“Take a mini-vacation as you are guided through the sights, sounds, smells, and sensations of a pleasant walk along the beach.” Is it what you want to do when you are going to vacation? I know you probably want to do this to relax yourself. But you don’t have to wait for your holiday to come…

Studies show that exercise performed in a group setting, can reduce depression and is same or better effective than standard antidepressant medications. For example, a study shows that regular aerobic workouts during the week will cut depressive symptoms by 50%. This proves exercise can affect the mood of the person: … “Depression is a condition characterized…

Ivan Minic shows his ten ways on keeping yourself young. The post is not about how to keep fit in a physical way, but for your mind and mental. Couple of suggestions i like include: Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle… I read this similar suggestions

Back pain is one of the most common physical injuries. It may not only occur for whose work as lifting heavy objects. You will exposed by this risk if you sit in front of computer all day, or you stand for a long period of time. The worse thing is that back pain can be…

When you feel you want to take a day off, there maybe a chance that you are not slacking off from work. Studies (which performed on rats) showed that it maybe caused by repetitive motion injury. When the repetitive work become unbearable, body will emit cytokines, proteins that help to start inflammation. Study shows that…

Quick introduction to a service – It is called Healthline and it is a guided search engine that specifically for finding medical and health information. The returned results are more defined and it also provides feature like searching for related topics, broaden search, and narrow your search with related keywords. These features are useful if…

Following up on the post 90 Minutes Sleep Cycle, I found out there are couple of sites and resources that talk about this sleeping hack. Technically, it is called Polyphasic Sleep. From Wikipedia, the definition is: … Polyphasic sleep is a sleep pattern specification intended to compress sleep time to 2-5 hours daily. This…

We heard a lot of negative impact from ADHA (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Studies suggests people with ADHA can have some unique gifts and attributes, like naturally creative and being more impulsive on thoughts: … To think daringly original thoughts and to create new ideas or perspectives requires impulsiveness. Impulsiveness is the urge to do things…

In this article, Glen Rhodes talks about the sleep cycle that he tried to use on his sleeping pattern. He now sleeps 3 hours a night and power nap for 90 minutes in the evening. He found out this is far better than getting a 8 hours of sleep. There are some researches behind it…

Kevin Kennedy-Spaien over Health-Hack suggests that the sleeping position of snorer will help – Snoring happens usually when one resting on the back. He suggests to put a tennis ball on the center of the back so that one won’t rest on the back: … Our relatively simple hack for this is to encourage the snorer…

Ever go to work with flu? For hard-working readers like us, I don’t think your manager would be worrying about absenteeism. They would be more worry about “presenteeism” instead – being contagious and spread it around to your colleagues. An article over WebMD Health can give you a list of symptons to determine if you…

Nutrition Action has a list of 10 foods that you should never eat. Sound serious. Yes. The site also mentions the brand names (which really assume me), but some of their advices can generalize into similar products. For example, the Burger King french fries: Burger King makes some of the worst french fries you can buy…

This is quite useful tool if you are keeping track of your calories, fat, and carbonhydrates intakes. You can select a bunch of different food from the menu for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack. You can then use that list to compare against the total allowable calories for your diet. Interactive Menu Planner – [National…

Thomas Crampton has posted some advices on food when you are travelling – should you be careful on what you are eating and drinking. Generally he suggests you can eat everything that has been peeled, grilled or boiled. The most important thing is to wash hand before eating: … Basically, I never eat anything that has…

From WebMD Health, study shows without any exercise can lead to build up deep belly fat: “I don’t believe that people in general have gotten lazier,” says Slentz. “It’s more that they are working too hard or are at their desks working on computers with fewer opportunities to exercise. The situation is out of balance.” For hard…