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Feed Your Brain - Keep Your Mind

By Simon Evans · 16 years ago

For some time now, we've been promoting the role of a healthy lifestyle in maintaining brain fitness. Another new study lends more support, but before we get into that we thought we'd focus on some ...

Will Stress Take You Down?

By Simon Evans · 17 years ago

Why does stress overwhelm some people while others come through it just fine? A very elegant new study came out this month in the high impact scientific journal, Cell, addressing this question. Researchers investigated some ...

Do Teen Brains Cause Reckless Behavior?

By Simon Evans · 17 years ago

The latest issue of Scientific American Mind has a great article about the teen brain, challenging many of our current thoughts about our young adolescents. Many recent studies support the notion that teenagers' brains are ...

Are Kids Doing Too Much? The Importance of Sleep

By Simon Evans · 17 years ago

Busy Kids In today's society the temptation is to keep our kids busy all the time. My wife and I have been guilty of that ourselves. But it is so important to build downtime into ...

Take your Grandparents on a long Walk to the Fishing Hole

By Simon Evans · 17 years ago

I have previously written about the power of exercise and omega-3s to protect the brain and improve function. Several more studies, released this week, added support for methods to keep elderly brains fit and agile. ...

What are we Feeding our Kids?

By Simon Evans · 18 years ago

There is a war raging within our bodies every day. One the one side are environmental toxins that we breathe, drink and eat and on the other side are our bodies defense mechanisms that fight ...

Physical Fitness Improves Brain Health

By Simon Evans · 18 years ago

Everyone knows that exercise is good for them. It contributes to weight loss and weight management. It’s good for your heart and your cardiovascular system. And it generally keeps you fit and healthier. But did ...