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How Food can Affect your Brain

April 5, 2019 by • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

The human brain is capable of controlling various body functions such as breathing, movements, senses, and heartbeat. To perform these and numerous other tasks, our brain requires a constant supply of energy.

This energy comes from the food that we eat. Hence, our eating habits and the type of food we eat, do affect our brain’s performance. If you want to improve the functionality of your brain, you can achieve this goal by paying attention to the food you eat.

Nutritious Food Improves Brain’s Performance

We can get the best performance out of our brains by simply choosing high quality and nutritious food. This means that we should try to follow a balanced approach while deciding our daily menu. Although chocolates and fried chicken looks tempting, consuming such food regularly is not a good idea.

On the contrary, if you go for a healthy and balanced diet, it can improve the overall functioning of the brain. Our diet must contain all the essential elements like antioxidants, minerals, vitamins, and fatty acids. These ingredients provide the required nourishment to our brain and improve its performance.

Food Promotes Mental Wellness

Among other essential factors, food is one of the key elements that influence our mental and physical wellness. A balanced diet helps us to provide specific nutrients to our brain, which improves its overall health. By following a specific diet plan, we can treat various disorders associated with brain functioning and its growth.

How Food can Control Your Emotions

Scientific research has now revealed the correlation between food and our emotional behavior. The field of nutritional psychiatry is unveiling numerous connections between our food and mood. It analyzes the effect of our food on our brains. Hence, our behavior, emotions, and feelings may depend on what we eat and what types of bacteria are nurturing in our guts.

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter, which our body produces through a natural process. It helps to control our appetite, sleep, and mood. A gastrointestinal tract is a place where a large amount of serotonin is produced. Our digestive system not only performs the function of food digestion, but it also regulates our emotions.

The production and performance of serotonin depend largely on the presence of good bacteria. These bacteria prove to be essential for our mental and physical health. For instance, probiotics containing good bacteria can reduce anxiety and stress levels. They also help to improve our brains performance.

A diet containing less or no amount of dairy/meat products may increase the chances of mental disorders like depression. This is so, as dairy products are a good source of probiotics. Moreover, unprocessed and fermented foods offer a sufficient amount of probiotics. These foods are capable of improving our mood and elevate energy levels.

Conclusion

After considering the above information, one can conclude that the food we eat does affect our brains. The impact is both positive as well as negative. If your diet contains all those nutrients that are essential for the brain’s growth and performance, you may notice a positive impact over the functioning of your brain and emotions. On the contrary, while consuming a low nutrient diet, you may feel an abrupt change in your mood or experience a lack of attention.

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Ten Tips for Good Health

March 24, 2019 by • Society • 0 Comments

For a perfect and healthy life, make sure to follow these amazing health tips.

Prefer to Eat Vegetables

Vegetables are full of vitamins and are easy to digest. Hence, make sure to include at least five servings of vegetables into your daily diet. You can consume them in various ways such as steamed, stir-fried or raw.

Vegetable diet is healthy, as it can reduce the risk of various diseases including cancer. Vegetables like broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, cabbage, and other with the boldest color are rich in phytonutrients. These nutrients are essential for improving your immunity and promote wellness.

Exercise Daily

By following a daily workout regime, you can slow down the process of aging. In addition, you can normalize your blood pressure, improve eyesight, lower cholesterol, and strengthen your bones. You can go for a walk with your kids or family members. This will keep you healthy and drain all the stress away.

Living a healthy life is the utmost desire of almost every human being. You can live longer and healthier by simply exercising for at least 10 minutes a day. Dancing is also a form for exercise and a fun thing to do.

Sleep Well

Good night sleep is essential for your physical as well as mental health. If you are facing trouble while sleeping, you can try meditation or yoga. Moreover, don’t miss your dinner, as it helps to raise the body temperature and shift it into sleep mode.

Avoid Food Supplements

Supplements can never be a substitute for a healthy meal. Hence, it is better to avoid them. Even if you need to take the supplements, ask your GP for a recommendation in accordance with your needs.

Don’t Try to Lose your Weight Overnight

Most of the people are conscious of being overweight. Hence, they try to overcome this issue by indulging into extensive weight loss programs. On the contrary, you should give yourself a break.

Keep your workout time minimum, as by doing exercise for hours won’t help you lose the additional pounds. It would be appropriate to specify one type of exercise for each day. In addition, you can include different exercises into your workout program.

Don’t just Follow every Advice  

People are so anxious about living a healthy life that they try to follow every single advice from their friends and family. We need to understand that every human is different and has some specific requirements. If a health tip appears to work for your friend, it may not be suitable for you. So, it would be appropriate to just follow the advice of your fitness expert.

Create a Checklist

In order to live a healthy life, make sure to create a checklist for your daily activities. For instance, you can check whether you are taking your vegetable diet, drinking sufficient water, taking exercise and sleeping well.

Make Good Friends

By keeping a good company, you can relieve yourself from bad habits. This will allow you to follow a healthy lifestyle. You can go out for a walk together or workout in a gym while chatting with each other.

Stay Relaxed

Give your body some time to relax. After a hectic daily routine, take a hot shower to relax down your nerves and muscles. Listening to music is another way to soothe your body and mind. Moreover, plan vacations with your family and friends to shed all the stress away.

Drink Plenty of Water

Water purifies our blood, leaving it healthy and active. Drink as much water as you can. By doing so, you will allow your body to flush out anti-oxidants and clean your blood.

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Hunger – Roxanne Gay against Society’s Will

February 27, 2019 by • Feminism, Roxanne Gay, Society, Women • 0 Comments

When a person is stressed, he or she will try to find something to do in order to take his or her mind off things. One of the most popular ways to de-stress is eating. I have to strongly agree with this because it’s also a guilty pleasure of mine. And I’m pretty sure it’s not just me; as most people would proudly say on social media, food is life and that they don’t care if they gain a pound or two so long as they’re happy.

However, what happens when you’re taking eating for comfort too far? The most obvious reason would be to gain a lot of weight, of course. But what if a person is eating all that food in order to forget something so horrible with their past? What if that person is suffering an eating disorder just to cope with the pain and the terrible memories of an event so unspeakable that he or she never told anyone about it till the end?

How Not to Bend to Society’s Will

This is what shaped Roxanne Gay to become what she is today. The famous author of “Hunger” and a female activist who champions the rights of gay and African-American women, Roxanne is also a famous novelist and essayist and is well-known for being one of the heaviest authors around. Weighing in at around 577 pounds, she hates how society has turned to fat-shaming in order to force heavy people to lose some pounds for their own sake. “This is what most girls are taught; to be small and slender and that we should not take up space” she states

My Body, My Rules

She believes that people can do whatever they want with their body and that it is their responsibility to take care of it when something goes wrong with their health. The same holds true for women; if they’re happy with being on the heavy side, then let them.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska from parents of Haitian descent, Roxanne began writing essays during her teens. According to her memoir, she began writing as one of the ways to escape the horrors of a tragedy that took away her innocence at a young age.

Broken but Determined

Unknown to her parents, Roxanne was the victim of a sexual assault at age 12. The tragedy clearly broke her, but she persevered by promising to herself that no one should control the way she looks just because society wants all of its women to be thin all the time.

Until today, Roxanne Gay is still a true activist and feminist at heart. She still refuses to bend down to society’s will and still insists that women should stop trying too hard to become the ideal woman that everyone wants them to be.

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Cyber Terrorism – Can Society do Something about It?

February 21, 2019 by • Cyberterrorism, Homeland Security, Internet security • 0 Comments

Even in this day and age where information is free and is spread through the Information superhighway, terrorism has found new ways to abuse the Internet too. Rob Wainwright, an expert in cybercrime and its effects on society, said that because of the efficiency of the Internet and with how fast it can transmit information from one to the other, it’s no longer an issue when terrorists can hand information from one state to the next. He believes that the Internet “will keep improving within 10 years time and crime will also seek ways on how to systematically use the Internet to their advantage.

Cyber Terrorism

If you’ve heard about the term “cyber terrorism” nowadays, then you’d know exactly what I’m talking about. I’m talking about how hackers send out viruses, malware, and corrupted data that can steal hundreds of important files from government websites, data banks, and even in actual banks and financial corporations.

Even attacks in social media websites and stealing millions of private data is and should be considered an act of terrorism. Everyone is afraid that all of their private information will just be handed over to some group, who will then use all that data for despicable means.

It Could Happen to You

With so much data placed on websites and programs, a lot of counter-terrorism experts agree that this cyber-terrorism is a new form of terrorism. Sometimes, people have way too many secrets and exploiting those can definitely keep them awake at night. This is why our government has also started ways on how to counter cyber-terrorism by keeping a more proactive stance on catching hackers and developers who build malware and data-stealing viruses.

Vigilance

So what exactly can you do on your end? You can prevent cybercrime and cyber terrorism by not sharing your private data to anyone, especially with outsiders. Be careful when using a public computer or an internet cafe. Remember to always log out from mobile devices and laptops after using. You never know who might use your information if you’re not too careful.

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The Book of the City of Ladies – An Early Guide to Medieval Era Feminism

February 13, 2019 by • Activism, Books, Christine de Pizan, Early Feminism, Feminism, Historical figures, Society, Women • 0 Comments

In Christine de Pizan’s “Book of the City of Ladies”, she explains the theory behind illustrious women. In the first part of the book, the author imagines herself talking to the three virtues of illustrious women. Each Virtue then explains to Christine how she would be instrumental in building the City of Ladies. While it is not an “actual” city, this City of Ladies would be the first description of how feminist thought started in a world where men dominated all women. Christine believed that a woman “…is entitled to her own space, her freedom, her own self-defense, and to her memory” (Wagner, p.69). She believed that women if given these rights, can stand equal with men in society.

Of Women and Virtue

The three ladies of Virtue in Christine de Pizan’s book are qualities that women have, but are always left behind because men are quick to silence women when they start discovering their own voice. These virtues “teach” de Pizan what it means to create a society where women are strong and equal. For example, Lady Reason, one of the Virtues who first appeared to Christine in her book, explained why men slander women. She instructs Christine how to build the wall around her city by using intelligence.

De Pizan further explained how women of Medieval times are always behind current affairs because men want them to remain illiterate. She further attacked the misogynistic views on women by men by quoting her past beliefs in accordance to Matheolus’s work Lamentations, a popular 13th-century literary work that made fun of marriage and explained that women were evil for making marriages unbearable.

The Realization that turned into Passion

Christine “…felt into deep remorse and pity upon her own sex because she believed that women have no place in a society where brilliant men imposed the idea of women being illiterate as a fact, not a lie”

Thus Christine de Pizan began to work tirelessly to complete her book. Needless to say, by the time it came out, societies were equally divided with her opinion. But nevertheless, de Pizan would champion the rights of women and of fairness and justice between sexes. Even today, societies still feel her work and her brilliance. It is said that de Pizan is the champion of not just early feminism, but of true feminism. The kind that lets women truly shine together with men.

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Feminism and Christine de Pizan, Medieval Champion of Women

February 8, 2019 by • Activism, Christine de Pizan, Early Feminism, Feminism, Historical figures, Society, Women • 0 Comments

The concept of feminism is extremely alien, especially for the people who live in Medieval Europe. The concept of a woman having the same rights as men is not just an offensive notion but is a concept that is purely unacceptable by medieval society. Because the old society is a society where the patriarch should be followed, there are only ever a few women who were brave enough to champion the rights of feminism. One such woman is Christine de Pizan.

And the Maiden is born…

Born in Venice, Italy in 1364, Christine de Pizan came from a well-regarded family. Her father, Tommaso di Benvenutto da Pizzano was a physician, a court astrologer, and Councillor of the Republic of Venice. In 1368, the king of France, Charles V appointed Thomas de Pizan as his court astrologer. The family moved from Venice to Paris, thus Christine’s childhood consisted of exploring the beauty of Paris and longing for her hometown, Venice.

A Writer, A Poet, and a Fighter

By 1399, Christine de Pizan became a prolific writer and was celebrated as one because of her lyrical poetry. Her sense of poetry and with words was envied by other writers in Medieval France. Due to her success as a writer, she began writing for a living and had many sponsors, including Louis of Orleans, Philip the Bold, and John the Fearless. Her written topics included moral issues and are known for voicing out the need for peace and the role of women within medieval society. Christine de Pizan was also known for her articles on public affairs, the art of government rule, and an extensive biography of the late Charles V.Christine de Pizan’s most important work is the Le Livre de la Cite des Dames, which is also known as The Book of the City of Ladies.

A Champion of Women

As a champion of medieval feminism, de Pizan wanted to show her fellow women that there were also notable women in history who have done illustrious things in the field of history, medicine, religion, and the arts. In the old days, illustrious women were not showcased in books or in any other forms of literary art because most writers were male. It was Christine de Pizan’s fervent wish that these illustrious women be presented as sources of inspiration as well. She felt that the time was right for women of medieval times to stand up and become equals with men in society.

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