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Placebo effect is in the spine as well as the mind - Yahoo! News
"Using modern imaging technology the researchers found that simply believing a pain treatment is effective actually dampens pain signaling in a region of the spinal cord called the dorsal horn, suggesting a powerful biological mechanism is at work.
"It is deeply rooted in very, very early areas of the central nervous system. That definitely speaks for a strong effect," lead researcher Falk Eippert of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf told Reuters."
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Using modern imaging technology the researchers found that simply believing a pain treatment is effective actually dampens pain signaling in a region of the spinal cord called the dorsal horn, suggesting a powerful biological mechanism is at work.
"It is deeply rooted in very, very early areas of the central nervous system. That definitely speaks for a strong effect," lead researcher Falk Eippert of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf told Reuters.
The Case for Postal-Style Healthcare - Yahoo! News
Despite the disparaging clichés, however, the Postal Service has some attributes that might make it a strong model for healthcare. It provides a basic service that's not available from the private sector. To people without health coverage, postal-style healthcare might be a lot better than none at all. If service in a government healthcare plan turned out to be surly, that might even be a good thing: It would ensure a healthy market for better-run private plans, reducing fears of a government takeover. Oh, yeah, there's one other thing: In customer satisfaction surveys, the Postal Service already scores higher than
39 Ways to Live, and Not Merely Exist - Dumb Little Man
# Love. Perhaps the most important. Fall in love, if you aren't already. If you have, fall in love with your partner all over again. Abandon caution and let your heart be broken. Or love family members, friends, anyone -- it doesn't have to be romantic love. Love all of humanity, one person at a time.
# Get outside. Don't let yourself be shut indoors. Go out when it's raining. Walk on the beach. Hike through the woods. Swim in a freezing lake. Bask in the sun. Play sports, or walk barefoot through grass. Pay close attention to nature.
# Savor food. Don't just eat your food, but really enjoy it. Feel the texture, the bursts of flavors. Savor every bite. If you limit your intake of sweets, it will make the small treats you give yourself (berries or dark chocolate are my favorites) even more enjoyable. And when you do have them, really, really savor them. Slowly.
# Create a morning ritual. Wake early and greet the day. Watch the sun rise. Out loud, tell yourself that you will not waste this day, which is a gift. You will be compassionate to your fellow human beings, and live every moment to its fullest. Stretch or meditate or exercise as part of your ritual. Enjoy some coffee.
# Take chances. We often live our lives too cautiously, worried about what might go wrong. Be bold, risk it all. Quit your job and go to business for yourself (plan it out first!), or go up to that girl you've liked for a long time and ask her out. What do you have to lose?
# Follow excitement. Try to find the things in life that excite you, and then go after them. Make life one exciting adventure after another (with perhaps some quiet times in between).
# Find your passion. Similar to the above tip, this one asks you to find your calling. Make your living by doing the thing you love to do. First, think about what you really love to do. There may be many things. Find out how you can make a living doing it. It may be difficult, but you only live once.
# Get out of your cubicle. Do you sit all day in front of computer, shuffling papers an
Italian scientist, turning 100, still works - Yahoo! News
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ROME – Rita Levi Montalcini, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, said Saturday that even though she is about to turn 100, her mind is sharper than it was she when she was 20.
Levi Montalcini, who also serves as a senator for life in Italy, celebrates her 100th birthday on Wednesday, and she spoke at a ceremony held in her honor by the European Brain Research Institute.
She shared the 1986 Nobel Prize for Medicine with American Stanley Cohen for discovering mechanisms that regulate the growth of cells and organs.
"At 100, I have a mind that is superior — thanks to experience — than when I was 20," she told the party, complete with a large cake for her.
The Turin-born Levi Montalcini recounted how the anti-Jewish laws of the 1930s under Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime forced her to quit university and do research in an improvised laboratory in her bedroom at home.
"Above all, don't fear difficult moments," she said. "The best comes from them."
"I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom," the scientist said.
Her white hair elegantly coifed and wearing a smart navy blue suit, she raised a glass of sparkling wine in a toast to her long life.
What You Said: Cold and Cough Remedies from Lifehacker Readers' Grandparents
Every family has passed down a few old-timey, homespun cures for common ailments. Our readers shared a number of their own discussing yesterday's DIY throat soother; here's a closer look at what's in everyone's home-remedy cabinets.
Life coach? - Timeshare Users Group Online Community Forums
I can answer the what to do with the rest of your life questions..for free...
I decided long ago (7 years ) when my sister-in-law (32 yrs died of brain cancer), cousin-in-law (34yrs died of cancer), uncle (46yrs died of brain cancer) left this earth that I need to rethink my life. At that moment I STOPPED looking at a JOB for my happiness...and saw my job as an opportunity to make the $$ I needed to Live the life I wanted after work. Sooo...I now have 3 jobs (4 if you count being a mom) , because I said ..."Gee when I retire...I want to teach", so I got a job teaching part-time (online and in person 1 day a week), then I said..."Gee, I want to start my own travel business" ... so I started a part-time business planning and selling small trips to friends and family - of which we get to go on with a lot of them. Then I said, "Gee, I would love to travel more..." and I used all of this part-time income to finance my monthly trips of at least one 4-day weekend, and make it so that we travel every holiday or day off during the year that we can.
So the morale of my story is....DON'T LET YOUR JOB define YOU or the life you LIVE when you leave work. DON'T LET the people you work with bring you down...REALIZE that YOU decide how people or a situation EFFECTS you. AND....live your bucket list...write down all the things you want to do if you retired and $$ was not an issue, and TRY to work them into your life today. That way the job you are working, is just a means to start to live the life you have yet to discover for yourself...and who ever said you needed to have the answers today...take your time and plan your adventure.
Who made the rule that you can only have 1 career your whole life, who made it so we couldn't change our minds? No one, Live your life saving each experience as an adventure to discovering yourself.
When I changed my outlook on what I do at work from my purpose in life, to a means to LIVE my life, I am a lot happier with all the things I do, even the things I did at work and at home that I felt were
A Walkability Score For Any Address - Get Your Walk Score
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Walk Score ranks 2,508 neighborhoods in the largest 40 U.S. cities to help you find a walkable place to live.
Vodka is more than a drink, It has Many uses. - Timeshare Forums
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2. To clean the caulking around bathtubs and showers,
fill a trigger-spray bottle with vodka, spray the caulking,
let set five minutes and wash clean.
The alcohol in the vodka kills mold and mildew. -
7. Add a jigger of vodka to a 12-ounce bottle of shampoo.
The alcohol cleanses the scalp,removes toxins from hair,
and stimulates the growth of healthy hair.
Bone marrow treatments restore nerves, expert says - Yahoo! News
BETHESDA, Maryland (Reuters) - An experiment that went wrong may provide a new way to treat multiple sclerosis, a Canadian researcher said on Tuesday.
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Patients who got bone marrow stem-cell transplants -- similar to those given to leukemia patients -- have enjoyed a mysterious remission of their disease.
And Dr. Mark Freedman of the University of Ottawa is not sure why.
"Not a single patient, and it's almost seven years, has ever had a relapse," Freedman said.
Change or Die | Fast Company
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Changing the behavior of people isn't just the biggest challenge in health care. It's the most important challenge for businesses trying to compete in a turbulent world, says John Kotter, a Harvard Business School professor who has studied dozens of organizations in the midst of upheaval: "The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people." Those people may be called upon to respond to profound upheavals in marketplace dynamics -- the rise of a new global competitor, say, or a shift from a regulated to a deregulated environment -- or to a corporate reorganization, merger, or entry into a new business. And as individuals, we may want to change our own styles of work -- how we mentor subordinates, for example, or how we react to criticism. Yet more often than not, we can't.
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Kotter has hit on a crucial insight. "Behavior change happens mostly by speaking to people's feelings," he says. "This is true even in organizations that are very focused on analysis and quantitative measurement, even among people who think of themselves as smart in an MBA sense. In highly successful change efforts, people find ways to help others see the problems or solutions in ways that influence emotions, not just thought."
Babies not as innocent as they pretend - Telegraph
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Whether lying about raiding the biscuit tin or denying they broke a toy, all children try to mislead their parents at some time. Yet it now appears that babies learn to deceive from a far younger age than anyone previously suspected.
Behavioural experts have found that infants begin to lie from as young as six months. Simple fibs help to train them for more complex deceptions in later life.
Until now, psychologists had thought the developing brains were not capable of the difficult art of lying until four years old.
WHFoods: The World's Healthiest Foods
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Lists nutrients, health benefits, storage, safety, history and descrition, among other things. Seems extremely useful.
"Among the thousands of different foods our world provides, the majority contain at least several of the nutrients our bodies need but to be included as one of the World's Healthiest Foods they had to meet the criteria listed below. The criteria we used will also help you understand why some of your favorite (and also nutritious) foods may not be included on our list. For example, Readers have asked why mango, a very nutritious food, is not among the World's Healthiest Foods. While mangoes taste great and are rich in vitamins and minerals, they do not fit our criteria of familiarity and availability."
- helaine on 2007-02-18
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130 foods that can serve as the basis of your Healthiest Way of Eating. Links to the articles about these foods can be found below.
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