Companies are always looking for ways to increase employee production. Well there is a great solution and that is to have your employees work out. It has been shown that exercise boost cognitive function and the lasting euphoric feeling afterwards can have many positive benefits to employee interaction. This article by Gretchen Reynolds talks about the process of working out and how it correlates to brain function. Upending the cliché of muscleheads, scientists at the Laboratory of Neuroscience at the National Institute on Aging recently set out to examine whether changes in muscles prompted … [Read more...] about Want to Boost Brain Power? Workout

Everyone knows that inactivity can lead to many major risk factors such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure. This article by Gretchen Reynolds talks about the detriment of individuals just sitting around albeit at work, home, or restaurant. ONE lesson I’ve learned while writing about fitness is that few things impinge on an active life as much as writing about fitness — all that time spent hunched before a computer or puzzling over scientific journals, the countless hours of feckless, seated procrastination. While writing about the benefits of exercise, my muscles … [Read more...] about Inactivity: Don’t just Sit There

Sugar is found in every carbohydrate and has a crucial role in the body's function. This article written by Kenneth Chang talks about the different types of substitutes you can find when you are at a restaurant. White. Pink. Blue. Yellow. On restaurant tables everywhere, the colors of the sweetener packets instantly identify the contents. Sugar. Saccharin. Aspartame. Sucralose. Reaching for one to pour into a cup of coffee or tea can sometimes feel like sweetener roulette, with the swirl of confusing, conflicting assertions about which are safe and which are not. Alissa Kaplan Michaels, … [Read more...] about Choosing a Sugar Substitute