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"Each Sunday in November we present tips that can help you manage unhealthy stress. Consider them this holiday season, and pass them along to family and friends!\n\nYour home - whether big, small, or somewhere in between - should be your sanctuary, a place where stress is left at the door and your soul is nurtured. For a more comforting environment, gradually implement the following changes into your home:\n\n 1. Bring the outdoors in. Green plants, cut flowers and blooming bulbs, or pieces of wood, rocks and other organic elements can create a feeling of nature indoors.\n 2. Paint a room to suggest a mood. For instance, blue and green promote a relaxed feeling and may be good choices for the bedroom, while warm colors (maroon, coral, burgundy) suggest a cozy environment and may be inviting in a family room.\n 3. Surround your senses with beauty. Artwork, fragrance, smooth textures and calming sounds all provide a pleasant environment in which to relax.\n 4. Set aside a room or area for peace and calm. A place for spiritual reflection and meditation can provide shelter from noise and distraction.\n 5. Clean out clutter. A low-maintenance home is refreshing after a day of hectic meetings, errands and chores. Fewer items can mean less frustration.\n 6. Create an atmosphere of love. Display handmade or meaningful gifts from loved ones and photos of family and friends."

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"Each Sunday in November we present tips that can help you manage unhealthy stress. Consider them this holiday season, and pass them along to family and friends!\n\nHere's a healthy goal with the added bonus of feeling luxurious: get a monthly massage. Receiving a professional massage is relaxing and has numerous health benefits: It can help manage stress levels, reduce blood pressure and heart rate, ease sore muscles and stiff joints, lower levels of stress hormones, and enhance immune function.\n\nMany types of massages are available at a wide range of prices. Check your local health food store for short-duration neck and shoulder massages (perfect on your lunch break), try out student massages at local massage schools, or book packages of massages to save money. "

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"Each Sunday in November we present tips that can help you manage unhealthy stress. Consider them this holiday season, and pass them along to family and friends!\n\nWhen time constraints, packed schedules and too many commitments become the norm, it's easy to become overwhelmed and stressed out. To stay balanced, relaxed and calm, it's necessary every so often to regroup, decompress and focus on yourself:\nIf you find that the demands on your time are overwhelming, don't be afraid to politely say "no" when someone asks you to do something."

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Each Sunday in November we present tips that can help you manage unhealthy stress. Consider them this holiday season, and pass them along to family and friends!\n\nStress can negatively impact your physical health, mood, and social interactions. One way to help address the symptoms of stress is with passion flower (Passiflora incarnata). The dried above-ground parts of the plant can be found in tincture and extract form - look for standardized whole plant extracts or capsules containing no less than 0.8 percent flavonoids or isovitexin. You can use passion flower for stress reduction, calming without sedation, and relief from insomnia (when combined with other sedative herbs). One dropperful of the tincture in a little warm water, or two capsules of extract, up to four times a day as needed is the adult dosage; children should take half of this. Use caution when taking MAO-inhibiting antidepressant drugs, and do not take when pregnant - active compounds may be uterine stimulants."

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"Each Sunday in November we present tips that can help you manage unhealthy stress. Consider them this holiday season, and pass them along to family and friends!\n\nLooking for a simple, healthy way to help get through the day? Try breathing exercises - a natural and effective way to reduce stress, maintain focus, and feel energized. Exhaling completely is a useful practice that is especially easy to learn - it can promote deeper breathing and better health. Give it a try: Simply take a deep breath, let it out effortlessly, and then squeeze out a little more."

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Association of vitamin D deficiency with cognitive impairment in older women. Cross-sectional study.\nAnnweiler C, Schott AM, Allali G, Bridenbaugh SA, Kressig RW, Allain P, Herrmann FR, Beauchet O.\nNeurology. 2009 Sep 30. [Epub ahead of print]\nPMID: 19794127\ndoi:10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181beecd3\n\nConclusions: 25-Hydroxyvitamin D deficiency was associated with cognitive impairment in this cohort of community-dwelling older women.

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2009 September Neurology study research epidemological humans women older old elderly vitamin_D deficiency 25ohd low_levels cognition nutrition cognitive impairment cognitive_impairment medline cross-sectional

Vitamin D and depressive symptoms in women during the winter: a pilot study.\nShipowick CD, Moore CB, Corbett C, Bindler R.\nAppl Nurs Res. 2009 Aug;22(3):221-5. \nPMID: 19616172 \ndoi:10.1016/j.apnr.2007.08.001 \n\nESULTS: Vitamin D supplementation was associated not only with an increase in the serum D levels by an average of 27 ng/ml but also with a decline in the BDI-II scores of an average of 10 points. DISCUSSION: This study suggests that supplemental vitamin D3 reduces depressive symptoms.

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Association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and cognitive performance in middle-aged and older European men.\nLee DM, Tajar A, Ulubaev A, Pendleton N, O'Neill TW, O'Connor DB, Bartfai G, Boonen S, Bouillon R, Casanueva FF, Finn JD, Forti G, Giwercman A, Han TS, Huhtaniemi IT, Kula K, Lean ME, Punab M, Silman AJ, Vanderschueren D, Wu FC; EMAS study group.\nJ Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2009 Jul;80(7):722-9. Epub 2009 May 21.\nPMID: 19460797\ndoi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.165720\n\nConclusion: In this study, lower 25(OH)D levels were associated with poorer performance on the DSST. Further research is warranted to determine whether vitamin D sufficiency might have a role in preserving cognitive function in older adults.

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2009 July study research epidemiological humans middle-aged middle-age older old elderly European men vitamin_D 25ohd status cogntion nutrition cognitive performance medline Europe

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with worse cognitive performance and lower bone density in older African Americans.\nWilkins CH, Birge SJ, Sheline YI, Morris JC.\nJ Natl Med Assoc. 2009 Apr;101(4):349-54.\nPMID: 19397226\n\nCONCLUSIONS: Vitamin D deficiency in older African Americans was associated with worse cognitive performance and lower BMD of the hip

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Beneficial effects of a Paleolithic diet on cardiovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetes: a randomized cross-over pilot study.
onsson T, Granfeldt Y, Ahren B, Branell UC, Palsson G, Hansson A, Soderstrom M, Lindeberg S.
Cardiovasc Diabetol. 2009 Jul 16;8(1):35. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 19604407
doi:10.1186/1475-2840-8-35

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ScienceDaily (Aug. 10, 2009) — Next time you’re making a cuppa, new research shows it might be wise to opt for a white tea if you want to reduce your risk of cancer, rheumatoid arthritis or even just age-associated wrinkles. Researchers from Kingston University teamed up with Neal’s Yard Remedies to test the health properties of 21 plant and herb extracts. They discovered all of the plants tested had some potential benefits, but were intrigued to find white tea considerably outperformed all of them.

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That's not to say that the human brain has a "god module" in the same way that it has a language module that evolved specifically for acquiring language. Rather, some of the unique cognitive capacities that have made us so successful as a species also work together to create a tendency for supernatural thinking. "There's now a lot of evidence that some of the foundations for our religious beliefs are hard-wired," says Bloom.

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Cambridgen ja Lontoon yliopiston tutkijat ovat osoittaneet, että mustavarikset osaavat paitsi käyttää myös valmistaa työkaluja. Ne oppivat jopa muokkaamaan työkalujaan paremmiksi ja käyttämään kahta eri työkalua perättäin, tutkijat raportoivat Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences -lehdessä.

"Tämä havainto on merkittävä, koska luonnonvaraiset mustavarikset eivät näytä käyttävän työkaluja, mutta tarhattuina ne päihittävät sellaiset työkalunkäyttäjät kuin simpanssit ja uudenkaledonianvarikset", tutkimusryhmää vetänyt Chris Bird sanoi.

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What is the function of lymph nodes?

If we imagine our immune system to be a police force for our bodies, then previous work has suggested that the Lymph nodes would be the best candidate structures within the body to act as police stations – the regions in which the immune response is organised. However, Prof. Burkhard Becher, University of Zurich, suggests in a new paper – published in this week's issue of PLoS Biology – that lymph nodes are not essential in the mouse in marshalling T-cells (a main immune foot soldier) to respond to a breach of the skin barrier. This result is both surprising in itself, and suggests a novel function for the liver as an alternate site for T-cell activation.

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Scientists say a natural supplement made from tomatoes, taken daily, can stave off heart disease and strokes.
The tomato pill contains an active ingredient from the Mediterranean diet - lycopene - that blocks "bad" LDL cholesterol that can clog the arteries.

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Savants - individuals with conditions that result in remarkable mathematical, artistic or musical talents - are extremely rare. But new findings about how their formidable brains work hint that we might all be able to develop similar abilities

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The oldest of the subatomic particles called neutrinos might each encompass a space larger than thousands of galaxies, new simulations suggest.

Neutrinos as we know them today are created by nuclear reactions or radioactive decay

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RedGage is a website that aggregates many of your social networking and blogging content in one feed, puts advertising on it, and then gives you a cut of the ad revenue, with a tracker on the page telling you and everyone else how much money that page has made.
RedGage is currently only open to a small community of users, but contingent on receiving the investment it needs it will open up to the public eventually. It resembles FriendFeed, bringing all your stuff into one convenient place, but with the added money-making aspect.
In addition to ad dollars, you'll also get bonuses, and they reflect your page's influence and level of activity in addition to page views. Right now, no one's making very much money from RedGage (only a few dollars per page at most) but that could change as the site gains prominence. Time will tell.

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Don't be the last to know about what's happening with your friends, family or co-workers just because you're away from your computer. You now can subscribe to receive text messages of your friends' status updates directly from their profiles.

Click on the "Subscribe via SMS" link below your friends' profile pictures to get their latest news while you are mobile. You can also comment on your friends' status updates directly from your phone by replying to the text messages you receive. You can even subscribe to mobile updates from the Facebook Pages of your favorite celebrities, public figures, businesses and organizations.

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