Many elderly are frightened of falling. With aging there are increasing worries about not having good balance, tripping and breaking bones. However new research suggests that the level of worry relates to the actual likelihood of falling. The fear of falling may be a stronger predictor of falling than actual physical condition. In other words, [...]
Category Archives: Brain/Mind
Social Rejection Increases Inflammation And Risk Of Many Diseases
August 11, 2010 – 11:36 am
Everybody feels stress and we all have periods of time that are more stressful than others. Additionally, it often seems to be that when we are under the most stress that our health seems to get worse. This is thought to be due to the effects of stress on the immune system. New research suggests [...]
Active Heart = Younger Brain?
August 4, 2010 – 11:57 am
Now more evidence that what is good for your heart is good for your brain. As we age our brain shrinks and generally starts to show signs of aging. Signs of brain aging can be easy to determine such as occurs in Alzheimer’s disease, or it can be more subtle both in physical changes in [...]
Perhaps Brain Training Programs Can Help With Memory
July 19, 2010 – 9:40 am
The brain training (also often called brain exercise) craze started with Brain Age which was developed by Nintendo. Now there a whole range of them, some with celebrity pitch people. In the last few months there have been a number of studies that suggested that the programs do not help increase scores on tests for [...]
Obesity Is Bad For Memory & Pear Shape Is Worse
July 15, 2010 – 2:03 pm
It seems that nothing is ever clear when it comes to health and well being. For quite a while now, everything that we have been reading says that apple shape is bad with pear shape being better. A big belly is bad whereas big hips are much better. Of course, neither a big belly nor [...]
Does Botox = Less Emotion?
June 27, 2010 – 4:20 pm
Does having cosmetic Botox injections affect you emotionally? Apparently, it was proposed years ago that there is a feedback system between your brain and your face. The idea is that if you cannot express emotions physically by displaying emotions on your face, that the brain does think that these emotions exist. This is known as [...]
Health & Anti-Aging Tool – A Sense Of Humor?
June 9, 2010 – 7:31 am
Now there is more evidence that a sense of humor is good for your health and anti-aging. In Norway there is a big population study, the Trøndelag Health Study. Researchers surveyed 70,000 residents of a county in the middle of Norway, between 1995 and 1997. There were surveys, health histories and blood samples taken. The [...]
Is Multitasking Going To Be A Problem For Aging?
June 7, 2010 – 9:33 am
There is a cool test in today’s NYT. The test, designed by Stanford University researchers, determines how easily you are distracted. You have to look at two images, and say whether 2 red bars have rotated between the images or not. (If you decide to do the test, you might want to do it twice, [...]
Exercise And Keeping Memory
May 10, 2010 – 10:26 am
Recently there have been news articles about how physical exercise is good for the aging brain. Researchers have shown that older adults who are more physically fit tend to have bigger hippocampi. The hippocampus is an area of the brain that is involved in learning and memory. The researchers also showed that those that the [...]
How To Be Happy When You Are Older
April 12, 2010 – 10:39 am
Will you be happy when you are elderly? Is here any way to predict who will be happy? Everybody wants a good quality of life, whatever their age. Part of quality of life is your current mental attitude and level of contentment. So, are there any predictors of which elderly perceive themselves as happy? Researchers [...]