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Foods high in compounds such as antioxidants and omega-3 fatty acids can improve brain health and memory, experts say.
From fruit to fish, here are six things that, based on various studies, may perk up your gray matter.

Walnuts
They even look like little brains, so maybe that's Mother Nature's way of telling us what walnuts are good for.
Indeed, a 2009 study in the Journal of Nutrition found that diets in which nuts made up as little as 2 percent reversed signs of ...

One simple way to boost your health is to start putting that holiday nutcracker to good use: walnuts, both roasted and raw, are a top nut when it comes to protecting your heart, according to new research.
Reported in WebMD on Thursday, researchers from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, US, compared antioxidants called polyphenols in nine types of roasted and raw nuts. Using lab analysis, they also measured how effective the nuts' antioxidants are in regards to heart health.
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Do you always burn the garlic or turn pasta into a gummy mess? Learn how to avoid these all-too-common cooking mistakes.

Boiling Pasta in a Pot That's Too Small
Why it's bad: For starters, if you use long noodles, they might not fit unless you break them first. But regardless of the pasta's shape or size, it will probably end up sticky and gummy. "When you add pasta to a small amount of water, it lowers the temperature of the water substantially more than if you added it ...

Ever wanted to change yourself for the better, but didn't know how? Reinventing yourself to be a better person may be hard at first—after all, old habits (such as talking behind your friend's back) die hard. Plus, oftentimes when we fall off the wagon that is our New Year's resolutions, we feel it's useless to carry on.
But that doesn't mean we should give up. And what better time to try being the awesome young women we are supposed to be than this time of year? The trick to sticking with ...

Fed up with the same old weight-loss tips? These eight slim-down strategies may sound strange, but they’re all backed by solid science.

1. Eat with your non-dominant hand.

One intriguing new study offers a simple antidote to the mindless munching that often accompanies watching movies or TV: Just switch hands—and you’ll eat less.The researchers randomly handed moviegoers a bucket of fresh popcorn or “cold, wet, spongy week-old” popcorn. Those who said they usually

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You'll probably think this is a leak, but I assure you it is not. This is going to be my own prediction or guess on what the plot of Prometheus (yes, the up and coming "Alien-Prequel-that-is-not-a-prequel" movie) will be.

First, let's search for the meaning of the word:



(from Wikipedia)

In Greek mythology, Prometheus (Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, ...

It was probably in 1995 when internet was launched. Back then, most of us were very much acquainted with black and white screens while we struggle with Turbo Basic and Turbo Pascal. We were the baby boomers --kids born after the war, the same kids who were acquainted with Charles Babbage and got amazed with Bill Gates, even before Steve Jobs awed us with the invention of iPhone.

World wide web or (dabo-u.dabo-u.dabo-u) then made social networking sites available like hot pancakes. Messages ...