Overcoming Workplace Burnout: The Solution is at Your Fingertips!
Have you ever had a moment in your career where you just did not want to go to work? Has it become more and more difficult each day to drag yourself out of your house and make that commute? Does getting things done seem like a mountainous task? Have you felt like you were on […]
Want to Fight Dementia? Grab a Handful of Blueberries
If you knew there was a food you could add to your diet proven to fight the effects of aging and dementia, you’d probably eat it, wouldn’t you? Well, get to your local farmer’s market now because blueberries are the wonder food of the future. Blueberries fight off the harmful effects of free radicals, keep […]
Why Women Are Developing Alzheimer’s at Alarming Rates
A study out from Johns Hopkins University suggests that stress affects women’s brains far more severely than men’s, which may explain why women develop dementia, Alzheimer’s, and related illnesses at faster rates than men. Long Term Study Results 909 study participants based in Baltimore, Maryland, participated in a long-range study at the National Institute of […]
Combating Stress in Our Kids
“On a cold March afternoon, the hallways were abuzz with chatter and giggles at Chatsworth Elementary School in Larchmont, New York. As the kindergarteners from Liz Slade’s class ambled into their classroom from lunch and recess and put their jackets and lunch boxes into their cubbies, Slade asked, “Can today’s mindful leader please come upfront […]
Neuropathy sufferers discover a new way to live!
Imagine feeling as though you can’t participate in life with your family, take a simple walk or get a good night’s sleep. Imagine living life worrying about losing your balance and falling, leading to a broken bone. For over 20 million Americans that is exactly how they go through life due to neuropathy. Neuropathy is […]
The Smartphone Generation: Should Parents Be Concerned?
For as long as screen-based technology has existed, concerned parents have questioned the potential consequences of its presence in the lives of their children. Even when it was limited to devices like a television set in the family room, the fear that technology could developmentally stunt children and adolescents was alive and well. That anxiety […]
Belly Fat and Brain Health: How They’re Connected
Without question, one of the most common New Year’s resolutions made annually is weight loss. Many of us begin the year focused on our health and well-being. We are enthusiastic about the possibility of change and fully committed to creating new habits for a new season. We capitalize on that momentum, filling our refrigerators with […]
Medicinal Marijuana, Brain Age, and Your Internal Pharmacy
One of the most significant brain imaging studies to be conducted, thus far, has linked the use of marijuana to accelerated brain age. The study, published by the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, was led by scientists from a number of respected medical research institutions, including John’s Hopkins and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The […]
Brilliant Learning: Empowering Adults to Empower Children
Childhood is filled with milestones. From the day their children are born, parents look forward to their first smile, their first steps, and their first words. Each of these experiences comes with its emotional dynamic. The first day of school, however, brings a unique pressure all its own. Parents often experience an intense sense of […]
New book, Saving Your Brain, unravels the mystery of the many chronic illnesses ravaging the American population today
If we could travel back in time to 1920, or even 1950, and ask anyone on the street, “What is Alzheimer’s?” probably 100 out of 100 would answer, “I don’t know.” Alzheimer’s disease was so rare in the first half of the 20th Century, in fact, that most of the family doctors of the time […]
