Thursday, July 05, 2007

Yawning



Misconceptions :

--- promotes sleep.
--- sign of tiredness due to lack of Oxygen.

Recent Research Findings :

-- Drawing in air helps in cooling the brains and also helps it to work more efficiently.

-- Yawning does not depends on the level of oxygen/carbon-di-oxide in the blood.

-- Yawning does not promotes sleep but instead it activates the brain to work more effective by making the brain more cooler.

-- Yawning occurs due to the rise in brain temperature , sending the cool air will maintain optimal level of mental efficiency.

Contagious Yawns :

-- 50% of People who breathe thru' their mouth yawned while seeing other ppl yawning , while the ppl who breathe thru' nose didn't yawned at all.

-- Also ppl with cold pack forehead didn't yawned, but ppl with warm_packed forehead yawned contagiously.


Hope my dear readers yawned multiple times while reading this article , :-).

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