I’m a sucker for scientific proof. I wait for “science says…” and then I believe , whatever it may be.
So, now here’s a book that can tell me how to be happy.
It’s called The How of Happiness by research psychologist and University of California professor of psychology Sonja Lyubomirsky.
Every statement Lyubomirsky makes about […]
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Your kid a picky eater? It’s not your cooking, it’s your genes
Published October 11th, 2007 in body/mind, Body & Mind and Science. 4 CommentsOne of my sons loves artichokes, mussels, and pomegranates. But for the other, it’s: goldfish, goldfish, goldfish.
Here’s some information that might have kept me off Lexapro: The New York Times reports that, although environment has an influence, it’s genes that determine a picky eater.
A University College London study, which was published in the […]
What is sustainable food?
Published May 25th, 2007 in body/mind, Body & Mind and human world. 11 CommentsSustainable food. Yes, absolutely. Of course, we’re all for it.
But what exactly is it?
It’s a question that was debated at Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Sustainable Food Institute on Thursday.
There were some agreed-upon yeses, according to The Daily Green.
Local is better
Why? it requires far less energy to get food from the farm to your plate than when […]
“I didn’t do it!” Tell it to an MRI.
Published May 24th, 2007 in body/mind, Body & Mind, human world and Science. 4 CommentsMagnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI, is not a truth serum.
But researchers are saying it’s a top notch lie detector that far surpasses the polygraph in determining whether or not a person is lying.
The polygraph just measures physiological responses to stress - your pulse rate, sweating, irregular breathing - and has largely been discredited as […]
Diet if you want. You can lose weight, sure. But unless you want to live like a starving person, it’ll come back.
You pretty much are who you are, weight-wise, according to Gina Kolata’s new book, Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss — and the Myths and Realities of Dieting.
In her New York […]