Interesting question with what’s been going on in the economy.
In an article in FastCompany March 2010, Dan Macsai reported that more than half of all portfolio managers tracked by Morningstar (a rating agency) didn’t invest in their own funds during the past five years.
As Dan Carroll, founder of KaChing, said, “How are customers supposed to trust someone who appears to not even trusthimself?”
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While it’s been around since the 1960s, spinal cord stimulation (SCS) also known as neurostimulation, is a way to control spinal pain.
The technology has been improving and is now an FDA approved way both to reduce pain and also to improve functional ability and quality of life.
SCS gives patients who cannot have surgery an alternative. In fact, for some patients, SCS can be more effective than repeated surgery.
SCS can even reduce the need for medications, which means there are no side effects to be concerned about.
To find out if SCS is a good option for you, consult a physician who is knowledgeable about both chronic pain and SCS therapy.
So…I would recommend exploring SCS therapy before going through back surgery.
For lower back pain, be sure to see this: Shiatsu for Back Pain
(Reported The Health Journal July 2010)
Who would have thought that how close you live to a fast food restaurant can lead to a child being obese.
A study conducted by the College of William and Mary was published in the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity.
The researchers recorded personal information on 2,000 children and mapped their homes in relation to fast food restaurants in the vicinity.
The researchers observed that children who live within a quarter to a tenth of a mile of a fast food restaurant had a higher BMI (body mass index) and were more likely to be obese.
So…if you’ve got kids and you’re close to a fast foods restaurant, you’ll need to be more vigilant as to where your kids are eating.
(Reported The Health Journal July 2010)
A study published in Pediatrics found three factors that had a significant impact on a child’s weight.
These factors were simple things: eating dinner as a family, getting enough sleep, and watching fewer than two hours of TV or videos a day on weekdays.
Of the more than 8,000 preschoolers involved in the study, those families that followed all three factors were 40% less likely to become obese.
So… for many kids there’s an easy way to keep their weight down.
(Reported Health & Healing by Dr. Julian Whitaker April 2010)
Three studies were presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, all reporting a reduction in the risk of brain decline by doing physical activity by regular tea drinking or adequate Vitamin D.
The study on exercise tracked more than 1200 elderly people over 20 years. It found that 242 developed dementia. Participants who performed moderate to heavy levels of physical activity had a 40% lower risk of developing any type of dementia. Those who reported the least amount of activity were 45% more likely to develop dementia.
The study on tea drinkers included 4800 men and women 65 and older. The participants were followed for 14 years. Those who drank tea one to four times a week had an average rate of decline 37% lower than people who didn’t drink tea.
The study on Vitamin D looked at 3325 US adults aged 65 and older. For those deficient in Vitamin D the risk of cognitive impairment increased about 42%. For those severely deficient in Vitamin D, the risk increased 394%.
These are great ways to stop dementia in its tracks. So…take some Vitamin D with tea and move your body.
Dutch researchers asked volunteers to perform tasks designed to test their attention before, 10 minutes after and an hour after drinking a beverage that contained the two most active ingredients in tea.
The tea drinkers scored significantly better than the controls. The two compounds that had this impact were caffeine and L-theanine.
While caffeine can make some people jumpy, L-theanine doesn’t have that effect. L-theanine improved concentration by rapidly increasing the activity of alpha waves in the brain while boosting the levels of GABA, a neurotransmitter that calms the brain and relieves anxiety. You can get the benefit of L-theanine by drinking tea or taking a supplement with Suntheanine.
So…tea anyone?
(Reported Health & Healing by Dr. Julian Whitaker April 2010)
How would you like to reduce that hour a day of exercise to 20 minutes, whether you’re a kid, teenager or adult? Well, according to a study published in The Journal of Physiology, you can do just that by doing interval training exercise. To do this, you alternate high intensity training with a lower level of exercise.
As an example, if you are on a stationary bike, you’d pedal at the highest intensity you can do for a minute and then pedal slowly for a minute. At 20 minutes – STOP YOU’RE DONE! The researchers found that the men in the study received the same benefits as they would have had they exercised at a lower intensity for an hour or more.
A separate study of women found that those who exercised for 20 minutes, alternating 8 seconds of sprinting on a bike with 12 seconds of light pedaling, 3 times a week for 15 weeks, lost three times as much fat as the women who exercised at a regular pace for 40 minutes.