The Centenarian

They say misery loves company, but the same may be even more true of happiness.
In a study published online today in the British Medical Journal, scientists from Harvard University and UC San Diego showed that happiness spreads readily through social networks of family members, friends and neighbors.
Knowing someone who is happy makes you 15.3% more [...]

Filed under: Mind on December 5th, 2008 | No Comments »

The Guys
One in five women have a history of painful urinary tract infections. “I had three in one year,” says Patty Buxton*, a Colorado middle-school teacher. Reading that cranberry juice may help prevent these infections, Buxton went on a regimen a year ago, and since then she’s been infection-free. She thinks cranberry juice did the [...]

Filed under: Body, Food on December 4th, 2008 | No Comments »