Tag Archives: Size

Prone to motion sickness? Your sex, diet and shoe size may be to blame

We are finally solving the mystery of why motion can make us queasy – just in time to help us deal with nausea-inducing VR headsets, driverless cars and space tourism Health 19 August 2020 By Helen Thomson Somsak Bumroongwong/Eyeem/Getty Images; Neyro2008/Getty Images IT STARTS behind your eyes, a niggling ache that heads down towards your… Read More »

Why “One Size Fits All Diet” Do not Work

By Evelyn DeDomincis and Charlene Bazarian  It is an all too familiar scenario:  You run into an old friend that you have not seen in a while and they look amazing!  Your friend clearly lost a lot of weight and you can’t help yourself; you gush:  “You look incredible!  How did you DO it?!”  Your… Read More »

Middle Aged Stress Associated With Smaller Brain Size And Poor Memory

Research has found that middle-aged individuals in their forties and fifties with elevated cortisol levels, a hormone associated with stress, perform worse on cognitive and memory tasks compared to individuals of the same age who have average levels of cortisol. Elevated blood cortisol levels were also linked to smaller brain volumes. One factor that’s getting… Read More »