Social Interaction And Friendly Competition May Positively Affect Mental Health

Since the launch of YouTube in 2005 it has changed the way people view videos, offering endless content on just about any topic at your demand and at your convenience just a mere click away. According to a study published in the journal Informatics conducted by researchers from Griffith University, spending too much time on the platform can be detrimental to mental health. To add to this the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP) report that frequent and habitual user exhibit higher levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. 

Losing weight while you sleep sounds too good to be true, but according to a study published in Nutrients conducted by researchers from the University of Tsukuba in Japan drinking oolong tea helps to increase the breakdown of fat and it continues to do so even when a person is at rest. Professor Kumpei Tokuyama suggests that drinking 2 cups of this tea every day will significantly stimulate the fat-burning processes within the body.

According to a study published in the journal Radiology conducted by a team of researchers from the Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique at UCLouvain in Brussels, Belgium, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, those with a high concentration of fat in their muscles (myosteatosis) are twice as likely to die prematurely compared to counterparts with excess abdominal fat.

Some people naturally prefer the night, these are night owls, other people naturally wake up early with the light, these are morning larks. Every person has a chronotype for how much sleep a person needs at a certain time, which was thought to be unchangeable. But recent research published in the journal Chronobiology International from Baylor University suggests that chronotypes might be more flexible than previously thought.