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Sipping a cup of sugar-sweetened coffee not only kick-starts a day, but also improves memory retention and attention span, a latest research from scientists at the University of Barcelona in Spain has revealed.
The study found that caffeine, a nervous system stimulant, when taken along with sugar boosts brain function more than it does separately.

In fact, researchers believe that both caffeine and sugar enhance the effect of each other on cognitive skills such as learning, concentrating, and retrieving.

Previous studies have also established that coffee improves short-term memory and speeds up reaction time by acting on the brain’s prefrontal cortex.

Study findings

Findings of the study revealed that coffee affects specific brain regions involved in memory and concentration due to which the brain operates more efficiently and actively post caffeine and sugar boost.

It was also found that volunteers who drank coffee with sugar reported a reduced activity in the bilateral parietal cortex and the left prefrontal cortex, the two parts of the brain responsible for attention span and memory.

“The two substances improve cognitive performance by increasing the efficiency of the two areas of the brain responsible for sustained attention and working memory,” the Daily Mail quoted researcher Dr Josep Serra Grabulosa as saying.

“The brain is more efficient under the combined effect of the two substances, since it needs fewer resources to produce the same level of performance than when volunteers took only caffeine, glucose or water,” Serra Grabulosa added.

There are 101 reasons why you shouldn’t use a microwave oven for cooking. There are various adverse effects of consuming foods that have been microwaved:

=>>Nutrients in food are damaged
=>>Food molecules are altered, rendering them inorganic and toxic (or even carcinogenic) to the body
=>>Reduction of hemoglobin levels and alteration of blood serum quality, leading to severe anemia
=>>A decrease in HDL (good cholesterol) and an increase in LDL (bad cholesterol)
=>>A decrease in lymphocytes (white blood cells) leading to the body’s rapid drop in immunity and defense system against viral attacks
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Self esteem is your opinion of yourself. High self esteem is a good opinion of yourself and low self esteem is a bad opinion of yourself.   However, low self-esteem is a constant companion for too many people, especially those who experience depression, anxiety, phobias, psychosis, delusional thinking, or who have an illness or a disability.

Things that you can do everyday to increase the self esteem are

1. Face your fears.
2. Forget your failures.
3. Pay attention to your own needs and wants.
4. Eat healthy foods and avoid junk foods.
5. Do proper exercise.
6. Do personal hygiene tasks.
7. Reward yourself when you succeed.
8. Drop your negative friends.
9. Plan fun activities for yourself.
10. Maintain good health.
11. Do things that make use of your own special talents and abilities.
12. Don’t put up with the crap.
13. Dress in clothes that make you feel good about yourself.
14. Talk or  Spend time with people who make you feel good about yourself.
15. Make your living space a place that honors the person you are.
16. Take advantage of opportunities to learn something new or improve your skills.
17. Do something nice for another person.

Miniature human livers, about the size of small plums, have been made in the lab for the first time. The breakthrough, reported this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases in Boston, is a step towards making livers big enough for transplants in humans.

“We are the first to engineer a whole liver organ with human cells,” says Shay Soker, a co-developer of the livers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina. Soker and his colleague Pedro Baptista built the livers by taking  ferret livers and stripping them of all their native cells, leaving just the collagen “scaffold” of the organ, which they then filled with human liver cells.

The ultimate goal is to create personalized livers for transplant from larger pig scaffolds by selecting healthy liver cells from a patient and multiplying them to build a new organ.

Question:

God in his infinite wisdom made the world the way it is, I don’t understand why should I not eat meat? I am a born non–vegetarian and I am not able to leave non-veg.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:(http://artofliving.org)

Ok. What is it that makes you crave for non-vegetarian? (The lady answered smell and taste). What brings the smell and taste to the food is spices. Ok, forget all about taste and smell and spirituality.

You know, what is the latest finding of non–vegetarian food? One kg of meat is equivalent to the meals of 400 people. If only 10 percent of the world population become vegetarians, the problem of global warming will be reduced.
On this count we have to save the planet. We will have to reduce the consumption of non-vegetarian food. For the sake of the planet, so that everybody gets food, for that we must be concerned. God has given us the sense to care for others and planet also! You have eaten enough, so consume a little less so that others who have nothing to eat can have a little at least, so that more and more people gets something to eat.
We are consuming 40 -50 percent more than we produce. Plant trees, be vegetarian, it’s part of being spiritual. Spirituality is not only meditation. India had 400 cows for every 1,000 people when we got independence. Now we have less than 100 cows per 1,000 people. In 20 years, there will be only 20 cows per 1,000 people. Children will not get the basic staple diet like milk, yogurt, ghee.

We have to protect the animals, and save the planet.