Females Impressed By Tech Savvy Males

A study conducted to understand the influence of lifestyle and technology on females looking for a partner. Females were asked about things they notice in their prospective partner.

Interestingly, females seem to impress by the technology men choose.

As much as 48.4 percent of the respondents said that they notice gadgets, especially their phones and phone accessories, 27.1 percent said they notice watches and the remaining respondents went for a man's shoes.

According to 28.3 percent of the women, Twitter and Facebook are important mediums to analyze social presence, behaviour and psychology of potential partners.

Commenting on the survey results, Gourav Rakshit, chief operating officer, Shaadi.com, said: "The study indicates that the Indian woman is now going beyond the conventional partner preferences. Previously, the emphasis in matchmaking for a girl was a well-settled man.”

"Today people give a lot of importance to compatibility. The poll is part of the constant research that Shaadi.com conducts in its attempt to gauge the preferences of its members," he said in a statement.

As many as 45.6 percent of the women surveyed said that they would prefer men who are active on Twitter as they are perceived as knowledgeable and well-informed, while 26.1 percent of women said they would prefer men who are active on Facebook as they are perceived as trustworthy and reliable.

When asked what annoys them the most, 36.5 percent of women said they don't like men who are obsessed with taking photos of the food to update their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Around 34.2 percent of those surveyed are annoyed by men who stare at the TV screen while talking and 29.3 percent of them aren't impressed by those who constantly look at the phone during a conversation.

Coffee Is Harmfull For Life And Health

Scientists here found a great finding that increased mortality risk in both men and women younger more than 55 years of age who drink more than 28 cups of coffee a week.

The study of more than 40,000 persons suggested that younger people may need to avoid heavy coffee consumption. The study also found that no adverse effects in heavy coffee drinkers aged over 55.

A multicentre research team investigated the effect of coffee consumption on death from all causes and deaths from cardiovascular disease in the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study (ACLS) cohort, with an average follow-up period of 16 years and a relatively large sample size of over 40,000 men and women.
   
Between 1979 and 1998, nearly 45,000 individuals aged between 20 and 87 years old participated and returned a medical history questionnaire assessing lifestyle habits (including coffee consumption) and personal and family medical history.
   
The investigators examined a total of 43,727 participants (33,900 men and 9,827 women) in their final analysis. During the 17-year median follow-up period there were 2,512 deaths (men: 87.5 percent; women: 12.5 percent), 32 percent of these caused by cardiovascular disease.
   
Those who consumed higher amounts of coffee (both men and women) were more likely to smoke and had lower levels of cardiorespiratory fitness. Younger men had a trend towards higher mortality even at lower consumption, but this became significant at about 28 cups per week where there was a 56 percent increase in mortality from all causes.
   
Younger women who consumed more than 28 cups of coffee per week also had a greater than two-fold higher risk of all-cause mortality than those who did not drink coffee. "Significantly, the results did not demonstrate any association between coffee consumption and all-cause mortality among older men and women," said senior investigator Steven H Blair, of the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina. "It is also important to note that none of the doses of coffee in either men or women whether younger or older had any significant effects on cardiovascular mortality," Blair said. The study was published in journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

The Pet Dogs Are Very Helpfull

Dogs can help people with many of the problems such as stress, depression, anger etc.

In Boston they help people, who were having trouble for the bombing victims and they were also present in the aftermath of superstorm situations.

Two dogs those are the part of the society Good Dog Foundation from New York are helping people for distress.

The two Finn and Emma, who are the mixed breed of poodle and wheaten terrier, live with their owners, Mr. Moschell and Mrs. Jeremy Coffey, in Greenwich Village.

Moschell said that it has been undoubtedly proved that dogs help to lower blood-pressure, stress, and decrease anxiety by offering their unconditional love and support.

She assured that the dogs love the us and work and really get excited to give comfort to the people and love to have lots of attention from people.

The Actor Daren Kelly described what the dogs are doing as a medicine, he said that it is just like a therapy and distraction, which helps you get feel better.

Sacrifices For Partners

Sacrifices in a romantic relationship is generally a very positive thing, doing so every day when you are feeling stressed may not be beneficial, it has been found in a new study.

The study was done by Mr. Casey Totenhagen, a research scientist in the USA, John and Doris Norton from School of Family and Consumer Sciences.

Participants in this study included 164 couples, married and unmarried both, whose relationships ranged in length from few months to many years.

Each of the 328 individuals were asked to fill a daily online surveys, over the course of 7 days, indicating the daily sacrifices they have made for their partner in various categories, such as child care, household tasks and amount of time spent with friends and others.

They also were asked to report about the hassles they experienced that day and how much did those hassles affected them. The participants then ranked, on a scale of one to seven, how committed they felt to their partners, how close they felt to their partners and how satisfied they felt with their relationship that day.

Researchers found that individuals who made sacrifice for their significant others generally reported feeling more committed to their partners when they performed those nice behaviors. But when they made sacrifices on days when they had experienced a lot of hassles, they did not feel more committed.

On days when people were really stressed and hassled, those sacrifices weren't really beneficial anymore, because it was just one more thing on the plate at that point.

It's worth noting that Totenhagen said that individuals on the receiving end of a partner's sacrifice did not report feeling more committed to their partners, mainly because they were unaware that their partner had done anything special for them; that lack of awareness is a phenomenon explored in other research and is something Totenhagen hopes to study more in depth in future.

When it came to feelings of relationship satisfaction and closeness, making sacrifices for one's partner seemed to have little bearing one way or another.

However, the daily hassles reported by an individual did affect closeness and satisfaction for both partners, regardless of which one experienced those hassles.

Stay More Active By Your Mind For Good Health

The study, published in Neurology, says performing mental challenges leads to slower cognitive decline. It adds weight to the idea that dementia onset can be delayed by lifestyle factors.

In the study by the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, 294 people over the age of 55 were given tests that measured memory and thinking, every year for about six years until their deaths. They also answered a questionnaire about whether they read books, wrote letters and took part in other activities linked to mental stimulation during childhood, adolescence, middle age, and in later life.

After death, their brains were examined for evidence of the physical signs of dementia, such as brain lesions and plaques. The study found that after factoring out the impact of those signs, those who had a record of keeping the brain busy had a rate of cognitive decline estimated at 15 percent slower than those who did not.

Staying mentally active by reading books or writing letters helps protect the brain in old age, says a new American study.

Robert Wilson, of the Rush University Medical Center, who led the study, said the research suggested exercising the brain across a lifetime was important for brain health in old age.

"The brain that we have in old age depends in part on what we habitually ask it to do in life. What you do during your lifetime has a great impact on the likelihood these age-related diseases are going to be expressed," Wilson said.

Commenting on the study, Simon Ridley, head of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, said there was increasing evidence that mental activity may help protect against cognitive decline. But the underlying reasons for this remained unclear.