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Is your child feeling bogged down by academic pressure or social anxiety? Yoga at school will help

April 15, 2018 Loknath DasAcademic, Anxiety, at, bogged, by, Child, Down, Feeling, Help, Is, or, Pressure?, School, Social, Will, Yoga, Your

Yoga and mindfulness activities at school can help improve emotional health of children with anxiety, according to a study. Researchers at Tulane University worked with a public school in New Orleans to add mindfulness and yoga to the school’s existing empathy-based programming for students needing supplementary support. Third graders, who were screened for symptoms of anxiety at the beginning of the school year, were randomly assigned to two groups. A control group of 32 students received care as usual, which included counseling and other activities led by a school social…

Active social life, sleep well: Here are 8 things you can do to keep dementia away

February 2, 2018 Loknath Das8, Active, Are, away, Can, Dementia, Do, Here, Keep, Life, Sleep, Social, Things, to, Well, You

To prevent the risk of dementia in old age, here are eight lifestyle changing tips that can help in the long run. Although, research has not yet discovered a cure for dementia, changes in diet, exercise and daily routine can reduce the risk factors, reports express.co.uk. Here’s a step by step guide to prevent dementia – which includes getting a good night’s rest. Sleep well Disrupted sleep patterns and insomnia have recently been suggested as risk factors for dementia. You may want to do regular exercise and eat healthy to…

Rise in teen suicide, social media coincide; is there link?

November 14, 2017 Loknath Dascoincide;, In, Is, Link, Media, Rise, Social, suicide, teen, There

CHICAGO — An increase in suicide rates among U.S. teens occurred at the same time social media use surged and a new analysis suggests there may be a link. Suicide rates for teens rose between 2010 and 2015 after they had declined for nearly two decades, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why the rates went up isn’t known. The study doesn’t answer the question, but it suggests that one factor could be rising social media use. Recent teen suicides have been blamed on…

How ‘food porn’ reveals social media’s extremist tendencies

November 14, 2017 Loknath Dasextremist, Food., How, media’s, porn’, Reveals, Social, tendencies

Robert Kozinets is the Jayne and Hans Hufschmid Chair of Strategic Public Relations at the University of Southern California. This piece originally appeared at The Conversation. The people of the United States continue to learn how polarized and divided the nation has become. In one study released in late October by the Pew Research Center, Americans were found to have become increasingly partisan in their views. On issues as diverse as health care, immigration, race and sexuality, Americans today hold more extreme and more divergent views than they did a decade ago. The…

How social media fires people’s passions – and builds extremist divisions

November 14, 2017 Loknath Dasand, Builds, divisions, extremist, Fires, How, Media, passions, people’s, Social, –

The people of the United States continue to learn how polarized and divided the nation has become. In one study released in late October by the Pew Research Center, Americans were found to have become increasingly partisan in their views. On issues as diverse as health care, immigration, race and sexuality, Americans today hold more extreme and more divergent views than they did a decade ago. The reason for this dramatic shift is a device owned by more than three out of every four Americans. As social media has emerged over the last…

UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance

October 17, 2017 Loknath DasData, for, Mass:, Media, Social, spies, surveillance, UK:, Using

Privacy rights group Privacy International says it has obtained evidence for the first time that UK spy agencies are collecting social media information on potentially millions of people. It has also obtained letters it says show the intelligence agencies’ oversight body had not been informed that UK intelligence agencies had shared bulk databases of personal data with foreign governments, law enforcement and industry — raising concerns about effective oversight of the mass surveillance programs. The documents have come out as a result of an ongoing legal challenge Privacy International has brought against UK intelligence…