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Affirmation of the Week
If your compassion
does not include yourself,
it is incomplete
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Health Tips of the Week
- New research out of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center shows that cancer patients who exercise regularly both before and after their diagnosis are significantly more likely to survive than those who are sedentary.
- A randomized trial by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers indicates that magnesium optimizes vitamin D status, raising it in people with deficient levels and lowering it in people with high levels.
- Thousands of people can take heart as new research from the University of South Australia shows a dairy-enhanced Mediterranean diet will significantly increase health outcomes for those at risk of cardiovascular disease.
- Rutgers scientists have found a compound in coffee that may team up with caffeine to fight Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia – two progressive and currently incurable diseases associated with brain degeneration.
- Vitamin C may reduce the harm done to lungs in infants born to mothers who smoke during their pregnancy according to a randomized, controlled trial published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
- Older adults who take up drawing could enhance their memory according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Waterloo found that even if people weren't good at it, drawing, as a method to help retain new information, was better than re-writing notes, visualization exercises or passively looking at images.
- Newborns with Vitamin D deficiency have an increased risk of schizophrenia later in life as researchers from Aarhus University and the University of Queensland report.
- Fasting before getting your blood drawn for cholesterol tests is common practice, but new research from Michigan State University shows it is a contributing factor of low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia, in patients who take diabetes medications.
- Men with inflammatory bowel disease have a significantly greater risk of prostate cancer a new study from European Urology finds.
- When two events occur within a brief window of time, they become linked in memory such that calling forth memory of one helps retrieve memory for the other event according to research published in Psychological Science. This happens even when temporal proximity is the only feature that the two events share.
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Article of the Week
New Year, Old You
Every New Year's Day when the party is over, with bleary morning-after-eyes looking in the mirror you are faced with the self-induced pressure of manifesting a significant transformation for the better. A new year is traditionally associated with the slogan of a new you, but how do you suddenly change your core identity and your physical body? Is this even possible? Is this the reason for failed resolutions? Instead let's try a new resolution:
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Addicted to Stress: A Woman's 7 Step Program to Reclaim Joy and Spontaneity in Life
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Stress will always land on your doorstep, but you don’t have to constantly open the door. It’s time to build immunity to external pressures and cultivate an inner peace which does not depend on outside influences. Shed that endless to-do list. Leave the straight lines of your personality to enjoy the surprising detours life has waiting for you.
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