Richard Florida Introduces the Philips Livable Cities Award

The Philips Livable Cities Award is an initiative designed to generate practical, achievable ideas for improving the health and well-being of people living in cities. Individuals, community or non-governmental organizations and businesses are eligible to participate in the Award program that comprises a total prize fund amounting to 125,000 Euros. With the aim of developing simple solutions to the complex challenges faced by the...

Sensa

A California Company has recently launched a new product that may just fit the bill for a diet product that is effective and safe. Sensa is a food sprinkle that has been clinically proven to tell the brain to stop eating. It contains no stimulants, is odorless and tasteless and does not interact with your digestive system. This means that there are no side effects like the fat-blocker horror stories. It turns out our brains are...

Study links Hormone

A study has found that peole with high levels of the hormone called dopamine in their brain, may be prone to addictive behavior. Those found to have a sensitivity to this hormone, tend to be risk takers that can lead to drug abuse and gambling. Partly because of their lower sensitivity to dopamine, Scientists from Denmark and Japan said they had proved in research that a need for stimulation is greater on average for these people. The...

Gastric Bypass Surgery

A surgery that including shrinking the size of the stomach, Gastric bypass surgery, sometimes recommended for obese people, involves re-routing the path that food takes.  The possibility of post-surgical infection, blood clots or developing gallstones are a few risks with this procedure. So who as candidates for this bypass surgery? The U.S. nations Library of Medicine says the following people may be: people who are obese and not...

Over 70 and Overweight

A new Australian study finds that despite the warnings that being overweight will kill you, overweight adults over the age of 70 are less likely to die over a 10-year period than their normal-weight peers. Conflicts with research, the study, published Jan. 28 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, suggests that being overweight contributes to a long list of health problems, including heart disease. Lead researcher Leon...