Silence Enough is enough. Our eardrums are exploding under the assault of noise. If you are at home, even without any kids running around, focus on the sounds around you. Chances are, you are not watching your TV, but it is on. Background noise, “to keep you company.” In the summer, you probably can hear …
Daytime is bright. The night is supposed to be dark. We work during the day, and we should sleep at night. These are fairly simple concepts around which the human body was designed. Our hormones and our health depend on these principles. Let there be sunshine We need the sun and its light, all 32,000 …
Everybody knows that exercise helps the body and builds up muscles. But it does more than that. It also helps the brain. Focus and attention A study published in 2013 in The Journal of Pediatrics looked at 8-10 year old boys and girls before and after 20 minutes of exercise. Here are the details: Half …
What’s a human being to do? We evolved a while ago. Before email pings, before smartphones, before PTA meetings competed with business conference calls. Back in the day, we just needed to focus on how to kill the deer in front of our eyes. Then we had to remember where our cave was, so we …
We live in a cocoon. But this cocoon is regularly invaded by a cacophony of sound. Which is hurting us silently. At work, and at play. What is sound? Sound is a wave. It requires a source which produces the wave, and a medium, which carries the wave from one place to the other. It …
I love fruits. And you should, too. But all fruits are not the same. It is estimated that Americans eat only about 42% of the recommended amount of fruits they should be eating. Of the people who do consume fruits, the 2 to 30 year olds are drinking lots of fruit juice, accounting for more …
“Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care, the death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, chief nourisher in life’s feast.” -Macbeth, Act II, Sc. ii As usual, Shakespeare had it right. Ernest Hemingway also was on the right track when he said, “I love …
Unlike most cars, the human body has not had a major re-design lately. So you still have what can be lovingly called your father’s Chevy. With your father’s genes, and hormones. As well as your great-great-great-great grandfather’s. The tiger used to come In the good old days, our survival was constantly under threat. If …
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Bottle the mysticism of the East, add in the flavor-of-the-day, wrap it in a snazzy packet, stamp an expiry date, & voila! You have a marketing bonanza: rock your asana and shake your chakra. But if you are not comfortable with new age trends, and your body has lost some elasticity, don’t worry. You do …
I wish it were a Eureka moment. But it is not. I will have to call it a “Duh!” moment. The American Academy of Pediatrics came out with a new policy statement recently. This advises pediatric providers to tell parents of young children that reading aloud to them can strengthen language skills, literacy development and parent-child …