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By admin, September 5, 2009 9:58 pm

The gifted Dutch Post-Impressionist artist, Vincent van Gogh, had his life shattered by mental illness. Vincent van Gogh suffered from Bipolar I Disorder at a time in history when there was no treatment for this common disorder. Tragically, van Gogh died of suicide. Today, mental illnesses can be successfully treated; hence we can now prevent these tragic suicides. In memory of Vincent van Gogh, we display his art on this website.

Famous People Who Have Had Mental Illness

Hans Christian Anderson, Ludwig Von Beethoven, Winston Churchill, Kurt Cobain, Charles Darwin, Emily Dickenson, Thomas Edison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Betty Ford, Paul Gauguin, King George III, Johan Goethe, Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo, Ignatius of Loyola, Thomas Jefferson, John Keats, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther, Michelangelo, Florence Nightingale, King Saul, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Isaac Newton.

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Mental Illness Ranks Second In Terms of Causing Disability

“The burden of mental illness on health and productivity in the United States and throughout the world has long been profoundly underestimated. Data developed by the massive Global Burden of Disease study, conducted by the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and Harvard University, reveal that mental illness, including suicide, ranks second in the burden of disease in established market economies, such as the United States … Nearly two-thirds of all people with diagnosable mental disorders do not seek treatment … When people understand that mental disorders are not the result of moral failings or limited will power, but are legitimate illnesses that are responsive to specific treatments, much of the negative stereotyping may dissipate.” Mental Health: A Report from the Surgeon General

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By admin, September 4, 2009 8:17 pm

From the beginning of the First Sound Pro dead began to cry, tears of people grew up on the road has become an indispensable embellishment. Mental trauma, physical pain and other reasons would make you weep.

However, the crying will bring exactly what?

Evolutionary behavior

Tel Aviv University evolutionary biologist Oehlen • Hassan through the study concluded that: people to tears is actually declared himself to others to reduce the level of defense.

“Crying is a highly evolved behavior, my research shows that the tears blurring the line of sight, thereby reducing the level of defense, and in order to send ‘obedience’, ‘help’, ‘contact with each other’ or ‘collective cohesion’ and other signals,” fun Science web site 28 reports quoted the words of Hassan.

Hassan believes that tears in their eyes dim that it could impede other people against their attacks.

He said, tears can show their own vulnerability, and this “fragile” information is often very trust can be a closer distance with others “emotional strategy.”

The research results published in the latest issue of “evolutionary psychology” of the body.

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Italians love life, moreover love food. Italy’s geographic environment and historical background of the food give them the inherent capacity of cooking and taste.

 Once one of my friend said she wanted to travel in Italy mostly, because there are world-renowned cuisine. It is often said that people who love food must be love life.It seems that the people on the Italian peninsula should be very happy, full of passion for food and also have great deal of research for cooking.while Italy’s geographic environment and historical background also give them the inherent right food cooking and taste ability.

 The best spaghetti should be seven mature

I believe many people are beginning to understand from the Italian pasta, the Italians on their accomplishments in the fashion used in the spaghetti on creating various shapes, taste the rich colorful spaghetti in the world. Italy’s pasta with a variety of different shapes, spiral-shaped conchoidal and so on. Obsessive Italian restaurant owner who lived in Italy for nearly 20 years, opened the Italian restaurant from the beginning, he would insist on doing the tastes and practices of the Italian character, reportedly opened the first six months time, because many locals who can not accept the traditional seven mature Spaghetti resulting business is tepid, but “stubborn” and he is still loyal to the original decision of the Italian approach, doing hundred percent authentic Italian meal, and finally obtain the gradual recognition of consumers.
Salmon pasta: pasta tomato sauce inside their own making, sour sweet, and eat the tomato pulp. The taste is very delicious salmon inside. Pasta with the Italian tradition, seven mature Spaghetti chewing up great toughness.

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By admin, August 28, 2009 10:45 pm

Help to focus on the food:
Lobster is available to provide nutrition for the brain, delicious food.
Lobster contains three kinds of essential fatty acids to supply the necessary nutrients the human body, can make a person a long time to keep focused.
Onion can eliminate excessive stress and mental fatigue.
Onion can be diluted blood, thereby improving the brain oxygen supply. Eat a half a onion a day, it will play this role.
Walnut is a long time to deal with the need to focus on (for example, for reports, meetings, concerts, as well as long-distance driving) is the ideal food.
Help to inspire people to create the food:
Ginger make people open-minded, mainly ginger acquire it contains elements and volatile oil (oil-food) role. It enables the blood to be diluted, flow more freely supply more oxygen to the brain.
The frequent addition of ginger to the journalists, the artist is particularly important.
And Lan Qin able to arouse people’s inspiration. And Lan Qin contained in the volatile oil can stimulate the person’s entire nervous system, which is to generate innovative ideas premise.
Children’s roof to eat indiscriminantly snacks is a headache for parents a phenomenon, the partial eclipse will enable their children a balanced nutritional intake does not affect the growth and development of the child, the child’s intellectual development of a significant influence.
The following popular with children welcome to let their children eat snacks in particular.
Studies have shown that caffeine-containing beverages, Jiufu cola, coffee and other caffeinated beverages will interfere with people’s memory, but also can produce hyperactivity disorder.
Chewing gum chewing gum containing plasticizers, plasticizers metabolites of phenol on the nervous system and brain very influential, often chewing gum can cause children (baby food) mental decline.
Popcorn Popcorn is high lead content, the body excessive lead content of human brain cells and nervous system is enormous. Children to avoid eating popcorn.

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Our daily food, we decided a day of mental state. Some food is necessary to improve our ability to accept and work efficiency, so that our thinking is more agile, more set of energy increases.
Help to remember the food:
Apple (apple food) are rich in zinc, can enhance memory, promote active thinking. Carrot can improve the memory, because the carrot can speed up the brain’s metabolism.
Pineapple is the most popular actors and musicians of fruit (fruit food), because to recite lines, and musical notation, the need to add a lot of vitamin C.
In addition, pineapple contains an important trace elements (Trace Elements in food) manganese, and less heat.
Lipids are an important source of human body heat, but also the carrier of fat-soluble vitamins. Lipids, including fat and lipid. Fat contained in the supply of essential fatty acids can directly affect brain function;
Lipid lecithin contained in the human memory of much help. Therefore, multiple food containing lecithin (lecithin food) of food can significantly increase memory.
Help people to the cause of the success of food:
Pepper acquire the more the better. Its taste can stimulate the body’s hormones to succeed. Acquire pepper is best eaten raw.
Strawberry taste, but also can eliminate the tension. Strawberry Lane pectin gives people comfort and the best eating 150 grams of strawberries a day to achieve the desired results.
Banana’s secret weapon lies in containing serotonin, its success of the human brain produces consciousness is indispensable. In addition, the banana is rich in vitamins and potassium.
Can improve the learning efficiency of food:
Bananas can help create a chemical composition of the brain - serotonin, this substance can stimulate the nervous system, the promotion of brain function of good.
Chinese cabbage can reduce the anxiety of people, so that learning becomes easier (for example, before the exam).
Lemon make people full of energy, improving access to capacity (this is because the role of vitamin C).

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In our daily food, the main component of fat, sugar and proteins, etc., but these foods in the stomach is roughly the residence time: 1 hour carbohydrate, protein (protein food) for 2-3 hours, fat, 5 -6 hours.
When you eat fruits immediately after the meal, the slow digestion of starch, protein and fat will affect the digestion and fast fruit (fruit food), these things should be in the stomach to stay 12 hours or longer, followed by digestion (digested food) Liquid chemical reaction, decomposition before absorption into the small intestine, fruit blocked progress stagnated stomach, 104 degrees Fahrenheit below the temperature of corruption.
The main ingredient is fruit fructose, formed under high temperatures in the stomach and even corruption in response to changes in fermentation will produce alcohol and toxins, there flatulence, constipation (constipation, food) and other symptoms, giving a negative impact on the digestive tract. Caused by various diseases, including heartburn, indigestion, abdominal pain and so on.
Fruit also contains flavonoids compounds, if not in time to enter the small intestine digestion and absorption, has been blocked in the stomach after food by bacteria in the stomach into the role of two hydroxyl acid, while the intake of vegetables (vegetable food) contains a thiocyanate salt, in that under the action of two chemicals interfere with thyroid function, can lead to non-iodine goiter.
Fruit 4:00 Note:
1. Fruit, many components are water-soluble, and before meals to eat is conducive to the body’s absorption of essential nutrients.
2. Fruit is low-calorie food, the average calorie equivalent weight of pasta is only 1 / 4, the same pork meat about 1 / 10. Eat low-calorie food, it is easier to grasp a meal where the total calorie intake.
3. Many fruit itself is easily oxidized, corruption, eat fruit, it can be shortened length of stay in the stomach, reducing its oxidation, the level of corruption, to reduce potential adverse effects on the body.
4. While the children (children’s food) is the body in a long time, some women belonging to traditional Chinese medicine stresses the “Spleen Deficiency” physique, not appropriate or not suited to eat fruit before meals. This part of the crowd could eat in between meals once a fruit.

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