1. Honey is able to remove a sense of anxiety and improve memory. Scientists conducted an experiment in which experienced the effectiveness of honey in laboratory rats. It was found that rodents who were sitting on a honey diet, showed high activity and ingenuity, and their spatial memory was higher than that of rats who consumed sucrose, and being on a diet without sugar.

From the standpoint of medicine, honey - it's easily digestible carbohydrates and biologically valuable substances. Honey and its accompanying products (propolis, royal jelly, pollen) has long been known in medicine for its healing properties.

2. In the first place - caring for an infant in the first five months of life. Their cries at night and takes his parents to approximately 400 - 750 hours of sleep (more than 2 hours each night).

In second place - work workaholic. Reducing their sleep for about 2 hours a day, they add to each year of his life more than 500 hours of working time. In third place - dog walking, which in the year "picks up" about 180 hours of morning sleep.

In addition, for young people aged 17 to 24 years of sleep deprivation is fraught with mental disorders in the future. That those study participants who slept five hours a day, had a threefold greater chance of developing mental illnesses than those who slept for 8-9 hours.

But not only is harmful nedosypat but sleep for too long. That men who sleep more than eight hours a day, have 24% more likely to die prematurely. As for women, for them, the figure is 17%.

1. Modern teenagers growing part of the free time they spend in front of the monitor, replacing the real-life contacts its surrogate in Face book or Twitter.

In turn, argues that due to keenness computer Danish teenagers lose their social skills. In his view, communication with the so-called social networking sites like the immoderate consumption of Coca-Cola.

«Facebook and Twitter are deceiving the brain, causing him to believe that electronic communication satisfies social needs of pupils. However, the body knows what is sitting on a chair, it does not feel the sign language, does not feel the closeness and the smell of other people. It's like drinking a Coke, imagining, as if the body receives enough nutrients and vitamins.


2. Several thousand Chinese people diagnosed with AIDS symptoms, but tested for HIV infection gives a negative result. Experts suspect the appearance of previously unknown virus.

Patients are observed swollen lymph nodes, sweating limbs, red spots on the skin, a slight increase in temperature. All these symptoms are also the first signs of HIV infection. However, testing for its presence gives a negative result, in connection with what newspapers have already dubbed the new virus "HIV-negative."

59 blood samples of patients with these symptoms had already been sent to research laboratories.However, some experts believe that talking about a new virus prematurely. In their view, the majority of patients with HIV-negative "suffer from the so-called HIV-phobia.

This condition is described in clinical practice when suggestible people develop an intense fear of contracting AIDS. Because of these experiences they can actually develop symptoms of the disease.

In Britain, about alcoholism, was hospitalized on a child of three. According to experts, he became the youngest alcoholic in the country, writes The Daily Telegraph.

As it became known to doctors, three-year-old boy from Birmingham, whose name was not called, regularly consumed alcohol within six months. This led to the development of alcohol dependence - without another portion of booze in the child develop symptoms of withdrawal. It is assumed that the liquor he found in the parents.

Local control of the National Health Service (NIH) reported that from 2008 to 2010, his staff had to provide assistance to 13 children under 12 years and 106 adolescents aged 13 to 16 years, suffering from alcohol dependence. Another 74 Britons aged 13 to 16 years received during this period in the emergency department with acute alcohol poisoning.

According to the Action Team on Alcohol Alcohol Concern, the number of juveniles entering the hospital about an overdose of alcohol in 2010 increased by one third. Ambulance Service West Midlands has received this year 1296 calls for such patients, which cost taxpayers nearly 250,000 pounds (more than 400 thousand dollars).

Representatives of the charity Drinkaware reminded that alcohol consumption during childhood and adolescence not only leads to the formation of severe dependence, but also long-term damage to vital organs such as brain, heart and liver.

After reports of a three-year alcoholic member of parliament from the Liberal Democrats Lorili Bert (Lorely Burt) urged the Government to introduce a minimum price for alcoholic drinks to make them less accessible.

According to experts at the University of Alberta, the sick during the passage of chemotherapy in order not to lose weight, you need to diet to include fish oil. During therapy, patients who consume fish oil, have kept lean body mass within normal limits.

In the fish oil contains valuable fatty acids, which helps keep a healthy weight. In addition, the acid helps to support the quality of life of patients. For research was selected group of people who are undergoing chemotherapy.

As a result, patients on average lost 2.3 pounds, did not use fish oil. Initial weight remained in those patients who consumed cod liver oil. More than half participated in the study patients were able to retain muscle mass.

In addition, fish oil is considered safe and nontoxic. Patients who are in a period of chemotherapy to use only a few grams of fish oil a day, will have a normal weight. According to Dr. Vera Mezurek from the University of Alberta in Canada, now in cancer patients will promise in the treatment of weight loss.

Positive attitude a patient can double the effect of the drugs, while negative to reduce it to zero, the scientists said. Researchers from Oxford and Cambridge and two German universities have made their conclusions based on an innovative experiment to study the role of conscious thought in the perception of pain.

22-m volunteers put on the skin heating device and asked to rate the pain level. Average score on a scale from 0 to 100 was 66. After that, the subject began to enter the painkiller based on opiates. The average score dropped to 55. When subjects were told the experts that they have started to receive a painkiller score dropped to 39. However, when subjects were told that the entry of the painkiller discontinued, although it was not a true evaluation of pain increased again to 64.

At the same time, volunteers monitored the brain activity using MRI. It turned out parts of the brain responsible for pain intensified when people thought that no painkiller, but positive thoughts slowed the activity of these brain regions.

"Physicians should not underestimate the significant impact that the experience of patients may have on treatment outcome," - said the professor who led the study from the Center for Functional MRI of the brain at Oxford University, Irene Tracey.

In the experiments conducted in Japan dog breed Labrador has proven its ability to sniff out cancer in humans.

Data on the study published medical journal Gut. They confirm earlier speculation that the dogs are able to recognize early stages of the disease by various forms of cancer, including skin cancer, bladder, lung, ovarian and breast cancer.

Researchers from Kyushu University, used an 8-year-old female Labrador, which were offered five samples of his chair and exhaled air, four of them are healthy people and one - a cancer patient.

The dog successfully distinguished specimen of breath in 33 out of 36 cases. Even more accurate were the results in the analysis of stool samples - 37 of 38. In this case, she identified symptoms even early stage bowel cancer, which is difficult to diagnose.

Used in Britain program for identifying colorectal cancer determine the level of blood in the stool, but researchers suggest that their effectiveness is only 10%. Meanwhile, this type of cancer is sick each 20-second Briton, and each year more than 16,000 people nationwide die from it.

Dr. Hideto Sonoda from Kyushu University, points out that "the method of sniffing dog may be difficult to implement in a clinical setting because of the high cost of dog training and expertise." However, already are working on creating an electronic analyzer which simulates a dog's sense of smell.

"Odor of cancer is really exists, but nobody knows what chemical compounds are of it. Only the dog knows the answer to this question, - said Dr. Sonoda, told BBC. - It is therefore necessary to determine the characteristic of cancer and volatile organic compounds who find a dog, and create an electronic sensor that will replace the dog's nose. This would require a lot of time

Sleep helps to remember new information proved by scientists from the University of Luebeck in Germany.

The results of a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience shows that the brain is better at remembering if you do not miss while you sleep. In the experiment, 24 volunteers took part, which showed 15 pairs of images of animals and household items with a request to remember them.

After 40 minutes, half the participants showed slightly altered image. The other half of the participants at this time asleep. At the end of the experiment, both groups again suggested that the first cards with images, offering to find them.

The experimental results showed that the group who slept during the experiment, showed much better results in remembering - an average of 85 percent versus 65 percent among those who had not slept.

"The processing of memories is quite different during sleep or bodrostvovaniya - says lead researcher Susanna Dikelmann. - Based on the results of the study, we assume that the transfer of information from the hippocampus to the new cerebral cortex occurs in the first few minutes of sleep. "

Only after 40 minutes of sleep most of the information received "is loaded and stored in a part of the brain where it can not be broken by new flows of information, encoded in the hippocampus.

The hippocampus - a brain region responsible for memorizing. Studies in the U.S., show the same results when studying the impact of sleep on long-term memory. Conclusion: to remember all, we must not learn of sleepless nights, and sleep.