What is Your Body Mass Index? Why don't they call the BMI (Body Mass Index) the "Body Weight Index"? As I recall from my basic physics class, matter is anything that has weight and occupies space. Mass is another scientific word that gets to the heart of HOW MUCH matter occupies a given space. Weight… Read More
Obesity and Health Regarding obesity and health, it has been said that the United States is the most over-fed and under-nourished country in the world. Is that a valid indictment? Well we can collect an awful lot of circumstantial evidence by sitting on a bench in the mall and doing a little people watching. Certainly… Read More
Physical Health requires Physical Fitness! There is no way we can become fit with a pill, potion or diet. It takes work, sweat, discipline and dedication. But the good news is that it doesn't have to be work; it can be fun and will make you feel good. Ever heard of endorphins? A neurologist would… Read More
The science of sleep raises one of the most complex issues of Neuroscience; namely what it means to be awake or asleep. Since neurology approaches the science of sleep as an altered state of awareness, let’s see what the research has contributed to our understanding of sleep. Without doubt, our brain structure is extremely complex… Read More
Before the discovery of sleep stages, scientists thought that sleep was just a continuous state of unconsciousness from dusk to dawn. The discovery that sleep progressed in stages was one of those accidental occurrences. A doctor observed that at certain times, the eyes of sleeping babies would exhibit movement; sometimes a slow, rolling movement; at… Read More
How Much Sleep Do Adults Need? A large amount of research by professionals who study these things, show that men need between seven and eight hours of sleep and women, a bit less, at six to seven hours. That six to seven hours for women refers to adult and/or elderly women. How Much Sleep Do… Read More
The Healthy Sleep Environment Environment matters and it's really simple. The bedroom is not your office, not your TV room, not your dining room or your reading room. For good healthy sleep, the bedroom is reserved for just two things and the first is sleep. I can't remember what the second one is. So take… Read More
You are probably aware, if not experiencing, a few of the more common sleep disorders. After all, in the hectic, toxic, stress-filled world that we inhabit, sleep disorders are quite common. They range from a fairly innocuous insomnia where we just have trouble falling asleep or can't seem to stay asleep and keep waking up… Read More
Ever thought about what happens in our bodies and minds that make us sleepy, makes it hard to keep our eyes open, hard to focus, hard to think, just want to lie down, so tired, just let me sleep? And what is it about sleep that restores us; awakened refreshed, alert and ready for another… Read More
Stress is harmful, it degrades our health, damages our hearts, and shortens life. There is no doubt that stress and health are linked. In 1967, two psychiatrists, Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe, conducted a study of 5000 patient's medical records to determine the extent that stress and health problems are a cause and effect. There… Read More
Healthy Lifestyle Tips If a healthy lifestyle is our goal, we are what we eat, we are just as much the result of what we do. Consider personality type. Are you a type A that stresses out over everything or do you chill and take things in stride? A healthy lifestyle depends on the latter.… Read More
Spend some time and find a natural sugar substitutes for use in your daily diet. Since artificial sweeteners aren't good for us and refined sugars can be hard on our pancreas and lead to insulin resistance and high fructose corn syrup is implicated in a number of health issues, what can we do? Are there… Read More