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  • 100% Fad Free
    Most of us already know what is healthy and what is not if we just think about it. Avoid the fad diets and use your common sense and you will go a long way toward health
  • 21 Times a Day
    TV ads, junk food makers, fast food restaurants, school cafeterias and snack-ridden sporting events are making our kids fat. Who's job is it to get them back on track and set them up for successful futures.
  • A Full E-Tank Increases Sports Performance
    Many coaches neglect to build up their players emotional tank and are missing a huge opportunity to create better athletes. Too much correction and instruction can decrease a young athletes performance, while more focus on the positive can boost it.
  • A Soda for Your Thoughts?
    Everyone knows that high sugar drinks, like soda pop, are bad for your waistline. Now new data shows that these drinks may also be bad for your brain as well.
  • Are Kids Doing Too Much? The Importance of Sleep
    When kids don't get enough sleep the suffer at multiple levels. The get cranky and unable to function properly in school or sports. But sleep is also a time when they consolidate what they learned earlier that day. So robbing kids of a good night sleep hurts them the follow day and makes the previous day much less valuable.
  • Brain Fitness Case Study: Kris Kringle
    Santa has to keep his brain fit in order to remember all those kids names, where they live and what they want. How does he do it?
  • Brain Technologies – Part 1: Knowing your Genetic Fate.
    Stress in society today is accelerating. New technologies are adding to that stress, even though many are designed to help improve our lives. Genotyping is one such technology that with the promise of a better future will require some thoughtful debate before going to the masses.
  • Can Giving Improve your Brain?
    New science shows that the altruisim, the act of giving, activates brain circuits involved in higher thinking and social behavior. Since the brain follows the 'use it or lose it' rule, altruism might actually strengthen those circuits and improve your social skills - eventaully improving your own quality of life.
  • Can you Avoid the Flu by Changing your Attitude?
    Positive mental attitudes have been touted for decades. Now new research shows that a 'PMA' can actually decrease your odds of getting sick.
  • Can you See into the Brains of Other People?
    There is a very exciting area of brain research revolving around mirror neurons. These are neurons in your brain that actually mirror the activity of what’s going on in the brains of people around you.
  • Can Your Conscience Protect You from Alzheimer’s Disease?
    How conscientious of a person are you? New research shows that the higher your level of conscientiousness, the lower your odds of getting Alzheimer's disease.
  • Candy-Coated Sports
    When did we start associating youth sports with all the post-game treats. Is it possible for us to teach our kids to have fun in sports without sugar?
  • Cholesterol: Good, Bad or Ugly?
    Cholesterol has a bad reputation for hindering your health, but is it deserved? Many researchers and physicians say no. And now there is new evidence to fuel the fire. Studies show that reducing cholesterol may do nothing to prevent death and might even increase the odds of getting Parkinson's disease.
  • Death by Prescription
    Stress about health care is a huge problem in this country. Most of the focus is on getting coverage. But the patient should be aware that a little stress on the care might be advisable as well.
  • Diet, Exercise Beat Drugs at Combating Type II Diabetes
    A large comparison of studies that looked at different ways to treat diabetes found that lifestyle approaches were at least as good as drugs, with fewer side-effects
  • Do we need to Micromanage our Bodies?
    Using medications to micromanage our body functions might not always be the best choice. Sometimes we need to take one medication to combat the side effects of a different medication. A focus on whole body health is often a better choice when it comes to reversing ill health.
  • Eat Fat and Stress Out
    A new study shows that even a single high fat meal can increase your blood pressure in response to stress. This in turn may lead to a future of chronic high blood pressure and hear disease
  • Eat, Drink and Be Healthy?
    Several scientific advances have been made on weight control and improving health. Yet the media hypes them up so much to proclaim another 'magic bullet' discovery. What's the real truth behind these studies and how can they benefit you?
  • Fish Food for Thought
    Why are omega-3s such a big deal? Our ancestors didn't have to worry about them and they did fine. Today we hear about how omega-3s link to heart disease, depression and even Alzheimrer's disease. This article will explain what they are, what they're for and why today is different than yesteryear.
  • Fishing for Neuroticism
    A new study shows that higher neuroticism scores are associated with lower omega-3s and higher omega-6s in the blood of healthy adults.
  • Hold your Head Up – Boost Your Memory
    Keeping your head up does more that alert you to opportunities. By paying attention to your surroundings you are activating a powerful brain function that helps you store and recall memories.
  • Is it for your own good?
    Not everything is as it seems when it comes to health. Yes, you have to eat the right stuff and get enough physical activity - but an often forgotten part of the formula relates to how that stuff makes you feel. If you hate doing something it will not be good for you. Conversely if you absolutely love something that has some benefit on its own.
  • Is Love Potion Real?
    A new report on the Today Show details recent research on understanding the biology of love. Although this is a fascinating field and worthy of continued research, the Today Show is suggesting we should develop drugs to control our heart's desires. That is going too far.
  • Is Personalized Medicine at our Doorstep?
    New genetic screening technologies promise to aid in the treatment of many diseases and disorders. This is an incredibly powerful approach for medical science but a potentially huge head ache for medical ethics.
  • Maintaining Good Health isn’t Rocket Science
    Maintaining good health isn't rocket science. It just takes some common sense and to avoid fad diets. Any long term sustainable health program should be based on exercise and meals that balance carbohydrate, protein and fat in reasonable portion sizes - you don't have to be a mathemetician to figure it out.
  • More Fishy Data
    More studies this week highlight current issues on nutrition, touting benefits of omega-3 fats
  • Nap Today, Perform Better Tomorrow.
    Although many people steal hours from their sleep to get more done in the day, this may actually be counter-productive. New research sheds light on why sleep messes with parts of our brains and decreases our productivity.
  • No Running in School?
    Physical education is proven to improve academic performance in school and slow down brain aging in adults. Still, our schools continue to cut PE and now are banning running games on recess. What's going on?
  • Of Bellies and Brains
    The most important skill we can give our kids today is adaptability. This will be required to succeed in our rapidly changing world. Focus on brain fitness will focus on all the necessary skills for achievement.
  • Patriotic Health
    The best thing you can do for your country today is to improve your health. Declining general health and and aging population our stressing our health care system beyond what it can handle. Find an accountability partner and move towards health, for your country's sake.
  • Reading Minds with Fitter Brains
    'Reading Minds' is a skill that we can all learn. I'm not talking about science fiction, but being able to accurately interpret peoples emotions by looking into their eyes and faces. New research shows that specific brain hormones are responsible for our abilities to read others.
  • Ready, Set, Think
    A new study shows that exercise is a good anti-depressant because it turns up specific growth factors in a part to the brain that control stress and mood.
  • Refuse to Stress
    Exercise improves brain functions that help you deal with stress, focus and gain more productivity.
  • Soccer and Brain Fitness
    Sports like soccer can boost more than just your athletic ability. They challenge your ability to regulate emotions, think creatively and make decisions. They increase your Emotional, Physical and Intellectual or EPIQ performance.
  • Some Parts of the Brain Improve with Age
    As we age we have a natural tendency to filter out more bad experiences and accept good experiences. The question is, can we let the good side of life boost our confidence at any age? The answer is that if we work on our Brain Fitness, we can.
  • Sweeten Your Willpower
    New studies show that maintaining your blood sugar might help you control your willpower. A low glycemic diet can be another weapon to overcoming your bad habits.
  • Take That Pebble Out Your Shoe
    When it comes to improving health, so many people are looking for the quick fix. But really it takes time. Don't subscribe to all the hype that you can improve your health overnight. The need for instant gratification is the enemy of success.
  • Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
    The science of brain health supplements continues to emerge. New studies show the benefit of several key supplements in maintaining cognitive health and improving learning in the elder years.
  • The 4 R’s - Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and Retail?
    Kids are exposed to thousands of advertisements everyday. What kinds of messages are they getting and what can you, as parents, do about it?
  • The Mentality of Physical Activity
    Physical exercise in kids makes them smarter. Study after study supports that conclusion. Now, a new study shows that kids that exercise regularly do better on test assessing their cognitive function and math skills.
  • Treat Acne with a Low Glycemic Diet
    New data suggests that a low glycemic diet goes beyond benefits for weight loss, chronic disease prevention and energy boosts. It also appears to help fight teenage acne.
  • Vacuuming Boosts Health – If you Believe It
    The placebo effect strikes again. A new study shows the power of believing that your everyday routines can help your health.
  • Variety is the Spice of Brain Fitness: Part I – EPIQ performance
    Intelligence is more than IQ. It's more than how 'book smart' you are or the grades you got in school. Intelligence also depends on your emotional intelligence (EQ) and your physical intelligence (PQ). Your level of brain fitness determines how well all of your intelligences work together to give you the best chance of success in life.
  • Variety is the Spice of Brain Fitness: Part II – Nutrition and IQ
    Simply put, good nutrition provides you brain with quality materials to build quality brain circuits. Poor nutrition provides your brain with junk to gunk up the system. Over time, good nutrition enhances brain function and poor nutrition increases the chance that brain circuits will break down and lead to dementia.
  • Want what you Need
    How do we figure out how to want what we need for good health? The reason we choose poorly is because behavior is based on emotion not on logic. Finding a formula to use your emotions to drive good choice is what we all need.
  • What is Brain Fitness?
    Brain Fitness is a combination of improving the physical and mental health of your brain. This is accomplished through nutrtion for the brain, physical exercise to increase brain power and mental exercise to increase brain connectivity.
  • When a Calorie is not a Calorie
    Not all calories are equal. New studies show that some types of fats increase weight gain much more than others.
  • When Exercise is not Exercise
    Exercise accounts for some of the calories you burn every day. But it turns out that fidgeting actually accounts for enough calories to determine how much weight you gain or lose.
  • Will Stress Take You Down?
    Susceptibility to stress is partially controlled by your brain chemistry. New research unveils how some people may handle stress better than others. Still, an element of personal responsibility should not be thrown out the door.
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