More on Greenspan's model of personal competence: Relationship between IQ and social, practical, and conceptual abilities
I am pleased to see that, after a relatively long draught in published research, someone is again investigating the relations between general intelligence, and the primary domains of adaptive behavior, in models (that when examined closely) that are investigating aspects of Greenspan's' model of personal competence. The title, abstract, and key figure from this new research follow. The article can be read here. Kudos to these researchersClick on images to enlargeMy primary criticism of this study is that it completely ignores the primary foundation research in this area that occurred between 1990 and 2000, some of which...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - July 26, 2014 Category: Neurologists Tags: adaptive behavior CHC theory g general intelligence Greenspan ' s Model of Personal Competence ID MR Source Type: blogs
5 Easy Ways to Eat More Fruit and Veggies
We all need to eat more fruits and vegetables! Did you know over 2/3rds of Americans don’t meet the recommendations for fruit and vegetable intake?! We typically throw away spoil fruits and vegetable two times a week on average, which translates into about $42 a week!
I am not saying you need to sacrificing taste or flavor or have to eat salads at every meal, I’m here to say “you can’t mess it up”! Just add in fruits and vegetables to any dish you’re making. No matter what the recipes says, you can always add fruits and vegetables to any dish to help bump up the nutrition. Includ...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - June 25, 2014 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: cooking diet eating healthy food fruits nutrition recipes vegetables blueberries healthy eating kiwifruit mushrooms slow cooker smoothies stuffed burgers vegetarian veggie burger Source Type: blogs
Baba Ganoush, Lebanese Style
My friend Paula and I threw a Middle Eastern dinner party on my rooftop last Saturday evening.
It was really all Paula’s idea. You see, her dad once ran a Lebanese market in Worcester, Mass. Paula inherited not only her father’s butcher block kitchen table and meat grinder, but a real love for the foods of her ancestors. I can tell you that enthusiasm is highly infectious, having caught it from her last year while sitting at the table at our cottage rolling grape leaves under her tutelage. So when Paula proposed a joint party – she’d provide the food and I, the venue and sous chef duty – I...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - June 11, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Appetizers Baba Ganoush Babaganoush Eggplant Bitahini Lebanese Lemon recipe Source Type: blogs
The Hunger Fix: Managing Your Addiction to Food
There’s a scene in an episode of “Sex and the City,” where Miranda Hobbes has shamelessly salvaged a cupcake from the trash and, half of the thing in her mouth, leaves a voicemail with Carrie admitting her weak moment in case her friend needs that evidence when she admits her into the Betty Ford clinic. Katie Couric played the clip before introducing her guest, Dr. Pam Peeke, internationally recognized expert, physician, and author in the fields of nutrition, stress, fitness, and public health, on the “Katie” show.
Peeke’s latest book, The Hunger Fix (a New York Times bestseller), lays out the science to prove...
Source: World of Psychology - March 14, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Addiction Disorders Eating Disorders General Research Substance Abuse Crack Cocaine Dopamine Dr. Pam Peeke Drug Addiction Food Addiction Genetics health Katie Couric Miranda Hobbes Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Those amazing little kidneys
Years ago I was a dialysis nurse and I could not believe what I learned about these little organs in your body and how they actually work. First let’s note that these are bean-shaped and about the size of a fist. The kidneys are located near the middle of the back, on each side of the spine. Kidneys, if healthy, are working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; they are like a built-in water treatment plant! Their main job is to filter the blood – to maintain a balance of water and chemicals. Every day these amazing little organs filter out about 2 quarts of wastes and fluid in the form of urine.
Unfortunatel...
Source: Nursing Comments - March 13, 2014 Category: Nurses Authors: Stephanie Jewett, RN Tags: Advice/Education General Public Home/Articles Nursing/Nursing Students Patients/Specific Diseases acute blood loss AKI ARF chronic kidney disease diabetes dialysis end-stage renal disease high blood pressure Kidneys poison Source Type: blogs
Reverse Aging with Resveratrol
It’s true that if you lead a Grain Brain-friendly lifestyle, you can’t crack open a cold beer (even the gluten-free kind). However, that doesn’t mean all alcohol is off-limits. In fact, you can, and I do, enjoy the occasional glass of red wine. The reason for this? Not just because it tastes great and pairs well with all that grass-fed beef you’ll be eating, but because it’s an incredibly rich source of resveratrol, a natural compound found in grapes.
Resveratrol has delivered a reputation for being able to deliver a whole host of benefits to our body, ranging from promoting heart health to boosting blood flow to...
Source: Renegade Neurologist - A Blog by David Perlmutter, MD, FACN - March 11, 2014 Category: Neurologists Authors: gbadmin Tags: Nutrition Supplements grapes red wine Resveratrol Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm - Making Mead and Cyser
The entire family visited Unity Farm for the holidays. After all the gift giving, merry making, and yuletide time by the fire was over, what should a family do at a farm with apples, honey, fermentation equipment (there's a basic chemistry lab in the cider house), spring water, and microbiology know-how? Make mead of course!Mead was the earliest fermented beverage created by man - evidence of honey and fermentation products begins about 9000 BC. Mead figures prominently in Hindu writings, the work of Aristotle, and the Old English poem Beowulf. There's a new vocabulary to learn when deciding how ...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - January 2, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Add Flavor to Your Holiday Foods
The holiday season is a time for giving, sharing, being with loved ones, and —celebrating! If you’re like me, your schedule is probably filled with holiday parties and get-togethers right now. My first response to a party invite is always, “What can I bring?” We all want to bring a dish that’s the hit of the party, and I’ve got good news for you – you don’t need a culinary degree to make a flavorful, nutritious dish. All you need is a little know-how, and you can blend appealing textures and flavors to create delicious foods that will please every crowd.
This past week I appeared on WBAL NBC TV ...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - December 19, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: nutrition beano blueberries entertaining holiday New York Style snacks peanuts recipes Source Type: blogs
What Mark Kleiman Wants You To Know About Drugs
The public policy guru guiding state legalization efforts.Mark A. R. Kleiman is the Professor of Public Policy at UCLA, editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis, author of many books, and generally regarded as one of the nation’s premier voices on drug policy and criminal justice issues. Mr. Kleiman provides advice to local, state, and national governments on crime control and drug policy. When the state of Washington needed an adviser on the many policy questions they left unanswered with the passage of I-502, which legalized marijuana in that state, they turned to Kleiman. In the past two years, Kleiman has co-aut...
Source: Addiction Inbox - December 18, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs
Best Dairy Free Vegan Cheeses for Christmas
Top 10 Dairy Free Vegan Cheeses for Christmas Yep, it's true, even vegans, those with lactose and dairy allergies and food in-tolerances or those who avoid dairy for ethical or other health reasons can enjoy a cheesey Christmas.Here's a list of our top 10 favourite Christmas dairy free vegan cheesesVegusto Piquant Dairy Free CheeseSwiss dairy free vegan cheese to smile forA delicious, award winning Gruyere-like, good mature cheddar alternative that could rightfully take it's place on any cheeseboard in any restaurant without having to provide a warning with a wag of the finger introducing it as "The Vegan Cheese". Aw...
Source: Healthy Eating and Nutrition News - December 17, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: cheese cheeseboard cheeses cheeze cheezly christmas dairy free food freefrom health risella scheese sheese sheeze vegan vegerella Source Type: blogs
Make This Ooey-Gooey Grape Grilled Cheese Tonight!
What could be better on a chilly fall day than a warm, ooey-gooey grilled cheese sandwich? One that satisfies both savory AND sweet cravings -- which is why my Grape Grilled Cheese sandwich will totally hit the spot.
Grapes are a truly a versatile fruit: You can enjoy them alone, in sweet treats or in savory recipes like this twist on the classic grilled cheese sammie that I created for the California Table Grape Commission. My GGC, as I call it, combines creamy brie and tangy blue cheeses with plump, juicy grapes and a drizzle of honey to create a unique and satisfying sandwich. Plus, thanks to the Cali grapes, which are ...
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - November 15, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Recipes food nutrition recipe of the week Source Type: blogs
Common Core: "If You Like Your Curriculum, You Can Keep Your Curriculum"
Jason Bedrick
Common Core’s primary backers have been assuring us for years that the standards do not mandate any specific curriculum or prescribe any particular method of teaching. However, now that states have begun to implement Common Core, those same backers are singing a different tune. Professor Jay P. Greene highlighted the shift at the Education Next blog. For example, just six months ago, prominent Common Core supporters Kathleen Porter-Magee and Sol Stern wrote in National Review Online:
Here’s what the Common Core State Standards do: They simply delineate what children should know at each grad...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 31, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jason Bedrick Source Type: blogs
Three Great Ways to Eat Your Grapes
In this article, I explain three great ways that individuals can eat grapes. Those three ways include by themselves, with smoothies, and in salads.Contributor: Jocelyn CrawleyPublished: Oct 22, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - October 23, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
Exercise and Breast Cancer
Recently I was asked to suggest alternative hormone treatment for an obese postmenopausal woman with breast cancer. My advise was to lose weight. Supplemental estrogen in any form is estrogen and carries increased risk for breast cancer patients. Exercise can reduce the risk for developing breast cancer probably by changing the way estrogen is metabolized. Get up and get moving while eating plant based whole foods (mostly vegetables and fruit, especially blueberries, apples with the skin, grapes and grapefruit) and eliminating processed food and most meats, especially red meat. Not as easy as taking a pill but much more ef...
Source: Fixin' Healthcare - October 9, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
When Food Becomes Weird: From Arsenic to Insects
This study was done by looking at data of 187,000 people. Almost 13,000 of them developed Type 2 diabetes. Of course, this study was conducted by looking at questionnaires that the participants completed. Still, it's interesting. Also, the researchers found that people who drank fruit juice were more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes (we already knew this). Were there flaws in this study? Probably. But the take-home point is that eating whole fruit (not juice) is good for us and, as we've learned, may help protect against one of the most significant health issues we face today.
More next week!
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Source: Diabetes Self-Management - September 30, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Amy Campbell Source Type: blogs
