Tag: DEPRESSION
Its all in the mind – But don’t believe everything you think!
Electrodes that send signals to the brain could soon become a reality.
Lay stress on your wellbeing. Patients with diabetic have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease, cancer, and kidney disorders
Some are still in favour of social media and its affect on depression!
Family environment — shared living space and common eating habits — can make a major contribution to a person’s risk of disease like depression.
Women caring for children with serious health conditions should be screened for depression and that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
ASTRO 2017: Urban Cancer Center Finds 75% of Its Patients With Depression Were Previously Undiagnosed
“Depression prevalence continues to be high among cancer patients, especially those receiving treatment at an urban cancer center, as well as those who identify as female or are disabled by their disease. Alarmingly, most of these patients remain undiagnosed and untreated, indicating an important gap in cancer care and an opportunity to improve patient outcomes,”.
Your Facebook friends’ fabulous lives can leave you down
“Facebook often gives us information about our friends that we are not normally privy to, which gives us even more opportunities to socially compare,”. “You can’t really control the impulse to compare because you never know what your friends are going to post.
The recent Houston Study states, The social media site, Facebook, can be an effective tool for connecting with new and old friends. However, some users may find themselves spending quite a bit of time viewing Facebook and may inevitably begin comparing what’s happening in their lives to the activities and accomplishments of their friends.
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GUT- What is really means and why is it gaining significance off late?Our gut is home to approximately 100,000,000,000,000 (100 trillion) microorganisms.
GUT in a layman language may mean NERVE (not the nerves but nerve to perform bold acts), with a slight drift to the medical world or anatomy it may mean Stomach, belly, Abdomen and in literal medicine term it may mean, “gastrointestinal tract”.
The gut is the largest mucosal organ of the body and as such is at the forefront of the body’s immune (ability to fight foreign invasion) homeostasis (also, in regulation of temperature and the balance between acidity and alkalinity (pH). Read through for its importance and its necessity for good health and its role in diabetes, arthritis and other common disorders on the rise!