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16 October 2010 View Comments

Television and Alzheimers: The Link

Television and Alzheimers: The Link

How much time do you spend time in television? Correct me if I am wrong but a bachelor’s life basically runs like this: you wake up in the morning, prepare and go to work. When the day is done, and you have nowhere to go, no date to spend time with, no buddies available for [...]

11 October 2010 View Comments

Alcohol’s Attraction

Alcohol’s Attraction

Alcohol has been around since Man first discovered fermentation in rotting fruit thousands of years ago and the ancient Sumerians became the first brewers in around 4000 BC. It is a mind-altering drug that affects our mood. We use it to celebrate, commiserate, to boost our confidence, to wind down.
We use it to overcome self-consciousness, [...]

14 September 2010 View Comments

The Benefits Of Copper

The Benefits Of Copper

When I hear copper, the first thing that comes to mind is the electrical cord. When an electrical cord has been peeled or exposed, you will see finer wire networks that is orange in material. When connected to a power source, and you accidentally touch it with your bare skin, you get “grounded” or electrical [...]

2 September 2010 View Comments

Why You Should Avoid MSG At All Costs

Why You Should Avoid MSG At All Costs

Have you ever noticed that your migraine, which you thought was gone long ago, resurfaced after eating a meal? Have you ever attributed what you felt to what you have eaten other than the stress at work that you experience? Yes, it could be that sumptous food you took this lunch. Foods that are high [...]

28 August 2010 View Comments

What Boredom Truly Means… And How To Really Overcome It

What Boredom Truly Means… And How To Really Overcome It

What exactly is boredom and why is it considered a negative emotion? Boredom is apparently the scourge of a self-satisfied society that has reached a certain goal of financial independence, such as in middle to upper class America. We no longer have to spend most of our waking lives struggling for our survival – this [...]

25 August 2010 View Comments

Sleeping with Buddha

Sleeping with Buddha

The need for mind and body connectedness in sex has prompted some new liasons. At the University of British Columbia, sex researcher and therapist Lori Brotto is encouraging women to bring Buddha into bed with them. “We know a desynchrony exists where the genitals are doing one thing and the mind another, and this has [...]

20 August 2010 View Comments

Women’s Desire and Relationships

Women’s Desire and Relationships

The importance of relationships and emotional attachment to female desire emerges from many sources. Numerous studies show that women are far less interested in casual sex than men are. In 1996, researchers reported that 35 per cent of women but only 13 per cent of men cited love and emotional intimacy as goals of sexual [...]

16 August 2010 View Comments

Is it Healthy to Suppress Anger?

Is it Healthy to Suppress Anger?

Silence of the Lambs, Short, Field of Dreams, Basic Instinct, Terms of Endearment, Dances with the Wolves, go to the movies and you will witness firsthand the power of human emotion. In darkened theaters all over the world, audiences laugh at lines that tickle the funny bone, cry in sorrow, gasp in fear, scream in [...]

13 August 2010 View Comments

Sleep to get Organized

Sleep to get Organized

When you were still a kid, you spend so much time playing, studying, exploring the world around you. You run with friends, practice your batting skills for that baseball game, homework – among other things. By the end of the day, it is but natural that your body will require the much needed rest in [...]

10 August 2010 View Comments

The Brain’s Process of Addiction to Smoking

The Brain’s Process of Addiction to Smoking

Found in tobacco is an addictive substance called nicotine. When you gives up smoking, it is normal for you to experience nicotine withdrawal as your body learns to adjust to living without the constant influx of nicotine into your system. It fosters a situation of nicotine dependence that usually occurs over a number of years. [...]