Diana Gonzalez Reports on Recent Health Headlines
Diana Gonzalez Reports on Recent Health Headlines
Recent health headlines include quality sleep being more important than quantity, scientific evidence for comfort food, and debt induced stress taking a toll.
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" Are streaking through the night. It's not that could impair your memory it's not enough to get a total of eight hours if you're waking up several times tonight even for just a few seconds. That according to new findings by researchers at Stanford University. They used special light pulses -- might. To fragment sleep without affecting the overall amount. And those mice displayed memory problems researchers say this show's continuity of sleep is critical to memory. Food and your mood -- restaurant happy many of -- turn to emotional eating fatty foods in particular might hold the latest on relief. Researchers in Belgium used MRI scan to measures specific areas of the brain that light up when your stack. Have to study participants were then given salt water -- an IP the other half got it got the actual infusion. This showed those who got the fat. Had a 50% reduction in sadness levels in the brain. Researchers say this explained like comfort food can actually make it. Feel better feeling anxious about how much money you go on credit cards mortgages or car loans. All this talk about national debt. Seems to be making people more anxious about their personal debt according to a new Associated Press -- poll. Among the findings. Debt related stress is up 17%. Since November. One in five adults worries about debt most or all of the time. Four in ten people surveyed owed more than a thousand dollars in credit card debt one in every ten -- 101000. Or more."
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