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Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease with the Internet

Joi — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:17:03 +0000

Below is a guest post by freelance writer Kathleen Hessing. The information and advice is the sort of thing we’re committed to here on Out of Bounds – keeping your brain sharp, strengthening your mind, preventing memory loss, and preventing Alzheimer’s Disease. The information is truly priceless. Although the disease is incurable once it occurs, [...]

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Learning a Second Language May Delay Alzheimer’s Disease

Joi — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:52:54 +0000

As we’ve always known, learning a second language is great for your brain. However, its benefits seem to surpass anything we ever hoped for. New studies show that learning a second language can pump up your brain in ways that seem to delay getting Alzheimer’s disease. While the study focused primarily on individuals who mastered [...]

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The Benefits of Learning Something New Every Day

Joi — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:53:38 +0000

If you’ve read this blog (or my Self Help Blog) very long, you probably already know that I home schooled my three daughters from Kindergarten through 12th grade. Right from the start, I taught them the importance of learning something new every day. Beginning in Kindergarten, at bedtime, each had to tell me three new [...]

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Serving Up a Dish of Mental Fitness

Joi — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:59:14 +0000

Eating. It’s something we do every single day. In fact, most of us do it at least three times a day. We try to watch and make sure the food we fix and eat is healthy for our body. After all, we realize that eating good foods and avoiding bad foods will mean we’ll live [...]

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Review: The Language of Emotional Intelligence

Joi — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:21:28 +0000

The Language of Emotional Intelligence by Jeanne Segal, Ph.D. is one of the most fascinating books I’ve read in a while. I should have known it would be, given the fact that the author’s previous book was another must read, Raising Your Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide . I LOVE books that are more than [...]

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What I Learned on My Summer Vacation? You’re Kidding, Right?!

Joi — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:34:28 +0000

Long ago, summer vacations were instituted for young people who were needed, by their family, for working on the farm, in the fields, or in the kitchen. You know, places where few young people can be found spending their summers today. Even today, for high school and college students summer vacations still serve a purpose. A [...]

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Are You Mentally Growing Each and Every Day?

Joi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:40:29 +0000

We adults make many and varied mistakes, you’ve got to give us that. But one of the worst mistakes we make is when we get too comfortable and overly content with our knowledge. When we stop challenging ourselves, mentally, we stop growing mentally. That, as you can imagine, doesn’t lead anywhere worth going. I’m not suggesting [...]

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Truly Amazing Tools to Life

Joi — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:52:49 +0000

The following is a sponsored post. It’s been a while since I’ve done one, so let me remind you what thay means. In a sponsored post, I’m paid to “review” a book, product, service, or website. I’m not paid to like it or tell my readers that they’ll like it – simply to tell you what I [...]

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Fight Against Alzheimer’s and Protect Your Heart at the Same Time

Joi — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:51:40 +0000

There’s a reason we’re seeing Alzheimer’s in the news more and more – sadly, it has become more prevalant. Five million Americans suffer from this devastating brain illness, to say nothing of the suffering of their loved ones. So, naturally, we’re all on the look out for ways to protect ourselves against this beast. At [...]

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Nuns Donating Their Brains for Alzheimer Study

Joi — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:27:55 +0000

Here’s a really great story about Nuns who are leaving their brains to science, in the hopes of aiding the battle against Alzheimer’s: Nuns Leave Their Brains to Science. Good for them! Nuns Donating Their Brains for Alzheimer Study is a post from: The Mind and the Brain Related posts: A Study Finds St. John’s [...]

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