Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Chronic stress could lead to depression and dementia!

A major review of published research suggests that chronic stress and anxiety can damage areas of the brain involved in emotional responses, thinking and memory, leading to depression and even Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr Linda Mah, the lead author of the review carried out at a research institute affiliated to the University of Toronto, said:

Sunday, January 17, 2016

People in China are buying cans of fresh air


What started out as a joke straight out of Spaceballs has suddenly taken off as a viable business - a Canadian start-up selling bottled air from the Rocky Mountains has seen a surge of sales from China, with its first shipment selling out in four days.

The concept of Vitality Air was dreamt up back in 2013, when a couple of Canadians auctioned off a bag of air for less than 99 cents on eBay. Their second bag sold for US$160. "That’s when we realised there is a market for this," co-founder Moses Lam told The Telegraph.
"A gag gift, that's how it started off, but you know what? There's actually a lot of demand for this in … highly polluted countries," Lam told the Canadan National Post.