Resolve your argument for better overall health

If you want a longer, healthier life then resolve your arguments by end of the day as it reduces the emotional response associated with the disagreement, a new study revealed. 

On the day of an argument or avoided argument, people who felt their encounter was resolved reported roughly half the reactivity of those whose encounters were not resolved, the findings indicated.  

"Everyone experiences stress in their daily lives. You aren't going to stop stressful things from happening. But the extent to which you can tie them off, bring them to an end and resolve them is definitely going to pay dividends in terms of your well-being," said researcher Robert Stawski from the Oregon State University. 

For the study, published in The Journals of Gerontology, the team used data from an in-depth survey of more than 2,000 people who were interviewed about their feelings and experiences for eight days in a row.

The researchers looked at reports of both arguments and avoided arguments, defined as instances where the person could have argued about something but chose to let it slide so as not to have a disagreement.

They then measured how the incident affected the person's reported change in negative and positive emotions, both for the day of the encounter and the day after it occurred.

The measure of how an experience affects someone emotionally, an increase in negative emotions or a decrease in positive emotions, on the day it occurs is known as "reactivity," while "residue" is the prolonged emotional toll the day after the experience occurs.

The results showed that on the day of an argument or avoided argument, people who felt their encounter was resolved reported roughly half the reactivity of those whose encounters were not resolved.

On the day following an argument or avoided argument, the results were even starker -- people who felt the matter was resolved showed no prolonged elevation of their negative affect the next day. 

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Weight loss: 4 myths about metabolism you should stop believing!

Improve your metabolism easy!

In fact, your metabolism is so crucial in maintaining vital health, you need to take constant checks to keep it in the right shape. You have heard about foods that can "instantly" rev up the metabolic rate or the exercises which can ruin the efforts. However, with so many options available to us, it can be hard to separate the myth from the fact and ruin or sabotage your progress. Weight watchers, we list out the biggest metabolism mistakes that can put a damper on your efforts:

Cardio is the best bet for metabolism

Cardio helps burn calories fast, but it might not be the best bet for boosting your metabolic rate. If boosting your metabolism is what you are working towards, you need to look at exercises and workout regimes that help your body burn fat even while at rest, like muscle building, resistance training.
The same way, pushing your body to the extremes, working out for extensive hours won't necessarily rev up metabolism. In fact, doing so can prove to be costly and push your body into a stressed and inflammatory state which can mess with your BMR (Body Metabolic Rate).

You need to eat less for better health
For optimum weight loss, you need to maintain a calorie deficit, or in simpler terms, eat less and then boost your metabolism. This fact does not hold true for a reason. A change in the diet and eating pattern may bring about a change in body weight and fat regulation, but it won't necessarily accelerate your metabolism. A sudden drop or spike in your calorie intake can slow down your metabolism, which is not good news at all. For the best results, you need to fuel up your body with the right form of nutrition, at the right times.

Men and women have the same metabolism
Men and women have anatomical differences and there is also a sizeable difference in the way the hormones work. That being said, it is also widely believed that men and women lose weight differently and the reason behind this is their varied metabolic rate. This is not completely true. While men and women do tend to lose weight a little differently, metabolism is not the culprit behind. The weight loss is largely due to the muscular composition and skeletal density as we age, which, in turn, can take a toll on the metabolic rate. Metabolism, in itself, is not the culprit. 

Green tea works best for metabolism
Of all the benefits of advocating regular intake of green tea, the one boosting metabolism tops the list. However, all of that is not true. Remember, while foods can improve your metabolism, it can only do that to an extent. You would still need lifestyle overhaul, workout and the right nutrition to jig up your metabolic system. Try adding the right kind of carbs, proteins, and fats to see a difference. 

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Proper Breathing Brings Better Health

As newborns, we enter the world by inhaling. In leaving, we exhale. (In fact, in many languages the word “exhale” is synonymous with “dying.”) Breathing is so central to life that it is no wonder humankind long ago noted its value not only to survival but to the functioning of the body and mind and began controlling it to improve well-being.

As early as the first millennium B.C., both the Tao religion of China and Hinduism placed importance on a “vital principle” that flows through the body, a kind of energy or internal breath, and viewed respiration as one of its manifestations. The Chinese call this energy qi, and Hindus call it prana (one of the key concepts of yoga).

A little later, in the West, the Greek term pneuma and the Hebrew term rûah referred both to the breath and to the divine presence. In Latin languages, spiritus is at the root of both “spirit” and “respiration.”

Recommendations for how to modulate breathing and influence health and mind appeared centuries ago as well. Pranayama (“breath retention”) yoga was the first doctrine to build a theory around respiratory control, holding that controlled breathing was a way to increase longevity.

In more modern times, German psychiatrist Johannes Heinrich Schultz developed “autogenic training” in the 1920s as a method of relaxation. The approach is based partly on slow and deep breathing and is probably still the best-known breathing technique for relaxation in the West today. The contemporary forms of mindfulness meditation also emphasize breathing-based exercises.

In fact, every relaxation, calming or meditation technique relies on breathing, which may be the lowest common denominator in all the approaches to calming the body and mind. Research into basic physiology and into the effects of applying breath-control methods lends credence to the value of monitoring and regulating our inhalations and exhalations.

Yoga and meditation have inspired many of the breathing exercises used today. The benefits of controlled respiration were first theoretically posited centuries ago by the practitioners of pranayama yoga.

Mind under the Influence

Even a rudimentary understanding of physiology helps to explain why controlled breathing can induce relaxation. Everyone knows that emotions affect the body. When you are happy, for instance, the corners of your mouth turn up automatically, and the edges of your eyes crinkle in a characteristic expression. Similarly, when you are feeling calm and safe, at rest, or engaged in a pleasant social exchange, your breathing slows and deepens. You are under the influence of the parasympathetic nervous system, which produces a relaxing effect. Conversely, when you are feeling frightened, in pain, or tense and uncomfortable, your breathing speeds up and becomes shallower. The sympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for the body’s various reactions to stress, is now activated. Less well known is that the effects also occur in the opposite direction: the state of the body affects emotions. Studies show that when your face smiles, your brain reacts in kind—you experience more pleasant emotions. Breathing, in particular, has a special power over the mind.

This power is evident in patients who have breathing difficulties. When these difficulties are sporadic and acute, they can trigger panic attacks; when they are chronic, they often induce a more muted anxiety. It is estimated that more than 60 percent of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have anxiety or depressive disorders. These disorders probably stem in part from concerns about the consequences of the disease (what could be more distressing than struggling to breathe?), but purely mechanical factors may contribute as well: the difficulty these patients experience often leads to faster breathing, which does not necessarily improve the quality of their oxygen supply but can aggravate their physical discomfort and anxiety.

Rapid breathing can contribute to and exacerbates panic attacks through a vicious circle: fear triggers faster breathing, which increases fear. In 2005 Georg Alpers, now at the University of Mannheim in Germany, and his colleagues observed significant and unconscious hyperventilation when people who had a driving phobia took their vehicles on the highway (where they might not be able to pull over if they become agitated).

Whether anxiety derives from breathing problems or other causes, it can be eased by a number of breathing techniques derived from traditional Eastern approaches (see “Six Techniques for Relieving Stress”). For example, “follow your breath,” an exercise that focuses attention on breathing, is one of the first steps in mindfulness meditation, whereas alternate nostril breathing comes from yoga. Combining reassuring thoughts with breathing is an approach incorporated into sophrology, a technique that emphasizes harmony of body and mind and that borrows exercises from many approaches, including yoga and mindfulness.

Overall, research shows that these techniques reduce anxiety, although the anxiety does not disappear completely. Breathing better is a tool, not a panacea. Some methods have been validated by clinical studies; others have not. But all of those I describe in this article apply principles that have been proved effective. They aim to slow, deepen or facilitate breathing, and they use breathing as a focal point or a metronome to distract attention from negative thoughts.


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Happiness promotes better health

People who experience a range of positive emotions in their daily lives - from enthusiasm to cheerfulness and calm - may have a lower risk of chronic diseases and premature death, a study has claimed.

Researchers  found that people who experience many kinds of happiness have lower levels of inflammation, compared to those who experience a narrower range of emotions.

Lower levels of inflammation are linked to a lower risk of premature death and chronic diseases like diabetes, researchers said.

"There are many kinds of happiness, and experiencing a diversity of emotional states might reduce a person's vulnerability to psychopathology by preventing any one emotion from dominating their emotional life," said a professor.

The study sheds light on one potential biological pathway - systemic inflammation - through which diversity in everyday positive emotional experiences might "get under the skin" to influence long-term health.

Researchers analysed the connection between "emodiversity" - the breadth and abundance of different emotions people experience - and markers of inflammation in the body. 

A person with low emodiversity feels about the same through most of the day, with emotions concentrated in just a few categories.

In contrast, a person with high emodiversity feels a range of emotions throughout the day, distributed evenly across the spectrum of feelings.

The researchers analysed data from 175 people aged 40 to 65 who reported on their negative and positive emotions for 30 days.

Each evening, they rated the extent to which they had experienced 16 positive emotions that day, from interested and determined to happy, excited, amused, inspired, alert, active and strong.

They were also asked to rate their experience of 16 negative emotions, including scared, afraid, upset, distressed, jittery, nervous and ashamed.

Their blood was drawn six months later and was tested for three inflammation markers that circulate in the blood.

Their range of negative emotions - regardless of whether it was narrow or wide - had no effect on inflammation.

However, people in the study who reported a wide range of positive emotions had lower levels of inflammation than those who said they felt a narrower range.

"Emotions serve functional roles for individuals, helping them prioritise and regulate behaviour in ways that optimise adjustment to situational demands," said the lead author of the study.

"Our findings suggest that depletion or overabundance of positive emotions, in particular, has consequences for the functioning and health of one's emotional ecosystem," he said.

Growing evidence from other research has linked emotional processes with systemic inflammation, which has been shown to contribute to poor health, such as atherosclerosis, diabetes, rheumatoid disease and osteoporosis, and leads to a number of processes that play a major role in premature death.

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