New Year’s Resolutions for Brain and Body

By Caroline Latham | December 18, 2006

If you haven’t found one yet, here are some great posts with a lot of ideas to help find your own healthy resolutions.The Car­ni­val of Pos­i­tive Think­ing has some real­ly great entries this time. One of the arti­cles in par­tic­u­lar has some great sug­ges­tions to help your brain health into the new year- tak­ing time to reflect, find a healthy bal­ance of stim­u­la­tion and rest, appre­ci­at­ing life, and being inquisitive.The Car­ni­val of Sport­s­The Hap­pi­ness Car­ni­val­So, what are your res­o­lu­tions for 2007?

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5 Holiday Health Tips

By Caroline Latham | December 15, 2006 |

There is so much good in the sea­son, but the stress and anx­i­ety asso­ci­at­ed with the high expec­ta­tions that come with the sea­son can real­ly eat away at that hol­i­day spirit.But for­tu­nate­ly, you don’t have to suf­fer through this time of year. With prac­tice, there are many tech­niques that help restore peace and good­will to all.Here are some of my rec­om­men­da­tions: My 10-minute spa show­er tech­nique for stress reduc­tion was pub­lished in the The Sev­enth Healthy & Fit Fam­i­ly Carnival.

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Free Brain Exercise: Two Feet of Free Therapy

By Caroline Latham | December 13, 2006 |

Guess what?! There is this amaz­ing ther­a­py that is free for every­one. All you need is two feet (and many very accom­plished prac­ti­tion­ers don’t even have that!). … It’s called exer­cise! All kid­ding aside, there is more and more evi­dence com­ing to light about how your brain health is intri­cate­ly inter­twined with the health of…

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This is a Brain Fitness Center.

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 12, 2006 |

Today we issued the fol­low­ing press release, and are work­ing hard to get every­thing ready by Jan­u­ary (every­thing works now, but we want to pol­ish it). Please view this web­site as research in action, a liv­ing hypoth­e­sis. We are doing this because we love to learn and help. Please help us learn-feel free to give…

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‘20/20’ Busts 10 Body Myths

By Caroline Latham | December 4, 2006

The myths include: Mem­o­ry Loss Is Inevita­bleSlow Metab­o­lism Makes You Fat­ter­Can Heart­burn Lead to Cancer?Men Can Drink More Alco­hol Than Wom­en­Mar­i­jua­na Gives You the MunchiesA High SPF Will Ful­ly Pro­tect You from Skin Can­cer­Noth­ing Will Age You Faster Than the Sun­Su­per­fit = Super­healthy­C­ho­les­terol Is the Major Cause of Heart Dis­easeThere’s a Wrong Way to Breathe­Of course, the first myth inter­est­ed me the most, and here is an excerpt:“Just like you chal­lenge a mus­cle to grow it, well, the brain gets new con­nec­tions,” said Dr. Roizen.And that busts anoth­er big brain myth — that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.… Exer­cise it.Try learn­ing to play a musi­cal instru­ment, doing cross­word puz­zles, learn­ing a lan­guage — even play­ing com­put­er games.“The data now indi­cate that an hour of games for 40 weeks can make your brain equiv­a­lent, your brain’s real age, 10 years younger,” Roizen said.And one final brain myth: Does the size of a per­son­’s brain have any­thing to do with their intel­lec­tu­al capacity?“There is no cor­re­la­tion with the size of a human brain and its intellect.

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