Exercise Reduces Anxiety

Previously, a lot of researches have been done and investigated for depression. Depression refers to an illness where the suffered individual might experience lowly mood and aversion to activity. The stages before that, many refer to it as "anxiety". Though anxiety is not always being associated as a situation on par or worse than depression, but it holds quite similar characteristics with depression which characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components. But anxiety is often overlooked, until it turns into major depression disorder.

In the 22nd Feb edition of Archives of Internal Medicine, a group of researchers have analyzed the results of 40 randomized clinical trials which involved for about 3,000 patients with a variety of medical conditions, namely heart disease, multiple sclerosis, cancer, chronic pain from arthritis. The consequence, patients who exercised regularly were reported in showing a 20 percent reduction in anxiety symptoms compared to those who did not exercise.

Reducing anxiety through exercise seems to be a great way as far as the study is concerned. But previously, exercise has been overlooked as a method in decreasing the possibility of anxiety occurrence. Currently, physicians often prescribe that light exercises such as walking to strength training such as weight lifting are great exercises which could potentially reduce anxiety.

Apart from that, exercise which are done longer than 30 minutes appear to be better than exercises which lasted for less than 30 minutes.

Brain Booster

Got busy for the big whole day and felt tired right after spending time on those busy moments? How would you react under such circumstance? The chances are, very likely that you would yawn, and you would hope to have a nap very very badly.

There are several school of thoughts about napping, where generally, the outcomes of napping can be categorized into two different consequences, where one of it believes that napping is bad for you, while the other one says that it is good for you. In general, many people feel the urge to have a certain period of nap each day, but as far as the words of mouth is concerned, many people regard napping is bad for our healths.

The reason why people are talking bad things about napping, is because, they generally think that having a nap could cause instability in their internal clock as well as sleep disorders. For instance, when you take a nap for about 2 hours during the afternoon, you would probably need to sleep 2 hours later compare to the usual moment you sleep at night for that day. In other words, for some, they believe that nap serves to push back how early you can fall asleep at night.

But is napping really bad for us? Not really. According to a latest study, conducted by lead investigator Dr. Matthew Walker and fellow researchers who hail from University of Berkeley, they claim that an hour's of nap can dramatically boost and restore brain power. Not only restore, they suggested that it can boost your brain to perform even greater than moments before you had your nap.

The mentioned researchers recruited 39 healthy and young adults as participants, and then divided them into two different groups, which are nap group and non-nap group. At noon, both groups were given a task where they are to complete a task which required them to absorb a lot of facts. When the clock ticks at 2pm, the participants from nap group were required to have a 1.5 hour of nap. When 6 pm approached, both groups were once again required to take up the challenges.

The results were obvious. The nap group perform way better than their opposition. Not only they perform better than the other group, they performed even greater than they had in the earlier in the day. The theory behind this, is our brain just resembles as how the Internet Explorer works. It stores up a lot of temporary files, and they are needed to be removed by sleeping, because sleeping likens the method of clearing out process.

Listen to Bobby

Here is a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry be happy
In every life we have some trouble
When you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy......

Do those sentences above ring any bells in your head? Well, you would probably have guess that. Yes, they are the famous lyrical phrases from the song "Don't Worry, Be Happy", written by Bobby McFerrin, and it is also the theme song for the movie "Cocktail".

But well, we are not discussing oldies and old time movies right here, but today, we are going to talk about the importance of being happy and enthusiastic. As one of the phrases sound, "In every life we have some trouble, when you worry you make it double, don't worry, be happy.....", indeed, this sounds very very true, especially when a latest study has been published in the 17th February advanced online issue of the European Heart Journal.

A group of zealous researchers, led by Dr. Karina Davidson, suggest that people with a tendency to experience positive emotions, such as being happy, enthusiastic and content, are also less likely to develop heart disease than those who do not experience it.

Although the findings were only based on observational study, but such evidence was fairly convincing that "positive effects" in individuals, such as joyful, pleasant feelings, are very likely decreasing the risk of developing heart diseases, while "negative effects", such as feelings of anxiety, depression and hostility, on the other hand, could lead to the elevation of risk in developing heart diseases.

The study, was involving some 800 plus healthy males and females respectively. These participants had their risk of heart disease checked at the very beginning stage of the study. Apart from that, they were also had their positive or negative effects measured, by using a positive five-point scale, ranging from "none" to "extreme". That is, being "none" means that you do not have any positive effect within you at that particular time, whereas "extreme" indicates that you are in a jovial mood.

After ten years of the study, the researchers found that there was a steady trend linking increased positive effect with lower risk of heart disease. Although such findings were somewhat convincing in the medical field, but a clinical trial will be done very soon for further confirmation on the outcome.

Therefore, be happy, don't worry!

You are What You Eat

First thing first, The GTF Team hereby welcome you back to the exclusive blog site of GTF Worldwide Sdn Bhd. Perhaps there are already many people wishing you many prosperous wishes in this year of Tiger, and not only that, you would have probably consumed uncountable foods which contain extremely high calories, and those foods, in your clear conscious, you know very well that they are not categorized in any of the healthy food channels. Just one reminder over here, have you consume GT&F Products from time to time in order to ensure that your health is kept in a good shape?

As the saying goes, you are what you eat, it does not literally means that if you eat numerous kuih kapit and potato chips during this Chinese New Year, the way you looked will subsequently changed into the looks of kuih kapit or potato chips. Of course not, that was just a cold joke.

Other than the little reminder about consuming GT&F Products, in conjunction of the National Nurition Month of the United States this March, The GTF Team would like to give you another reminder about how you should consume your foods in order to strike a balance as far as your body and health are concerned.

Quoted from Dr. Hasting, a chief scientific officer of Reliv International; it's true enough about what he said, we should really focus on having plant-based diet (This could leave you various nutrients in your body if you obey this rule daily in your life, switch into such habit after all that meats and drinks during Chinese New Year celebration would be a pleasant shift), develop a habit where you would fall in love with green tea (Green tea, without a doubt, contains high level of antioxidants, drink up to three cups a day would be sufficient).

Once again, The GTF Team hereby wishing you a very prosperous and successful year ahead!

Gong Xi Gong Xi!

Milk During Pregnancy

Milk is an important food source as far as the element calcium is concerned. Ask every member or distributor of GTF Worldwide, they will tell you just the same answer. But many people are confused about drinking milk, especially for pregnant ladies. The usual question which often popped out would be, "can a pregnant lady drink milk?" These individuals often are very worried about some pregnant women whom they known, particularly when they are milk-drinkers at the same time.

But many people would have known by now, that pregnant ladies are absolutely permitted to drink milk, as milk is rich in calcium as well as vitamin D (especially in fortified milk). But in a recent study, it basically further encourage pregnant individuals to drink more milk!

A preliminary study which will be presented at the American of Neurology's 62nd Annual Meeting in Toronto from 10th April to 17th April 2010, shows just that. The basic idea of the study involves about some 35,000 nurses whose mothers completed questionnaires in year 2001 about their experiences and diet during pregnancy. Among all the nurses studied, there are 199 nurses who developed Ms (Multiple Sclerosis).

Researchers whom involved in this study, discovered that pregnant mothers-to-be who drink milk frequently and consume dietary vitamin D in essential amount would reduce the risk of developing MS in their daughters (that is, if the child in the womb is a female).

Based on the results obtained, the risk in developing MS of women whose mothers drank about 4 glasses of milk per day throughout the period of pregnancy appears to reduce for as many as 56 percents compare to those whose mothers consumed less than three glasses of milk per day. Whereas pregnant mothers who take in top 20 percent of vitamin D appears to reduce for as many as 45 percents in Ms development in their daughters, compare to those who consumed the bottom 20 percents of vitamin D.

Calcium and vitamin D seem to be playing pivotal roles in securing healthy condition of the babies. The most important sources of calcium and vitamin D, apart from milk, would be fatty fish such as salmon, as well as exposing to sunlight.

Instead of drinking ordinary dairy products, you are encouraged to consume GT&F Milk instead, for GT&F Milk provides you the essential trivalent chromium and other sufficient nutrients, which do not only provides you calcium and vitamin D, it is also able to regulate the whole body system of yours!

Migraine & Heart Attack

Migraine can be an intimidating disease, where it causes the sufferer severe headaches and it can also strikes to an extent that the sufferer experience nausea. Not only these troubling symptoms would accompany migraine sufferers, they are also most likely developing other frightening diseases, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

A recent piece of evidence which could be found in the journal of Neurology, people with migraine are now said to have increased risk of getting heart diseases. The study had about 6,100 people whom are non-migraine sufferers and some 5,200 people whom appeared to be migraine sufferers participated. Then, these participants were asked a string of questions pertaining to headaches, treatment, general health as well as any diagnosed heart complications.

As a results of the questioning session, it was found that those who had migraine, has a surprising twice likely in encountering the attacking of heart diseases compare to those who did not have migraine.

Migraine generally consists of four phases, these four stages, though, are not necessarily come after one another or before one another, it varies with individuals. These four stages are namely 1) prodrome phase (where sufferers tend to feel irritated and have altered mood condition, such as depression), 2) aura phase (where vision disturbance could interrupt the sufferer), 3) pain phase (where sufferers tend to feel acute pain as in headaches), 4) postdrome phase (where sufferers started to develop cognitive interruptions). But for this piece of recent study, researchers focused on the aura phase.

According to the study, people with migraine which falls in the aura phase, are one and a half time more likely than those who did not have migraine in suffering heart diseases. Does migraine sounds scary to you? It really does in some extent. But GT&F Products are the solution to you. As a matter of fact, there are many migraine sufferers, who are also current consumer of GT&F Products, made numerous numbers of live and real testimonials that the products can really treat migraine.

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