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Why Fasting Boosts Brain Power – Mark Mattson

Mark Mattson is the current Chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging. He is also a professor of Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University. Mattson is one of the foremost researchers in the area of cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

“Fasting is a challenge to your brain and your brain reacts to that challenge of not having food, by activating adaptive stress-response pathways that help your brain cope with stress and resist disease.”

Killing Diversity – the Pasteurization of Cultures

Killing Diversity – the Pasteurization of Cultures

Killing Diversity -- the Homogenization and Pastuerization of Cultures Over the weekend we were invited to a lovely dinner party with an eclectic assortment of people. I immediately found myself deep in conversation with a lovely lady from Greece who told me of her favorite technique for maki ...

A Shan Romeo and Juliet Story

A Shan Romeo and Juliet Story

Back in 1999, after studying at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park New York, I was highly disillusioned with the US -- the greedy consumer mentality and the increasing amounts of GMOs in the food (which everyone thought I was nuts for being concerned about at the time!) so I fled to Myan ...

World Food Thursdays 11

World Food Thursdays 11

Welcome back to World Food Thursdays, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and link up your delicious international food! We want to see food from every corner of the world together, side by side being delicious all in one common community. We want to revel in our diversity, to respect e ...

World Food Thursdays 10

World Food Thursdays 10

Welcome back to World Food Thursdays, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and link up your delicious international food! We want to see food from every corner of the world together, side by side being delicious all in one common community. We want to revel in our diversity, to respect e ...

World Food Thursdays 9

World Food Thursdays 9

Welcome back to World Food Thursdays, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and link up your delicious international food! Please link up your international dishes. We want to see food from every corner of the world together, side by side being delicious all in one common community. We wa ...

World Food Thursdays 8

World Food Thursdays 8

Welcome back to World Food Thursdays, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and link up your delicious international food! Please link up your international dishes. We want to see food from every corner of the world together, side by side being delicious all in one common community. We wa ...

World Food Thursdays 7

World Food Thursdays 7

Welcome back to World Food Thursdays, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and link up your delicious international food! I love World Food Thursdays, it is better than reading the National Geographic :) This week on the menu we have dishes from Mexico, Philippines and Lebanon. Anothe ...

World Food Thursdays 6

World Food Thursdays 6

Welcome back to World Food Thursdays, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and link up your delicious international food! We had some really lovely recipes added last week, I really liked Patty's article: Existential Momentum: Ambasha, Eritrean Bread. She shares her experiences delving i ...

Coptic Orthodox in Egypt

Coptic Orthodox in Egypt

I figured since I have been living at a Coptic Orthodox center in the church compound I should probably write about what the Coptic Church is exactly. Although what I know of the Coptic Church is mostly from my observations and conversations I have had with people, I have only read one book on the s ...