Brain Boosters

Following last week’s Health-e-Byte I received a lot of questions about the benefits of music in conditions other than dementia and Parkinson’s disease. It turns out that medicine may need to [...]

Listening to music always prompted my father to tell stories about significant events in his life – the first opera his mother took him to see when he was 8 years old; dining out with Mum [...]

Playing simple mind games with ourselves is one of the most powerful ways to improve the quality of our lives. At the start of every day, ask yourself the following questions. Make this a daily [...]

The over-emphasis on shedding body fat has obscured a critical component of good health: having enough muscle. The role of our muscles goes far beyond running for the bus, carrying the shopping [...]

In the late 1930s Harvard researchers began a study of over 700 men that tracked their physical, mental and emotional health for the next 78 years. Not surprisingly, having a difficult childhood [...]

Faster than a speeding Ferrari! More powerful than a supercomputer! Able to leap at opportunities with a single thought! Look! Up in your head! It’s your eyes! It’s your ears! It’s your BRAIN! [...]

Eighty percent of Australians live with back pain. Not long ago, I thought I had become one of them. I had a chronically sore neck and upper back on most days of the week and it was starting to [...]

The meaning we give to events in our lives is what determines who we ultimately become. Next time you don’t achieve something you set out to do, instead of berating yourself, turn it into an [...]

Neuroscientists have discovered more about the brain during the 21st century than in all previous centuries combined. This means our knowledge of the brain has exploded and the information is [...]

The earliest printed reference to the origin of this saying is attributed to the English playwright, Ben Johnson, in his 1598 play, Every Man in His Humour.  However, the word he used was care [...]