Body Clocks and Food The world is filled with very different kinds of folks – and I’m not referring to politics. There are night people and day people, owls and larks. Researchers have been trying for decades to determine what else is different about them, from their DNA to their diets. Now there’s new data demonstrating […]
Making the World Stupid (12/05/12)
The Nature of Intelligence Item: Put people in rooms where carbon dioxide is more than 600 ppm and watch analytic reasoning and thinking decline. Higher levels – dumber answers. If present trends continue, global levels may hit 1000 ppm at the end of the century. Everywhere. Item: Cognitive decline is accelerated when people don’t physically […]
Training – to Transform Your Body (6/26/12)
Always Learning Your body constantly updates the information it receives. It learns. Through that learning it regenerates itself, remaking itself constantly. Most of your heart is replaced in about three days. Change is the true constant. You’re never the same from second to second. For what you do is what you become. The experiences you […]
Prozac chicken? (4/6/12)
Dining With Drugs The California Chicken Café, an LA eatery described by the 2011 Zagat Survey as a “healthy, fast-food alternative,” is a popular place to eat. The food is so “good” Zagat concludes “there must be Prozac in the chicken.” Actually, folks, there is prozac in the chicken – and a lot of other […]
Is your kid snoring? (and what does it mean – 3/12/12)
Sleep and Behavior Research has long linked sleep and behavior – in adults. The picture in children has been cloudier. Now a new study of British data evaluated by American academic researchers, makes the picture clearer: Snoring is not good for children. The Avon Longitudinal Study Mothers and fathers filled out questionnaires on children aged […]