A ninety-minute daily nap speeds up the consolidation of long-term memory, according to a study of Mary Korman and his team at the University of Haifa, which is published in the latest issue of Nature Neuroscience.

The long-term memory, defined as one that does not subside or disappear after a long time can be of two types, the memory of “what” (what happened yesterday) and the memory of “how” (how to drive).

The study, conducted in conjunction with the Sleep Laboratory Sheba Medical Center and University of Montreal (Canada), was conducted in two groups of participants who repeat a sequence was made with the thumb and finger hand. Through this exercise, the ability of the “how” of memory, depending on the speed and correctness with which they perform the movements. While one group remained awake, the other slept half an hour nap.

The group that slept showed a clear improvement in the performance of their homework in the afternoon compared to those who had not slept. However, after a full night’s sleep, both groups gave the same results.

A second study shows that if a person tries to make a new year in the six to eight hours after the execution thereof may have learning problems downstream. Thus, the absence of consolidation of the learning period, and trying to learn a new exercise, the first to be forgotten. People taking a nap between a year and another the next morning still remembered them.

Today it is fashionable to take the music all day with us through MP3 players, cell phones, iPod, etc. but how it might affect our health? Especially young people do not consider the damage that specifically aids and can cause excessive volume and these range from ringing (tinnitus), initiated the damage to complete loss of hearing.

• Listen to music with headphones at a volume that allows us to talk to another person who is not using headphones, and without being required to scream.
• Do not listen for more than 2 hours of allowing a break.
• Provide care in the time spent in places with excessive noise and stay away from the speakers.
• Seek specialist if they have tinnitus is more noticeable at night because the noise is higher.

Planning meals for a week and make sure that each week has all the necessary ingredients. Avoid preparing healthy meals because it has a tomato, because it lacks an element. Plan your meals before going to purchase, prepare a list of ingredients. In the purchase is important to buy only the foods on your list and avoid the temptation of impulse buying unnecessary products and inconvenient, do not be fooled by marketing techniques, by the appearance of products, by advertising. This provision also helps keep food costs at a minimum, because you are buying natural food, less expensive, rather than processed foods.

There is currently a good variety of items that can save cooking time such as slow cookers, useful for steaming, cooking tools and programmable microwave are useful, and not everything that passes through the microwave has to be unhealthy. A programmable slow cooker can cook food all day while at work. When I get home, have a delicious and healthy meal, waiting and ready for the whole family.

On weekends, you can prepare meals in advance and store them in secure containers. When you’re busy by the afternoon to accompany their children in sports games or practices, supplementary lessons, which can be used is a healthy meal and prepared in advance. There is a variety of wholesome foods prepared at home and kept for the rest of the week. This not only applies in a family home but also in individual houses.

When you’re planning meals a week, prepare a program of daily meals and daily routine. This will help decide which days are best for certain foods. For example, perhaps you have time to cook something special added on Friday night, but the rest of the week is so hectic, it is not known whether it will be possible. You can plan these special recipes that you want to try for Friday and for other busy days to prepare other simple but healthy meals.