Are you afraid of vegetables? You think I’ve gone crazy, but there are people who get all anxious when they see vegetables.
A bizarre fear that many of you may not have heard of before: the fear of vegetables. This fear affects a few thousand people in Britain and treatments for it include “psychological reprogramming” to control the anxious response to vegetables.
This problem often significantly impacts the quality of life. Symptoms include rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, shortness of breath, nausea, sweating and mainly the feeling of dread. Different people have this fear for different vegetables.
A perfect example of this phobia is 22-year-old British student Vicki Larrieux from Portsmouth. She survives on a diet of potatoes, cereals, meat and [...]
When the calendar rolls over to 2010, about 45% of all adults will set one or more New Year’s resolutions. One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions is to lose weight. This isn’t surprising given the overeating that tends to occur during the holidays.
If you plan on losing weight in 2010, there’s good news and bad news. Let’s start with the bad news. The odds are against you. Over 90% of all diets fail, and the majority of people don’t keep their New Year’s resolutions. But wait…remember how I said there’s good news? There are several simple steps you can take to turn the odds in your favor and to shed those pounds in 2010!
Start by following [...]
Searching for your cell phone ……… again? Not able to find your car keys? Whatever the reason you keep forgetting stuff, you don’t have to live with it anymore, irrespective of what your age is. You can be in your 30s, 40s, 50s or more; you have no excuse to let your brain fog.
According to experts, you can keep boosting your memory at all ages, if you start taking care of this most complicated and important organ of your body.
Here are some tips to a simple lifestyle that will keep your memory sharp for years.
If you are in your 30s, here’s a list of things you ought to do:
Floss Daily – Did you know that oral [...]
Having moved away from whole foods for the past many years, fast foods are now a staple in American culture; especially the hamburger. These yummy instant eats have gotten a lot of bad rep in the last few years, primarily for being high in fat and deficient in essential nutrients.
But the major problem turns out to be not the artery-clogging saturated fats that we are worried about, but the beef that goes into the making of a hamburger.
For most hamburger lovers, ground beef is just a chunk of meat cut from a cow and run through a grinder to be made into cutlets. If only things were that simple!
The reality of the hamburger can be shocking. The [...]
Media portrays the changing fashion in all its glory and potentially influences health-related behaviors, especially so in young adults when peer pressure is the strongest. One such health behavior is smoking. A recent survey in Canada reveals that the young men and women between the ages of 20-24 have the highest smoking rate.
While the younger generation pays a deaf ear to the harmful effects of smoking; researchers say that lighting a single cigarette can have serious adverse effects on young adults.
Harmful Effects Of Smoking
Researchers at McGill University Health Center found that smoking one cigarette increases the stiffness of the arteries in 18 to 30 year olds by a whopping 25%.
For us to be able to help [...]
That’s it. I’ve had it! If I hear one more man complain about women and PMS I think I’m going to SCREAM! I mean really. Who the hell do they think they are anyway? Disagree with them? Must be PMS. Point out that they made a mistake? Must be PMS. Don’t want to hit the sack for an afternoon quickie? Must be P-M-friggin-S! GRRRRR!
I’m convinced — the vast majority of men wouldn’t recognize a woman with PMS if she bit him on the ass. Heck, they don’t even realize their own little condition:
DAS — Daily Asshole Syndrome
Ooooh yeah. You know it’s true. Sure, some women go through monthly mood swings. Let’s call it our little monthly [...]
Did you know that over 90% of diets fail? Why is that? Is it because we lack the commitment necessary to follow through? Or is it because we choose the wrong diet for our lifestyle? Whatever the reason, the 10 tips in this list will help make sure your next diet isn’t just another statistic in this long list of dieting failures.
1. Avoid trendy diets—From the magazines lining the checkout counters at grocery stores to the afternoon talk shows, trendy diets are everywhere. Every week, there is a new “miracle diet” that produces results that are just too good to be true. And guess what? They are too good to be true. Trendy diets almost never work as [...]
Until now you have only heard of computer hacking and that can be quite scary, with hackers able to easily break into PCs and corrupt them by damaging or erasing important files and information.
What would you say if I told you that our brains may soon be hacked too?
Researchers are having sleepless nights just at the thought of the human brain being hacked. Their fears are not unfounded. They have a reason to be concerned that something like this could happen in the future.
Some of you may have read about the technology that makes it possible to operate computers through thoughts – using a wheelchair, operating a computer or accessing Twitter – all without touching anything. This [...]
“My daughter takes after me,” coos a mother. Every parent is proud of such “like mother, like daughter and like father, like son” links that form a strong bond between parents and children.
Well, that’s nothing to be proud of unless you are fit, reveals latest research. Wondering what fitness has to do with your children?
These parental links are not limited to the facial features or habits but also extend to the not so desirable weight or should we use the ugly word – fat. Researchers at the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth have recently found a strong link in obesity between mothers and daughters and fathers and sons. Not mothers and sons or fathers and daughters.
A gender [...]
What would we not do to stay young? The Elixir of Life has been eluding mankind for centuries. There have been several myths that circulated in centuries past, about having found it.
In the 18th century, a nobleman was reputed to have the Elixir and he was said to be thousands of years old. In the 16th century, a physician named Paracelsus was said to have discovered the elixir of life that helped people live for centuries. Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty was given the so-called Elixir of Life, which lead to his death, and it was later found to be a lethal dosage of Mercury.
This strong faith that the elixir of life could prolong youth is what [...]
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