Beyond Delicious: Could Chocolate Also Be Good for You? Raw cocoa contains flavonoids, plant-based compounds with protective antioxidants like those in green tea.

 

Low-Carb Boom Isn't Just for Dieters Anymore A far greater number of people are now cutting out carbohydrates because of a general sense that they are unhealthy.

Research in Italy Turns Up a New Form of Mad Cow Disease US cattle tests not effective with this variant

 

Study links antibiotics to breast cancer risk

Going Beyond Atkins There's no question that carbs can make you fat. But are bunless burgers the best alternative? Here's a healthier, and tastier, way to cut carbs

Drugs 'don't work on many people' A senior executive at Europe's largest drug maker has admitted most prescription medicines don't work for most people, it is reported. Allen Roses, of GlaxoSmithKline, is quoted in a national newspaper as saying more than 90% of drugs only work in 30-50% of people

Attention Deficit Drugs Have Long-Term Harmful  Effects Rat studies show Drugs given to children to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could have long-term effects on their growing brains, studies on rats suggest.

Two Million Customers = Good Business = Two Million Kids Drugged on Stimulant Medications by Rob Kall

Migraine Headaches and Tourette Syndrome

Benefit for man paralysed in attack
Galway Advertiser, Ireland  ... A form of treatment known as Biofeedback which involves physical therapy and electric stimulation is his only hope to regain movement in his paralysed muscles.

Older women who exercise report fewer health problems: doctors

Fetal Brains Suffer Badly From Effects of Alcohol

Bipolar Kids Misdiagnosed (video)

Heart Disease Starts in Childhood

Fatigue Often Precedes Heart Attacks in Women

Growing Up with Cats Good for Allergies

Doping Kids As pharmaceutical companies push their products, more and more kids are being treated with powerful -- and untested -- adult drugs.

Medicating Young Minds Drugs have become increasingly popular for treating kids with mood and behavior problems. But how will that affect them in the long run?

Humans Could Live for Hundreds of Years.

Is Ending The Concept of Permanent Disability  the Solution to Workman’s Comp and SSI:  And can a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, in good conscience, propose such a thing?  Siegfried Othmer, Ph.D OpEdNews.com

Severe Attention Disorder Linked with Drug Abuse

Reasons to be cheerless The meaninglessness of modern life exposes us to such despair that we need more than a stiff upper lip to cope

 

When Bipolar Masquerades as a Happy Face The mystery of bipolar disorder, in a patient whose euphoric moods and vivacious character masked his illness.

 

On the Therapist's Couch, a Jolt of Virtual Reality Therapists are using software to create virtual environments that can help people face down their fears.

Finnish firm to make biometric passports

Before Baby Talk, Signs and Signals Teaching simple gestures, or signs, to babies before they can talk is a way to jump-start the language and communication process, and stimulate intellectual development.

Biofeedback goal for players in Journey to Wild Divine

Is Neuromarketing Research Giving Advertisers the Keys to Your Decision-Making?   the company

Photographs That Cry Out For Meaning; Do We think in Images or Stories?

School Stress Can Make Acne Worse For Teens
Good Housekeeping Magazine -Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine found that the stress of studying for final exams can make acne worse.

Set The Table: Food Can Fight Stress
Working literally from dusk to dawn in her home office, Shena Ponder says the only way she can prevent stress is to eat sensibly.

MRI May Predict Dementia in the Healthy

Personal Health: Give More Joy to Your World: Cut Holiday Stress To experts in the relatively young field of medicine called psychoneuro- immunology, it is no surprise that many people get sick during the holiday season. NY Times

There's a Sucker Born in Every Medial Prefrontal Cortex With the help of brain scanners, scientists are refashioning themselves as "neuromarketers." Can they finally make advertising a science?

Are Your Goals Exciting? by Jim Donovan

Wrestling with Alligators By Rod Johnson MBHST Report

The Bible's Lost Stories; Mary Magdelene, Role of Women in the Bible

Everybody Has A Story

Inspiration: Where Does It Come From?

This is our heaven - or hell
Karen Armstrong: For the great religions, this world matters more than the next.

Futurehealth Winter Brain Optimal Functioning, Positive Psychology and Story Summit Meeting February 6-10, Palm Springs, California covering neurofeedback, Peakperformance, sports psychology, EEG biofeedback,  heart rate variability, autism, ADHD, attention deficit disorder,  and more. Speakers include Allan Schore, Thom Hartmann, Nathaniel Zinsser, Joel Lubar, Anna Wise and over 60 others.