All posts for May 2014

While the overall qualities of warmth and heat have long been associated with comfort and relaxation, heat therapy goes a step further and can provide both pain relief and healing benefits for many types of lower back pain. In addition,...

Jet lag refers to the group of symptoms that we experience after rapid travel across time zones. Jet lag occurs because the body clock, driving our daily rhythms in our physiology and behaviour, can't instantaneously shift to the new destination...

Buddhist monk is world's happiest man By Frankie Taggart (AFP) ... As he grins serenely and his burgundy robes billow in the fresh Himalayan wind, it is not difficult to see why scientists declared Matthieu Ricard the happiest man they...

How songs can help people whose minds are deteriorating. OLGA KHAZAN One day in 2006, New York social worker Dan Cohen realized that with today's devices, all of his favorite music—he's a fan of '60s rock—is at his fingertips, but...

Give up the annual self-flagellation ritual of New Year's resolutions and starting tweaking your behavior to meet—and beat–your goals in 2014. Many of us have stopped making New Year’s resolutions altogether. It turns out that we are making the right...