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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 eater quiz. Post the results and let me know what is stressing you out in comments.”

fightingfatigue from IC Disease suggests that Addiction to Prescription Opioids Not As Common As Once Thought.

Kara-Leah Grant from Prana Flow NZ looks at How to stay young forever | Prana Flow NZ, and asks ‘is yoga the answer?’

Jeff C. from BLog-Of-Jeff wants to know ‘how far is too far’ in When does excessive become obsessive?.

Will Edwards from Health and Wellness says Parents, Don’t Let Your Kids Be Drugged.

Andy from How To Stop Eating – Stop Binge Eating gives some tips on how to Stop Stress Eating.

Madeleine Begun Kane from Mad Kane’s Humor Blog offers “Dear Son” Letters (Limerick).

Wenchypoo from Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket looks at When Nutrition and Need Collide.

Woman Tribune writes that the Senate Approves SCHIP Expansion Bill.

Aparna from Beauty and Personality Grooming tells us how to Puff out puffy eyes.

FitBuff from FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog tells guys to Man up, do some Ballet Exercises.

myln from Change Your Life Hacks suggests you can Change your life with 9 simple steps.

Kevin from More4kids Childrens Health writes about MRSA—What Every Parent Should Know.

GP from Manely Montana suggests ways to get moving in Blessed by the Best.

Brandon Harshe from The Atlas of Life reviews The Power of Less: The Chiropractic Version.

fightingfatigue from Fighting Fatigue discusses » Childhood Trauma And Risk For ME/CFS Connected By Biological Link.

Lazy Man and Money from Lazy Man and Health asks Do You Have a Sick Bag?.

Joel Gray from Health Tips 101 Discovers How To Cleanse Yourself With Birch Tea.

ChristianPF from Natural Health Ezine discusses Jump Rope Training: How To Jump Rope.

TherapyDoc from Everyone Needs Therapy writes about Jason Calacanis and Internet Asperger’s Syndrome, saying, “The old Internet addiction gets ugly.”

Brandon Harshe from The Atlas of Life suggests that Chiropractic is Much More Than Back Pain and Neck Pain.

Ross from Energise for Life writes about Why I Love Essential Fatty Acids (and how fats make you slim!).

Wendy O. from BioLoser looks at Rods and Cones in the Eyes.

Peter Jonesfrom Great New Books that Are a Must Read says you can make 2009 your healthiest year yet with this new cookbook The Healthiest Meals on Earth.

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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 know that they’re the ones you are looking for.

Happy reading…

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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 study revealed that whenever the left temporoparietal junction region of her brain was electrically stimulated, the woman would describe feeling a ’shadow person’ who micmicked her bodily movements.

It was a feeling she described as ‘unpleasant’ and ‘extremely real’.

Just sounds plain weird to me…

Read more of the case study here. 

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