Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Lotus Therapy

By BENEDICT CAREY
Published: May 27, 2008
Mindfulness meditation has become perhaps the most popular new psychotherapy technique of the past decade.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/health/research/27budd.html?ex=1369627200&en=243cf577038c27b1&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Eating Your Way to a Sturdy Heart

By TARA PARKER-POPE
Published: May 13, 2008

When it comes to improving heart health, it’s important to look beyond the medicine cabinet and to the kitchen.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/health/13heart.html?ex=1368417600&en=3139bdc2b103ad98&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Finding the Best Way to Cook All Those Vegetables

By TARA PARKER-POPE
Published: May 20, 2008
By now, most people know they should be eating more vegetables. But are there ways to get more from the vegetables you already eat? A growing body of research shows that when it comes to vegetables, its not only how much we eat, but how we prepare them, that influences the amount of phytochemicals, vitamins and other nutrients that enter our body.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E5DF1239F933A15756C0A96E9C8B63&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Breast-Feeding Tied to Intelligence

By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Published: May 13, 2008
In a large randomized trial of human lactation, researchers have found evidence that prolonged breast-feeding is associated with improved scores on some intelligence tests in childhood. The results, published in the May issue of The Archives of General Psychiatry, appear to confirm those of previous observational studies.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E0DA1739F930A25756C0A96E9C8B63&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Evidence a High-Fat Diet Works to Treat Epilepsy

By ALIYAH BARUCHIN
Published: May 6, 2008
A formerly controversial high-fat diet has proved highly effective in reducing seizures in children whose epilepsy does not respond to medication, British researchers are reporting. As the first randomized trial of the diet, the new study lends legitimacy to a treatment that has been used since the 1920s but has until recently been dismissed by many doctors as a marginal alternative therapy.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E6DA143FF935A35756C0A96E9C8B63&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink