Brifely Speaking

New App to Tackle Veggie Aversion

It’s common to like some vegetables and dislike some. Everyone has their favourites and pet-peeves. For instance, potatoes are so lovable while a lot of people just can’t stomach green vegetables. Vegetable aversion is common but a group of Australian scientists have found an innovative way to tackle it. They have launched a “dinner table” app in an effort to tackle aversion towards consuming vegetables. According to their research, two out of three Australian adults are not eating enough vegetables which is contributing partly to the nation’s health and obesity problems. VegEze app, developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), aims to encourage people to add extra vegetables to their daily diets and promote healthy living, CSIRO nutritionists will study how effective the app’s game-like nature is at changing people’s eating patterns as part of a broader research study.

The Invisible Disease Affecting Us

Blood cells in chronic fatigue syndrome patients are drained of energy, researchers have discovered. The study has shed new light on the truth behind the condition, which has prompted uproar among the medical community in recent years. Skeptics dismiss the extreme tiredness and mental lethargy as merely psychological, but angry patients are adamant it’s triggered by a virus. The new findings, made by Newcastle University researchers, back up claims that it is a biological problem and not made up in the head. Scientists hope the findings will allow for the root cause of CFS to be found, and for doctors to move away from treatments that involve psychologists.

Surgery can treat migraine: study

Doctors from AIIMS and Srinagar army hospital have revealed that a permanent treatment for migraine does exist, which is in turn a respite for millions who suffer from this condition. In collaboration, they have come up with a solution and said that migraine can only be eliminated completely through a surgery, as per reports. They have arrived at this conclusion after follow-up results of 30 patients who underwent surgery and out of them, 14 felt completely fine in a span of a year. Rest of people have also experienced a lot of improvement after undergoing surgery. Around 20 percent of the world population suffers from migraine, which causes severe pain on one side of the head. Reports further suggest that doctors do prescribe analgesics and steroids to relieve pain but they carry side effects and aggravate the issue.