Your Health Account Created inNewsletter Library,Healthy Tips Everyone wants to grow their bank account. We know our financial health is usually estimated by the level of our resources. The more money in the bank, figuratively speaking, the more secure we feel. If our resources include stocks, bonds, and property, we are even more secure. We…

Your Hardware / Your Software Created inNewsletter Library,Mind-Body Connection The metaphor linking the human brain with computer hardware is now so well known that it features regularly in news media stories. But computers have only been with us since Colossus and ENIAC (electronic numerical integrator and computer) were constructed in the mid-1940s. The metaphor linking…

Your Fellow Travelers Created inNewsletter Library,Nutrition & Healthy Eating It has long been known that over evolutionary time the human organism developed in tandem with a vast host of microbial fellow travelers. The 100 trillion microorganisms inhabiting our gastrointestinal tracts assist in numerous physiological processes critical to our health and well being. The intestinal microbiome…

Your Double Helix Created inNewsletter Library,Exercise & Fitness Not everyone will admit this, but there’s something magical about exercise. Your brain produces endorphins in response to vigorous exercise and you feel energized, alert, and alive. You derive tremendous satisfaction from doing something you said you’d do. You feel good about yourself all day long. Beyond…

Your Computer and You Created inNewsletter Library,Life-Work Balance Windows and Mac users actually do have one thing in common – computer ergonomics issues, namely, pain.1,2 Beyond the usual hardware and software gotchas we deal with on a daily basis, the real bottom-line question is, “how to play nice with my computer”. Doing computer work is…

Your Brain and You Created inNewsletter Library,Mind-Body Connection You are the lucky owner of a magnificent piece of biological machinery – the human brain. Your brain is always on, performs lightning-fast calculations, and is a whiz at making connections between seemingly unrelated factors and observations. The only downside is that your brain didn’t come with…

Your Body – An Owner’s Manual Created inNewsletter Library,Healthy Tips Wouldn’t it be great if your body came with an owner’s manual? You’d probably begin reading it around the age of seven or eight, and right away you would be able to start taking better care of your precious body. You would learn how you…

You Say It’s Your Birthday Created inNewsletter Library,Staying Young Let’s imagine that today is your birthday. One of the things you might do on or around your birthday is to take a look back at what you’ve accomplished in the year gone by. You might be glad at all the things you’ve done and a…

Yoga, Cardio, or Strength Training? Created inNewsletter Library,Exercise & Fitness Which type of exercise is right for me? Is lifting weights going to give me the best result? Maybe I should concentrate on running – that will really help to strengthen my heart. What about yoga – everyone says yoga is good for flexibility. All…