All the patients were tested for memory, executive functions, such as planning, and language at the start of the study, then after two and four weeks, and again after eight weeks. Tests showed that those who had the full course of treatment scored much higher on comprehension of what was said to them, up from 66 per cent to 77 per cent. The scientists say the technique is “specific to the language domain of the brain when applied to the prefrontal lobes” as did not affect other language abilities or other cognitive functions, including memory. The good part is that there was no further change after four weeks and that the improvement was still evident eight weeks after treatment.
Therefore, the study showed that magnets can alter “cortical activity” in the brain, readjusting unhealthy patterns caused by disease or damage, but it is not absolutely clear how the technique works. It looks that there are some proofs that people with congenital or acquired brain damage have shown that certain areas of the brain seem to be plastic and that cortical activity can be “reorganized” as a result. Besides, the authors conclude that their study is a step forward towards finding a therapy that could bring hope to patients suffering from a neurodegenerative disease. “The present preliminary results … hold considerable promise, not only for advancing our understanding of brain plasticity mechanisms, but also for designing new rehabilitation strategies in patients with neurodegenerative disease.”

It’s even sadder that the link between TV and heart disease was still strong even when lack of exercise, obesity, diet and smoking were taken into account. This means that watching TV was independently linked to heart disease and the effect is not simply due to be inactive while watching television. Dr Katrien Wijndaele co-author of the study from the MRC explained:
“Our bodies are not designed to sit for long periods and we should be aware that, as we put in the TV-hours watching the World Cup, our risk of heart disease is probably increasing. It might seem obvious that watching TV is linked to heart disease but it’s really crucial that we look closely at how our lifestyles affect our health in order to develop more effective ways of improving the health of the nation. This type of research is a crucial part of informing public health advice. We need further research to see if other sedentary activities, like sitting behind a computer or in the car, generate the same results. However, we chose to focus on TV as it’s the most widespread sedentary leisure activity where people have an active choice to dramatically change their behavior.”
But let’s give an example for a better understanding. For instance, if a person’s normal risk of dying by heart disease is 10 per cent, watching four hours of television a day increases the risk to 13 per cent.
The results of the study that have been published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, should be taken seriously. As we all know, most of us smile ironically when they hear about such studies. They think it’s a joke but it’s not. Such studies strengthen the argument that sitting for hours on end watching TV is not good for our health. Their goal is not to make us not watch TV at all. On the contrary, we should watch what we love on TV, whether it’s the World Cup or a soap opera. The important thing is not to transform ourselves in couch potatoes, to do at least 30 minutes physical activity five times a week, eat healthy and it will make a difference.

So let’s see what we can do if we’ve stayed too much at the beach and we’ve got a sunburn:
- Aspirin can help relieve the pain, itching, and swelling of a mild to moderate burn. Take two tablets every 4 hours.
- Drink 3 l of water a day in order to prevent dehydration.
- Apply yogurt to all sunburned areas to cool and sooth your skin. Rinse off in a cool shower, then gently pat skin dry.
- If your eyelids are burned, apply tea bags soaked in cool water to decrease swelling and help relief pain.
- Apply soothing compresses dipped in oatmeal water or skim milk for 20 minutes at every 2-4 hours.
- Start eating 4 carrots a day or take supplements of beta-carotene.
- Sprinkle talcum powder on your sheets to minimize chafing and friction and try to sleep as much as you can. You will recover faster.
- If blisters are present, don’t open or burst them. Keep the blisters uncovered if possible and use vinegar & honey remedies as well as antibacterial products to avoid making an infection.

There are plenty tips to treat a sunburn, yet some of them will not work on you, depending on the type of your sunburn and your skin. So, if you do not want to get there and try all kind of treatments for relieving your pain, follow the rules:
- Apply a sunscreen about 30 minutes before going out, even if it’s cloudy. Protect your lips, hands, ears, and the back of your neck and reapply after swimming or perspiring heavily.
- Take extra care between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. as the sun is at its hottest.
- If you insist upon getting a tan, do it very gradually. Start with 15 minutes’ exposure and increase it only a few minutes at a time.
- Wear protective clothing when not swimming or sunbathing. Hats, tightly woven fabrics, and long sleeves help keep the sun off your skin.

Here are some tips to help busy women get enough sleep and thus avoid these health problems:

Give up the car and go to work by bike. You get to do two things at once: exercise and gaining at least one hour – 30 minute one-way and 30 minutes at return.
Share the responsibilities with your family. You don’t have to be the one who does all the work at home. Send your boyfriend/husband to do the shopping. Put some post-its on the fridge with messages like ‘Who cleans the gas-cooker gets a ticket to football match!’ and one of your children will definitely do the job instead of you. Thus you can win 30 minutes or even an hour.
Do two things at once: cook and do the laundry at the same time or go shopping with your children, having a parent-to-child talk on the way. You win two or three hours a week.
Give up ironing. Iron just the clothes you need and not the sheets. You win one hour a week.
Pay the bills on-line. You can visit your best friend or you can get a nap. You win almost three hours.
Prepare your clothes for the next day in the evening. In this way you can sleep more with at least 30 minutes.

Remember that sleeping less than eight hours a day causes irreversible damages to your body. The time you save can be used for your hobbies but especially for extra sleeping. It’s not a flim-flam, it’s a must!

World Health Organization’s spokesman Daniel Epstein said that inhaled particles can enter the lungs and cause respiratory problems: “We’re very concerned about it. These particles when inhaled can reach the peripheral regions of … the lungs and can cause problems - especially for people with asthma or respiratory problems.”

Nevertheless, other experts said World Health Organisation’s warnings were “hysterical” and that the volcanic ash was much less dangerous than cigarette smoke or pollution. “The cloud has already passed over northern Scotland and we haven’t heard of any ill effects there,” said Dr. Stephen Spiro, a professor of respiratory medicine and deputy chair of the British Lung Foundation.
“Not all particles are created equal,” said Ken Donaldson, a professor of respiratory toxicology at the University of Edinburgh, who has studied the impact of volcanic ash in people. “In the great scheme of things, volcanic ash is not all that harmful.” Besides, according to the professor, most Europeans’ exposure to volcanic ash would be negligible and that only those near the Icelandic volcano would likely be at risk. “Once the volcanic particles are in the stratosphere, they’re getting massively diluted because there’s a lot of air and other particles blowing around.” Donaldson also said that after previous volcanic eruptions, little impact has been seen in people’s health, except for those with lung problems who were close to the volcano.

Even so, World Health Organisation recommends Europeans to try to stay indoors or to consider wearing a mask if they go outside and not wear contact lenses. If people experience symptoms such as itchy or irritated eyes, a runny nose, sore throat or dry cough, or notice a dusty haze in the air or smell the rotten egg odour of sulphur outside, then they should limit their activities outdoors or return indoors.
The advice for people in northern Europe with respiratory problems, asthma, or cardiovascular problems is:
- Avoid intense exercise.
- Keep inhalers and medication with you.
- Avoid exhaust from heavily trafficked roads.

People should keep in mind these warnings and suggestions on how to protect themselves, because experts say things might get worse. The volcano has erupted twice in the past 1,100 years, once for more than a year. Each time it was followed by the eruption of the neighbouring Katla volcano, which is much larger and could cause disruption that is even more serious.

Infertility. Millions of couples around the world suffer from some kind of fertility problem. So, rather than use donated sperm and eggs, people could use a cell of your own to give birth to “themselves”, their own twin. However, there are plenty of children in orphanages and foster cares that could use a home and family.

Recover someone they’ve lost, for instance the exact copy of their dead son/ daughter who was healthy and smart but died in a stupid accident.

Making the human race better: Selecting the most perfect genetic donor in someone’s opinion, whether it is from super-geniuses (e.g., Albert Einstein) or super-athletes (e.g., Michael Jordan), advances in science and technology would grow at an even faster rate and more people would be healthier. This reason is connected with eugenics, also known as the science of improving human genetic qualities. Eugenics was practiced around the world and was promoted by governments and influential individuals and institutions but then it fall into disrepute after having become associated with the Nazi doctrine.

Assisting Medicine and Medical research: We may be able to cure cancer if cloning leads to a better understanding of cell differentiation. It is said that parents could produce a clone of a sick child to provide bone marrow. Theories exist about how cloning may lead to a cure for heart attacks, a revolution in cosmetic surgery, organs for organ transplantation, and predictions abound about how cloning technology will save thousands of lives. However, this research is still in its infancy and requires a lot more time, effort, and money before it matures into saving a lot more people.

Taking a step towards immortality - Human cloning essentially means taking a human being’s DNA and reversing its age back to zero. Dr. Richard Seed, one of cloning’s leading proponents, hopes that cloning will help us understand how to reverse DNA back to age 20 or whatever age we want to be. Cloning would be a step towards a fountain of youth.

A few drops of castor oil mixed with the juice of any fruit or vegetable, taken first thing in the morning can be a cure for different kinds of allergies.
The most trusted cure is lime juice with honey in water taken on an empty stomach first thing every morning. It helps eliminate all toxins from the body, and helps in fight allergies. But it is not helpful for those who have an intolerance to citric foods.
Remember that it is very important to change your diet. Add salmon or any other fatty fish such as sardines, tuna and mackerel to your to your diet because it helps balancing out the ratio of omega-3s to omega-6s in the body, which seems to have several beneficial effects on the immune system that translate into fewer allergy symptoms. Omega-3 helps minimize inflammation, a direct cause of most allergy symptoms, as an Australian study reveals that children who ate fish at least once a week were 80 percent less likely to have ryegrass pollen allergies, a common cause of hay fever, than those who rarely ate fish. Even if you’re an adult, you should have one to two servings of fatty fish per week. If you don’t like eating fish, take fish-oil supplements and so your body will get the omega-3 needed.
Bananas are a good remedy for curing irritations to the skin. It can also help when reactions occur in the form of digestive troubles and asthma. However, do not try this tip if you have a sensitive disposition.
Finally yet importantly, fill your shopping basket with the good old garlic. Make the so-smelly garlic your friend and they will support your immune system with their rich store of antioxidants. Researchers have identified a link between a higher intake of certain antioxidants and a lower incidence of hay fever. You can cut a fresh clove into several chunks and swallow them like pills for a daily dose and your stomach acids will do their job of breaking them down. As the garlic travels through the colon, it releases antioxidants.
Nevertheless, keep in mind that what works for one may not necessarily work for another. A universal cure for allergies does not exist!

Remember! Adults need to consume around 300-1,000 mg of ascorbic acid per day and 50mg/day in case of infants to effectively treat the disease.

Some scientists consider the mesenchymal stem cells, also called bone marrow stem cells (BMSC) that come from adults, not embryos. Unlike embryonic stem cells, is no risk of cancer or immune rejection because they come from the patient they will treat, and there is no risk of contracting infectious blood borne diseases. A drug, which consists of stem cells from donor bone marrow, gets injected into the vein. Then, the cells travel through the bloodstream and take up residence in the heart. The BMSC are supposed to form new cardiac myocytes and coronary vessels following an induced myocardial infarct (myocardial infarcts do not regenerate and eventually result in the death of the individual, even if myocytes in the surviving myocardium undergo hypertrophy and cell division occurs in the border area of the dead tissue). It has been already on mice and it gave positive results. Besides, numerous attempts have been made to repair damaged myocardium in animal models and in humans because the BMSC maintain the ability throughout adult life to self-renew and differentiate into cells of all blood lineages. These adult BMSC have recently been shown to have the capacity to differentiate into multiple specific cell types in tissues other than bone marrow.

The other option scientists are considering for is the angiogenic cell precursors, or ACPs, the stem cells whose normal function is to repair damaged blood vessels. When injected into and around the heart, these cells build new blood vessels and restore function to the damaged heart tissue. This type of stem cells are supposed to treat patients suffering from coronary artery disease (angina), cardiomyopathy, and congestive heart failure (CHF) and the risks involved are similar to those of a standard angioplasty or minimally invasive heart surgery (NOT open-heart surgery).
Nevertheless, these are just studies that are still in Clinical trials and they are promising because it’s very rare that the human body rejects its own stem cells.

In Japan, people with flu are drinking tamagozake (egg and sake) before going to bed to keep the boy warm and to help them in the early stage of a cold. Other home remedies for cold symptoms: grilled umeboshi (pickled plum) until it’s burnt, pour very hot green tea over it, then drink to reduce fever; mix 2 tsp of grated ginger and 2 tsp of sugar in a cup, and pour 2/3 cup of hot water in the cup (use fresh ginger root to make shogayu) to clear up a stuffed nose.

In North America, the Native Americans, the Menominees used the inner bark from native hemlock as a cure for influenza. They would also boil it and drink it like a tea. It is said to help by making you sweat and relieving the fever and chills. The Delaware Indians boiled the inner bark of Dogwood to make their fever-reducing tea. Also used in the same way by various tribes are the Willow and the Feverwort. Some used the bark, some the root, and some used the leaves to make the tea. Also known to treat flu symptoms are Rabbit Tobacco, Sage, and Wild Cherry.

The Scots were seamen and used for colds and flu Hot Rum and Pep (rum and peppermint) , drinking nettle tea and going for a walk to get sea air. Not mountain air, not any kind of air but sea air.

In South America, the ancient Maya, Aztec, and Inca cultures each developed sophisticated uses for medicinal plants before the Spanish Conquest in the early part of the sixteenth century. Now, the most used cure for stuffy nose is taking regular whiffs of a sachet containing a pungent mix of crushed garlic, broken bay leaves and coarsely ground nutmeg. They seem to believe that stinky things clear the nostrils.

In South Africa, natives used grind fresh garlic and in soups to create a cold tonic, they inhale a mixture of turmeric and boiled water to clear up nasal congestion, and for coughs they administer a potent cough syrup of half black pepper and half honey.

The Traditional Chinese Medicine recommends the herb astragalus by tincture, pill or even injection to boost the immune system and reduce cold symptoms. Pak fah yeou, which literally translates as “White Flower Oil”, composed of wintergreen, camphor, menthol, eucalyptus, lavender and peppermint oils, is used to rub backs and chests to relieve chest congestion and cough and under noses to relieve stuffiness.

People from Serbia used to make a hot caramel drink to relieve cough and bronchitis and Serbian tea (slowly melt two to three teaspoons of sugar; add a few drops of water, a cup of plum brandy) to treat the common cold and chills.