• Benefits of a Mediterranean Diet

    Michelle

    The findings of this study suggest that incorporating a Mediterranean diet could cut back the risk of getting a cardiovascular disease by up to 30%! The study was originally intended to compare those on a Mediterranean diet to those on a low-fat diet, but researchers found that people on a low-fat diet had a difficult…

  • Jessica Guest Blogs: Pain in the Brain

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    This Guest Blog Post is from Jessica Xi, one of Dr. T’s Health Psychology students: We know that placebos can help reduce pain, but it’s still not entirely understood how this works. This recent article, describes an attempt to use fMRI scans to explain how the placebo effect functions. Researchers noticed that some areas of…

  • Danni Guest Blogs: Stress eating in children

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    Danni Ji, one of Dr. T’s Health Psychology students, guest blogs again!: In this recent study, researchers tested children to see how stressed they would get by delivering a speech or performing a mathematics task. They measured stress through salivary cortisol before and after the task. After the task, the children participated in an eating…

  • Julie Guest Blogs: Write your illness away

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    This Guest Blog Post is from Julie Nam, one of Dr. T’s Health Psychology students: Adjusting to an illness is not easy, especially if that illness is cancer. Ms. Kyle Potvin, a breast cancer patient, uses an effective technique, writing about her illness, but takes it up a notch, by creatively expressing her cancer through…

  • Sharon Guest Blogs: Supplements to reduce autism risk?

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    This Guest Blog Post is from Sharon Lai, one of Dr. T’s Health Psychology students: Some believe that taking vitamins and other supplements could prevent autism. While this new research cannot not prove this theory, it does suggest that taking supplements could reduce the risk of your child getting autism. Study results suggest that taking supplements…

  • Stand up for better health!

    Michelle

    We all know that exercise is good for us, but does the type of exercise we do influence our health? Researchers from Maastricht University, Netherlands, found that a lengthy, low-intense exercise may be more beneficial to overall health than a short, high-intense exercise. For this study, researchers assigned participants to one of three different lifestyle regime…

  • Valeriya Guest Blogs: Stressing the significance of stress

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    This Guest Blog Post is from Valeriya Komova, one of Dr. T’s Health Psychology students:   Many of us don’t realize how stress impacts everyday life; however, the American Medical Association classified stress as being the cause of more than 60% of all human illness and disease. All stress, big and small, affects our bodies. It…

  • Danni Guest Blogs: Flu Mask Fashion

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    Danni Ji, one of Dr. T’s Health Psychology students, guest blogs again!: It may not be the most stylish fashion statement, but past research has found that using surgical masks by flu patients reduced the impact of large droplet spray (coughing, sneezing). And now a recent study by Dr. Milton and his research team found that…

  • Diet drinks with liquor, you’ll get sicker…

    Angela

    There are several rules of thumb for mitigating intoxication when consuming alcohol that focus on what alcohol you’re drinking. But new research from Northern Kentucky University reveals that what you mix your alcohol with can also be a significant factor. A comparison of breath alcohol concentrations (BrAC) after consuming a mix of alcohol and either…

  • Superhero Effects

    Michelle

    Interestingly enough, this article suggests that pretending to have superhero powers could increase one’s tendency to help others. Based on this study that used “immersive virtual reality” (wearing gear and adapting roles in the form of avatars), college-level participants who had acquired avatars with superhero powers (like flying) were more helpful to others in real life than…

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