Mindfully Healing

Certain hairstyles made people look more sexy, others more good-natured or even more narrow-minded. Medium-length casual-looking styles are judged as making women look more intelligent, a survey finds. These styles are also linked to being good-natured. Shorter, highlighted hairstyles on a woman make them look more outgoing and confident. However, in one of those inevitable and irritating trade-offs, shorter hair is seen as less sexy on women. The hairstyle that gives an intelligent sheen to a man was medium-length side-parted hair. The bad news for men with these haircuts is

“Over time, your face comes to permanently reflect and reveal your experiences.” Just by looking at your face, people can reliably tell whether you are rich or poor, a new study finds. And on that basis, they also make other judgements: for example, that rich people are more likely to be hired for a job. PhD candidate Thora Bjornsdottir, who led the study, said: “It indicates that something as subtle as the signals in your face about your social class can actually then perpetuate it. Those first impressions can become

3,961 people from 29 different studies were included in the analysis. Depression is more than a mental disorder, it affects the body’s ability to detoxify itself. It should be seen as a systematic disease that affects the whole body, argues a new study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. Accepting that depression affects the whole body could help explain why people experiencing depression are more likely to suffer from cancer, cardiovascular disease and to die younger. All of these problems can be combated, however, by the usual treatments for depression: