Here are this week's reading diversions for your personal enlightenment. Have a super weekend!
Healthy Aging Tips: How to Feel Young and Live Life to the Fullest
Healthy aging is about much more than staying physically healthyâitâs about maintaining your sense of purpose and your zest for life. As we grow older, we experience an increasing number of major life changes, including retirement, the loss of loved ones, and physical changes. How we handle these changes, as well as regular day-to-day stresses, is the key to aging well. With these tips for healthy aging, you can live with meaning and joy throughout your senior years.
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How to Improve Your Memory: Tips and Exercises to Boost Brainpower
A strong memory depends on the health and vitality of your brain. Whether youâre a student studying for final exams, a working professional interested in doing all you can to stay mentally sharp, or a senior looking to preserve and enhance your grey matter as you age, there are lots of things you can do to improve your memory and mental performance.
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Honesty Linked With Better Health: Study
The researchers found that in the "no lies" group, the fewer lies the study participants told, the better their health. For example, telling fewer white lies was associated with fewer feelings of tension or melancholy, as well as fewer health problems like headaches and sore throats, the researchers found.
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Why Prodigies Fail | Psychology Today
In retrospect, it might not seem so impressive that music historian Charles Burney predicted an uncommonly bright future for the musical prodigy performing in front of him, a 9-year-old who possessed what Burney described as "almost supernatural talents." After all, who could fail to recognize that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was destined for greatness?
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The Worst Things To Say To Someone Trying To Lose Weight
What's the worst thing anyone ever said to you when you were trying to lose weight? That's the question we put to Health's Facebook audience, and boy, did we get an earful!
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Lion's Mane - What You Need to Know
Lion's mane (Hericium erinaceus) is a type of medicinal mushroom. Long used in traditional Chinese medicine, lion's mane is widely available in supplement form. Scientific research shows that lion's mane contains a number of health-promoting substances, including antioxidants and beta-glucan.
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The cause of Crohnâs disease is undetermined but there is considerable research evidence suggesting that interactions among environmental factors, intestinal microorganisms, immune dysregulation, and genetic predisposition are responsible.
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Caring for Aging Parents - The New Old Age Blog - NYTimes.com
Itâs such a routine thing: A nurse wraps the cuff around your elderly relativeâs arm, squeezes the bulb, listens with a stethoscope and says: â120 over 60. Very good.â Smiles all around (this was my 89-year-old fatherâs latest reading), because everyone knows that high blood pressure is a risky proposition.
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Diabetes and the Obesity Paradox - NYTimes.com
Type 2 diabetes, a condition widely thought of as a disease of the overweight and sedentary, also develops in people who arenât overweight. And it may be deadlier in these normal-weight people, a new study shows.
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Job Networking Tips: How to Find a Job By Building Relationships
The vast majority of job openings are never advertised; theyâre filled by word of mouth. Thatâs why networking is the best way to find a job. Unfortunately, many job seekers are hesitant to take advantage of networking because theyâre afraid of being seen as pushy, annoying, or self-serving. But networking isnât about using other people or aggressively promoting yourselfâitâs about building relationships.
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Fighting Alzheimerâs With Functional Medicine | The Dr. Oz Show
Alzheimerâs disease, like coronary artery disease, arthritis and even cancer, is triggered by inflammation. While most of us can easily recognize the role of inflammation in a painful arthritic joint, it is the exact same process that has now been identified as playing a pivotal role in Alzheimerâs disease. In fact, the same laboratory markers used by doctors to measure the degree of inflammation in the body in an attempt to determine cardiac risk are just as effective in predicting risk for Alzheimerâs disease.
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