Ceiling height can affect how you feel

Ceiling height can affect how you feel

For years contractors, real estate agents and event planners have said that whether building, buying or planning an event, a higher or vaulted ceiling is always better. Are they right? Until now…
Family turmoil can cause physical changes

Family turmoil can cause physical changes

Adolescents who are chronically exposed to family turmoil, violence, noise, poor housing or other chronic risk factors show more stress-induced physiological strain on their organs and tissues than…
New Way to Lose Weight?

New Way to Lose Weight?

  During the recent PBS special on obesity Fat: What No One is Telling You, a segment about surgery included this voiceover: Until recently it was believed that the tiny stomach [that the…
Want to lose weight?  Lose the newspaper

Want to lose weight? Lose the newspaper

Research finds calorie-dense dessert recipes printed in major newspapers across the country may be contributing to obesity in large cities. The study, conducted by researchers at Marshfield Clinic…
Gender And Porn: Where Men And Women Look First

Gender And Porn: Where Men And Women Look First

A study funded by the Atlanta-based Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) analyzed the viewing patterns of men and women looking at sexual photographs, and the result was not what one typically…
Seeing is hearing

Seeing is hearing

Experience hearing a person's voice allows us to more easily hear what they are saying. Now research by UC Riverside psychology Professor Lawrence D. Rosenblum and graduate students Rachel M. Miller…
Durian and the Shangri-La Diet

Durian and the Shangri-La Diet

The obvious connection between durian, the big smelly spiky Asian fruit, and the Shangri-La Diet is that both rely on flavor-calorie learning. We come to like the initially unpleasant smell and…