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.
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? A basket just the right size to for you to put in – what else?- your newspaper!
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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 is the largest one-year research grant awarded to the university and will involve the largest number of test subjects—1,000 participants over the next year.
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.
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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:
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 studies show that the “ancient” part of the human brain that governs basic drives such as hunger, thirst and sex also ‘lights up’ to music.
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