Here are this weekend's reading diversions for your personal enlightenment. Have a wonderful weekend!
Holly B. Clegg: Seven Popular Foods With Surprising Health Benefits
Caffeinated or decaf, drinking coffee regularly may reduce your risk of Parkinson's disease, colon cancer, diabetes and even headaches.
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Our Addiction to Technology Trumps Caffeine, Chocolate and Alcohol
This probably sounds familiar: You're out to dinner with friends, and everything's fun, until you get that itch. It's been 20 minutes, and you really want to check Facebook, or Twitter, or Foursquare or email. Forget about wanting; this is needing. You finally give in to the urge and sneakily check your phone under the table -- or fake an urgent visit to the bathroom, where you'll take a hit of the Internet while huddling in a stall.
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12 Little-Known Reasons You're Feeling Blue
There are many well-known depression triggers: Trauma, grief, financial troubles and unemployment are just a few.
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We burn three times more calories whilst standing, so today aim to do routine tasks, such as making a conference call or heading a meeting, while standing.
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Dr. Peggy Drexler: Strange Days for the Man of the House
Laws and changing times have conspired for decades to siphon off male power. Women got rights that had long been denied. Place in society became less a matter of force and position than information and communication. Pick a measure -- education, managerial jobs -- and women, in most cases, have blown past parity and assumed the lead.
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Which Body Shape Is Healthier -- An Apple Or A Pear?
These body shapes mean much more than deciding between an A-line or Empire wedding gown (the former works for Apples, the latter, for Pears). They're a signal of our general health: Our bodies store different types of fat in our stomachs versus our thighs
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9 Black Belt Techniques for Fighting Laziness at Work
Laziness can ferociously creep up on us at work even when we're consciously committed to getting things done. It's a byproduct those evil shiny objects passing through our periphery just begging for attention. We try to fight them off, but sometimes it's an arduous battle we can't seem to win. After all, being lazy is what our unconscious minds would rather being doing anyways.
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Is It an Addiction? 7 Telltale Signs
Predisposition to addiction is likely the result of several interacting endophenotypes. For example, difficulty controlling one's impulses may be an endophenotype that increases the likelihood of someone becoming addicted. In these individuals, the connections between the cortex and reward system may be weighted in such a way that drive is favored over restraint in situations where it would be the opposite for others.
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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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Poultry wieners, by the way, aren't much better, especially when it comes to sodium. One Butterball Turkey Frank, for example, has 370 mg of sodium or 16 per cent of the total recommended daily intake.
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