Food - it's a wonderful thing, yet an everyday thing. Who would have thought new discoveries about food would be getting scientists so excited? The remarkable new discoveries are telling us that our current eating habits could be making us sick. Very sick. Indeed, our food might be contributing to h…
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Travelling Tips: Some small adjustments could really go a long way
Unfortunately, holiday fun can be cut short or even ruined by careless travel habits. Therefore, instead of winding up relaxing on some faraway beach, some of us find ourselves lying in some hotel bed unable to move.
Here’s some suggestions to prevent you spoiling your holiday and winding up at the…
Some thoughts from Doug: Evolution isn’t perfect
Some thoughts from Doug: Evolution isn’t perfect
If our bits and pieces work well enough to survive long enough to produce another generation evolution will tend to keep them. The appendix, tonsils, thin skin, low backs, necks, shoulders, balance, anxiety, autoimmunity and quite a few others…
How the Hunter-gatherers did it
How the Hunter-gatherers did it
Each of us has a deep history. We are the product of thousands of generations of your species, a species that fore most if its existence has lived precariously. Life for a cavemen or women was generally nasty, brutish and short. To keep in shape they didn’t exerc…
What is fast exercise?
What is fast exercise?
There is a persistent widespread belief in the fitness industry that the more time you spend exercising, the better. Only those who dedicate themselves to punishingly lengthy workouts can expect their body fat to plummet, their muscles to become exquisitely defined, to finall…
19 Hard Things You Need To Do To Be Successful
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 …
5 Ways Good Posture Makes You Look Thinner
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
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…
Our Brains Have a Map for Numbers
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
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
- Unknown.
You are your Connectome
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
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…
Our Brains Have a Map for Numbers
“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?
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…
Is Eating Paleo Expensive or are you addicted to shoes?
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
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…
Is my pain due to something being out of place?
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…
Sun Safety for Summer
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…
The Cookie Thief
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…
Did you know?
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 …