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A Healthy Transformation

Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 11.15.2008 | Home


Dr. Jeffrey McCombs

The World Health Organization (WHO), since 1948, has defined health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the abs...

Kick In The Tush Club: Tip-Toeing Past The Amygdala

Janice Taylor | Posted 10.18.2008 | Living


Janice Taylor

The amygdala, an almond shaped structure located in the mid-section of the brain, is crucial to our survival. It is where the "Fight or Flight" respo...

Biologists On Verge Of Bringing Non-Living Matter To Life

Wired | Alexis Madrigal | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home


A team of biologists and chemists is closing in on bringing non-living matter to life. It's not as Frankensteinian as it sounds. Instead, a lab led b...

Marc Jacobs On Life, Love, And Louis Vuitton

Times Online | Lisa Armstrong | Posted 10.09.2008 | Style


A man who describes himself as being a former shoe-gazer, Jacobs had experienced some kind of epiphany. "I was never comfortable in some situations," ...

It's Not About Your Fat; It's About Your Life

Janice Taylor | Posted 10.04.2008 | Living


Janice Taylor

A number of readers have asked me for more details about my travels on the rocky road to Sveltesville, wanting me to further share my secrets that led...

Too Young For This: Patient of Courage Nomination

Alice Crisci | Posted 07.16.2008 | Living


Alice Crisci

I recall choking out "its cancer," for the first time, two small words with a mere nine letters that bear so much weight on the human heart, few can top them. Is this what courage means?