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Diet Counseling When I began researching diet counseling, I discovered the usual kinds of research, which evaluated the benefit of face to face educational interventions for reducing heart disease and/or stroke for example. Learning Plasticity The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves."--Marvin L. Minsky (from Society of the Mind, 1986) Aging Wellness Did you know you grow new brain cells every day? More on that further down. Did you know that you could enhance your brain's capacity to grow those new neurons? Codependency Treatment My favorite codependency treatment self help tools involve biofeedback, brain fitness, sound and light, education, and reading. Increase Mind Power To increase mind power, that is the question, to paraphrase the bard, and that phrase can mean so many different things to so many diffe What Happens In Brain Training Programs Anyway? According to Evans and Burghardt, our brains are constantly engaging in an internal recalibration. Our brains use about 20% of our bodies daily fuel requirement, and in an attempt to use it wisely, our brains are constantly building and dismantling circuits inside our heads, the circuits being neurons that fire together when a certain task is undertaken. How Do Brain Fitness Exercises Work? It turns out that brain fitness exercises work in at least three ways, depending on the kind of exercise we are doing, a thinking exercise or a physical exercise, or a computerized training.