Switching off your smartphone at night means better productivity at work the next day.
“Smartphones are almost perfectly designed to disrupt sleep,” said Russell Johnson, assistant professor of management at Michigan State University in the US.
“Because they keep us mentally engaged late into the evening, they make it hard to detach from work so we can relax and fall asleep,” he warned.
A new survey has found that 7.37pm on a Saturday night is the most favorable time and day to have sex for many couples.
According to sex toy-selling firm Lovehoney’s poll, conducted on 3,000 people, 44 percent couples choose Saturdays over Sundays and Fridays that received 24 percent and 22 percent votes respectively, the Daily Express reported.
People are most aroused when they wake up and sometimes at 4.33pm on a Saturday, but fail to indulge in sexual activities then because of one or the other reason, the survey found.
Researchers have found that sitting for long periods increases heart failure risk in men, even for those who exercise regularly.
Deborah Rohm Young, Ph.D., lead researcher and a senior scientist at Kaiser Permanente in Pasadena, California, has advised to be more active and sit less.
Researchers followed a racially diverse group of 84,170 men ages 45 to 69 without heart failure. Exercise levels were calculated in METs, or metabolic equivalent of task, a measure of the body’s energy use. Sedentary levels were measured in hours.
A new Scottish study has found that playing football can help obese men shed off the kilos and keep them off.
Initially, 748 overweight soccer fans were given healthy-eating advice and weight management tips during the study by Glasgow researchers, the BBC reported.
Then only half of the total men were invited to participate in a 12-week programme of training sessions at their local football club.
After a year of participation, researchers found that the 374 men had lost about 11lb each and maintained their reduced weight.
Smokers are justifying their habit by labelling it as a social activity, and claiming they are nothing more than a social smoker, says a new research.
The research conducted by The Co-operative Pharmacy reveals that a quarter of smokers are in denial because of the stigma associated with it and now only class themselves as social smokers. In reality though, over a third of these are smoking between 6-20 cigarettes a day.
The study also revealed smokers’ willingness to openly disregard the law by lighting up in prohibited areas.
A recent study has found that certain personality types are inclined to earning higher salaries, as compared to their corporate peers.
According to the study, which uses the Myers-Briggs test indicator, the more extroverted and judgmental a person is, the more his salary would be, Sydney Morning Herald reported.
The findings have suggested that people who have traits such as determination and rationality succeed in the corporate world because these qualities are seen as assets, and being affectionate or calm will make an individual less likely to land top spots on the business ladder.
Wondering how some married couples manage to stay together for years and years amid such increasing divorce cases?
Blogger Ericka Souter wrote on CafeMom’s blog, ‘ The Stir’, that apart from being honest, communicating and showing affection, happily married couples should also get drunk together for a long-lasting union, the Huffington Post reported.
Souter also notes that couple, who have been married for a long time, should change their bedroom antics every now and then, and try something new while having sex to keep things interesting.
As the mercury drops down, your love life heats up, says a fascinating study. Men want more sex during the winter, says a report that appeared on the Psychology of Human Sexuality, a popular scientific blog about sex and relationships by Dr Justin J. Lehmiller.
Researchers found that men were more aroused by revealing photos of women during the colder months than they were during the summer.
They asked 114 men to rate the attractiveness of several women, over the course of the year.
Every three months, men were asked to rate two sets of photos.
A new study has found that more independent work environments may lead to reductions in autism symptoms and improve daily living in adults with the disorder.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined 153 adults with autism and found that greater vocational independence and engagement led to improvements in core features of autism, other problem behaviors and ability to take care of oneself.
For older men, having a big belly is more closely tied to general health problems than having low testosterone levels, a new study suggests.
Researchers have known that obesity is linked to lower testosterone among men. But it’s been less clear how each of those factors relates to men’s well-being, Dr. Marianne Andersen told Reuters Health in an email. She worked on the study at Odense University Hospital in Denmark.
A study has revealed that even .01 blood alcohol content can be dangerous while driving. The study, which is led by UC San Diego sociologist David Phillips, has found that even “minimally buzzed” drivers are more often to be blamed for fatal car crashes than the sober drivers they collide with.
The researchers, who examined 570,731 fatal collisions, from 1994 to 2011 and used the official U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database, found no “threshold effect” or “no sudden transition from blameless to blamed” at the legal limit for drunk driving.
A new study has suggested that children are more likely to have weight problems if their fathers are overweight at conception.
It was found that obese fathers cause altered gene expression in pancreas and fat of offspring, possibly leading to diabetes, obesity, chronic degenerative disease and premature aging
Research involving rats suggested that there is a biological link between paternal diet, bodyweight and health at the time of conception and the health of his offspring.
Smoking – known to cause lung cancer and heart disease – can even trigger diabetes, erectile dysfunction, arthritis, blindness and liver cancer, according to a new US report released today which also found that modern cigarettes are more dangerous than ever.
The report by the acting US surgeon general, Dr Boris D Lushniak, significantly expands the list of smoking-caused diseases.
At work, while replying to an important email, you suddenly start planning your weekend or thinking about next holiday.
It takes a moment before you realise you were daydreaming.
It happened because your brain simply ‘changed channels’ and switched to autopilot mode.
To understand this sudden wandering of thoughts, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Free University of Berlin and University Hospital Freiburg analysed 1.6 billion connections between 40,000 tiny areas of the brain in 19 participants aged between 21-31.
Kevin Costner has admitted that his toughest role so far has been of a father. Costner, who has starred in Kenneth Branagh-helmed action thriller ‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’, said that after staying home with three young kids for a few years, he realized that he had enough of the minivan, as his back was killing him dealing with three car seats, the New York Post reported.
The 58-year-old actor added that he thought about doing action movies because fatherhood is way too tough. (ANI)
What is better, real action or watching porn! The verdict clearly goes to the first. According to the researchers in Maryland and South Korea, making love makes you smarter.
But if we hear neuroscientists from University of Texas (UT), fake sex such as watching porn over computer or mobile may have the opposite effect, said a report in The Atlantic, an American magazine.
“Excessive porn viewing can result in permanent ‘anatomical and pathological’ changes to the brain,” said neuroscientists from UT.
A relationship expert has revealed some ways in which you can improve your sex life.
Jo Hemmings said that any kind of exercise is a great mood booster, and getting intimate can be used as an opportunity for the couple to work up a sweat. She said that sex also has the added benefit of helping fight off infections by enhancing immunity, the Daily Star reported.
Hemmings asserted that the couple should cuddle more, as they release feel good endorphins, which not only have a positive effect on mood but also give an energy boost.
Scientists have found that having sex helps improve mental performance and boosts the production of neurons in the hippocampus, the part of the brain where long term memories are made.
According to the Atlantic, researchers at the University of Maryland discovered that rats showed signs of improved cognitive function and ‘hippocampal’ function when they had sex, News.com.au reported.
Another study, conducted by Konkuk University in Seoul, found that engaging in sexual activities can also help balance out the effects of chronic stress. (ANI)
A new study has revealed that teenage boys who think they’re too skinny, when they are actually a healthy weight, are at higher risk of being depressed as teens and as adults when compared to other boys, including those who think they are too heavy.
Boys who inaccurately see themselves as overweight are also more likely to be depressed than boys who think they are of average weight, but their risk is not as significant as the boys who think they are very underweight.
In an awkward turn of events, a man from Dublin had his penis in an erect position for seven weeks that resulted from an injury he sustained in a mountain bike accident.
The 22-year-old unidentified man did not seek treatment for his condition, known as priapism, until five weeks after the incident, the Mirror reported. At the Tallaght Hospital, the young man’s penis did not respond to doctors initial treatment, however, he was successfully treated the second time round. (ANI)
Women believe that the secret to a healthy relationship is receiving a hot cup of tea or coffee made by their partners, rather than engaging in hot sex , a new research has found.
Report author Dr Jacqui Gabb said that actions speak louder than words and many people consider a loving gesture to be as valuable as hearing ‘I love you,’ the Daily Star reported.
Gabb added that although romantic gestures are appreciated, they don’t nurture a relationship as much as bringing your partner a cup of tea in bed or watching TV together.
Researchers have found that exercise plays a key role in how people feel they can manage their work-life balance.
Lead author Russell Clayton, assistant professor of management at Saint Leo University said that individuals who exercised regularly were more confident they could handle the interaction of their work and home life and were less likely to be stressed at work.
Conflict between work and home can be categorized in two ways. Work interference with family describes typical job-based pressures that can lead to interference (either time or psychologically) of family time.
Do you have an impulsive nature and find it hard to resist temptations when it comes to food? Or maybe you are one of those night owls who love their late night snacks?
According to ABC News, if you are planning on shedding off a few kilos you might want to keep your personality in mind, because it can affect the success of your diet.
First of all impulsive people should eliminate little temptations like stocking pantry with junk food , and avoiding the break room at work when you know there will be leftover treats.
Researchers are restoring the vision of people suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD) by implanting tiny telescopes in their eyes.
Dr. Sid Mandelbaum, an ophthalmologist at East Side Eye Surgeons in New York City, told Fox News that a tiny telescope, which is implanted in the eye after the lens is removed, takes the place of the individual’s own lens and remains in the eye permanently.
The procedure takes a little more than an hour, and once the telescope has been implanted, it magnifies the images a patient sees and projects them.
A team of researchers has found that among cigarette smokers, combining the smoking cessation medications varenicline and bupropion, compared with varenicline alone, resulted in higher smoking abstinence rates.
“We were interested in seeing if combining different medications together can improve the ability of patients to quit over and above single drug therapy,” lead author Jon Ebbert, M.D., Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Center, said. “What we found was an increase in quit rates, and the increase in quit rates was particularly strong in heavier and more dependent smokers.”