Scientists don’t understand why taking a sugar pill instead of the "real thing" will sometimes cure a disease, but they’re beginning to figure it out. New evidence indicates that our immune system may have an on-off switch which is controlled by our MINDS. This could be one reason why your personality traits might make you more likely to get pain relief from a placebo: if you’re more of an angry, hostile type, they won’t do much for you.
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We’ve just finished Christmas–a holiday that tends to make us both giving AND greedy, so it’s interesting to note that "paying it forward"–a popular expression for extending generosity to others after someone has been generous to you –is a heartwarming concept, but what happens MOST OFTEN is that people repay greed with greed.
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The NOAA-supported Northeast Regional Climate Center is currently reviewing temperature data for 2012 from throughout the 12-state region, and researchers have discovered that for most major sites–including Washington, DC, Boston, Philadelphia and New York City–it was the hottest year ever recorded–something we tend to overlook when we’re in the midst of storms and blizzards.
Climatologist Samantha Borisoff says, "The year 2012 was the warmest year on record for 23 of the 35 major climate sites in the Northeast.
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Is one of your resolutions (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show) for 2013 to lose weight? If so, one of your main problems is probably sweets–why do we crave them, and what can we do about this? (NOTE: Anne Strieber’s diet book, now reduced to $3 from $5, has some good advice about this).
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