For the past 50 years,
scientists at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have followed the
health and lifestyles of 855 men born in 1913. Ten of the men lived to
100, and the study revealed a number of similarities in how the
centenarians lived their lives.
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Don’t smoke
Don’t drink more than four coffees a day
Stay cheerful
Keep your blood pressure low
Maintain a healthy cholesterol level
Have a mother who lived into her 80s
Stay slim
Own your own home by 50
Maintain a good posture
Researchers found it also helps to own your own house by the age of 50 – an indication of a high standard of living. In addition they highlighted the importance of maintaining good middle-age fitnessandhaving a mother who lived a long time. Dr Lars Wilhelmsen, who has been involved in the study for the past 50 years, said: “The unique design has enabled us to identify the factors that influence survival after the age of 50. Our
recommendation for people who aspire to centenarianism is to refrain
from smoking, maintain healthy cholesterol levels and confine themselves
to four cups of coffee a day.
The
team discovered 27 per cent of those taking part survived to reach the
age of 80, while 13 per cent made their 90th birthdays. Of all the
deaths occurring after the age of 80, 42 per cent were attributed to
heart disease, 20 per cent to infection, eight per cent to stroke, eight
per cent to cancer, six per cent to pneumonia, and 16 per cent to other
causes.
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researchers have proved that up
to 15 percent of the population hears colors, tastes sounds, and
experiences various other cross-sensory phenomena due to a condition
called synesthesia.
People
with synesthesia (also known as “synesthetes”) have sensations like the
rest of us, but also experience another sensation at the same time,
says Daphne Maurer, PhD, a professor at Ontario’s McNaster University
who studies synesthesia. For example, synesthetes may see a color when
they hear someone’s name or get a certain taste in their mouth when they
hear a particular sound. (The sound-color association is the most
common among synesthetes.)
And
scientists have proven the condition actually exists. “We know that
this is real,” Maurer tells Yahoo Health. “Scientists have done brain
imaging and found that, when a synesthete who reports hearing words in
color hears a person’s name, the area of the brain associated with color
is active.”
Research
on synesthesia has been growing in the past few years and has found
that synesthesia may have additional effects on how a person perceives
the world, other than cross-sensory perception.
The most recent study
on the condition, led by Stephanie Goodhew, PhD, of The Australia
National University, discovered that synesthetes have much stronger
mental associations between related concepts than the rest of us. For
example, a synesthete closely associates the words “doctor” and “nurse,”
but finds the words “doctor” and “table” to be very unrelated.
Researchers have also discovered that synesthetes have better memories and experience more rich perceptions than people without the condition. One small recent study
from the University of San Diego discovered that synesthetes completed
complicated puzzles three times faster and had less errors than people
without the condition.
It may even be possible to teach yourself to think like a synesthete. Scientists from Britain’s University of Sussexdiscovered last year
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As listed by CNN news, only
two more of 2014's top 10 islands appear on this year's global list. Ko
Tao, Thailand, gained five spots this year, moving up from No. 10 last
year, while Bora Bora dropped from No. 3 last year to rank ninth.
Provindenciales in the Turks and Caicos has has topped as the world's top island as recorded by Trip Advisor.
CNN news reported this at 1050 GMT (1750 HKT) on April 21, 2015
"Island-hoppers take note: Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos is TripAdvisor's latest pick for the world's top island".
Providenciales rose from last year's No. 2 ranking among the travel review site's Travelers' Choice award winners to bump Ambergris Caye out of the top spot.
The theory that your vegetables are healthier when taken raw is not always true. below is a list of some vegetables that are bioavailable or readily absorb able for your body when heated.
tomatoes: A landmark study published in 2002 in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry first showed that a powerful antioxidant called lycopene
is released from tomatoes when they’re cooked. The study found that
heating tomatoes at 190.4 degrees for 30 minutes boosted levels of absorb able lycopene by 35 percent. Lycopene has been shown to help
reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease and macular degeneration, a
degenerative eye disease. In addition, a study published in The British
Journal of Nutrition found that folks following a long-term raw-food
diet had low levels of lycopene.
carrots: These
orange beauties get their gorgeous hue from carotenoids, a group of
antioxidants. A study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
found that cooking carrots increased the amount of beta carotene, a
compound that is part of the carotenoid family.
and spinach: This
green leafy vegetable is packed with calcium and iron, which are more
bioavailable when cooked. Spinach contains oxalic acid, which blocks the
absorption of these important nutrients. The good news: Oxalic acid
breaks down at high temperatures, so you can reap the benefits of
calcium and iron.
