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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.”
August 4th, 2012
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 ...
October 6th, 2011
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 ...
June 8th, 2011
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 ...
June 2nd, 2011
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 ...
May 26th, 2011
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 ...
May 18th, 2011
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 ...
May 11th, 2011
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 ...
May 5th, 2011
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 ...
December 15th, 2009
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 ...
