March 2, 2015

Could those midnight meals be messing with your mind? Research suggests that eating when you should normally be sleeping may disrupt learning and memory. Frequent late eating can disrupt your body’s sleep-wake cycle and that can affect cognitive functions like learning and memory mechanisms. Source Link

You can let your thumbs lead the way to better mental health. New text therapy apps can connect you to licensed psychologists, clinical social workers, and mental health counselors at a cost of about $30 a month. About two-thirds of people who are referred to a therapist never go, often because of the high cost of face-to-face sessions. Source Link

Ditching the dishwasher might be a prescription for better health for kids. A study found that children in homes where dishes were hand-washed had fewer allergies like asthma and eczema. Hand-washed dishes aren’t quite as clean and scientists think the exposure to more microbes can help children build natural immunities to allergens. Source Link