The Lullaby of Off-Off-Off Broadway Too keyed up to sleep? A friendly hospital or hotel room too expensive? Spend the night at the national theatre – all night. And bring your pyjamas. London’s Barbican Theatre is famous for its concrete, brutalist architecture and it’s occasionally avant garde programming. The Duckie Theatre Company will be continuing […]
Sleep your way to weight loss? (10/5/10)
Sleep, Weight, Muscle and Fat There are dozens of studies that people who sleep less weigh more (and also die younger.) Can sleeping more cause weight loss? Probably. Most of the studies done have observed very few people for very short periods. Their answer has generally been yes – you can lose weight when you […]
Calming the everyday crisis (9/30/10)
Crisis. Just the word makes people nervous. Yet imminent threat is what a lot of us feel these days. Add in an economic crisis cutting the heart out of the American middle class, and people feel crisis becomes an everyday thing. So what do you do if your kid is sick and has to get […]
Regeneration – The Health Insurance No One Can Take From You (9/26/10)
What You Can Do to Take Control The medical care bandwagon is losing its very wheels. Health insurance is becoming prohibitively expensive – and only if you can get it. More and more people in their forties, fifties and sixties believe that given the changes in our economy and politics, Social Security and Medicare will […]
Can physical activity make me smarter?
Yes, it can and does. You grow new brain cells at night if you walk 20-30 minutes a day. You also can grow new grey matter. Take the case of a long term study of Swedish twins, pointed out to me by my friend Tom Walker. Georg Kuhn, professor of regeneration neuroscience at Gothenburg University, […]