Singing, Improve Brain Damage from Stroke

One of the four stroke patients experiencing language disorders, which involves the ability to speak, write, and understand the language spoken and written. This happens when the left brain is damaged.

In the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Diego, United States, a team of Harvard researchers say, capable of singing activity "connect" returned the damaged brain. With singing, other parts of the brain associated with language centers will be activated.

Gottfried Schlaug, a professor of nerves from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, says, when "language centers" in the brain damaged by stroke, in fact we can use the brain in the "song center".

In clinical trials conducted the part of the brain known to respond to therapy 'melodic intonation' which made the experts. Actually, this therapy has long done, especially for stroke patients who could not speak, but can sing.

"This is the first study that combines the melodic intonation therapy with brain imaging to show what actually happens in the brain as patients learned to sing the words," Schlaug said.

Area of the brain that has functions to control the movement and hearing mostly located in the left side of the brain. "However, there are some that relate to the right side of the brain. For some reason, the connection may not happen so that the left brain is more widely used for speech and language," Schlaug said.

If the left is damaged, the right also has a problem. However, if patients say the words with the melody, this can create a relationship between the left and right brain. Previous research showed through brain imaging, the professional singer, "the center singing" has grown more rapidly.

Post-stroke patients trained to intone the difficult words to pronounce in a tone melody. Patients are also trained to tapping by hand every syllable word. "Music may be the most effective medium for connecting parts of the brain that are not connected," he said.

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Water is Very Important to Body

Water is a vital mineral for the human body. What are the functions of water to the body? Here are 10 important functions of water according dr.Tan Shot, Yen, M. Hum, medical doctor and author of the book.

- Water prevents DNA damage and makes repairs more efficiently.

- Water increases the efficiency of the immune system in the bone marrow, including against cancer.

- Water is the main solvent of all foods, vitamins, and minerals; used to break down these materials and metabolism and their assimilation.

- Water gives energy to the food, so that food particles could provide energy during the digestive process.

- The water used as conductor of all substances in the body.

- Water increases the efficiency of red blood cells capture oxygen in the lungs.

- Water is cleaning toxic waste from different parts of the body and took it to the liver and kidneys to be excreted.

- Water is the main lubricant in the joint cells and helps prevent arthritis and back pain.

- Water cooling system is important for the body (through sweat) and heating the body (electrical).

- Water helps reduce stress, anxiety, and depression.

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Benefits of Broccoli

Broccoli (Brassica oleracea var.italica) is the flower of vegetable crops cabbage kind. This vegetable is a collection of flowers forming a band of bud. In addition to edible raw, these vegetables can be processed into a variety of delicious dishes. Like other vegetables, broccoli is rich in provitamin A / carotenoids, folate and vitamin C. Cook briefly to make vitamins undamaged and remain attractive color. In order to keep green broccoli fresh, boiled it in water that has been added to the 1 / 2 teaspoon salt.

In addition to vitamins, broccoli also contains a variety of important minerals such as calcium, potassium, potassium, iron and selenium.

Other substances contained in broccoli is the sulfur in the form of glukosinolat, antidote compounds, monoterpene and genestein. Flavonoid and fibers also contained nutritional enrichment of broccoli.

Broccoli has a variety of health benefits for the body, such as preventing the occurrence of colon cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer and stomach cancer. Substances contained in broccoli is also useful as an antioxidant. While fiber is beneficial to prevent constipation and other digestive disorders.

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Eye-robics: For Eyesight Improve

Exercise to flatten the stomach, tightening the buttocks or reduce the weight of several pounds a routine you do. Why not add a few minutes to train the eye? You can do this to improve your eyesight.

Indeed, not all experts agree eye exercises can help improving eyesight. But many specialists believe that the eye exercises every day can keep this sight conditions.
There are various kinds of exercises for the eyes, but not all are able to overcome the problem of telling vision. However, there is no harm in you trying some of them.

Reading newspapers from a far
If the job requires you to sit in front of the computer for hours, try the following. Attach one-page paper on the wall approximately 2.5 meters away from where you usually sit. Stop your work every 10 minutes to drive to the paper this view.

Try to read the writing on the paper. Then look again at your computer screen. Do this again and again, each for 30 seconds, about six times in an hour. This exercise can avoid the ambiguities that often experienced by workers at the end of the workday.

Throw the ball to the wall
If you frequently play tennis, table tennis, squash or racquetball, this sport makes pairing easier exercise. Stand at a distance of about 1-1.5 meters of a blank wall, facing the wall.

Ask a friend stand behind you and then throwing a tennis ball against the wall. When the ball was bouncing off the walls, try to catch it. This exercise can help improve hand and eye coordination you.

Following the flashlight beam
This fun exercise can improve your ability to follow an object with the eyes. This exercise requires a friend and two flashlights. Stand in a dark room, facing the wall. Ask your friends to be held lights to the wall and moved it to the sweeping motion to form a wave.

With the flashlight you hold, follow the circle of light while trying for balancing a book placed on the head. This way you are forced to follow the movement of light with the eyes, without moving his head.

Make a string of beads
This exercise trains the eyes to be focused to a target object. This also trains the brain to use both eyes together. Take a long string about 180 cm, insert into the hole three beads with different colors. Tie one end of the string to the wall with a height parallel to the eye, while the other end you'll hold in front of the nose. Slide one bead to the end of the wall, place a second bead at a distance of about 120 cm from the nose, while the third at a distance of approximately 40 cm from the nose.

Point your view to the beads of the most distant. You'll see the shadow of two threads forming a V with the beads as the center. Move your gaze to the beads in the middle. Note the letter X formed by the shadow of yarn with the beads as the center. Then move your gaze back to the bead closest, and watch the letter X is similar. Move your eyes from the beads to the other sate quickly, and do not forget to consider the letter V or X is formed.

When your eyes work as a team, you always have to see two shadows crossing each other thread when you focus to one of the beads. If your eyes do not work together, you will see patterns of different or just a yarn.

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