Health is the most important thing people have, so many of us are trying to learn new things every day that will help us stay healthy for as long as possible. Today, it seems that scientists know everything there is to know about the human body, however this is simply not true.
For example, recently, doctors have discovered that skipping breakfast has no impact on health, and the shivering when it’s cold helps you lose weight.
People who look younger than they really are, live longer lives
Scientists from Denmark studied 387 pairs of twins in the 70s, 80s, and 90s and found that just in appearance is enough to say whether a person will live up to the old age or not. In other words, if a person looks younger than their real age, they will live longer than a person who looks older than their real age. And scientists have proved that this has been programmed in our DNA.
Key pieces of DNA called telomeres, which indicate the ability of cells to replicate, are also related to how young a person looks. So, people who look younger have shorter telomeres.
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Skipping breakfast does not lead to health problems.
In 1944, a food-producing company called “General Foods” launched an aggressive PR campaign. In order to increase the sales of their cereals, shops gave leaflets to customers and told them how important breakfast is on the radio and could hear words like, “Nutritionists claim that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.”
Thus, cereals became the most popular breakfast food, and various experts continued to say that everyone should eat breakfast. But medical research has shown that skipping breakfast does not lead to health problems and does not affect losing or gaining weight. This message is actually just a myth.
Shivering when you’re cold helps you lose weight.
Scientists at the Sydney Medical Research Institute in Garvan found that 10 minutes of shivering in the cold weather burns roughly the same amount of energy as an one-hour workout. These are new findings were built on the previous research of so-called brown fats – a type of fatty tissue that essentially burns energy instead of storing it.
The “restless body” helps you lose weight as well.
Studies have shown that many of the people who are not subject to overweight are continually making “additional” movements during their everyday life, such as patting their fingers, walking around in circles while talking, and so on. As it turns out, even this seemingly small physical activity helps the body to burn up to 350 extra calories a day. This means you can lose 13 kilograms a year just by “tapping” your fingers.
Biting the nails in childhood is good for our health.
Canadian scientists studied the habits of 1,000 children aged 5 to 9, and several years later they performed allergic tests. It has been shown that children who bite their nails rarely develop asthma, are less susceptible to allergic reactions and have stronger immune systems. According to researchers, the entering microbes make the immune system stronger and more powerful.
Blood pressure may increase when there is a doctor around you.
Up to 20% of the world’s population have the so-called white coat syndrome. These people have a subconscious fear of doctors and when they are in a medical facility their blood pressure rises. These people may seem calm and do not even realize they are scared. Women have this syndrome more often, especially in the first weeks of pregnancy.
