Young Children Understand The Benefits Of Positive Thinking

December 30, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
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The children listened to six illustrated stories in which two characters feel the same emotion after experiencing something positive (getting a new puppy), negative (spilling milk), or ambiguous (meeting a new teacher). Following each experience, one character has a separate optimistic thought, framing the event in a positive light, and the other has a separate pessimistic thought, putting the event in a negative light. They were most interested in the degree to which children predicted different emotions for two characters in the same situation. The study also found that children had the most difficulty understanding how positive thinking could boost someone’s spirits in situations that involved negative events - such as falling down and getting hurt. In these coping situations, children’s levels of hope and optimism played a role in their ability to understand the power of positive thinking, but parents’ views on the topic played an even larger part.

Scientists Pinpoint Potential To Fight Back Against Secret Killer

December 4, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
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A collaboration between the university and British beauty brand Neal’s Yard Remedies has seen experts discover that white tea, witch hazel and the simple rose hold potential health and beauty properties which could be simply too good to ignore. It is credited with a major role in both the initiation and development of diseases ranging from cancer , diabetes and arthritis through to neuro-degenerative conditions and cardiovascular and pulmonary problems. Inflammation is credited with a major role in both the initiation and development of diseases ranging from cancer, diabetes and arthritis through to neuro-degenerative conditions and cardiovascular and pulmonary problems. Spurred on by their laboratory findings, the team members decided to take the work further to see if they could replicate the results in human skin cells, looking more closely at the anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant activity of the three extracts. Using human skin cells as their model, the researchers added three different concentrations of white tea (freeze dried powder), witch hazel (dried herb) and rose extract (in a medicinal tincture form) to see what effect the mixtures might have on suppressing rogue enzymes and oxidants which play a key role in helping inflammation develop, as well as ageing the skin. Even though the team’s previous research had intimated there might be some promising results ahead, the experts were astonished to see just how good the various concentrations of the three extracts were at doing the job.

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