San Pedro Cactus "€" A Fast Growing Cactus And Its Medicinal Value By: john mac | - The San Pedro cactus is a fast-growing and a tall columnar psychoactive cactus native to the Andes Mountains of Peru. Also found in Argentina, Ecuador and Chile, this cactus is cultivated in other parts of the world where it is legal to cultivate for its ornamental value, but not for human consumption. It grows at a rate of about one foot per year reaching up to heights of twenty feet. This almost spineless cactus has beautiful white flowers which open only at night, and very rarely develop frui ... Tags:San Pedro Cactus
A Guide To Local Food When You Study Spanish In Chile By: Ken Ingraham | - When you travel to new destinations, you will find that one of the most memorable aspects of your trip will be the dining experiences. Don't be surprised if when you return home you find yourself describing the delicious dishes that you ate in detail to friends and relatives.
The Basics Of Composing A Painting And Photography By: Stewart Strangeman | - Photography and painting might sound like two distant forms of art but there are a lot of things which unites them. Both of them are visual forms of art which needs immense imagination and creativity on the part of an artist to create them. Photography is not just clicking with the camera and painting not just about running the brush over a canvas. Both of them need to reflect the idea in the artists or photographers mind which is known as COMPOSITION. Let us now see some of the basics of ... Tags:Painting holidays, photography holidays
Reading Minds With Fitter Brains By: Simon Evans | - Part of Brain Fitness is being able to read the emotions of other people. The better you are at this, the better you will be at interacting with people, either socially or in business. Like any skill, you can improve this social aspect of your emotional intelligence.
Brain Fitness And Diabetes By: Simon Evans | - An interesting paper came out recently in Nature talking about a newly discovered link between the brain and metabolism in type II diabetes. I thought the paper was interesting, not just for the new data, but because it supports the underlying concept of Brain Fitness and more specifically, in this case, physical intelligence, which I have defined before as your brains ability to control your body.
Some Parts Of The Brain Improve With Age By: Simon Evans | - One of my recent articles gave a statistic from the sports psychology world stating that it requires about 5 positive comments to overcome 1 negative comment when coaching young players. This means that negative comments carry a lot more weight in the mind of a child than do positive comments.
Soccer And Brain Fitness By: Simon Evans | - While running on the treadmill this morning I was watching a soccer game on TV and had the realization that soccer is really a great game for brain fitness. I have played and been around the game all of my life but hadn't really made the full connection to brain fitness until now.
Harry Potter And The Unfit Brain By: Simon Evans | - Okay, I'm not trying to add another title to J.K. Rowling's astoundingly successful series. I just want to use the main characters to make a point. Still, if you don't want any kind of clue as to how the last Harry Potter book ends, then don't read this article.
Why did Harry always seem to get the best of his evil arch nemesis, Lord Voldemort? I suggest that Harry had a fitter brain.
Variety Is The Spice Of Brain Fitness: Part Ii Nutrition And Iq By: Simon Evans | - This is not going to be an article about all the good foods you should eat and the stuff you should avoid. Many articles, including some of my own, have already beaten that horse. Most people know that carrots are better than cheeseburgers and I'm not going to get into that again at this time. What I want to do instead is give you a different perspective on the value of nutrition in improving and maintaining brain fitness and what that really means.
Variety Is The Spice Of Brain Fitness: Part I Epiq Performance By: Simon Evans | - When it comes to the fitness of your brain (or your body) variety is key. Your brain health depends on many factors including: everything you put in your mouth; the physical and mental activities you choose to do or not to do; the amount of rest and reflection you allow yourself; and all the stuff you tell yourself in your own head.
Treat Acne With A Low Glycemic Diet By: Simon Evans | - Do you or your kids have acne problems? The majority of adolescents and a small number of adults deal with significant facial blemishes. I remember going through a bought in my early 20's. It can be difficult for teens and young adults entering the dating years if they are always worrying about how they look. If your kids are struggling with acne, you may be able to help them out now, while setting them up for a healthier future at the same time.
Take That Pebble Out Your Shoe By: Simon Evans | - Recently I joined a group of business owners that gets together once a week to help each other out. One of the members of this group, a chiropractor, told a great story last week that I want to pass on so here it is.
Suppose you are walking along and you notice you have a pebble in your shoe. You are able to shift it out of the way, but it keeps getting back under the ball of your foot and starts to get annoying. What do you do?
Patriotic Health By: Simon Evans | - The plight of the baby boomers begins. Americans are getting older and this means greater demands on the health care system. A new study by the U.S. Center for Disease Control showed that doctor and hospital visits are up 20% in the last five years, a trend likely to continue.
Battle Of The Bulge In Nyc By: Simon Evans | - Fast food chains are fighting a recent New York ruling that says restaurants must put calorie information on their menus. The city has given restaurants until October of this year before they will start handing out fines but it looks like the battle lines are being drawn.
Hold Your Head Up Boost Your Memory By: Simon Evans | - You know when you are trying to remember something - maybe an idea you had earlier or a conversation with someone. The first thing you usually think about is where you were at the time. Maybe you were driving down the road, standing in line at the grocery store or walking in the park. Why do we remember where we were when it seems to have nothing to do with the memory we are trying to recall and how can you use that to your advantage?
Sweeten Your Willpower By: Simon Evans | - Have you had those days when you really stuck to your guns and maintained your willpower? You did your morning exercises, had a good breakfast and felt a great start to the day. You chose wisely in the cafeteria at lunch and passed up the pies. Even those mid-afternoon cravings didn't get you. You could have picked the snickers bar at the vending machine, but you had an apple instead.
Can Giving Improve Your Brain? By: Simon Evans | - Altruism, the act of giving unselfishly, is an enigma to neuroscience. The theory of evolution says that organisms will behave in a way to ensure their own survival and that of their offspring. So how did altruistic behavior come to be? Is it beneficial to the giver?
Vacuuming Boosts Health If You Believe It By: Simon Evans | - If you have a career that requires some physical labor, realize that you are getting some exercise and feel good about that. A new study shows that understanding the exercise benefits of your daily routine makes them even better.
When Exercise Is Not Exercise By: Simon Evans | - One of the biggest reasons we are getting so fat is no secret, we eat more calories than we burn. For example, if you take in 2000 calories a day and you only burn or excrete 1900 then you have a net increase of about 100 calories per day, which translates to about 10lbs of increased body weight per year. Do this year after year and you find yourself 50lbs overweight in just a few years.
When A Calorie Is Not A Calorie By: Simon Evans | - This post comes to you from about 30,000 feet en-route from Detroit to Portland, Oregon. I'm heading out there for a scientific conference on diet and nutrition, where I will be presenting some of my own work on omega-3 fats.
Since this is fresh in my mind, I thought I'd catch you up on some of the work that is going on. Realize that this is fresh out of my lab and has not yet passed through the scrutiny of scientific review.
Candy-coated Sports By: Simon Evans | - Spring is in full swing here in Michigan and around the country. That means you can find young athletes playing soccer and baseball in any given park just about every night of the week. It also means that on game days our young players get rewarded with cookies, chips and super-processed-jumbo-sized-mega-sized-chocolate-sugar-pops after their hard fought battles.
Death By Prescription By: Simon Evans | - Last week the World Health Organization released new guidelines for patient safety. Why is this a big deal? Well, back in 2000 the Institute of Medicine released a report documenting the large-scale problem of deaths from medical errors. The report stated that upwards of 100,000 people in the United States were dying each year from errors made by health care professionals.
Health Care Who Really Cares? By: Simon Evans | - Health care is a hot political topic but most of the attention focuses on how Americans will get their health care costs covered. While this is important, a much bigger issue often flies under the radar. The question that most people don't ask should be Is our health care system really designed to improve your health?'
Do Teen Brains Cause Reckless Behavior? By: Simon Evans | - The latest issue of Scientific American Mind has a great article about the teen brain, challenging many of our current thoughts about our young adolescents. Many recent studies support the notion that teenagers' brains are somehow inept at dealing with challenges in the same way as adults, and that this underlies their often reckless behavior. I have written posts in the past summarizing some of this work.
Brain Technologies Part 1: Knowing Your Genetic Fate. By: Simon Evans | - Biological Psychiatry, a journal that deals with the more nitty-gritty' aspects of the brain, released an editorial this week that bears discussion. The article details the future of psychiatry based on advances being made in genetics today. I have actually written on this topic before but it is so important that I wanted to shed more light, given the new editorial.
Students Fail Bmis By: Simon Evans | - A couple of days ago a friend of mine handed me this week's Wall Street Journal with a front page article about a town that may be taking the fight against childhood obesity too far. The school board in Gillette, Wyoming decided to put kids BMI (body mass index), an indicator of obesity, on their report cards. Although the intentions of the school board officials was to help overweight kids, many parents question if this is the right approach and some are steaming mad.
Want What You Need By: Simon Evans | - This week the CDC (Center for Disease Control) released a report that verified what many folks already know we are not getting enough physical activity or eating enough fruits and vegetables. Recommendations are to get at least 20 minutes of vigorous exercise three days per week and to eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables and new recommendations even suggest 9 servings a day.
Of Bellies And Brains By: Simon Evans | - Are you doing everything necessary to help your kids succeed in tomorrow's world?
Have you ever wondered what your kids have in store for them when they grow up? What will they look like and who will they be? What skills will they need in order to thrive, or even just survive in tomorrow's world? What kind of job will they have? How well will they be prepared after they leave your nest?
21 Times A Day By: Simon Evans | - That's the number of food ads that elementary school age kids see every day. The vast majority of them are for junk foods. This is according to the largest study ever done looking at TV advertising to kids by Kaiser Family Health and the University of Indiana.
Don't Stress It By: Simon Evans | - A new report in the Journal of Neuroscience is the latest in a long line of studies showing that stress is bad news for the brain. The new issue looked at the brains of rats that had been bullied' by other, bigger rats relative to those that had no such demeaning experience.
Eat Fat And Stress Out By: Simon Evans | - A new report in the Journal of Nutrition finds that a single high fat meal can increase your response to psychological stress. Meaning, stressing out a couple hours after you eat is worse if you just ate a high fat meal.
More Fishy Data By: Simon Evans | - More fish fuel for the fire from two reports this week showing that omega-3s improve brain function. These are part of emerging current issues on nutrition.
What Is Brain Fitness? By: Simon Evans | - Have you heard the term Brain Fitness yet? If not, you probably will. There is an emerging industry on maintaining or even increasing brain function as we age. The industry is still in its infancy, and backed by emerging science pointing to methods we can use to stimulate our brains. If you picture a brain diagram, these programs can increase the connectivity between different brain parts.
History Of Introduced Fruits Into America - Native American Fruit Trees And Hybrid Fruit Tree Improv By: Pat Malcolm | - Christopher Columbus in 1493 introduced citrus trees into America on the Island of Haiti, by planting the seed of the sweet orange tree, the sour orange, citron, lemon, lime, and pummelo fruit trees. Records show that citrus trees were well established by the Spanish in coastal South Carolina and Saint Augustine, Florida by the year 1563.
Historical English documents show that the Massachusetts Company in 1629 sent seeds of pear trees to plant and grow into fruit trees at the Amer ... Tags:
Christopher Columbus in 1493 introduced citrus trees into America on the Island of Haiti, by planting the seed of the sweet orange tree, the sour orange, citron, lemon, lime, and pummelo fruit trees. Records show that citrus trees were well established by the Spanish in coastal South Carolina and Saint Augustine, Florida by the year 1563.
Historical English documents show that the Massachusetts Company in 1629 sent seeds of pear trees ... Tags:fruits, native, america, introduced, history
Juicer Comparisons: Manual Or Electric? By: Herbert Romaro | - A juicer is conical-shaped kitchen utensil used for squeezing, or extracting, juice from various foods, especially fruits and vegetables, for the purpose of drinking or adding flavor to other foods. The juicer is simple to use, but, because of the possible dangers involved, should be handled with care, caution, and know-how.
Two kinds of juicers exista manual, or hand-operated, version and an electric version.
