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Anyone who is the parent of a teenager has undoubtedly at times searched their memory to identify any incidences of dropping them on their heads as infants. What else could possibly explain their behavior? I'm convinced my own teenager, must have played bumper cars with the kitchen cabinets using his head (all on his mother's watch of course).Turns out there's a perfectly valid reason that

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ADHD, or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, has become an all too common diagnosis these days. In fact, according to the CDC, nearly 1 in 10 children (9.5%) had been diagnosed with ADHD in 2007. With the diagnosis growing at a rate of 5.5% per year on average, the number of cases is well above that today. Unfortunately, that increase in incidence has not been followed by an increase in

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This was what my youngest child said to me the other day that got me thinking. How much of our children's reality is shaped by that of their parents?Realities, yours and mine, are created by us, through our thoughts, words, and deeds. Our predominant thoughts, both conscious and unconscious, influence the words that we speak and the actions we take. So if I'm constantly thinking that people

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In the field of Neuroscience recently, there is good news and bad news.The good news, according to Barbara Strauch, ( author of The Secret Life of the Grown Up Brain, and the health/medical science editor for The New York Times ) is that at middle age we have the BEST brains of our entire lives. The bad news is that our lifestyle choices are robbing us of it.Barbara Strauch recently spoke at

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I was like any other 3rd grade boy. I spent most of my day engaged in daydreaming about a whole range of things. From why Yoda sounded so much like Kermit the Frog, to new ways to capture and torture the local insect population for my sport and pleasure. But this third grade boy had a problem. My teacher just happened to have grown up with, and was still best friends with, my grandmother.

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A singularity is what physicists call the Big Bang. A point (.) at which time and space and all things therein were one infinitely dense point. You too were once a singularity of one cell before you began to develop into the “you” of today. You may not have been “infinitely dense” until many years later ;-), but you started from a single unit just as the universe did. Right after the Big Bang

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Everyone has heard the saying, "I think, therefore I am", also known as, "Cogito ergo sum". This saying, attributed to René Descartes, became a foundational element of Western Philosophy. The simple meaning of the phrase is that if someone is wondering whether or not he exists, that is in and of itself proof that he does exist (because, at the very least, there is an "I" who is doing the

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This is an example of how pharmaceutical corporations put profit above lives. Bayer's history is a colorful one. They were originally a division of IG Farben, a company that in World War 2 collaborated with Nazi's to use Jewish slave labor in their factories and produced the Zyclon B gas used in the gas chambers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Farben#World_War_IIBayer's anti-cholesterol drug,

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Welcome to the new "Health Food" for Thought format. I will periodically make posts here about things that are on my mind. Topics will include Health and Wellness issues I think you may be interested in. You can subscribe to the RSS feed below to know when I update or I'll put a link to here in the other monthly newsletter that I send out.As many of you know, I am currently studying for a

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