Life & Style

As I entered the diner and quickly surveyed about sixteen men, most over the age of sixty, conversing as they ate breakfast, I immediately assumed that the interview was going to begin at introductions and end with the men disclosing that there wasn’t much to say about sex after sixty except how they fantasize about all the things they could have done in their earlier years with the half naked woman in the television commercial.  But within the first two minutes, the truths were coming at me faster than my brain could process them.  Finishing off the last of his breakfast, sixty-eight year old Brent started off by divulging that he is just as much interested in sex now as he was in his former years, the difference now being he is not always  physically capable of acting on those interests and he is  just fine with that. Between the medications he takes and the decrease in stamina he once had, the desire to have abundant sex has diminished.

He cheated, but she doesn’t leave him. Yet, in relationships where the woman cheats, the relationship often ends in divorce. Why do some women choose to stay with their wandering mate?

Wouldn’t it be nice to know if and when you’re being lied to? Unfortunately most humans aren’t very good at detecting lies. Our natural tendency is to trust others. But while it would be unrealistic to analyze every single conversation and interaction for signs of deception, there are times when it really is important to get the straight story.

As the childhood obesity epidemic continues in the United States, more kids are developing an array of heart risk factors linked to obesity known as the “metabolic syndrome.”

Now, a study suggests that these obesity-linked changes may be affecting kids’ minds as well as their bodies.

The study of 110 American teenagers found those with metabolic syndrome — a combination of obesity, pre-diabetes, high blood pressure, high triglycerides and low levels of good HDL cholesterol — scored lower on math and spelling tests and shorter attention spans than their metabolically healthier classmates. They also had smaller hippocampi — brain areas involved in learning and memory — according to brain imaging.