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- December 15, 2010
If one day there was a drug on the market that could decrease your chance of developing dementia by 60%, would you consider taking it? But there is something we can all do right now, which is one of the interesting points made by Dr. Norman Doidge, author of The Brain’s Way of Healing.
READ MOREAre you getting enough sleep? Did you know that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers insufficient sleep a public health epidemic? For this reason, The National Sleep Foundation recently updated its recommendations on how many hours of shut-eye each age group needs.
READ MOREWould it surprise you to know that a thief could get your credit card information without actually stealing your card from your wallet?
READ MOREDo you check the nutrition labels before buying packaged meals and snacks for your young children? Would it surprise you to know that a majority of cereal bars, snacks and dinners for toddlers and infants contain way too much sugar and salt?
READ MOREThere isn’t a day that goes by that 16-year-old Ashlynn Marracino doesn’t think about her father, who died in 2008, and wish she could talk to him. So each year on his birthday, she releases a balloon with a note to her dad on it.
READ MOREWhen buying products made of plastic, do you look for ones that say BPA-free? Well it turns out that the chemical bisphenol-S (BPS), the alternative to BPA, isn’t necessarily safer when it comes to our health. New research shows that BPS can also disrupt the hormone levels in our bodies and can be detrimental to the developing brain.
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