19 Hard Things You Need To Do To Be Successful
This article was popular on the internet earlier this year so we thought to include it. It was printed on various sites so we are not sure who the original author was.
1. You have to make the call you’re afraid to make. 2. You have to get up …
Better posture is one of the best quick fixes we have for achieving a slimmer appearance. Many people do themselves a disservice by holding their bodies in ways that make them look heavier than they really are. Improving your posture instantly gives you a taller, thinner, and more confident look…
The health hazards of sitting
We know sitting too much is bad, and most of us intuitively feel a little guilty after a long TV binge. But what exactly goes wrong in our bodies when we park ourselves for nearly eight hours per day, the average for an adult? Many things, say four experts, who detai…
Come on. Get out of the express checkout lane! That’s way more than twelve items, lady.”
Without having to count, you can make a good guess at how many purchases the shopper in front of you is making. She may think she’s pulling a fast one, but thanks to the brain’s refined sense for quantity,…
Paleo
Fruit and meat is good to eat and veges and fish should fill your dish
But sugar and grain will cause you pain and if it comes from a packet your diet should lack it
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What does a connectome look like?
A connectome is a map of the brain as a network of neurons. If you want a mental picture, think of the flight maps you see in the back of airline magazines, except replace each city with a neuron and each flight by a connection between neurons. Now scale up the…
Walking Benefits Brain
Exercise is a natural part of life, although these days we have to consciously include it in our daily routine. Biologically, it was part of survival, in the form of hunting and gathering or raising livestock and growing food. Historically, it was built into daily life, as r…
“Come on. Get out of the express checkout lane! That’s way more than twelve items, lady.”
Without having to count, you can make a good guess at how many purchases the shopper in front of you is making. She may think she’s pulling a fast one, but thanks to the brain’s refined sense for …
Can Chimpanzees Teach us Anything about Differences between Boys and Girls?
Whether there exist differences between boys and girls is passionately debated (for example, see this debate about gender disparity between Stephen Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke). Some studies have found that girls are m…
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Chronic low back pain (CLBP) has for many decades been treated as a disorder which primarily reflected damage to the tissues (discs, bones, joints, muscles, ligaments etc.) of the lower back. However, it is now clear that what was previously considered tissue “damage” on scans is actually common amo…
Increasing our Incidental Exercise
It can be so hard to find the time to exercise. Incidental exercise is the physical activity we get throughout the day when we move around. The important thing to realise here is that most of the time, you have a choice to move around or not. Here are some ways t…
Remember that time you complained about petrol being $1.50 a litre and then you ran over to Starbucks and bought a skinny double half whipped triple hot cup of nonsense at $32 a litre? Do the maths. It's ok. I do it too. Cry about paying for something I need and then happily blow money on somethin…
The ‘Paleo’ Diet
A current new trend, also popularly referred to as the caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter gatherer diet, is a modern nutritional plan based on the presumed ancient diet of wild plants and animals that various hominid species habitually consumed during the Paleolithic era…
Many people with chronic pain will have been told, and may themselves believe that they have something (e.g. a disc, a bone) out of place, and which needs to be realigned or put back into place for their pain to resolve. This recent article by researchers from Curtin University, including Prof. P…
With the Christmas Holidays fast approaching there is no doubt that most families will be heading for the beach for some much deserved fun in the sun! However as we are all aware unprotected fun in the sun can have some very serious consequences. Skin cancer is the number one type of cancer in Austr…
What is A Subluxation?
In chiropractic, vertebral subluxation is a set of signs and symptoms of the spinal column.
A lesion or dysfunction in a joint or motion segment in which alignment, movement integrity and/or physiological function are altered, although contact between joint surfaces rem…
Anonymous
A woman was waiting at the airport one night,
With several long hours before her flight.
She hunted for a book in the airport shop,
Bought a bag of cookies & found a place to drop.
She was engrossed in her book, but happened to see,
That the man beside her, as bold as could be…
While pumpkin picking in America this past October, Ailsa discovered some interesting facts about pumpkins. As a result we decided to research the many sordid secrets of fruits and vegetables. You’ll be amazed and it also just might help you win trivia night!
Today's confession: as far as botany …
Purposes of Pain
Many would feel that it would be a great thing not to feel physical pain. Pain though, is a way ones body tells it that something is wrong. An individual touching a hot stove would feel instant pain, forcing them to pull their hand away before causing too much damage. Pain tells yo…
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