Good Wine: Cheap or Expensive?
When we are charged a higher price for a good, we normally expect a better quality. Normally that is the case. At the first glance, wine is no exemption: we like expensive wines better than cheap ones – as long as we know their prices. Back in 2007, the team of researchers at the California […]
Brushing Teeth is Good Not Only for Teeth
According to the results of study recently published by the University of Texas, human papillomavirus (HVP) is 56% more likely to be found in people with bad oral health compared to those having no oral health issues. Bad oral health means tooth and gum diseases, including cavities and bleeding, and higher number of teeth lost. HPV […]
Sleeping Sweet Spot
Sleep deprivation is not only about bad mood and caffeine abuse. According to the results of a 14-year study published in 2004, long-term mortality risks in women were lowest among those sleeping 6 to 7 hours. The risk of death in women sleeping 5 hours or less was 15% higher than for those sleeping 7 hours. […]
Hotel Reviews: Fake and Real
When travelling, I always book hotels online and check reviews before booking a room in a particular hotel for the first time. So do hundreds of thousands of travelers. Sure, hotels have become incentivized to boost their consumer ratings, and some of them actually do exactly that. Go to fiverr.com and enter “review hotel” in […]
12 Best Strategies to Cope with Stress
If your body were an automobile, it would be a top-of-the-line, luxury-class off-road vehicle with all of the latest options. Just one problem: it was designed for the savannas of Africa, not downtown Manhattan or suburbs of Capetown. The stress-response mechanism, also known as the “fight-or-flight syndrome”, gave you great chance to survive before the […]
TV, Video Games, and Children
My kids love cartoons. Even more than cartoons, they love video games. Having heard somewhere that video games nurture creativity, I had been perfectly fine with the games part. Until I familiarized myself with the number of studies investigating the link between kids’ academic performance and their screen exposure. Let me share with you what […]
Healthy Coffee
Done with chocolate, let us get to the most widespread drug of the XXI century, coffee that is drunk by 54% Americans every day. Coffee, thanks to many studies, likely sponsored by coffee producers, has been gaining popularity among people struggling to be healthy. And deservedly so. Good news for coffee lovers Researches are showing […]
Do Not Ignore LinkedIn
I registered on LinkedIn in April 2006, but had not used it until about 2012 thinking that it was another dot-com failure. Boy was I wrong! In December 2012 the Boston-based software company Bullhorn, had 1,848 professionals from US and Canadian recruitment agencies completed its survey that shed some light on how modern headhunters look […]
Chocolate: Healthy if Bitter
A number of studies prove that chocolate is a great healthy food which, if dark and consumed moderately, should be eaten without any guilt. Here are some of its multiple benefits: – keeps brains healthy according to the study published this month. As Farzaneh A. Sorond, of Harvard Medical School, explains, “different areas of the […]
Keys to Great Family: Talking, Listening, and Learning
As Leo Tolstoy put it, “all happy families are alike”. How exactly they are alike has been tested in an Internet-based study, involving 2,201 people referred by couples’ counselors. Researchers were examining seven key “relationship competencies” that had previously been found important in promoting happiness in relationships. Those seven are: communication conflict resolution, sex or […]