Inspirational and good news.
“Every time a person is forced to repress his true feelings there are negative consequences for his health,” said Professor Dieter Zapf, a researcher into human emotions.
Psychologists at Frankfurt University have done some research and discovered that the more true emotions you show the longer your life should be. The key to success is to show your real emotion, faking it causes more stress and a quicker trip to the grave.
Be true to yourself.
Thousands of people showed their love for peace yesterday by protesting the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and many other conflicts around the world.
Forbes has an article on the peace movement (in their technology section for some odd reason) and the CBC has a much better article that covers the international scale of the peace movement.
For those of you who couldn’t make it out to a rally you can always email your representatives in your government.
Capsaicin is the active ingredient in hot peppers and a recent study has shown that capsaicin causes prostate cancer to die off. In fact, capsaicin tricks the prostate cancer cells into killing themselves.
It’s good to eat spicy!
Scientists at the Massachusets Institute of Technology were able to restore sight to rodents blinded by brain damage. They grew brain cells on a nano-scale artificial scaffolding, which later dissolves away.
It is hoped that this technology can one day be developed enough to treat human patients who have suffered vision loss due to stroke, spinal cord injuries or other nervous ailments.
Japanese researchers have discovered that menstrual blood contains stem cells, a lot of stem cells. They were able to harvest 30 times more stem cells from young women’s menstrual blood than from bone marrow.
What’s more is that the stem cells have a longer life span!