Dump the hair dye: Reducing stress can REVERSE gray hair, study says 

Going on vacation REVERSES gray hair! Reducing stress sends hair back to its natural color, Columbia University study finds Researchers from Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons published the study in the journal eLife on Tuesday  The team of researchers made their findings by analyzing the individual hairs of 14 volunteers, seven men … Read more

Eighties pop is best music genre for reducing anxiety, study reveals 

Eighties pop is the best musical genre for reducing blood pressure, due to its ‘positive nostalgia’, researchers have found.   Turkish researchers hooked up 1,540 volunteers aged between 18 and 65 to blood pressure and heart rate monitors and played them a variety of music on Spotify.  Music from the hit TV series It’s a Sin, … Read more

Eighties pop is the best genre for reducing anxiety, study reveals 

Eighties pop is the best musical genre for reducing blood pressure, due to its ‘positive nostalgia’, researchers have found.   Turkish researchers hooked up 1,540 volunteers aged between 18 and 65 to blood pressure and heart rate monitors and played them a variety of music on Spotify.  Music from the hit TV series It’s a Sin, … Read more

Rule of six and 10pm curfew is likely to have had ‘ZERO effect’ on reducing contacts, study claims 

The ‘rule of six’ and 10pm curfew have likely had ‘zero effect’ in reducing the spread of Covid-19, research has suggested.  Researchers at the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) are the first to assess whether or not the controversial measures — first introduced in September — have had any effect.  They interviewed … Read more

Yoga is more effective at reducing anxiety than traditional stress-management

People who suffer with anxiety should take up regular yoga to improve their symptoms, research suggests.  A study of 226 people suffering with generalised anxiety disorder took up either Kundalini yoga, a stress-management course or cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Three months later, after weekly hour-long sessions, more than half (54 per cent) of those who practiced … Read more

An N99 is the most effective at reducing risk of contracting coronavirus, study finds

We’ve all been told to wear face masks to reduce the spread of coronavirus, but it turns out the material your mask is made of may affect your risk, a new study suggests. An N99 mask, which filters out nearly all particles both large and small, reduced the odds of contracting COVID-19, the disease caused … Read more

Laser-based ripeness test ensures PERFECT avocados while reducing waste by up to 10 per cent 

Millennials rejoice! Laser-based ripeness test ensures PERFECT avocados while reducing waste by up to 10 per cent Avocado ripeness is traditionally assessed by hand or using pneumatic devices These approaches can result in up to 30 per cent of the fruit being wasted Experts have developed a non-destructive approach using lasers and vibrations It cam accurately determine on an individual basis which fruit are … Read more

The lockdown appears to be reducing the number of people infected by coronavirus

What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more

Air pollution is reducing global life expectancy by three years, scientists find

Air pollution is reducing global life expectancy by three years, killing 8.8million people a year, a study shows. More people are dying early from breathing toxic air than some of the largest killers, including malaria, HIV, war and smoking. Scientists led by Germany fear the world is facing an air pollution ‘pandemic’ after analysing deaths … Read more