Explains the dangers of sugar in particular the fructose. Common sugar contains 50% fructose. High fructose corn syrup contains even more at 55% fructose. That is why high fructose corn syrup is so bad for you.
He explains in biochemical details as to how sugar turns into fat. He actually will say that sugar is toxic. Because he explains in such scientific rigor, after watching the video, you will most likely become convinced of the dangers of sugar.
Some books I want to read and DVDs I want to watch (when I have time)…
There are many videos on YouTube talking about making money online. But this video linked here by Darren Rowse actually makes a lot of sense. Darren Rowse is the founder of Problogger.net and have written the book ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income.
Watch video on YouTube by NationalGeographic »
It’s eyes are enclosed in a transparent dome of a head. It is thought that this would protect the eyes from being sting when it tries to steal food from a stinging creature.
Dr. Mark Hyman’s videos are the best health videos that I have ever seen.
You can find most of of his videos on YouTube UltraWellness channel.
You can see some of his best video on his website drhyman.com.
He gave a talk at Google about the brain (video here).
Derek Walcott is a Nobel Prize winning author that wrote the poem “Love After Love” (it is actually about mindfulness). The link is where Jon Kabat-Zinn recites Derek Walcott’s poem.
Jon Jon Kabat-Zinn is an author and authority on mindfulness meditation. He developed the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program and founded the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. His book is “Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness” which is a guide to help people overcome stress and pain through the use of mindfulness meditation.
As he says in this MITWorld video, mindfulness it is “Paying attention, on-purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally”
He also talked at Google…
There are a lot of controversy around global warming. Find the facts from a reputable source. The documentary An Inconvenient Truth is presented by Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States. Although he did not win the 2000 presidential elections; he did win the Nobel Peace prize in 2007 for his crusade to fight global warming. He is also chairman of Alliance for Climate Protection.
After seeing this film, I thoroughly recommend it. The charts and animations and graphical presentation of the facts are amazingly well done. You will be shocked to see the before and after picture of the glaciers. It makes the dangers of global warming crystal clear without needing a scientific background.
It won two Academy Awards including “best documentary”. If you missed the film in the box offices, get the DVD or purchase an download.
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This book is not only insightful, but very amusing. At times, the author Daniel Gilbert who is an psychology professor at Harvard University, writes as if a comedian. I normally do not read the acknowledgements of a book. But it starts out so funny that I had to read the rest of it as well as the forward.
This book gives lot of concrete examples and results of studies that shows that people often do not know in advanced what will make them happy. Just like the eyes can be fooled by opticial illusions, the minds imagination of the future can be fooled. Just like we can not accurately remember the past, we can not accurately fortell the future or how we would feel if this or that event were to happen. Our imagination has three shortcomings that we are often not aware of: a) Realism — The mind fills in a lot of gaps and makes a lot of things up. We tend to forget this and hence our imagination seem more real to us than should give it credit for. b) Presentism — Our imagination of the future is affected by our current state. c) Rationalization — We tend to look for things that confirms our belief or than enhances our attitude towards our current state. We are also often fooled by how and what we look for things. This is summarized on page 183 that says “The brain and the ey may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye see, but in return the ey has agreed to look for what the brain wants.” The relationship between wealth and happiness is also very interesting. On page 239, it says “Economists and psychologists have spent decades studying the relation between wealth and happiness, and they have generally concluded that wealth increases human happiness when it lifts people out of abject poverty and into the middle class but that it does little to increase happiness thereafter. Americans who earn $50,000 per year are much happier than those who earn $10,000 per year, but Americans who earn $5 million per year are not much happier than those who earn $100,000 per year.” This is the concept of declining marginal utility of money. When you have none, it makes you happy to have some. But once you have enough, any additional amounts will give you a less and less return on happiness. To hear more from Daniel Gilbert, watch this video. |
Daniel Gilbert, author of the book Stumbling on Happiness