Is Your TV Watching You? Take Control Of Your Living Room

Television is supposed to be a diversion from the rest of your life, not the other way around.  Like any other purely pleasure based thing that humans enjoy, television is a sickly sweet, seductive addiction.  Both comforting and entertaining, TV can expand to fill every free space in your schedule, demanding attention like a chatty [...]

Isolation and Cancer: Supplement chemo with family game night

Just like a fairy tale, an important life lesson has been delivered to us from the unlikeliest of sources – a bunch of mice.  According to recent news, scientists have determined that social isolation makes cancer worse.  Scientists at University of Chicago have shown that in a study of mice that were genetically predisposed to [...]

1 Top Unknown Factor in Cancer Likelihood: Loneliness

Fewer cancer causing genes activated in the social mice

Recent studies have shown that some types of cancer are genetically predisposed, meaning that there are certain inherited genes which, if expressed, will trigger cancer growth.  In other words, just because you have a cancer causing gene doesn’t mean that it will be expressed – some genes [...]

One less stress: How to Take Holiday Photos

There are three types of people: those who hate photos of themselves, those who love them, and those who don’t care about them.  However, these types do have one thing in common -  bad holiday photos.  The haters hide from photos or make silly faces, the lovers are always strangely posed even during candid moments, [...]