Mission: The Valley Women’s Club is dedicated to community action, awareness and leadership in environmental, educational, social, and political concerns that affect the health and welfare of the San Lorenzo Valley and our community.
Mission: The Valley Women’s Club is dedicated to community action, awareness and leadership in environmental, educational, social, and political concerns that affect the health and welfare of the San Lorenzo Valley and our community.
Health & SafetyWinter 2010 –2011 Check Out Preventing Child Obesity on TEDUnique Online Site Offers Discussions on Hundreds of Topics You can go online to TED, and be engrossed for hundreds of hours by presentations on hundreds of topics by experts. One in particular should be watched by every parent, every educator, every nutrition-conscious person. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jamie_oliver.html Forgetful? May Not Be Aging!Research in the 1990's, intended to gauge how deeply the hormone changes of menopause disrupt women's memory, instead proved that women's forgetfulness was "a function of depression, stress and 'role overload' – the multi-tasking of many roles at once." (Peter M. Meyer, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago) More recent research supports the idea that multi-tasking, by both men and women, causes stress and even the death of brain cells in the hypocampus – an area critical to the formation of new memories. Damage there can "hobble a person's ability to learn and retain new facts and skills." (Dr. Jordan Grafman, neuropsychologist, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health) Think about it.
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