The most precious resource of all human beings is our ability to reason and interact with the world around us. Luckily, healthy adults can maintain their overall intellectual performance into their eighties and beyond. Your language ability, sensory and immediate memory, and problem-solving skills normally will change little over time. An important part of staying younger, however, is taking steps to exercise your mind, including your thinking ability and your learning capacity, to keep all of

[Read More]

You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone without some direct exposure to cancer, either through his or her own battle to overcome it or a loved one’s struggle. Cancer is second only to cardiovascular problems in causing people in the United States to fail to reach their unique Hayflick limit (the number of times their cells can divide and renew themselves). It is possible to develop cancer at any age. Certain types of this disease—lung, prostate, breast, colorectal, and skin cancer—are more

[Read More]

KIDS SPENDING AND THE NAG FACTOR Few people take the power of children more seriously than advertising executives. Marketers are interested in children both as consumers and for the enormous influence they have on their parents’ buying patterns. Kids’ spending is skyrocketing. In 1991, children aged four to 12 spent $8.6 billion of their own money each year.By 1999, four- to 12-year-olds took in $31.3 billion in income from allowance, jobs and gifts, and spent 92 percent of it. In 2001,

[Read More]

“Youth is a disease from which we all recover.” —Dorothy Fuldheim For most of people the following statement about aging are infact the "fact".... if it is think again... As people age, they experience reduced muscle strength. Oral health declines as a result of the aging process. Approximately 25 percent of all older adults develop corneal cataracts. It is normal to become more forgetful as you age. According to the National Institute of Aging, 85 percent of all those

[Read More]

A book by Charles Thompson "What a Great Idea" says “The world is full of opposites. Of course, any attribute, concept or idea is meaningless without its opposite.” All behaviour consists of opposites...Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down. How the method works State your problem in reverse. Change a positive statement into a negative one. Try to define what something is NOT. Figure out what everybody else is NOT doing. Use the "What If"

[Read More]