journalism

Drooling in your sleep is a common occurrence that happens to almost everyone, according to sleep experts. While it may be embarrassing for some, it is actually a natural process related to muscle relaxation during REM sleep. During REM sleep, the body enters a state of deep relaxation, and all muscles, including those in the … Read more

A blood test for more than fifty forms of cancer appears to be quite successful. It would mean a breakthrough in the detection of the disease. The results of the British NHS study were published at the world’s largest cancer conference in Chicago, USA. The so-called Galleri test can detect the smallest particles of tumor … Read more

It’s not fair: if you work longer before you retire, you’ll also die earlier, so you can enjoy your pension twice as short. An amendment to the pension law in Spain enabled researchers to track how long they lived after retirement on a very large group of retirees. The people who worked longer died earlier. … Read more

It may look nice to say during a job interview that you are a perfectionist, but in practice it is nothing. You better get rid of it, explains psychologist Liesbet Boone at HLN. Boone even calls perfectionism a disease. “I compare it to the husk of a chestnut,” she says. “Just as those sharp spikes … Read more

As we age, our bones lose bone mass and our bone density may decrease. Our bones also become more fragile and break more easily. Natural bone loss accelerates in middle age. This is especially true during menopause (usually around age 50, defined as premature menopause if it happens before age 45). During this time, levels … Read more

Whether you want to lose weight for your health or just to shed some pounds, it sometimes seems as if there is no end to the various weight loss methods that are proposed. One of these methods is known as against, where you do not eat food for a certain period of time. The idea … Read more