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Overdoing It (Kids’ Sports Edition)
Read more: Overdoing It (Kids’ Sports Edition)Jane Brody surveys the kids’ sports landscape, and pulls a bracing quote from Until It Hurts: America’s Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids, by Mark Hyman: “Every year more than 3.5 million children under 15 require medical treatment for sports injuries, nearly half of which are the result of simple overuse.”
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Your Brain on Love
Read more: Your Brain on LoveA study shows scans of love-struck brains look the same in China as they do in the West. Regions of the brain related to addiction and even mental illness light up on the scan when a person sees a photo of his or her beloved…[New] scans showed that love lights up the brain in the same…
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Against “Halfalogues”
Read more: Against “Halfalogues”From the Los Angeles Times: Cellphone conversations we overhear really bug us. “Hafalogues” distract, annoy, and impair, says a study: [P]articipants were seated at computers and asked to perform various cognitive tests while exposed to one of the three sounds or silence. Hearing the halfalogue was the only background noise that distracted the study participants…
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Passionate Marriage (in 6 Simple Steps)
Read more: Passionate Marriage (in 6 Simple Steps)Couples’ lit spotlight: Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships, by sex/relationship therapist, David Schnarch. The book samples actual sex therapy sessions to make its case. Don’t care to read 400 pages about how differentiation? Try the six-point plan linked from Schnarch’s website, posted here minus the explanations: Operate from the Best in Yourself. Sustain…
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Choice v. Anxiety
Read more: Choice v. AnxietyThe client knows best–studies catching up: Flexible Treatment Intervention Associated With Greater Improvement In Anxiety Symptoms (Medical News Today).