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Chewing Gum Can Help Boost Your Memory

According to the results of a study by Kate Morgan and her colleagues at Cardiff University, chewing gum really can help to improve your concentration and enhance your recall capabilities. Even though potential improvement is limited to a maximum of three words, this can be sufficient to trigger the brain into remembering facts, names, and places. The simple physiological action of chewing increases your heart rate and blood pressure and increases the flow of blood to the brain. This then gives the brain an energy boost and thus concentration levels improve along with memory recall. Chewing gum can also help

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You can always see your nose, but your brain has the ability to ignore it

Have you ever wondered why your nose never seems to get in the way of your vision, even though it’s right there in the middle of your face? Or why, once we’re dressed, we no longer feel the clothes against our skin? It’s basically our brain’s way of being selective, hence the term “Unconscious Selective Attention”. If, after all, our brain had to constantly be giving us up to date information on whether our nose was still in place, or what clothes we’re wearing, there would simply be no time for it to get on with the other important things

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What Does Acopia Mean? What is it?

You may have seen the term Acopia on an elderly relative’s medical notes and wondered what it is – most of the time we don’t tend to question it assuming, correctly, that the doctors know what they are talking about. If the doctor states “admitted with Acopia” we accept it and let them get on with treating it in the hope that our loved one will improve and be sent home with renewed health and vigour. In many cases though, this simply does not happen. “Acopia” is a term that is generally used for older people who are admitted to

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The Health Benefits of Hemp Oil

“Hemp”, a derivative of the cannabis or marijuana plant has been around for thousands of years and known to man for its medicinal properties. However, it is only now that mainstream medical organisations are taking an interest in Hemp Seed Oil commercially. In many countries, including the UK, cannabis is still an illegal drug and to those who know no better “hemp” is a dirty word. However, “hemp oil” is from the flower of the plant – not the leaf part that you can smoke. What makes this plant so special is that it is so versatile and can be

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