Mental Attitude: Lets Talk.
People are attracted to, date, and marry people who resemble themselves in terms of personality, values, and physical appearance. A new study finds people who speak in similar styles are more compatible. The study focused on words called "function words," words that show how those words relate (words like the, a, be, anything, that, will, him, and and). How we use these words constitutes our writing and speaking style. Pairs of people whose language style matching scores were above average were almost four times as likely to want future contact as pairs whose speaking styles were out of sync. 80% of the couples whose writing style matched were still dating three months later, compared with 54% of the couples who didn't match.
Psychological Science, January 2011
Health Alert: Are We Bugged?
Superbugs are not just a problem in hospitals, they could also come from animal farms. Insects could be responsible for spreading antibiotic resistant bacteria from pigs to humans. Widespread use of antibiotics in confined swine production is likely to increase the selection and evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains. While farm pigs continue to share their homes with insects, the risk of these resistant strains being transferred to humans via cockroaches and flies is an ever-present possibility.
BMC Microbiology, January 2011
Diet: Diabetes.
33% of adults in the US (79 million people) have pre-diabetes and 26 million have diabetes. Prediabetes exists when blood sugar levels are too high, but not enough for a diagnosis of diabetes to be reached. Those with prediabetes have a significantly higher risk of developing type-2 diabetes, as well as stroke and heart disease.
CDC, January 2011
Exercise: Stretch The Other Side?
To properly strengthen the muscles of your upper back, which help pull your shoulders and head back for better posture, you should stretch your chest muscles first. Most people have overly contracting chest muscles that inhibit or turn off the upper back muscles. If you stretch the chest first, this will allow the upper back muscles to fire at a higher rate. Try it.
Chiropractic: Another Analogy.
"Not following through with maintenance care is like wearing braces for 3 years and not wearing the retainer." The idea of wellness/maintenance chiropractic care is simple: maintain proper spinal/joint motion and decrease the risk of muscles tightening and the spine degenerating.
Wellness/Prevention: Try Leisure Instead Of Medicine.
"Play" or leisure is an important part of a person's health. It renews our spirit, gives us clarity of thought, life satisfaction and benefits blood pressure. For our physical, mental, spiritual and cognitive health, "leisure time should be a necessity, not a luxury." Leisure is anything that brings personal enjoyment to individuals and allows them to recharge. It can include: puzzles, a walk, a sport etc., as long as it fits this criteria: the activity must be freely chosen; must provide satisfaction and adventure; must arouse interest; must require a commitment; must serve as a sense of separation or escape; and most important, must be pleasurable.
Canisius College, Feb 2011
