Hi, this is Andreas Moritz and I am responding to a question that I receive quite frequently about children who become obese and develop type II diabetes and this is an escalating problem nowadays and I would like […]
Depression afflicts millions of people in the industrialized world today. It impairs the digestive, nervous and circulatory functions in the body and depletes any remnant of joy and happiness. By itself, depression is not an independent emotion but is directly linked to repressed anger.
Traditional rules of social conduct promote the idea that it is better to conform to ‘proper’ behavior than to reveal one’s emotions, particularly anger. Many people have been brought up with the idea that anger is essentially […]
By Andreas Moritz
Sugar is known to ‘improve’ moods for relatively short periods of time. With the help of insulin, sugar increases the secretion of serotonin in the brain. Serotonin is the neurotransmitter of happiness. If insulin secretion fails to occur, happiness remains low. The only way to get out of this situation, it seems, is to eat sugar so that the body can secrete insulin again.
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By Andreas Moritz
Hi, this is a very good question about daylight savings time and the question is “Does daylight savings time affect our health and wellbeing?”
And in fact, it does. There are studies to show that there is a higher incidence of depression and cardiovascular episodes such as heart attack during the time of changing into daylight savings or going back to standard time.
This practice of changing time has been practiced basically for […]
