write by Jerome Calago

50 Weird Facts About Humans
Aug 29th, 2011 by Richdad Bill

Here are some amazing Facts about humans. Pretty interesting facts, huh? Keep on reading...

1. People with higher number of moles tend to live longer than people with lesser number of moles

2. Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.

3. When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls - it cools their mouths so their breath doesn’t condense in the cold air.

4. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

5. Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger to men. The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has no effect on women’s perception.

6. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

7. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad dream.

8. There are more people alive today than have ever died.

9. Women’s hair is about half the diameter of men’s hair

10. Women blink twice as many times as men do.

11. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

12. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

13. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

14. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!

15. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb. The cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you’re sleeping.

16. The brain is much more active at night than during the day.

17. The brain itself cannot feel pain. While the brain might be the pain center when you cut your finger or burn yourself, the brain itself does not have pain receptors and cannot feel pain.

Ten Tips to Look Younger And Live Longer

Jan 2nd, 2011 by Paulose


Man wants to live longer. But modern busy and fast life has become a great challenge to a peaceful life. Following certain tips can help you live long with good health.
Many a time we wonder at aged people, looking younger and smarter. You may be surprised to look at people having grandchildren and even great-grandchildren moving around cheerfully with a glow on their face. What is the secret of their warm glow and looking younger? Is it their good genes, good luck or good choices they make?
You can also look younger and feel good. You can also have a good self-image and strive to maintain your glow of youth. You can also have a graceful aging and longer life. It all depends on the factors that you adapt to achieve it.

 
10 tips to look younger and live longer

1) Adorn your face with a smile
Being cheerful is the first step for health and good looking. Laughter makes your face radiant in a way that no expensive cream can provide. Laughter also releases endorphins which elevate good mood. There is no doubt that people who are cheerful can see the positive side of things and live healthier and longer. They are happier than others and they spread their joy around them. Hence smile your way through life.

Coping has been defined in psychological terms by Susan Folkman and Richard Lazarus as 'constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external and/or internal demands that are appraised as taxing'.^[1]

Coping is thus expending conscious effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize or tolerate stress or conflict.^[2][3][4] Psychological coping mechanisms are commonly termed coping strategies or coping skills. Unconscious or non conscious strategies (e.g., defense mechanisms) are generally excluded. The term coping generally refers to adaptive or constructive coping strategies, i.e., the strategies reduce stress levels. However, some coping strategies can be considered maladaptive, i.e., stress levels increase. Maladaptive coping can thus be described, in effect, as non-coping. Furthermore, the term coping generally refers to reactive coping, i.e., the coping response follows the stressor. This contrasts with proactive coping, in which a coping response aims to head off a future stressor.

Coping responses are partly controlled by personality (habitual traits), but also partly by the social context, particularly the nature of the stressful environment.

Types of coping strategies

About 400 to 600 coping strategies have been identified. Classification of these strategies into a broader architecture has not yet been agreed upon. Common distinctions are often been made between various contrasting strategies, for example: problem-focused versus emotion-focused; engagement versus disengagement; cognitive versus behavioral. The psychology textbook by Weiten has provided a useful summary of three broad types of coping strategies:^[2]

Appraisal-focused strategies occur when the person modifies the way they think, for example: employing denial, or distancing oneself from the problem. People may alter the way they think about a problem by altering their goals and values, such as by seeing the humor in a situation: 'some have suggested