Published: Friday, 19 October 2007
Anytime after 30, hopefully as late as 40 or 45, some of that muscle we were so proud of begins to be replaced with fat. Where that fat is most likely to accumulate is around our middles. Even if we are the same weight we were 10 years earlier, gradually we [...]
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24 Mar 2008
A new study in the Journal of Personality reveals the extent to which children’s personality types can predict the timing of key transitional moments between childhood and adulthood.
The study set out to examine whether childhood personality would predict the timing of important transitional events moving into adulthood, including leaving the parents’ home, establishing [...]
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Mar 20, 2008
Snorers have always been the butt of jokes. In cartoons, their nasal roar lifts the roof off houses. In sitcoms, there’s the wife who rolls her eyes at her snoring bedmate. But in reality, it’s not all that funny. In fact, snoring can be a nightmare for snorers and their beleaguered partners, [...]
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24 Mar 2008
Health and Safety Commission (HSC) Chair, Judith Hackitt, spent the day with a group of 10 and 11 year-olds from Staple Hill Primary School, Page Road, Bristol, at the Lifeskills – Learning for Living training centre (which is based at The Create Centre, Smeaton Road, Bristol). The HSC Chair was in Bristol to [...]
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24 Mar 2008
Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Harvard Business School have found that it’s possible to buy happiness after all: when you spend money on others.
In a series of studies, UBC Asst. Prof. Elizabeth Dunn found that individuals report significantly greater happiness if they spend money “pro-socially” – that is on [...]
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