HEALTH, MINDBODY:

THE COMPLEX BRAIN IN YOUR GUT
Your body has two brains - the familiar one in your skull … and a lesser known one found in the human gut.   Like Siamese twins, the two brains are interconnected  -  when one gets upset, the other does, too.

WANT A SHARP MIND FOR YOUR GOLDEN YEARS?
Knowing they'll need a nest egg for later years, sensible middle-aged adults may put their stockbroker on speed-dial and keep 401(k) updates handy. But how about building a "cognitive reserve" account their brain can draw on at older ages when memory problems are most serious?


THE WISDOM OF THE GUT
Those butterflies in your stomach are NOT just in your mind. Embedded within the wall of the gut is a self-contained, self-regulating nervous system that could function on its own, without the help of the brain or the spinal cord. The gut, in short, has a mind of its own.

LAUGHTER MAY PREVENT HEART DISEASE
Researchers have discovered laughter can help keep your heart healthy, and that laughter-provoking movies cause the tissue that forms the inner lining of blood vessels (the endothelium) to expand -- resulting in an increase of blood flow.

HAPPINESS HELPS PEOPLE STAY HEALTHY
People who are happy have healthier levels of key body chemicals than those who muster few positive feelings, a new study suggests. This means happier people may have healthier hearts and cardiovascular systems -- possibly cutting their risk of many diseases.

SEEING WHAT YOU BELIEVE
We feel that a rock is real because it is solid and heavy, and our senses can easily locate it in time and space. So what are we to make of a reality where seeing isn’t believing?

VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES
The video game industry is a $10 billion dollar industry in the United States, and more than 90 percent of all U.S. children and adolescents play video games on an average of 30 minutes a day.