Soccer players are not always rich and spoiled adolescents, sometimes they do care. Eat for Goals! is about good food, cooking and football. It has been created to encourage young people to be more conscious of living active lifestyles and eating well. Eat for Goals! was created under the patronage of Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) , World Heart Federation and the European Commission. Famous international football role models were invited to present their approach to healthy food by describing the recipe of their preferred dish, sharing with readers what they love to eat. A total 13 recipes are presented with .....read more »

Higher emotional intelligence discourages using MySpace for romance. Low self esteem encourages young adults in using MySpace for romance. Romance being in this study: Romantic communication is conceptualized as looking for dates and building intimate relationships MySpace users can create a homepage that includes favorite pictures, music, television shows, and books. MySpace has more than 100 million members, mostly teens and young adults. MySpace is a large online socialization network. The sample under study consisted of 240 under graduate students who were a member of MySpace. The average age was 20, 81 were juniors, 76 were seniors, and the rest were freshmen and .....read more »

DR. SHOCK MD PHD http://www.shockmd.com/ Focus: electroconvulsive therapy Hosted by: anonymous physician from the Netherlands Coverage: depression, psychiatry, neuroscience Advertisements: none David’s reasoning: I know I said I didn’t include anything written outside of the US but just take a look at the past posts listed under ’Categories’ (located on the right-hand side of the page in the gray column) and tell me I was wrong in including this site On Carpenter Library News a review of medblogs for patients. I took MedGadget’s (the internet journal of emerging medical technologies) 2007 MedBlog awards page and looked at all of the nominated sites (@100 unique sites). .....read more »

Another surgical grand round (yes they write and read medblogs) on Buckeye Surgeon. Two dutch contributions, one from Laika, a medical librarian about: What would happen if nurses wouldn’t routinely measure temperature? Would infections be missed? Could this lead to more serious infections and other complications? And yours truly: A post about the paucity of women who actually perform self breast exams, and whether it matters. Related posts:Grand Round is up at ACP Internist Old Year/New Year Dutch Grand Round 10.1 is up Grand Round is Up at Doc Gurley ..read more »

Yes I admired Paul Newman, excellent actor, but so did others apparently. On Presentation Zen: Paul Newman, one of the greatest American actors of all time, died yesterday at the age of 83. Newman was not only an absolute legend as an actor, but a great humanitarian and philanthropist as well (his Newman's Own food label, for example, donated all profits and royalties to charity, about $250 million so far). Newman always seemed like a truly nice guy who was unspoiled by his Hollywood-superstar status. A lot of video fragments how else can you remember a great actor. On The Art of Manliness .....read more »

Wanted to start something new and exiting. Here you see my medblog workstation. Behind this computer I work on my blog. Post your medblog station (physicians and patients) with a link to this post within a matter of days all these medblog stations will have links in the comments of this post. May be we could make a flickr tag with these photo's. The medblog station behind the medblogger. Curious for your medblog station. This is the medblogstation I am dreaming of. Haven't found it yet. On Flickr more blogging stations Related posts:Medblog English has updated the Medblog List Einstein’s Messy Desk What Kind .....read more »

"The best effect is obtained by consuming an average amount of 6.7 grams of chocolate per day, corresponding to a small square of chocolate twice or three times a week. Beyond these amounts the beneficial effect tends to disappear," di Giuseppe said. Romina di Giuseppe, is lead author of the study from the Moli-sani Project, one of the largest health studies ever conducted in Europe. The Moli-sani Project is funded by the Pfizer Foundation. The findings are detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Nutrition. The interviews with the authors and short description of the research can be .....read more »

Individuals with profiles on social networking websites have greater risk taking attitudes than those who do not. Greater risk taking attitudes exist among men than women. Facebook has a greater sense of trust than MySpace. General privacy concerns and identity information disclosure concerns are of greater concern to women than men. Greater percentages of men than women display their phone numbers and home addresses on social networking websites A new University of Georgia study suggests that online social networking sites such as Facebook might be useful tools for detecting whether someone is a narcissist. To start with the last observation, you can read about this research .....read more »

Welcome to the historic, 5th year anniversary of Grand Rounds, the weekly summary of the best of the medical blogosphere. As the proud new co-leader of Grand Rounds, I am committed to expanding its reach, promoting the Grand Rounds “brand”, and making sure contributors’ voices are heard by healthcare’s movers and shakers. Read the excellent summary of medblogosphere finests at emergiblog Related posts:Emergiblog: Start your Grand Rounds Grand Rounds 5.47 is up: Cost Containment In Healthcare Grand Rounds 4#49 at Rural Doctoring ..read more »

With the expanding knowledge of the neuronal circuits responsible for the behavioral disorders associated with addiction, though, DBS could become a future treatment option for patients suffering from addiction. In people addicted to psychoactive substance it has been shown by Positron emission tomography studies that, when they take the psychoactive substance, dopamine is released in the nucleus accumbens, which causes “the high.” They lack the decrease of the output neurons on this dopamine release. There is no brake on the "high" elicited by the drug and the subsequent dopamine release. This lack of inhibition causes activation of the reward system. The .....read more »