Desperately seeking a good night’s sleep, insomniacs spend more money on alcohol than medical help and sleep aids combined, according to a study published today in the journal Sleep. But experts say turning to the bottle is the last thing you should do if you can’t fall asleep at night. Link to continue reading
Source: Scientific American
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The BBC has launched a Beta version of Headroom, a campaign to encourage you to look after your mental wellbeing. Its no surprise that this great site is very informative, with novel interactive features such as Moodscape, which creates an animation that expresses how you’re feeling today. Relaxation tracks and lots of videos, however its dissappointing that currently, many of the features are unavailable to people living outside of the UK who cannot access the BBC iPlayer feature, and its is hoped that this is planned for the not too distant future.
Source: BBC
As we welcome in 2009 , I am breaking with tradition and posting a personal greeting. Like everyone else and his dog, I am resolving to “exercise more, eat less… transform into Claudia Schiffer!” As I reflect on 2008- I realize there isn’t much in my life I would really change.
I have a wonderful husband who I love dearly, four healthy children… two crazy Scotties who I adore, and a job I love. Can’t be bad! My sadness is that I lost my dear father in January 2008, but out of that sadness evolved an appreciation of what is most important to me, and casting off that which has no value.
Blwythyn Newydd Dda… this is Welsh for Happy New Year, from my family to yours. Everyone who visits our practice knows how we love our Scotties… who come to work with us every day. As a bit of festive fun I am posting a video of Mac playing in the snow.
Mac playing in the snow from Kathy James on Vimeo.
It’s easy to make a resolution, writes Alex Williams, but harder to keep it. Experience says so.
It certainly didn’t prove to be for Oprah Winfrey, who recently demonstrated that change – at least lasting change – is often fleeting at best. A few weeks ago, Ms. Winfrey, who once weighed 237 pounds but famously whittled herself down to 160 four years ago, appeared on the cover of her O magazine, glumly displaying her new, or old, 200-pound girth.
“I didn’t just fall off the wagon,” she wrote in the January issue. “I let the wagon fall on me.”
Ms. Winfrey is hardly alone – nor is she alone in her vow to set off on (another) road to self-improvement in 2009. But if she succeeds she will be one of the few people to make good on what is essentially a New Year’s resolution.
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Source: New York Times
