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  • Botox Can Affect How You Understand And Are Understood

    A recent study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that is set to be published in the journal Psychological Science sheds new light on the side effects of botox.

    The study examines how our facial expressions affect how we understand things.  It proposes the simple idea that if we are smiling we will interpret stimuli in a more positive light, or if we are frowning we may interpret events more negatively.  The reaction of our facial muscles helps our brains understand the events that are unfolding and help give it an emotional significance.

    In everyday life, we can see this as well.  Consider someone that is generally considered to be a “people person”. You may notice that they react with similar expressions that mimic the emotion that you are trying to convey while talking to them.  This expression of the emotional content of the message is in fact helping them to better understand you and the message you are trying to convey.  It helps them understand you and also helps you to understand how they are digesting your story.

    Because Botox blocks certain facial nervous impulses and paralyzes certain facial muscles, researchers found that women that had received botox treatments had more difficulty in understanding emtional language.

    The full story is available here.

  • Sitting Can Be Hazardous To Your Health

    Here is an interesting article on CBC.ca about a new study of the effects sitting has on your health.  There isn’t any information on the methodology of the study, but it still is nice to see a study that confirms what you think: Sitting strains your body, your muscles and your joints.

    Sitting may be a good way to rest your body when it needs it, but too much of it has the opposite effect.  The study measured increases in blood sugar level and decreases in good cholesterol.  Another study linked too much sitting with increases in obesity finding that a 2 hour per day increase in tv watching increases chances of obesity by 23%.

    Most of the clients that come in to see me for treatment of their chronic aches and pains don’t attribute their condition to marathons or extreme sports, but rather just sitting at work all day.

    Here is the article:  http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/06/10/sitting-health-physiology.html

  • Angkor Wat Photos

    Some photos from the trip to Cambodia’s Angkor Wat in 2008

  • Cuba Photos

    I liked that idea of embedding the Picasa photo slideshow so much with the Nepal Photos that I decided to do it again for the Cuba trip.

    Hope you enjoy these as well:

  • Nepal Photos

    Here is a sampling of some of my pictures from Nepal. Hope you enjoy them.

    You can flip through the slide show if you cursor over it.

  • How Dangerous is Red Meat?

    A new study in Circulation performed a systematic review of literature on the effects of different dietary habits.  A larger summary of the results can be found on Science Based Medicine.

    The study found that the consumption of processed meats, not red meats, increased the risk of coronary heart disease by 42%.

    In a comparison of dietary habits, the study found that:

    …in comparison with regular meat eaters, mortality from ischemic heart disease was 20% lower in occasional meat eaters, 34% lower in people who ate fish but not meat, 34% lower in lactoovovegetarians, and 26% lower in vegans.
    There were no significant differences between vegetarians and nonvegetarians in mortality from cerebrovascular disease, stomach cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, or all other causes combined.