. . . If you’re not careful, the snacking never stops. Unless you pick the right snack, that is — something tasty enough to quell your cravings and satisfying enough to keep you from coming back for more. The key may be protein. In a 2012 study, University of Missouri researchers found that among healthy …
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For better or worse, corporations are considered to be people in certain ways. So why not dogs? A wildly popular recent New York Times story posits that MRI scans of dogs’ brains show that dogs’ ability to experience emotion is about equal to that of a human child. More.
Gregory Berns, a professor of neuroscience at Emory University, recently published a column in The New York Times explaining the results of an ongoing study that suggests dogs have human-like emotions. By examining MRI scans of dogs’ brains, Berns found that the structure of their caudate nucleus is very similar to that of humans. The …
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Fifty Shades of Grey may be a fun read, but it’s not going to help you probe the minds of others the way War and Peace might. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which finds that, compared with mainstream fiction, high-brow literary works do more to improve our ability to understand the thoughts, emotions, …
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Corrie ten Boom once said, “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.” Indeed, numerous studies have shown that worry not only puts a strain on our mental health, but on our physical health, too. While worry in and of itself is not bad — it spurs us into …
I’ve personally found Tai Chi really helpful over the past few months that I’ve been taking classes twice a week. My balance and energy are better, but even more important is less pain in my behind, back, neck, shoulders, knees and other body parts damaged by being rear-ended twice in the past four years, both …