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• How Asian American 'tiger mothers' motivate their children
• Too much prolonged high-intensity exercise risks heart health
• Food labels are important to dieters
• Musical training can increase blood flow in the brain

How Asian American 'tiger mothers' motivate their children Posted: 16 May 2014 05:32 PM PDT An article titled 'Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,' published in The Wall Street Journal in 2011, has continued to provoke a cultural debate among parents after self-proclaimed 'tiger mother' Amy Chua asserted that Asian American parenting methods produce more successful children. Researchers delved deeper into Chua's 'tiger mother' approach, and their research sheds light on key fundamental differences in parenting methods between Asian Americans and European Americans.

Too much prolonged high-intensity exercise risks heart health Posted: 14 May 2014 05:57 PM PDT Overdosing on high-intensity exercise may actually increase the risk of death from a heart attack or stroke in those with existing heart disease, suggests research. Similarly, a second study suggests that young men undertaking endurance exercise for more than five hours a week may increase their risk of developing an irregular heart rhythm in later life.

Food labels are important to dieters Posted: 07 May 2014 06:16 PM PDT Dieters are more likely to read and understand food labels than people who aren't dieting. Some 255 participants completed questionnaires on their mood, wellbeing, how they controlled what they ate and their food shopping habits. The participants were made up of 140 who were non-dieters and 115 who were members of a slimming group.

Musical training can increase blood flow in the brain Posted: 07 May 2014 06:16 PM PDT Brief musical training can increase the blood flow in the left hemisphere of our brain. This suggests that the areas responsible for music and language share common brain pathways. Study one involved looking for patterns of brain activity of 14 musicians and nine non-musicians whilst they participated in music and word generation tasks.

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