If you eat too much fattening food one day, can you be good and eat less the next day. The answer is probably no for most people. Eating too much can easily lead to over-weight or even obesity that can in turn put people at risk of heart disease. Large food portions, such as super size fast-food meals, are always blamed as culprits in the dramatic rise in the obesity rates in United States. 64 percent of Americans are considered to be either overweight or obese. A study reported in 2005, at a conference of North American obesity researchers in Vancouver, Canada, that when people are offered large meals, they will tend to eat them day after day. The researchers tracked the eating habits and energy intake of nearly 2 dozen men and women over 11 days, making it one of the longest studies of its kind. People would consistently eat more when offered large meals, except in the case of vegetables, according to the study. Another study presented to the recent annual meeting of North American...

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Statistics give us more and more information related to sudden cardiac arrests and other heart failures. More and more people and in earlier and earlier stages of their life die of a heart disease. Statistics, in the US alone, are extremely alarming: - Every 30 seconds someone dies because of a heart disease; - More than 2.500 Americans die daily because of heart diseases; - Every 20 seconds there is a person suffering a heart attack; - Each year 6 million people are hospitalized because of a heart disease; - The number 1 cause of death in the US is a heart disease. Although the AED is not an universal panacea for all heart diseases, nothing else can compete with its major feature effectively re-starting the heart after it has been stopped by a sudden cardiac arrest. Because of their ease-of-use and portability, automated external defibrillators are being introduced in more and more public places, and chances are that AEDs will be as common as fire extinguishers in gyms, schools and...

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Using drugs and alcohol are not the answers to your problems. They might make you feel better for a while but sooner or later you will have to face your fears and anxieties. In the meantime, here are some reasons why drugs and alcohol are not the answers to your problems. They are dangerous to your health. People die from using drugs and abusing alcohol. They do nothing for your short term or long-term health. Regardless of what you think, drugs and alcohol do nothing but add more problems. Avoiding your fears and your problems are not the answers. Eventually, you will have no choice but to confront your fears and stresses. Save yourself the time and heartache and confront your problems now rather than later. Don t put off what you can do today. When you decide to face your fears, you will begin to learn how to manage your fears. As time goes on, you will become better in dealing with your anxieties. With some patience, it will only be a matter of time before you find the answers to...

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Brainpower algorithms is my own term for the rules that we develop to help us think more efficiently. There are examples from every area of life. Salesmen more effectively sell once they are trained to smile and match the pace of the buyer s speech. Real estate investors can more easily analyze a property if they have a mental checklist that they run through. Writers think in terms of headlines that grab the reader by using words like top secret. Universal Brainpower Algorithms Some of the most useful rules of life are simple questions that cut through the clutter in our minds and point to the most essential aspects of things. Consider the question What would insert hero here do. Asking this is a powerful way to quickly resolve ethical issues. A Christian facing an ethical problem, for example, can usually quickly imagine what Jesus would do. This process bypasses the rationalizing that often passes as rationality, and lets our powerful unconscious mind show us the way. Here are some...

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