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Fat Head

Did you know the healthy human brain is more than 60% fat?

bhealth_protecting_brainplu It’s true. Luckily, you can help make sure that your child’s brain is composed of the good fats.

bhealth_protecting_sleep It’s a time-honored tradition: kids beg and plead to stay up for a few extra minutes while parents try just about anything to get them to sleep. So, can it hurt to let them stay awake a little later? Actually, yes. "Even minor changes in sleep...can impair a school kid's learning, memory, attention, concentration," says researcher Avi Sadeh, DSc, director of the Laboratory for Children's Sleep and Arousal Disorders at Tel Aviv University.²

To Cram or Not to Cram, That is the Question

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Staying up until 4 A.M. to cram for that test you should’ve been studying for days ago is almost a rite of passage for high school and college students. But new evidence shows that sleep may be as important as study. "…(Research) suggests that if you reviewed your notes thoroughly until you were tired and then slept, you'd achieve as much learning as if you'd pulled an all-nighter repeating your review of the material,"

Sleep on It

You’ve heard the phrase “Sleep on it”?

While we sleep – especially during the REM (rapid eye movement) phase – our brain processes information it took in during the day but couldn’t crunch at the time.

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To Cram or Not to Cram, That is the Question

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