Healthy lifestyle helps body's cells fight ageing: Scientists

Healthy lifestyle helps body's cells fight ageing: Scientists

Scientists says strategy is structured around a whole-food‚ plant-based diet‚ moderate daily exercise‚ yoga-based relaxation.

Scientists said that they had proof

 that a healthy lifestyle helps the 

body's cells fight ageing.

They said that the strategy is 

structured around a whole-food‚

 plant-based diet‚ moderate daily

 exercise‚ yoga-based relaxation

 and stress management.

The researcher said that the 

implications of this relatively 

small pilot study may go beyond 

men with prostate cancer.

If validated by large-scale 

randomized controlled trials‚ these comprehensive lifestyle changes may significantly reduce the

 risk of a wide variety of diseases and premature mortality.

Psychological benefits for inmates doing yoga: Study

Psychological benefits for inmates doing yoga: Study

Yoga can improve the mood and mental well-being of 

prisoners‚ and may also have an effect on impulsive behavior‚

 an Oxford University study suggested.

Reported their findings

 in the Journal of 

Psychiatric  Research‚

 researchers said prisons

 see rates of mental health

problems that are many

 times higher than the 

general population‚Xinhua

 news agency reported.

Inmates from a range of 

ages were randomly assigned 

to either a course of ten weekly

 yoga sessions of 90 minutes‚ or

 to a control group.

"We found that the group that did the yoga course showed an improvement in positive

 mood‚ a decrease in stress and greater accuracy in a computer test of impulsivity and 

attention‚" said Dr Amy Bilderbeck‚ who led the study.

If yoga is associated with improving behavior control‚ as suggested by the results of 

the computer test‚ there may be implications for managing aggression‚ antisocial or

problem behavior in prisons and on return to society‚ researchers noted.

Scientists find clue to age-related memory loss

Scientists find clue to age-related memory loss

Experiments on mice suggested low levels of a protein in the brain 

may be responsible for memory loss.

A clue to why memory deteriorates with age has been found by US

 researchers.

Experiments on mice suggested low levels of a protein in the brain 

may be responsible for memory loss.

It is hoped the discovery could lead to treatments to reverse 

forgetfulness‚ but it is a big leap from the mouse to a human brain.

The team at Columbia University Medical Centre started by analysing 

the brains of eight dead people‚ aged between 22 and 88‚ who had 

donated their organ for medical research.