Category: HEALTHY LIFESTYLES

IN THE WORLD TODAY, THE INTERNET HAS BECOME A NEW SPACE FOR ALL OF THE SPHERES OF DAILY LIFE. BEING CONNECTED LETS YOU EXPLORE NEW WAYS OF BEING INFORMED, OF LEARNING, SHOPPING OR PAYING BILLS, DIFFERENT FORMS OF ENTERTAINMENT AND MANY MORE THINGS. Young people today at 26 years of age are considered to be the first generation of digital natives. They have been born into and grown up in a world that has been transformed by the entrance of new information and communication technologies. They are therefore “natives” in the language of computers, videogames and the internet and...

ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT TO ASSOCIATE THE WORD “BRAIN” WITH FITNESS OR TRAINING. HOWEVER, THESE DAYS THERE ARE EVEN VIDEO GAMES IN THE MARKET THAT SPECIFICALLY COMBINE THESE TWO WORDS TO PROMOTE THE BENEFITS OF PLAYING THEM. The evolution of neuroscience in the last decade has generated an important body of knowledge about how our brain works. All the news, products and services related to “brain fitness” or “brain training” reflect a growing interest about the possible natural remedies that help us to maintain and strengthen our brain activity whilst ageing without depending...

WE ASSOCIATE FLOWERS WITH HAPPY MOMENTS, AND THEY TAKE US TO A NATURAL WORLD FULL OF COLOUR, SMELLS, FORMS AND TEXTURES THAT PROVOKE A PROFOUND EFFECT ON OUR EMOTIONS. As a matter of instinct, we understand that flowers improve our state of mind, but their effects on older people are particularly deep, surprising and almost magical. This isn’t intuition, there is evidence as can be seen in the scientific study “Flowers and Seniors” which analyses the effects of giving flowers to a sample of more than 100 participants with different racial profiles, between 55 and 93 years of age,...