Monday, October 3, 2011

The Simple Secrets for Becoming Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

This Ebook shows you how to become healthy,wealthy and wise with just a simple journey you'll have to go through everyday of the year that would make you happier than you are, more comfortable with yourself,creative healthy and wise.

And here's are the journey of January

1 Motivation Beats Everything
2 Be Happy to Succeed
3 Give Yourself Time
4 Creativity Comes from Within
5 The Mundane Is Heroic
6 Never Give Up
7 See Possibilities Where Others See Obstacles
8 The Quest for a Perfect Body Is Doomed
9 Don’t Let Your First Idea Be Your Only Idea
10 What You Do Matters
11 There Are Second Chances
12 Wonder
13 Volunteer for Yourself
14 Use a Plan, Not a Piecemeal Approach
15 You Have Nothing to Envy in Your Partner
16 Resist the Urge to Be Average
17 Too Much of a Good Thing Is Too Much
18 It’s Never Just One Thing
19 Change Is Possible, Not Easy
20 Know Your Health
21 It’s Not How Hard You Try
22 You Can’t Force Yourself to Like Broccoli
23 The Past Is Not the Future
24 Competence Starts with Feeling Competent
25 We’re Too Good at Imagining
the Worst-Case Scenario
26 Set Rules for Confl ict in Your Relationship
27 Give Yourself the Best Chance to Eat Well
28 You Are Never Too Old to Improve Your Habits
29 A Victory at All Costs Is Not a Victory
30 You Have to Have Art
31 Accomplish Something Every Day

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Why It's Good If You're Easily Embarrassed

People who are easily embarrassed are more trustworthy, more generous and more likely to be monogamous, according to a new study.

"Moderate levels of embarrassment are signs of virtue," the study's lead author, Matthew Feinberg, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a university news release. "Our data suggests embarrassment is a good thing, not something you should fight."

The findings apply to moderate levels of embarrassment -- not feelings of shame or extreme social anxiety, the authors pointed out.

In one experiment, the researchers videotaped 60 college students as they told stories about an embarrassing moment, such as mistaking an overweight woman for a pregnant one. The speakers were rated on how embarrassed they felt.

Then the students played a game used in economics research to measure selflessness, and the researchers found the participants who were most embarrassed showed the most generosity.

In another experiment, the researchers also asked 38 people found on Craigslist how often they felt embarrassed and measured their cooperativeness and generosity after they played the same game the students played.

Each time, embarrassment suggested a tendency to be pro-social, Feinberg said. The findings may be helpful for people seeking reliable partners in business and romance, the researchers said.

"Embarrassment is one emotional signature of a person to whom you can entrust valuable resources. It's part of the social glue that fosters trust and cooperation in everyday life," said the study's co-author, Robb Willer, UC Berkeley social psychologist, in the news release.

The authors noted more research is needed to explore whether or not overly confident people aren't trustworthy.

Monday, September 26, 2011

A Sri Lankan Father Breast-feed His Son

In a strange scene when can only see with this srilankan father feeding his son with his own breast.

The
back story when the mother died having the baby and the father was in deep sorrow because of the death of his wife and his inability to feed his son, especially since the child will depend on the natural milk of his mother breast.

The father
tried to replace the milk with industrial milk, but the child refused outright.


When the child cried the father held him close to his chest until he found the child coming close to his breast and starts to feed,the strange thing is that his breast produced milk which is a miracle.

The father is in a state of shock that he is able to breast-feed his son.

Doctors
attributed the cause of this is excessive activity of the hormone prolactin, which triggers the breast to produce milk.

Hospital Privacy Curtains Laden With Germs


The privacy curtains that separate care spaces in hospitals and clinics are frequently contaminated with potentially dangerous bacteria, researchers said in Chicago this week.

To avoid spreading those bugs, health care providers should make sure to wash their hands after routine contact with the curtains and before interacting with patients, Dr. Michael Ohl, from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, said at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
"There is growing recognition that the hospital environment plays an important role in the transmission of infections in the health care setting and it's clear that these (privacy curtains) are potentially important sites of contamination because they are frequently touched by patients and providers," Dr. Ohl told.

Health care providers often touch these curtains after they have washed their hands and then proceed to touch the patient. Further, these curtains often hang for a long time and are difficult to disinfect.

In their study, Dr. Ohl and his team took 180 swab cultures from 43 privacy curtains twice a week for three weeks. The curtains were located in the medical and surgical intensive care units and on a medical ward of the University of Iowa Hospitals.

The researchers also marked the curtains to keep track of when they were changed.

Tests detected Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, including the especially dangerous methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), as well as various species of Enterococci -- gut bacteria -- some resistant to the newer antibiotic vancomycin.

Dr. Joseph Rahimian, an infectious disease doctor in New York City, said this finding comes as no surprise to him.

"Just about everything is going to have bacteria on it, and items such as fixtures in patient rooms will undoubtedly have bacteria including resistant bacteria," Rahimian said. "The curtains generally do get washed and changed, but the frequency varies among hospitals. I suspect that more frequent cleaning of hospital curtains would be a good idea."

The researchers used additional tests to identify specific vancomycin and methicillin-resistant strains to see whether the same strains were circulating and contaminating the curtains over and over.

The study found significant contamination that occurred very rapidly after new curtains were placed.

Of the 13 privacy curtains placed during the study, 12 showed contamination within a week.

Virtually all privacy curtains tested (41 of 43) were contaminated on at least one occasion.
MRSA was isolated from one in five curtains, and vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) from four in 10. Eight curtains were contaminated with VRE more than once. Three of these were of a single type, but the other five showed contamination with different VRE strains, which suggested recontamination was happening with bacteria from new sources.

Overall, two thirds of the swab cultures were positive for either S. aureus (26 percent), Enterococcus species (44 percent) or various bacterial species from a group known as gram-negative rods (22 percent).

"The vast majority of curtains showed contamination with potentially significant bacteria within a week of first being hung, and many were hanging for longer than three or four weeks," Dr. Ohl noted.

"We need to think about strategies to reduce the potential transfer of bacteria from curtains to patients," he added. "The most intuitive, common sense strategy is (for health care workers) to wash hands after pulling the curtain and before seeing the patient. There are other strategies, such as more frequent disinfecting, but this would involve more use of disinfectant chemicals, and then there is the possibility of using microbial resistant fabrics. But handwashing is by far the most practical, and the cheapest intervention."