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Thinking about starting a new diet? Think about your brain first! Maggie Greenwood Robinson's book "20 / 20 Thinking," released in 2003, indicates that weight-loss diets can impact your brain negatively. Dieting can disrupt synthesis of neurotransmitters, alter brain chemistry, decrease intelligence, and trigger mental processing problems.

According to the author it is important to avoid all crash diets (e.g., caloric intake less than 1000 calories per day, rapid weight-loss diets).

Check out my latest article on this topic: "The Diet Trap and How to Escape!"

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Ireland Update

Join me in Ireland this coming July. Request a brochure by e-mail or snail mail. There is still time to register!

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Seminars

March 20, 2004--Kansas City, Missouri. Saturday Women's Conference. I'll be presenting one of my favorite topics: "Affirmation - Programming Language of the Brain." Host is Roxy Hoehn. E-mail: rohoehn@Ucollege.edu

April 22, 2004--Pacific Union College, Angwin, California. At 10 o'clock on Thursday morning I'll be explaining why, based on brain function research, there is a huge difference between having learned to do something well and doing it easily. Hosts are Carol Williams and Joan Hughson.

April 23, 2004--Dallas, Texas. Chaplaincy Ministries annual convention. My topic is: "What Patients Wish their Chaplains Knew about the Brain." Host is Marty Feldbush.

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Brain Alumni Program

April 30-May 1, 2004 are the dates for the third "Brain Alumni Program" to be held at the St. Helena Center for Health in the Napa Valley of California.

Topics include: Addictive Behaviors--the Bottom Lines, Handling Your Habits Successfully, Cellular Memory, and Laugh and Last.

Sign up early as the program is limited to the first 30 alumni who register.

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Site Map

Several individuals have asked about the purpose of the site map, whose link is located in the lower left portion of the home page. It is designed to provide the big picture in a relatively small amount of space; links for the entire website will pop up in table format. You can click on the specific page you want to access and go directly to it.

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Selected References

My webmaster has prepared the latest additions to Selected References using Adobe Reader for increased ease of accessing. Pick a topic that interests you. Buy, beg, or borrow some of the books and learn more about the brain while you age-proof yours with 30 minutes per day of challenging mental exercise.

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Brain Benders

More stimulation for your cerebral neurons!

Solutions for Jan/Feb Brain Benders:

1) Search high and low
2) Turkey in the oven

News Note

A fascinating book by Allan and Barbara Pease, "Why Men Don't Listen & Women Can't Read Maps," originally released in Australia, is now available in the United States.

Chapter eight summarizes research related to the neurobiology of sexual preference, including the odds of a child being born gay, lesbian, or transsexual. It also discusses the gay gene and reports on studies that show that homosexuality runs in families.

Chapter nine includes comments about the brain's sex center and discusses a variety of gender differences. Written in nontechnical language, this is a book I recommend highly.

Do yourself a favor and get up-to-date with this information.

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Point to Ponder

"Let us love winter for it is the spring of genius." -- Pietro Aretino

Whenever I think of these words, attributed to an Italian poet and painter, I see in my mind's eye a glimpse of half dome, dusted with snow and picking up strands of pink and gold from the sky above Yosemite Valley. I see its reflection in the water that is breaking up from the long winter's ice. I see spring, the first buds of new life. It also reminds me of the winter of our discontent as we put one foot in front of another plodding through adaption. How rewarding to be moving into spring, to be sprouting the first buds of new life as we live our own innate giftedness, our unique genius!

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