Looking Good for the Holidays The holidays are here – can you get real beauty sleep? According to the Karolinska Institute, yes. They now have the first “scientific” proof beauty sleep exists. Men and women were photographed at the same angle in the same pose on awakening, then after staying up 31 hours. Shown to […]
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Health Care (12/20/10)
Why We Fear Telling What We Know Congress did the right thing. Now men and women can fight and die for their country without fearing for their careers, and living to acknowledge the people they love. Health care is another story. Too many people are scared to tell anyone, especially their doctors, about their symptoms […]
Facebook for Sleep? (12/07/10)
Another Facebook Effect The Facebook effect may bring communities together on a host of different issues, but more people are using Facebook as a bedtime fix. Internet forecasters often like to say this time is different – this time they may be right. Travelodge Tells It You don’t expect hotel companies to put out surveys […]
How the Internet will change your body – Part I – Getting Fatter Fast (11/29/10)
Part I – Changing the Rebuild As most of our bodies are replaced in a matter of days to weeks, what we do is what we become. How we live changes not just our gene expression but how we, look, think, and move; It also resets how we rebuild and renew ourselves – critical to […]
Physical Activity + Social Rest = Less Depression (and Fewer Colds) – 11/2/10
It’s a Matter of Moving Forty thousand Norwegians can’t be wrong. They were studied by groups from Kings College, London, and the University of Bergen with a simple question – does exercise decrease depression? The answer was – yes – by about half. With depression now affecting up to 30% of Western populations, that is […]