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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Relax Your Mind, Body and Soul With Foot Reflexology, Say Experts

A session of foot reflexology can benefit your mind, body and soul, say health experts. It provides a person with calmness and serenity, improved circulation, increased energy and balanced emotions among many others benefits. Rod Anker, director of Monsoon Salon and Spa, said that the technique has been exported for many years in India and is a very powerful natural way to relax and bring good health to the entire body and mind. The ...

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Stem Cells from Teeth can Make Brain-like Cells: Study

Stem cells taken from teeth can grow to resemble brain cells, say University of Adelaide researchers. This finding could one day be used in the brain as a therapy for stroke. In the University's Centre for Stem Cell Research, laboratory studies have shown that stem cells from teeth can develop and form complex networks of brain-like cells. Although these cells haven't developed into fully fledged neurons, researchers believe it's just a matter of time and the ...

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Mother's Diet can Change Her Child's DNA: Study

A new study has revealed that a woman's diet before conception changes the functioning of her child's DNA. According to the research, though it has been proved that the food taken by mothers affect the genes of their children, it has not been proved exactly how this happens. As part of the research, scientists tracked women in rural Gambia, where rainy and dry periods influence diet in a big way. They selected 84 women who had conceived at the peak of the ...

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iPhone shipment growth trails rest of smartphone industry

Samsung, Lenovo, and other major players saw much higher growth in shipments, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.

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Unique Online Experiments Finds How Success Really Does Breed Success

Researchers, following a series of unique on-line experiments states that breeding success helps in achieving success up to a point. For decades, it has been observed that similar people experience divergent success trajectories, with some repeatedly succeeding and others repeatedly failing. Some suggest initial success can catalyse further achievements, creating a positive feedback loop, while others attribute a string of successes to inherent talent. To test these ...

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Simplifying Weight Loss Efforts Could be Helped by Smartphones

The applications on the smartphones can assist dieters to integrate healthy behavior changes into their daily lives as found by the researchers. Cheryl Shigaki, an associate professor in the MU School of Health Professions, said current weight loss recommendations are essentially the same as they were decades ago, but each generation has to learn how to manage modern challenges to healthy living. She said that information technology repackages traditional ...