on depression would involve a group that’s most associated with the term – teenagers....
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More than a billion people will already swear that turmeric (or haldi or curry spice depending on where the one of that billion was born) has mystical magical healing powers. Turns out they weren’t off the mark. Findings in the British Journal of Cancer seems to suggest that curcumin, a chemical found in turmeric (or haldi or curry spice), can destroy gullet cancer cells in labs within 2 hours. The gullet cancer cells began to digest themselves after the curcumin...
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Single men are hereby informed that if you want to stay happy and married and alive, then you should marry a girl at least five years younger than you. Work published in the European Journal of Operational Research studied more than 1,500 couples who were either married or seriously committed and then interviewed 1,000 of them five years later. Turns out that if the wife was five or more years older, they more than thrice as likely to be divorced...
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Exercising regularly could reduce the chances of coming down with the flu. Turns out that those who exercise moderately stand a smaller chance of catching cold and flu infections. On the flip side, exhausting workouts might actually increase the chance of contracting these diseases. The fine print here though is that the tests done so far have been on mice and no one’s sure yet whether the results translate to humans as well.
Studies, conducted by Dr. Marian Kohut, to be...
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