Vitality for life
In the same way that the body needs physical exercise, the brain also needs mental exercise. Reading is for the brain as walking is for the body.
The United States today has a 40% illiteracy rate among adults. Those of us who know how to read, are reading less and less. We have [...]
The brain processes reading much the same way that it would process a foreign language. Different parts of the brain are engaged when we read. The occipital lobe sees the shapes of the letters and words. The frontal lobe analyzes and interpret the shapes to give meaning to the words. The [...]
Jesus said things about prayer that are almost shocking to read if you’ve been a Christian a while and have attended the average prayer meeting. Let me just remind you of some of them:
Ask and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For [...]
Have you ever taken a yoga or pilates class where you were instructed to breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth? Marathon runners are given the same advice. I’ve also read books written by respected dermatologists expounding the benefits of deep breathing in developing healthy skin. Did you ever wonder what difference [...]
My father used to tell me and my sisters when we were young that dental problems increase in countries as the percentage of dentists and toothbrushes per capita increases. Now I knew it was the percentage of documented dental problems that increased, but other than brushing my teeth morning and evening, I never had much [...]
A-h-h those wonderful mitochondria: small encapsulated structures in our cells that function as our fuel “factories.” Mitochondria use food and nutrients to produce ATP (the chemical fuel the cells run on). They also regulate cellular metabolism (now you know who to blame). Inefficient mitochondrial function is blamed for many diseases including mental disorders, cardiac dysfunction [...]
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