10 Tips for Brain's Health

"There is a lot we can do to keep our brains healthy and potentially prevent or lessen the cognitive decline that often comes with aging," Daniel Perry, executive director of the nonprofit Alliance for Aging Research, said in a prepared statement. "We are encouraging people to take steps to improve brain health as part of their overall fitness regimen for the New Year."

The Alliance for Aging Research recommends these 10 steps for improving your brain health.

* Eat a Brain-Healthy Diet. A diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids (commonly found in fish), protein, antioxidants, fruits and vegetables and vitamin B; low in trans fats; and with an

appropriate level of carbohydrates will help keep your brain healthy.

* Stay Mentally Active. Activities such as learning a new skill or language, working on crossword puzzles, taking classes, and learning how to dance can help challenge and maintain your mental functioning.

* Exercise Regularly. Exercising often can increase circulation, improve coordination, and help prevent conditions that increase the risk of dementia such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

* Stay Social. Spending time with friends, volunteering, and traveling can keep your mind active and healthy.

* Get Plenty of Sleep. Not getting enough sleep can have a negative impact on brain health.

* Manage Stress. Participating in yoga, spending time with friends, or doing other stress-relieving activities can help preserve your ability to remember and learn.

* Prevent Brain Injury. Wearing protective head gear and seat belts can help you avoid head injury, which has been associated with an increased risk of dementia.

* Control Other Health Conditions. Maintaining a healthy weight, exercising, eating a well-balanced and nutritious diet, and controlling stress can help reduce your risk of diseases that affect your brain, including diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and hypertension.

* Avoid Unhealthy Habits. Smoking, heavy drinking and use of recreational drugs can increase the risk of dementia and cognitive decline.

* Consider Your Genes. If your family history puts you at risk for developing dementia, work with your doctor to find ways to maintain your brain health to help avoid or slow the progression of cognitive decline.

Sugar Diabeties Treatment at Home (Lady Finger Treatment of Sugar)

Please note that another name for Lady Finger (Bhindi ) is " OKRA ".
Last month in one of TV program I learnt of a treatment of Sugar (Diabetes). Since I am diabetic, I tried it and it was very useful and my Sugar is in control now. In fact I have already reduced my medicine.

Take two pieces of Lady Finger (Bhindi) and remove/cut both ends of each piece. Also put a small cut in the middle and put these two pieces in glass of water. Cover the glass and keep it at room temperature during night. Early morning, before breakfast simply remove two pieces of lady finger (bhindi) from the glass and drink that water.

Keep doing it on daily basis.

Within two weeks, you will see remarkable results in reduction of your SUGAR.

My sister has got rid of her diabetes. She was on Insulin for a few years, but after taking the lady fingers every morning for a few months, she has stopped Insulin but continues to take the lady fingers every day. But she chops the lady fingers into fine pieces in the night, adds the water and drinks it all up the next morning. Please. try it as it will not do you any harm even if it does not do much good to you, but U have to keep taking it for a few months before U see results, as mostcases might be chronic.

Fat kids ‘’should be treated as abuse victims’

Dangerously overweight children who are overfed by their parents should be treated as victims of abuse and should be taken away from their homes and given radical weight-loss surgery, according to a health expert.
In a conference, Tam Fry, a member of the National Obesity Forum’’s board, will urge that authorities should take obese children away from their families and into care, and that those whose health is at risk should then undergo stomach-stapling operations.
Fry said parents should be permitted to visit their overweight kids in hospital, but they must first be ‘frisked’ to ensure they are not trying to smuggle them junk food or fizzy drinks.
He acknowledged that his ideas are radical and that he will likely lose a debate on whether child obesity should be treated as a form of abuse, to be held at the forum’’s annual conference on Oct 7 in London.
However, Fry insists Britain’’s obesity epidemic poses such a risk to public health, with the overweight likely to suffer from heart disease and diabetes, that drastic action must be taken.
“My point will be that we regard malnourished children as being abused and so with those children who are so overweight, either consciously or by neglect because their parents allow it, there should be a case for them being removed from their parents,” Telegraph quoted Fry, as saying.
“They need to be removed to a paediatric ward and put under weight management by doctors and nurses who know what they are doing.
“The parents will be permitted access but they will be frisked for chocolate and fizzy drinks when they ender the ward.
“The social services then sort out the family home, which is the problem at the case, and when everything is equal the child goes back.
“It is quite drastic but it’’s a long-term therapy. For the sake of the children it does need to be done because we have got children who are horrendously fat. In many cases it will mean thinking the unthinkable,” he added.
Fry said that some dangerously obese kids should be given bariatric surgery, in which the stomach is stapled or bypassed, leaving them only able to eat tiny amounts of pureed food.
“I fully expect to be defeated in the debate. I go into it knowing that the prospect of removing children from their parents is something that the medical profession will shy away from, but it needs to be done,” he said.

How insomniacs can get sleep by shaping their own brain activity

Insomniacs often turn to sleeping pills for a good night’s sleep, but what if they are able to manipulate their own brains to get a nap? Well, a new study from University of Salzburg has allowed participants to “shape their own brain activity” by directly modifying certain electroencephalographic (EEG) activities – in a bid to get them slumber. Electroencephalography (EEG) is the measurement of electrical activity produced by the brain as recorded from electrodes placed on the scalp.

In instrumental sensorimotor rhythm conditioning (ISC), patients shape their brain activity by watching a feedback screen and adjusting their behaviour accordingly. The team showed that manipulation of sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) amplitude by ISC improved sleep quality as well as declarative learning.

The findings support the theory that an increase in relaxation and a decrease in muscle tension might lead to less movement during sleep and thereby augment the restorative and learning enhancement benefits of sleep. This method is often as a therapeutic tool to treat different kinds of disorders, including epilepsy and attention–deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Previous studies have also shown that ISC could be effective in treating psychophysiological insomnia, a form of insomnia associated with worrying. The significant changes in SMR amplitude from early to late conditioning sessions confirmed the success of ISC.

The study’’s 27 participants were able to fall asleep faster (decrease in “sleep onset latency”) and increase memory performance after two weeks of ISC.

“The aim of the study was to improve sleep quality and memory performance by ”rewarding” the existence of certain activities of the brain,” said study leader Dr. Manuel Schabus, researcher for the division of physiological psychology at the University of Salzburg in Austria.

The participants were randomly assigned to either an ISC group or a randomised frequency group in order to examine the effects of ISC on sleep as well as declarative memory performance. They attended the laboratory on 13 occasions, during 10 of which they were connected to a feedback system that allowed them to keep track of their current brain activity by looking at a computer screen.

They were encouraged to use physiological relaxation combined with positive mental activity in order to “shape their brainwaves”; all participants remained blind to their group assignment and were not debriefed until after the investigation had ended.