When thinking about healthy foods most of us tend to think of avocado, or various nuts and seeds. One of the healthiest foods, that is technically a fruit, is often the last thing on everyone’s mind and it’s cucumber. Cucumbers can be an essential part of a healthy diet aimed to improve various conditions, ranging […]
Eat up to help your heart. Chalk up one more health benefit to olive oil: Eating a Mediterranean diet can help boost the function of your “good” cholesterol, research from the American Heart Association suggests. In the study, people at high risk of heart disease followed one of three diets for one year: a Mediterranean diet […]
Once you don’t get enough sleep, that’s it. People seem terribly annoying, work stalls, and the future seems unattractive. Lots of stress, hypodynamia, hours spent at the wheel or computer — it all makes our back muscles stiff and prevents us from relaxing before sleep. That’s why we toss and turn for hours before getting a shallow and troubled sleep. Bright Side collected several […]
Mark Zielinski knew he was onto something when his mice stopped sleeping. Normally, the animals woke and slept on a 12-hour cycle. When the lights were on in the lab, the mice were active. When it went dark on a timer, down they went. But Zielinski, who teaches psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, had recently […]
We spend about a third of our life sleeping. Both the quality of our night’s rest and our overall health depend directly on our sleep posture and on what we do before going to bed. We at Bright Side have put together recommendations from top specialists on how to sleep properly to fix all of your health problems. Shoulder pain If you wake up with a sore shoulder, avoid sleeping on your side, especially on the […]