wine of happiness

Hello reader! Today I would like to show you a very “funny” new.  That new comes from a Chilean newspaper called “La Tercera”.

To drink a glass of wine everyday reduces the probabilities to get depression. With this weird sentence that new starts.

The “BMC Medicine” magazine reports a PREDIMED study. The result says that drink wine with moderation will be associated with depression. The alcohol has protectors effects on depression just like with heart disease.

Drink alcohol actually is a popular and massive behavior. In that context other studies say that the excessive consume of this drink it was related with health problems and mental problems like depression. But there are not very studies about the exclusive relation between mental disorders and consume of alcohol.

That new study analyze the relation of moderated consume of alcohol (using wine like the principal alcoholic drink) and depression. With annual visits, medical exams, questionnaires and interviews hey follow (for 7 years) around 5500 drinkers between 55 and 80 years old and study his consume of alcohol, mental health and lifestyle. The results finally say that the person who drink alcohol with moderation have less possibilities to get depression.  

In my personal opinion I think that this study is very stupid.  The variables “drink wine” and “to develop” depression doesn’t have any significant correlation to validate their hypothesis. I think the result of this study was hilarious.

“La Tercera” have a daily print version.  And also they have a web site with all this news. If you want to see the “wine new”, check the website and laugh with me. See you next week!   

  http://www.latercera.com/noticia/tendencias/2013/08/659-540441-9-una-copa-de-vino-al-dia-reduciria-el-riesgo-de-depresion.shtml

happiness :D

Hello reader! This time I´m going to talk about a video, “The surprising science of happiness”. In this video Dan Gilbert talks about happiness studies and his conclusions.

Starts talking about the brain and his “history”. How the brain become more complex and unique if you make a compare with the brain of other species. Mention the apparition of the pre-frontal cortex. All this changes on the human brain helps to the creation of synthetic happiness.  

Synthetic happiness is a construction created in our minds because natural happiness is too hard to get in a limited-freedom context. Dan Gilbert says that the synthetic happiness is equally important that the natural happiness. The big difference between these two concepts is the freedom. More freedom is more natural happiness and less synthetic happiness and less freedom is more synthetic happiness and less natural happiness.

I think that the concept “happiness” is very important to each person. A lot of people spends all his life searching that happiness and sometimes they really don´t know about the meaning of this word. Is important don´t forget that the actual society can take away our freedom (is the way to live with others without problems).

With these ideas you can think that the synthetic happiness is good sometimes but the natural happiness is necessary because that shows our real freedom.                   

One chapter and I go to bed…

Welcome back reader! This time I`m going to talk about guilty pleasures. UF! Some people can think that a “guilty pleasure” is a bad thing but I don´t think that. I think that a guilty pleasure is a way to escape, is YOUR place, you can feel comfortable and safe. The problem is when the person abused that way because a pleasure can be an addiction.

 Personally I have two guilty pleasures and I proud of them:

The first pleasure is new. My mom give me a new mobile phone and a friend installed me an awesome game “pokemon ruby”. I can play it wherever I go. I think that’s the reason why I can´t stop playing.

The second pleasure is watch series and anime (Japanese animations). Internet is a great way to get that series and keep your money safe (series and movies are too expensive in this days). I can watch hours and hours, day and night, I think that is better during the night. The problem is the next morning because I look like a zombie.

Finally I need to say that my two pleasures takes a lot (A LOT!) of time, but they don´t makes serious problems in my life, so I want to keep them with me.