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Free rice

Posted on: Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 in: Work/life balance

A fun, do-good activity came through my email box today- helping me send out some free rice (literally!)
WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance.
Note: No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

Basket-Weaving 101

Posted on: Monday, November 12th, 2007 in: Ecology

The three “R’s” of ecology (Recycle - Reduce - Reuse) all get together in this home project that I found in today’s news featured in The Star online (Malaysia). The article has you take the classifieds (or any newspaper section!), fold, weave and “sew” the sides with string, and what do you have? […]

An apple a day

Posted on: Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 in: Allopathic medicine, Complementary medicine, Herbs and other botanicals

There’s little on the web about Quercegen Pharma, based in Newton, MA, however yesterday, Appalachian State University (Boone, NC) announced reception of a $1.027 million grant by Quercegen Pharma to continue their research of the health benefits of quercetin. If you are in the Boone, NC area: to participate in the study, e-mail asuresearch@appstate.edu
This […]

Come ye thankful people

Posted on: Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 in: Nutrition / Fitness / Weight

Vegetarians and vegans can face the fourth Thursday of November with thanksgiving. This year there is a bumper crop of ideas and products to bring us all together to the table.

How does your state rank?

Posted on: Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 in: Uncategorized

Mine? #43. See where your state ranks.
It looks like the biggest variable among the 18 different categories of health is decisions made by individuals to promote health and prevent disease.
The health of the nation press video press release:

Tonal language

Posted on: Monday, November 5th, 2007 in: Complementary medicine, Contemplative exploration / Religion, Ways of knowing

Are you tonedeaf? Does it matter? [Well, it does to these people.] Music therapy is beneficial to health, if you are an active (musical) or passive (nonmusical) participant, according to a Los Angeles Times article today. It goes on to say not all studies on music therapy are clear, but brain […]