Do Computers Hurt Your Eyes?
Prolonged staring at the computer screen does not cause shortsightedness also known as myopia. At least, no more than reading, writing and doing other near work activities. What does actually cause myopia? Heredity and Living in a Big City To start with, let me me mention that progressing myopia is more of a problem before […]
Will Potatoes Make You Fat?
Potato and Weight Gain or Loss Let me go straight to the point – potatoes alone do not make you obese. Spuds have an undeserved reputation of being the culprit of enormous waistlines and rising cases of diabetes. Yes, a recent study conducted by Harvard University cited that among foodstuffs potatoes and potato chips contributed […]
Your Photos, Your Privacy, and Your Chidlren
You may have watched some telecast or read articles alarming on the dangers of posting kids’ photos on the social networks. I have one bad news and two good news for you. The bad news is that pictures taken by smartphone, iPad, any other modern tablets or some GPS-enables cameras actually contain information on where […]
Diet Soda as Healthy Alternative
I hope you realize that sugar over-consumption is a primary reason of the obesity epidemic in the Western civilization. Just in case you do not, check something like this article in The Guardian or watch video below this post. Since this is a well-established fact, I am not going to talk about it in this […]
No Time to Exercise? There is a Solution!
The mere fact that you are reading this means that you know that physical activity is vital for your well-being. This also means that you are not fully satisfied with your current exercise regime or, worse, have no such regime at all. Welcome to the world of HIIT – High Intensity Training. It allows you […]
Alcohol and Health
Initially, I wanted to write this post about beer as it is one of the most common alcoholic drinks that has been touted as healthy for millennia. Modern science tends to agree with that perception, but studies have also found that the health effects of beer are very similar to those of alcohol in general. […]
Three Ways to Improve Your Memory
Many people, myself including, wish they had a better memory. There are two set of recommendations addressing the issue. One is a number of cool techniques you can use to memorize things better. We will talk about them in one of the next posts here, but in case you want it all and you want […]
Daily Drink is a Bad Idea for Women before Pregnancy
If you are a woman before your first pregnancy and love regular drink, you may want to think twice. The unpleasant results of study were recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Analysis of data on more 91,000 women with no history of cancer collected during the famous Nurses’ Health Study II […]
Do Not Lie to Your Children
Despite its apparently different topic, this post is actually a continuation of the yesterday’s article on self-control. One of the breakthrough studies, pointing at self-control as at one of the most critical human skills, was so-called Stanford Marshmallow Experiment with its follow-ups briefly described yesterday. Let me remind that researchers left little children alone in […]
Control Thyself
There are many personality traits contributing to success in life: general intelligence, emotional intelligence, ear for music, physical attractiveness, etc. Some matter more, some less, but one matters most: an ability to control yourself. In the 1970s, Walter Mischel and Ebbe B. Ebbesen at Stanford University conducted a set of harsh but extremely important experiments. They […]