Drinking tea promotes healthy sleep - researchers

Drinking tea during the day - a good preventive maintenance nightmares. This conclusion was made by Japanese scientists

In the course of research specialists Nihon University School of Medicine found that those who drink a day for more than one cup of tea, 50% reduced risk of unpleasant dreams, compared with those who hardly uses the drink.

Say exactly why this happens, scientists can not. However, they believe that the provisions in the case of active chemicals, particularly amino acid tannin, relieve stress and soothe negative brain electrical activity, AMI-TASS reports.

Simultaneously, Japanese doctors found that women at higher risk of 80% of nightmares than men. Explanation for this yet either, though experts note that women have more fine structure of the psyche.

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Poor people eat more sweet

The poorer the person, the more it consumes sweet, found U.S. scientists

That is the conclusion the researchers came, having received information about nutrition for more than 30,000 Americans, reports zdr.ru.

"The average American more than the daily norm of sugar by 15%, and if its financial situation leaves much to be desired, sugar consumption exceeds the norm in a few times" - the researchers say.

According to them, with sweet poor people "jammed" stress.

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Low women live longer - researchers

Specialists from the College of Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University compared the genome of Ashkenazi Jews aged 100 year

Israeli scientists have found a gene variant that is responsible for the increased life expectancy
It was found that carriers of this gene are women with below-average growth.

It was found that the centenarians and their children were more frequent mutations of the receptor for insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), which participates in the regulation of growth, development and differentiation of cells and tissues. It is reported MedicInform.Net

Mutation carriers had violated the process of binding the cells with IGF-1, which was accompanied by increased levels of this substance in the blood by 37%, researchers reported. Scientists have also noted that women who are carriers of the mutant gene, were on average 2.5 cm below the participants from the control group.

According to experts, in practice, this discovery confirms the view that growth hormone injections as an anti-aging drugs used in the U.S. (and elsewhere), can be dangerous, since people with low levels of growth hormone live longer. Thus, the rejection of injections of growth hormone may increase life expectancy, scientists explained.

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Women are more difficult to resist the delicious food - study

Women are more difficult to resist the temptation when they are facing a plate of treats

This is stated in a study by American scientists, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Researchers were asked 23 healthy volunteers and slender to refrain from eating for 17 hours. Then, in front of them put on a plate with their favorite foods and asked to suppress the feeling of hunger by thinking about something else.

Dr. Gene-Jack Wang, who led the research Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, followed the work of their brains using positron emission tomography.

He concluded that an attempt to suppress hunger for men a brain region responsible for this feeling, becomes less active, while women did not change brain function, transmit medicinews.ru.

"Reducing the restraining control in women, probably accounts for the fact that they achieve less success trying to lose weight through diet, compared with men," - said Wang.

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