Melanie Greenberg Ph.D. Find out which mind-body practices and dietary habits boost brainpower Your brain is a complicated and dynamic structure, consisting of about 86 billion neurons or nerve…
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Why Your Chicken Breast Has White Stripes + What It Means for You
Lyndsay Burginger The other day at the grocery store I picked up a package of chicken breasts. Before dropping the package into my shopping cart, my eye noticed something a…
4 Ways to Deal With Manipulative People
How to stay grounded while confronting the difficult people in your life. Psychological manipulation: a loaded and ambiguous term. It refers to the lying, distorting, dominating, gaslighting, and otherwise emotionally controlling…
Vegan or vegetarian
Which diet is better for your health? by LEE SUCKLING A vegetarian diet is linked to lower risk of dementia, diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and various other diseases and…
HISTORY OF U.S. CANNABIS POLICY
ANOTHER INTERESTING FIND IN THE HISTORY OF U.S. CANNABIS POLICY By Darryl K. Henderson, J.D. INTRODUCTION: While continuing to study our nation’s history of social and legal policies for cannabis,…
7 Unspoken Rules for Workplace Success
Tactics that help ensure you don’t get shortchanged. Marty Nemko Ph.D. You may wonder why people less competent than you get ahead while you languish. True, it could be appearance,…
Drinking Alcohol Can Raise Cancer Risk
How Much Is Too Much? by ALLISON AUBREY A study finds light drinkers have the lowest combined risk of getting cancer and dying prematurely — lower than nondrinkers. Alcohol is estimated…
7 Things That Happen When You Stop Eating Meat
People go plant-based for lots of reasons. These include losing weight, feeling more energetic, reducing the risk of heart disease, decreasing the number of pills they take … there are…
Why Black Americans Die Younger
Not all babies are born under equal circumstances, and they don’t grow up the same way, either. By Lindsey Cook, Data Editor Babies start out with different circumstances. Those differences continue…
Slavery’s Legacy and Modern Gun Violence
There is reason to believe that America’s gun crisis has dark roots. By Glenn Geher Ph.D. Like many of us, I am fed up hearing about the out-of-control levels of…