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How To Deal With Energy Vampires, and other Weekend Reads
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Here are this weekend’s reading diversions for your enlightenment. Have a splendid weekend!
S-M-A-R-T: Scrabble is good for the brain, researchers say
The research found that non-Scrabble players tend to store and collect words by their meaning. By comparison, those who had tried to memorize the Scrabble Dictionary shaved milliseconds off their time.
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Deepak Chopra: Weekly Health Tip: When Heartburn Becomes A Health Problem
But if you have two or more heartburn or acid reflux episodes every week, or if the attacks interfere with your life and keep you awake at night, you should see your doctor. You may have gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) — and it’s not something you should ignore: In rare cases, GERD can be a precursor to esophageal cancer.
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Overuse of Antibiotics Is Seen Behind Many Human Ills
“Overuse of antibiotics could be fueling the dramatic increase in conditions such as obesity, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies and asthma, which have more than doubled in many populations,” writes Martin Blaser, a professor of microbiology and chairman of the department of medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center.
http://www.livescience.com/15740-helpful-bacteria-antibiotics.html
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Kathy Kaehler: ‘Jump’ Into a New Routine
The improvements that people can experience when they jump over a period of time can include: an increase in muscular strength, improved posture, balance and coordination, improvement in the blood, lungs and all the internal organs, weight loss and an overall sense of well-being. Jumping on a trampoline literally sounded like the fountain of youth to me. The reason is quite simple: because it puts gravity to work for you with the least amount of muscular effort. Regular exercise of jumping up and down where you rebound can jiggle your entire metabolism.
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10 Bad Habits That Weaken The Immune System
The immune system is a vital part of a person’s body for fighting off outside organisms that can cause diseases and infections; it’s the body’s primary defense system. A weakened immune system can lead to serious health conditions, like staph infection or the flu, because the body is unable to handle the germs and bacteria you come into contact with every day. It’s important to maintain a strong immune system, and one way to do that is to avoid these 10 bad habits that can weaken it:
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How To Deal With Energy Vampires: 8 Simple Tips
Negative people tend to leave others around them drained, tired and lethargic. No matter what you say, they always seem to find a way to counter with a negative opinion. When they face a problem, they soak themselves in the issue rather than deal with it constructively. They adopt a self-victimizing mindset, complaining about whatever happens.
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If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never get it. If you don’t ask the right questions, you’ll always get the wrong answers. If you don’t take a step forward, you’re always going to be in the same place. Life is a journey full of choices. Here are 50 wasteful choices to avoid.
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12 Ways To Make Talking To Strangers Less Awkward
Let’s face it, fewer moments are more awkward than trying to strike up a casual conversation with someone you don’t know very well. Here are some quick tips to lighten up the situation:
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Crohn’s Disease Symptoms & Warning Signs: Sharp Abdominal Pain, High Fever, Blood in Stool
Crohn’s disease can cause osteoporosis, which is a condition that affects bone density. People with osteoporosis experience a higher risk of developing bone fractures. Other possible conditions that result from Crohn’s disease include seizures, strokes, peripheral neuropathy, headaches, and depression
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Crohn’s Disease Types: Jejunoileitis, Ileitis, Illeocolitis
In addition to the five types of Crohn’s disease, there are 3 classifications: structuring, penetrating, and inflammatory. Stricturing diseases cause the bowel to become narrow, resulting in bowel obstructions and changes to feces. Penetrating disease damages the passageways between the bowel and skin. Inflammatory disease causes swelling.
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How to Eat to Have More Energy, and other Weekend Reads
Friday, October 15th, 2010
Here are this week’s reading diversions for your personal enlightenment.
Have a great weekend!
Coolest Walled Cities Around The World (PHOTOS)
Back in the day, cities and towns were built with large walls as defense against savage invaders. Now, they’re just very cool to see.
Want to lose weight? Turn off the lights
They discovered that staying up later often led to a change in eating habits with much more food eaten at night when the metabolism is slowing down.
How to Eat to Have More Energy
The C-word ‘Carb’ became a dirty word a few years ago. People became scared of eating carbohydrates, but you should be eating wholegrain bread, rice and pasta.
Walkers potato crisps to get potato packet
Walkers is investigating how to transform old potato peelings into crisp packets as part of its latest drive to deliver more environmentally sustainable packaging.
The first 2 years of life are considered a critical time for brain development. TV and other electronic media can get in the way of exploring, playing, and interacting with parents and others, which encourages learning and healthy physical and social development.
Men’s health: Preventing your top 10 threats
Do you know the greatest threats to men’s health? The list is surprisingly short — and prevention pays off. Consider this top 10 list of men’s health threats, compiled from statistics provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other leading organizations. Then take steps to promote men’s health and reduce your risks.
12 Little Instant Health Boosts
“When you’re happy, your body releases feel-good neurochemicals, which can have numerous favorable effects on the body,” says David Katz, MD, director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine.
IBD & Crohn’s Disease: Symptoms, Diet – Bowel Disease
Crohn’s disease is a lifelong inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD disease. Parts of the digestive tract get swollen and have deep sores called ulcers. Crohn’s disease usually is found in the last part of the small intestine and the first part of the large intestine. But it can develop anywhere in the digestive tract, from the mouth to the anus. No specific diet has been shown to improve or worsen the bowel inflammation Crohn’s disease, but symptoms can sometimes be alleviated through a diet low in fiber and fatty foods.
A study published in the recent issue of the Journal of Women’s Health says that women who habitually vent their anger — and who have risk factors for heart disease such as older age, diabetes or high cholesterol — could face a higher risk of developing heart disease
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche: Letting Go of Labels and Seeing the World Anew
A lot of our suffering in life comes from our conceptual mind and its habit of trying to categorize and put labels on our experience. Usually our labels have nothing to do with reality, or with the actual things we are labeling. Things in themselves, as they are, are beyond all concepts; but our confused mind creates all these labels and wants to attach them to things. Because of this labeling mind, we have friends and enemies, black and white, gay and straight, good and bad.
Children Affected By Scarlet Fever
“Scarlet fever usually follows a throat infection and is characterised by a sandpapery rash, especially over the trunk and limbs, a red strawberry tongue and a flushed face, along with fever, nausea and vomiting, and general unwellness,” she said.
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD: The Problem with Interventional Drug Therapy for Coronary Heart Disease
To fully grasp how so many smart, right-minded people could get it so wrong, it might help to start with a quick review of medical history. Take the radical mastectomy, conceived by William Halsted in the late 19th century. The procedure was intended to remove all cancer cells of the breast, the overlying skin, the underlying muscle and regional lymph nodes. It was mutilating, permanently disfiguring and no more effective than less radical, less disfiguring procedures.
Darryl Sollerh: Navigating Homework Hell, Part 1: How to Manage an Assignment-Averse Child
Let’s begin by acknowledging that there are students who take satisfaction in doing their homework, and who, without any special prompting from mom or dad, come home each day and get to work. If their parents could bottle whatever it is that makes their kids do that, their profits would make Bill Gates’ money look like sofa change.
Cat People Are People Too – NYTimes.com
The upside to cat ownership is proximity to a sense of dignity, intelligence and lack of garish behavior. The downside is that a cat is something hidden, a secret that needs confessing as the doorknob turns. By the way, I’ve been to the doctor and it turns out … I have a cat.
SAM-e May Be Effective Treatment for Depression – NYTimes.com
A popular dietary supplement called SAMe may help depressed patients who don’t respond to prescription antidepressant treatment, a new study shows.
Observatory – Charting Anxiety and Pessimism in Dogs - NYTimes.com
Dogs that quickly raced to the locations were more optimistic, and in search of food. Those that did not were deemed pessimistic.
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