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Affirmation of the Week
If you can be alone with yourself,
you will connect with others.
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Health Tips of the Week
- An odor identification test may prove useful in predicting cognitive decline and detecting early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, according to research presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference.
- Two UCLA studies reveal that menopause--and the insomnia that often accompanies it --make women age faster.
- Serotonin is best known for eliciting feelings of happiness in the human brain, but scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have found the hormone plays a role in milk production in dairy cows — and may have health implications for breastfeeding women.
- A new study published in the Journal of Cell Physiology describes how inflammation that characterizes fatty tissue is one of the main microenvironment actors responsible for promoting cancer. The authors also describe the involvement of steroid hormones and others factors produced by adipose tissue in breast cancer development.
- Apparently physicians have favorite patients. Physicians like the majority of their patients, but a majority like some more than others, a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds.
- A new wonder compound developed by University of Bath scientists in collaboration with King's College London offers unprecedented protection against the harmful effects of UVA radiation in sunlight, which include photo-ageing, cell damage and cancer. This compound should be added to sunscreens in about 3 to 4 years.
- A recent study by researchers at Johns Hopkins concludes that a substantial number of people with a history of the most frequent kind of nonmelanoma skin cancers still get sunburned at the same rate as those without previous history, probably because they are not using sun-protective methods the right way or in the right amounts.
- Consumers can be skeptical about new superfoods as they enter the market but still consume them for a bit of "extra insurance" for their health, according to new research from the University of Adelaide.
- Long used by triathletes and marathoners as a pick-me-up, caffeine is showing benefits even in short-burst and team sports like jujitsu, sprint swimming and rugby. Recent research suggests that even small doses of caffeine, equivalent to what’s in a “tall” Starbucks coffee, can improve athletic performance as cited in the Wall Street Journal.
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Article of the Week
Never Plant In Another Woman’s Garden
Recently I had one of those provocative multi-level conversations with a nanny who shared this personal conflict. She takes care of a delightful five-year old boy, an only child who is mostly around adults and so makes clever adult-like observations. His mother, her employer, is a high-powered executive with an intensely busy schedule along with an intense love for her son. Since the middle of June, marigolds, salvias, petunias and begonias languish in their small temporary root bound containers, dying to be planted in the moist, generous earth. The reason for their housing crisis is that the executive mother is too busy to plant them with her son, but unwilling to relinquish this bonding activity with the nanny who desperately seeks to keep the flowers alive in the sweltering heat.
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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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