Harvard Women’s Health Watch recently published an article about the benefits of mindfulness in meditation. They state that the daily practice of mindfulness enhances our quality of life.Scientists say that the mind produces more than 600,000 thoughts a day, most of them repetitive. Being mindful means focusing your attention on what is going on in […]

Here are some suggestions for parents from the National Institutes of Health and Grainaissance, a natural foods company, on how to help your children maintain a healthy diet:• Eat meals together as a family and not in front of the television. Encourage your kids to eat slowly and savor the food.• Keep healthy snacks on […]

Exercise? All that hard work just to lose weight? No. Exercise is not just about losing weight. Exercise is important for weight loss, but the other benefits are even more important.Exercise (resistance and aerobic) helps combat the myriad chronic diseases that we are all faced with. Prevent or reduce the effects of osteoporosis with weight-bearing […]

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More than love went into that box of chocolates you got for or from your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day. There’s also a considerable amount of engineering.From product development and testing, to packaging and distribution, engineers have a hand in making chocolate. Although the cacao tree was exclusively cultivated in the Americas for thousands of years, […]

Coffee cools more quicklyif you wait to add the cream The temperature of coffee is a hot topic, especially now that vendors may be serving up liability with that cup of latte. So coffee bars, fast food joints, and coffee drinkers might want to remember what two chemical engineering students discovered back in the 1950s: […]

“New Faces of Engineering” goes international; “Connecting the World to Engineering” features web-based forums and teleconferences It’s a big world after all.Underscoring a decisive recognition of the globalization of professional engineering, National Engineers Week 2004, February 22-28, co-chaired by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE / IEEE-USA) and the Fluor Corporation, celebrates the […]

Ames, Hewett & Gifford (AHG), Consulting Engineers of Winthrop, Maine is pleased to announce their merger with Lisa & Whitney Engineers (LWE), of Portland, Maine. The merger became ffective January 1. LWE will become the Lisa & Whitney Mechanical Division, of Ames, Hewett & Gifford.Ames, Hewett & Gifford has been in business for over 25 […]

How many times have you gone to sleep at night, swearing you’ll go to the gym in the morning, and then changing your mind just eight hours later because when you get up, you don’t feel like exercising?“While this can happen to the best of us, it doesn’t mean you should drop the ball altogether […]

There’s a lot of attention being given to medication errors caused when patients are given the wrong drug, but many adverse drug reactions happen to patients who are taking the right drugs in the wrong combinations. According to research, over 4 million Americans take as many as eight different prescription drugs per day – and […]