If you have children, and even if you don't, read this story. It tells a lot about perception. Each child is different. Each perceives things another way. The role of parent's behavior is of utmost importance in their emotional growth. If not parents we all have been children, I learned a lot just reading this story.

"Our findings suggest that maintaining blood sugar levels, even in the absence of diabetes, could help maintain aspects of cognitive health". Such is the conclusion of an interesting survey. It seems that memory loss could be blamed, at least in part, on rising blood glucose levels as we age. Why not make sure that this does not happen with simple habits like exercising that regulates the level of blood sugar?

Volunteering seems to give a meaning to life and by doing so increases longevity. Not a goal, just a side effect. Read this article.

The eight areas for disease prevention in the European Heart Health Charter are smoking, blood pressure, cholesterol, physical activity, diet, obesity, glucose metabolism, and stress. Expensive scientific surveys proves again and again what common sense tells us since the beginning of times. You can take care of your health with constantly updated applied knowledge.

Move it and your memory will improve. Read and discover and you will get the same results. It all boils down to the golden rule: "use it or lose it" which applies to every aspect of life. Age has little or nothing to do with this. Unless you admit such self inflicted limitations as "I'm too old for this".

A beautiful short story every one should read.

If you want to be more creative, go outside the box and have an experience of living abroad. Such is the conclusion of different surveys on creativity. Just being exposed for a certain time to other cultures than your own seems to be the key to become more creative. It forces you to open your mind and to observe other ways of apprehending reality.

I'm a strong believer in the merits of biofeedback. This article gives a few example of what it can achieve. Some are fascinating. One day all the tools to control the way our bodies work will be available at very low cost. Already you can buy for $20 a tiny blood pressure and pulse control system that allows you to check your blood pressure and find out the food you are allergic to. I'm waiting for convenient ways to check my brain waves in most circumstances.

These Serious surveys show that laughter can be a great help to healing. But before healing is the avoidance of illness. To fight stress laugh! Make it a habit to pause with a few jokes. A Google search will help you discover thousands of jokes, some good some lousy. Enjoy the good ones.

Could Twitter, Facebook confuse your moral compass? New studies seem to show that addiction to these networks might have an impact on your moral compass. Emotions linked to our moral sense awaken slowly in the mind. "For some kinds of thought, especially moral decision-making about other people’s social and psychological situations, we need to allow for adequate time and reflection".