By Gregory Kellett, a cognitive neuroscience researcher at SFSU and UCSF, and science writer for Lumos Labs.
Your brain is made up of 60% water and many of us may not be drinking enough of the clear wet stuff to keep our thinking “juicy”.
Not drinking enough water has detrimental effects on our brains. When your body lacks water, brain cells and other neurons shrink and biochemical processes involved in cellular communication slow. A drop of as little as 1 to 2% of fluid levels can result in slower processing speeds, impaired short-term memory, tweaked visual tracking and deficits in attention.
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July
On the left are those who would like health reform to include a strong public plan, one that could negotiate large provider discounts, driving down the cost of medical care. On the right are those who think health insurance should be provided only privately. I’m neither left nor right. I consider myself a realist and an empiricist.
A reasonable reading of the political tea leaves suggests that health insurance for the non-elderly will remain largely a private affair. (See the Debating the Public Option in The American Prospect by Paul Starr, Robert Reich, and Robert Kuttner.) Therefore, I’d like the private insurance market to work well. I’m also very familiar with the Medicare experience (and its problems) with both public and private provision of insurance.
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July
The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions for its 2010 Conference 'Knowledge, Ethics and Representations of Medicine and Health: Historical Perspectives', to be held at Durham and Newcastle (UK), 8-11 July 2010, organised by the Northern Centre for the History of Medicine (NCHM).
Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2009
The organisers welcome proposals for 20-minute papers under the theme 'Knowledge, Ethics and Representations of Medicine and Health:
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July
By the time most of you read this, I’ll be heading to England to tell those Limeys how to do healthcare right the American way….or something like that, and then off to China. I’ll be back in Freedonia in about 10 days
But I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the stellar month we’ve had at THCB. Apart from last October when the election and Google brought a lots of people to THCB (particularly to one excellent article by Bob Lawszewski on Obama's health plan) this has been by far our most heavily trafficked month. We’ll end up somewhere around 85,000 visits and 135,000 page views. And the quality of the writing in the pieces from Jeff Goldmsith, David Kibbe/Brian Klepper, Roger Collier, Michael Millenson, Susannah Foxand many many more, has been excellent. In addition we've had lots of controversy notably in Daniel Gilden's fascinating piece on McAllen and Grand Junction that's been read and commented on by lots of very very astute people. Then there’s been the campaigns like HealthDataRights.org, and lots of fun back and forth in many many comments.
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July
In hot weather skin becomes particularly oily, face is constantly shining, but you still wish looking good. Moreover, summer time is a period of weddings, where a solemn make-up just has to be maintained in its original form for many hours.
Womenshealthguide offers following the rules of long-lasting make-up that will help you «avoiding losing face», even in the the hottest day.
Prepare face for make-up
* Forget about heavy creams, in summer you will need only a light moisturizing fluid with SPF to protect from the sun.
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July