“Cutting or shaving your hair will not affect its rate of growth, texture or thickness,” states a health-and-fitness article in The New York Times. The myth that hair will grow back faster and thicker if cut or shaved has been around for many years. However, repeated studies since the 1920’s have shown that “the length, [...]

“The French eat a lot of saturated fat,” says the UC Berkeley Wellness Letter. “Yet they are leaner than Americans and far less likely to be obese. Their mortality rate from heart disease is half that of Americans and lower than any other country in the [European Union].” Why the paradox? The answer may be [...]

“Loud phone conversations, [use of] speakerphones and constant complaints about workload top the list of our co-workers’ most annoying work habits,” reports the Washington Post. Among other habits that anger fellow workers are “cliques among co-workers, arriving late to work, talking to oneself, talking to co-workers over cubicle walls, bad hygiene and loud eating.” Such [...]

“Scientists are finding the old-fashioned nap can be a boon to productivity,” reports Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald. However, the length of time spent napping is important. After testing naps of varying lengths, Flinders University sleep expert Professor Leon Lack stated: “One minute of sleep seemed to produce no benefit whatsoever. Five minutes of sleep seemed [...]

Good-natured laughter does more than brighten a person’s day. According to some Japanese doctors, it also normalizes imbalances in the endocrine, nervous, and immune systems, stabilizes heartbeat and breathing, and can bring temporary relief to sufferers of rheumatism. Laughter stimulates sympathetic nerves, thereby boosting the blood flow to muscles and increasing brain activity. When we [...]

The British Medical Journal reports that excessive consumption of coffee or other substances with a high caffeine content increases the possibility of a heart attack by raising blood cholesterol. While modest amounts of caffeine serve as a stimulant and can enhance individual performance both physically and mentally, in larger amounts it has an adrenalinelike effect that [...]

How can we be good mothers in the eyes of our kids? That’s a very interesting question. Whirlpool Foundation did a survey to find out the answer. It is conducted to 1,000 American kids ages 6 to 7. The results show that most preferred doing simple, everyday things with their mom, essentially “just being together”. [...]

Do you know that drowning is the second most frequent cause of death among children up to 14 years of age. According to British Medical Journal, infants are most likely to drown in the home (usually in a bathtub), toddlers in bodies of water close to the home such as swimming polls or ponds; and [...]

I’ve read one article at Time magazine that really had me reflecting. It says something simple but it really hits the core. It is sooo true. Kindly read on and see if you agree. A new study by Andrew Christensen of the University of California at Los Angeles found that “couples who are less critical [...]

Seems like everything excessive is bad.  Sometimes, we parents are culprits of trying to buy our kids joy by giving them too many toys.  But this is detrimental to their growth and development.  What our kids need from us are not many and expensive toys but our being there when they need us. Kindly read the [...]