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New York Times Op-Ed: Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think
GENERATIONS of psychologists and philosophers have believed that babies and young children were basically defective adults — irrational, egocentric and unable to think logically. The philosopher John Locke saw a baby’s mind as a blank slate, and the psychologist William James thought they lived in a “blooming, buzzing confusion.” Even today, a cursory look at [...]
OPINION: Dr. Andrew Weil / The Wrong Diagnosis – Health Care Plan Does Not Help People Become Healthy
I’m worried — and if I’m worried, you should be, too.
The reason I’m worried is that the wrong diagnosis is being made.
As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis [...]
7 U.S. Troops In Afghanistan Are Killed – Americans Should Brace Themselves For Mounting Causalties
The daily death toll is the highest in months. Observers warn that Americans need to brace themselves for mounting casualties in the conflict as more U.S. troops enter it.
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Washington — As U.S. troops in Afghanistan suffered the largest one-day death toll in months Monday, military officials and experts warned Americans [...]
Dr. Mark Hyman: The 7 Keys to UltraWellness: Discover Why You are Sick and How You Can Heal
“I didn’t know how bad I was feeling until I started feeling better.”
That is what my patients tell me every day. They go from being ill or just okay to experiencing UltraWellness.
Most people don’t know how poorly they feel until they feel better. In fact, most of us don’t recognize that fatigue, digestive problems, aches [...]
Want To Improve Your Fitness? Try Sleep
Most people training for a race or sport focus on adding more miles, workouts or weight training to improve their fitness. But new research suggests that simply getting more sleep can improve athletic performance.
The small study included five members of the Stanford women’s tennis team. For two to three weeks, the athletes maintained their regular [...]
Preview Of The Future? U.S. Gov’t Run Indian Health Service – A Huge Failure
Ta’Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking. She complained constantly to her mother that her stomach hurt.
When Stephanie Little Light took her daughter to the Indian Health Service clinic in this wind-swept and remote corner of Montana, [...]
‘Sexting’ Now Becoming An International Problem
It may seem like harmless fun to a 15-year-old wanting to impress their new boyfriend or girlfriend.
But the practice of sexting – sending nude or semi-nude images of oneself to others via mobile phones – is having unintended and, in some cases, tragic consequences.
The risk of having one’s private pictures distributed among schoolmates or uploaded [...]
GOVERNMENT OUT OF CONTROL: Giving Billions To Banks & Detroit, But What About The 500,000 Poor Families In California?
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SENIOR ADVISER DAVID AXELROD, TELLS CALIFORNIANS THAT “THERE’S A LIMIT TO WHAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO.”
All sorts of startling conclusions are being drawn about the failure of California’s ballot funding initiatives two weeks ago. Newt Gingrich hailed it as another Boston Tea Party, and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman insisted that it [...]
AP/MTV Poll: College Students Feel Stressed, Depression Is More Common
Stress over grades. Financial worries. Trouble sleeping. Feeling hopeless.
So much for those carefree college days.
The vast majority of college students are feeling stressed these days, and significant numbers are at risk of depression, according to an Associated Press-mtvU poll
Eighty-five percent of the students reported feeling stress in their daily lives in recent months, with worries [...]
Schwarzengger To Terminate Cal’s Debt – Deep Cuts In Health Care, Welfare, Prisons and Education
The day of reckoning that California has been warned about for years has arrived. The longest recession in generations and the defeat this week of a package of budget-balancing ballot measures are expected to lead to state spending cuts so deep and so painful that they could rewrite the social contract between California and its [...]
