Phobias may be memories passed down in genes from ancestors So a fear of spiders may in fact be an inherited defence mechanism laid down in a families genes by an ancestors' frightening encounter with an arachnid. Dr Brian Dias, from the department of psychiatry at Emory University, said: "We have begun to explore an underappreciated influence on adult behaviour – ancestral experience before conception. "From a translational perspective, our results allow us to appreciate how the experiences of a parent, before even conceiving offspring, markedly influence both structure and function in the nervous system of subsequent generations. "Such a phenomenon may contribute to the etiology and potential intergenerational transmission of risk for neuropsychiatric disorders such as phobias, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder." In the study, which is published in the journal of Nature Neuroscience, the researchers trained mice to fear the smell of cherry blossom using electric shocks before allowing them to breed.
Are You Sitting Too Much? Look What You Are Doing To Your Health And How To Prevent It! We sit in the car, while working, while eating, while we use the computer, watch TV and read … Do you ever think how it affects our health? This video clip shows that prolonged sitting slowly destroys the body. If you are a person that sits six hours a day, this means that you are going to feel the effects in 10-20 years, and that you will shorten your life for seven years. Because of the long hours of sitting the risk of fatal heart problems increases by 64 percent, while the risk of prostate cancer or breast cancer increases by 30 percent. Prolonged sitting has a significant impact on your metabolism. With sitting we sabotage the lymphatic system, which helps the body to suppress infections. Watch the videos to see how you can help yourself! And Here is what you could do! Source: ASAPScience.com Comments comments
6 Words That Will End Picky Eating | The Mid By Leigh Anderson When my older son was 18 months old, he stopped eating what I put in front of him. He fussed endlessly at mealtimes, pointing to the cabinet where we kept the crackers and bread. He refused fruits and vegetables. I felt like I was feeding a Viking -- all he needed was a tankard of ale and a case of scurvy. In desperation, I hid vegetables in scrambled eggs and smoothies and chased him around the house with spoonfuls of peas. I complained about our mealtime struggles to a friend with a 6-year-old daughter, and she said, "I know what you mean! It was like the next 10 years stretched before my eyes. Somehow I stumbled across Ellyn Satter's groundbreaking 2000 book Child of Mine: Feeding With Love and Good Sense, and it was literally a life-changing read. This has worked like a charm -- all the drama went out of dinnertime like air from a balloon. He doesn't like things I would have thought he'd like, like lasagna. Dessert is not linked to how much he eats. Close
Mother's diet affects the 'silencing' of her child's genes -- ScienceDaily A mother's diet before conception can permanently affect how her child's genes function, according to a study published in Nature Communications. The first such evidence of the effect in humans opens up the possibility that a mother's diet before pregnancy could permanently affect many aspects of her children's lifelong health. Researchers from the MRC International Nutrition Group, based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and MRC Unit, The Gambia, utilized a unique 'experiment of nature' in rural Gambia, where the population's dependence on own grown foods and a markedly seasonal climate impose a large difference in people's dietary patterns between rainy and dry seasons. Through a selection process involving over 2,000 women, the researchers enrolled pregnant women who conceived at the peak of the rainy season (84 women) and the peak of the dry season (83 women).
Ce que votre père a fait avant votre naissance pourrait influer sur votre futur Ce ne sont pas seulement les femmes enceintes qui doivent se soucier de leur mode de vie. Une nouvelle étude publiée dans la revue Science donne du grain à moudre à un ensemble de recherches examinant la façon de vivre et l’environnement des futurs pères. Et en quoi ces facteurs pourraient influer sur la vie de leurs enfants et de leurs petits-enfants. Nous savons que de nombreuses caractéristiques –le poids, la taille, la prédisposition aux maladies, la longévité ou l’intelligence– peuvent être en partie héréditaires. L'épigénétique fait référence à l’information dans le génome contenue dans la séquence ADN. Cette information épigénétique –qui influence le choix de celles des copies de gènes qui «s’expriment» ou sont utilisées– peut se transmettre d’une génération à l’autre pendant la reproduction. Ce que les pères transmettent Nous le savons déjà, des signatures épigénétiques spécifiques dans le sperme du père ont été liées à un risque d’autisme chez les enfants.
glaxosmithkline-agrees-to-pay-3-billion-in-fraud-settlement In the largest settlement involving a pharmaceutical company, the British drugmaker agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its best-selling antidepressants for unapproved uses and failing to report safety data about a top diabetes drug, federal prosecutors announced Monday. The agreement also includes civil penalties for improper marketing of a half-dozen other drugs. The fine against GlaxoSmithKline over , Wellbutrin, and the other drugs makes this year a record for money recovered by the federal government under its so-called whistle-blower law, according to a group that tracks such numbers. To see the full article, subscribe here. Correction: July 6, 2012 An article on Tuesday about a fine levied on the British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline for illegal marketing of some of its drugs misstated the use of Depakote, an Abbott Laboratories drug involved in a similar case.
Toddler Discipline That Works (It’s About Our Attitude) Posted by janet on May 3rd, 2013 The secret to raising children who generally cooperate with our rules and direction has very little to do with specific strategies or wordplay like “I won’t let you” versus “Don’t hit.” What matters most — and essentially makes or breaks successful guidance — is the way we perceive our children and our overall attitude toward boundaries and discipline. The good news is that once these perceptions are on-track we can make lots of mistakes, and yet we’ll almost never go wrong. Treat them like people Seventeen years ago I was invited to attend the introductory session of a parenting seminar led by Mary Hartzell, a highly respected author (Parenting From the Inside Out) and preschool director. Parents wanted to get their preschoolers to brush teeth, pick up toys, toilet train, leave the park or stop hitting, pushing, biting, spitting, etc. A few days after the lecture, I ran into the friend who’d invited me and expressed my appreciation. “Sounds great!”
The Case for Inheritance of Epigenetic Changes in Chromosomes (Subscription Needed) THIS IS A PREVIEW. or subscribe to access the full article. Already a subscriber or purchased this issue? Sign In When my kids were born, about 30 years ago, i knew they had inherited about half their DNA from me. Of course, I understood that DNA is not destiny. Buy Digital Issue $5.99 La traite des esclaves irlandais au 17è siècle | Liberation Irlande Article écrit par John Martin, à propos du livre White Cargo de Don Jordan et Michael Walsh qui raconte l’histoire de ces esclaves oubliés. Ils sont arrivés en tant qu’esclaves, massives cargaisons humaines transportées sur de grands vaisseaux britanniques, à destination des Amériques. Par centaines de milliers, ils furent déportés, hommes, femmes, et même jeunes enfants. Dès qu’ils se rebellaient ou désobéissaient à un ordre, ils étaient punis de la façon la plus rude : on les pendait par les mains ou les pieds et on leur passait les mains ou les pieds dans le feu. Ou bien ils étaient brûlés vifs et leurs têtes étaient fichées sur des piques sur la place du marché en tant qu’avertissement pour les autres captifs. Les rois Jacques Ier et Charles Ier ont entrepris de réduire des irlandais en esclavage, puis Oliver Cromwell a poursuivi cette pratique de déshumanisation de son voisin. L’Irlande devient le plus grand réservoir d’humains pour les marchands anglais. Source : ici. J'aime :