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- Never too late to quit: Quitting smoking reduces mortality, even in older patients
- Are feminism and attachment parenting practices compatible?
- Some adults with sleep disturbances are actually afraid of the dark, study says
- MRI scans show how sleep loss affects the ability to choose proper foods
| Never too late to quit: Quitting smoking reduces mortality, even in older patients Posted: 11 Jun 2012 04:33 PM PDT An analysis of available medical literature suggests smoking was linked to increased mortality in older patients and that smoking cessation was associated with reduced mortality at an older age.  |
| Are feminism and attachment parenting practices compatible? Posted: 11 Jun 2012 10:42 AM PDT What kind of mothers do feminists make? According to a new study, feminist mothers endorse the importance of the time-intensive, hands-on parenting practices associated with attachment parenting -- a child-centric parenting technique in which children's needs are ideally met on the child's schedule rather than the parent's.  |
| Some adults with sleep disturbances are actually afraid of the dark, study says Posted: 11 Jun 2012 06:23 AM PDT Sleep researchers are shedding light on a contributing factor to insomnia maybe hard to admit -- an adult fear of the dark. A pilot study reports that nearly half of the students reporting poor sleep also were found (with objective measurement) to have a phobia of the dark. Researchers said traditional insomnia treatments might not work for these patients, and suggest they be adapted to account for the dark-related phobia.  |
| MRI scans show how sleep loss affects the ability to choose proper foods Posted: 10 Jun 2012 12:14 PM PDT fMRI scans reveal how sleep deprivation impairs higher-order regions in the human brain where food choices are made – not the deeper brain structures reacting to basic desire. This new evidence offers another explanation for the link between sleep loss and obesity. Impaired brain activity in the frontal lobe was observed but not significant differences in areas traditionally associated with basic reward reactivity. Therefore, sleep loss may be more about higher brain functions than cravings.  |
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