It’s Healthbolt Carnival Time…
February 4, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Diets and Dieting, Easy Health Tips, Exercise, Fitness, Happy Living Tip, Health, Healthbolt Carnival
It’s Healthbolt Carnival time, so grab that cup of coffee and start reading.
Brain Blogger from Brain Blogger asks Is Sugar the New Cocaine?, saying, “Refined sugars have only relatively recently appeared in the diets of most people. Regulatory pathways that balance calorie intake and energy expenditure and reward pathways help the body regulate ingestion of these sweeteners, as well as other foods.”
Just_Kelly from Choosing Losing! looks at The Stress Eater Diet: Review and Giveaway!, saying, here’s your chance to win a copy of The Stress Eater Diet! To win, go to the Stress Eater Diet site and take their stress …read more
Sharpen the Brain with this list of Top Brain Fitness and Cognitive Health Books.
January 20, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Blogosphere, Health, How To, Mental Health
If you’re looking for a little light reading, then this list won’t do. This list is for those of us who are looking to learn more about the brain and brain fitness.
Originally posted at Sharp Brains, the 10 Most Popular Brain Fitness & Cognitive Health Books list made it’s way to the Huffington Post, adding another book along the way.
If you want to find out why these 10 11 are the chosen ones, head over to either of those two sites.
I’m just posting the covers of the books so that when you see them at your favorite book store, you’ll …read more
Me and My Shadow.
Ever feel that you are being followed, that someone is ’shadowing’ every move you make?
Well, instead of being a real person, it could, believe it or not, be your ’shadow person’, the result of unusual activity in a specific region of your brain known as the left temporoparietal junction.
According to a study, published in Nature in 2006 (a British science journal), ‘…stimulation of a site on the brain’s left hemisphere prompts the creepy feeling that somebody is close by.’
Focusing on the case of a 22 year old woman with no psychiatric history who was being evaluated for epilepsy treatment, the …read more
