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.
