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Carrot
Those who love to eat vegetables and fruits such as carrots and plums tend to have more attractive skin tones and healthy, says a number of scientists from St Andrews and Bristol University.
Carrots and plums contain yellow pigments called carotenoids. These substances play a key role to create beautiful skin, healthy and glowing.
“Only two months the consumption of vegetables and fruits were already visible results in skin,” said one of the authors of the study, Ian Stephen, as quoted by the Times of India.
He hopes this finding could be a new strategy to encourage young people to be more interested in eating vegetables and fruits. Regardless of the intention to beautify the skin, the consumption of carrots and plums will also improve the quality of health in general.
Healthy and beautiful skin to be short-term benefits of increased consumption of vegetables and fruits. While the habit of eating vegetables and fruits in the long run, serve to prevent many serious diseases such as heart.
Salt
When eating a bland diet, you may be frantically seeking to restore salt appetite. According to some scientists, the desire to eat foods containing salt will stimulate the brain like a cigarette or drug addiction.
As quoted by the Times of India, the desire to eat foods containing salt protein triggers the formation of compounds similar to those formed when there is a desire to smoke or consume drugs.
Such findings help explain why some people are often difficult to reduce salt intake. Some people seem so hard to eat food without salt amid warnings about the dangers of excessive salt intake on blood pressure and heart health.
Scientists from Australia and the United States was conducted experiments on two groups of mice. One group underwent a low-salt diet, and other groups get their salt intake.
They then compared the rat brain of two groups with the brains of mice that received normal food intake. Comparisons are also made ??to the water intake of rats that received saline after three days of a diet low in salt.
The study also revealed that the brain quickly rebuild a positive mood after the bland food that gets bubuhan diasupnya salt.
Depresion
The term brainwashing into conversation with the news of the Islamic State of Indonesia, which warm lately. This mechanism is also touted as a way to recruit members to commit terrorist acts rationally.
According to him, there are several types of people are easily influenced brainwashing mechanism. They generally have the personality traits are unstable and prone to mental disorders. While the human type with a stable and mature personality, will not be easy to enter and fall with the action of brainwashing.
“If not enter anything, those who have stable personalities, will easily come out. However, for those with labile personality will easily distracted and difficult to get out. Can arise even suicidal because of how messed up due to coercion and pressure, “he said.
Professor Dr Jalaluddin Rachmat, an expert in communications psychology from the University of Padjadjaran, adding brainwashing mechanism used to expand the network of a particular teaching.
“You do this by limiting the information the target, should not receive information from the outside. And, usually there is absolute obedience to leaders, so if it is hooked hard to get out. If forced to come out would be threatened his life. ”
Those who become the target of brainwashing, would have restricted her social, just be hanging out with his community alone. Original identity was often replaced, excessive guilt instilled. They also contrived crazy first, made to feel the dependence of the group.
To return to normal conditions, it takes a very long process of counseling. The effect of this brain washing can also cause serious psychiatric disorders.
Bake Foods
When there is a holiday or family gathering, shared food grilling activity is exciting. But, of course you already know that baked goods containing carcinogens cause cancer.
In order to burn the food you stay healthy in fact there are many ways you can do. Denise Snyder, nutrition researchers from the Duke School of Nursing, United States, dividing an easy trick to reduce carcinogens in grilled foods. Here are five tricks, as quoted from Bon appetit Magazine:
1. Add the vegetable menu
Do not just grilling meat or fish. Grilled vegetables as well as supplementary food. Some vegetables actually taste more delicious when roasted. Such as tomatoes, corn or peppers.
2. Do not be too long
Shorten baking time by using a special thermometer for the grill. This is to ensure the food is baked too long.
3. Do not forget behind the food
In order baked goods are not too charred to blackened, turn regularly. Not only avoiding foods to black and reduce carcinogen, but also to be cooked evenly.
4. Eliminate fat
When grilling meat, you should get rid of fat. Or at least reduce, because the fat on the meat makes it easy to go black.
5. Marinasi
Marinate meat, fish or other food that will be baked with sauce marinasi. Let stand until sauce is absorbed. Not only to taste more delicious but also can reduce the cancer-triggering substances.
Brain
It is not impossible to erase a bad memory. The trick is to constantly push the memory a long time.
That’s according to the results of the research team from Lund University in Sweden. By using scanning EEG researchers reported that there were parts of the brain are activated when the respondents are actively trying to forget something.
These brain areas are also able to determine the time for memory to ‘forget’ something. Researchers claim that suppress the memory to be forgotten, in the long term is an effective way to permanently delete them.
This method can be done by someone suffering from depression or post traumatic stress disorder. Forget or suppress the memory often appears as a physiological reaction, so the researchers say it could be handled.
“Volunteers are involved in our study trained to forget the neutral information in a controlled trial. But to traumatic events required more complex training,” said Gerd Thomas Waldhauser, researchers at Lund University, as quoted by the Telegraph.co.uk.
This study shows a person can set the brain to forget something. From the results of an EEG scan, it is known that when a person continues to hamper its memory about certain things, then that moment he forgot.