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How Failure Makes Us Stronger
Reader's Digest — New research is pinpointing how we learn and make decisions. To the brain, a new thought or idea is like a spider. If it is industrious enough, an intricate web of knowledge spins out from it. Snapshots of the brain taken during learning actually ...More…
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Improve Your Mood Naturally with Omega-3s
Reader's Digest — In a recent Canadian study, women with moderate depression who received fish oil supplements for eight weeks felt significantly better than those who got a placebo. (The supplements didn't help women who were suffering from major depressive ...More…
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Alzheimer's Disease: 5 Tips for Lowering Your Risk
Reader's Digest — There's good news and bad about Alzheimer's disease, which affects more than five million Americans. Current medications only minimally delay progression of the disease, says Lon S. Schneider, MD, who directs the Alzheimer's Disease Research ...More…
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Memory Problems: A Stay-Sharp Guide
Reader's Digest — If you ask Cheryl McBride of Sedalia, Missouri, about the time she stopped breathing -- long enough to make her lips turn blue! -- she'll tell you it was a stroke of good fortune. Not that she's fond of near-death experiences. But this one turned ...More…
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The Dream:
Reader's Digest — The key to getting out of any hole is realizing that you haven't just fallen; you've fallen into something. In fact, if there were such a thing as an opportunity index, it would stand at about 7.5 out of 10 now, says Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneur ...More…
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Cluster Buster: Kudzu
Reader's Digest — Cluster headaches are excruciating and can be treatment-resistant. But in a recent Yale survey of sufferers, kudzu -- the infamous Southern vine -- popped up as a promising alternative treatment. Among those using this herb (in pill form or as a ...More…
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Improve Your Life with Online Therapy
Reader's Digest — By Elena Rover From Reader's Digest Just when economic insecurity leaves you anxious, depressed, or sleepless, you may feel unable to spend money on therapy that could help. Fortunately, new research points the way to inexpensive, effective ...More…
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5 Happiness Secrets For Tough Times
Reader's Digest — Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want (Penguin Press, 2008) has researched the science of happiness for years. Here are her tips to help you cope with a bad economy, and increase ...More…
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Eat for Better Memory: 7 Ways to Get Sharp
Reader's Digest — Studies have shown blueberries help prevent and reverse age-related memory loss. Coffee has been shown to improve memory, reasoning and reaction time in older folks. Good news for lifetime coffee drinkers: Long term consumption's been linked to a ...More…
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Stay Connected with Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest — Connect with the Reader's Digest community on Facebook. Share our most talked about stories, enter contests, read our blogs and download our latest widgets. Plus, find our most popular photos and videos or upload your own. Connect with the ...More…
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Surprising Advice on Solving Sudoku
Reader's Digest — It took countless hours of reading, studying, and head-scratching, but we are pleased to announce to the world that we have discovered the one true secret to solving Sudoku puzzles. Last spring, Reader's Digest invited Americans to solve an extra ...More…
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Outrageous! They Own Your Body
Reader's Digest — By Michael Crowley From Reader's Digest A few years ago, UCLA geneticist Wayne Grody was working hard to help deaf children. Grody was conducting clinical tests on Connexin 26, a human gene linked to deafness, hoping it would lead to more ...More…