When Is An Item In The Store Healthy, Green Or Socially Responsible

You’re in the grocery store and have several choices you can make on an item you need. So, how can you decide which is healthier, greener or manufactured socially responsibly? Well, there’s a free app for that. It works on an android and iphone. It will give you instant information about which household products are, or are not, healthy, green or socially responsible. All you need to do is scan the barcode with your phone and you’ll see ratings on 120,000 times. To get the app, go to your app store and search for Goodguide.

Another website that can assist you in learning what’s a good food product to buy can be found at www.prevention.com/cleanfood2013. You can search by meal, food category, certified organic gluten-free, and more. This site’s criteria for inclusion are:
No GMO ingredients
No more than 10 grams of added sugar
Less than 200 mg of sodium per serving (400 mg for meals)
BPA-free cans
Sustainable seafood
and even delicious is included in the requirements!

Learn To Play A Piano with Technology Help

How would you like to learn how to play a piano while watching a TV show? Well, its looking like it can be done.
A computer scientist at Georgia Tech co-invented the Mobile Music Touch device. The person wears a fingerless glove that is connected via Bluetooth to a laptop or cell phone that plays a song.
The computer program converts the musical notes to vibrations and stimulates the fingers to move to hit the right keys in the right order.
Participants in the study were able to learn the first 45 notes of Amazing Grace in half an hour while studying. The students scored the same on their exam as the students who studied regularly.
The researcher even has used the device to help a people with spinal cord injuries that require repetitive motion therapy to regain movement. He wired up quadriplegics and found that the MMT boosted had sensation and agility.
The researcher thinks that MMT works because it stimulates nerves in the hand that causes the brain to devote more neurons to explaining the sensations.

(Reported Discover Dec, 2012)

Understanding The Impact OF Electronic Pollution

We are being exposed to more and more radio-frequency radiation and high frequency transmissions from cell phones, transmission towers, terrestrial antennas, Wi-Fi and Wi-Max telecommunication systems, broadband connections being sent over power lines and our own personal electronic equipment.

Is there a way to turn the clock back to see the difference now versus years ago in the impact of this electronic pollution?

Well, there is. Dr. Samuel Milham has found that Old-Order Amish people, who don’t use electricity, had lower rates of diabetes, heart disease, suicide and cancer.

They also have uncommonly low levels of neurodegenerative disease and not one case of ADHD.

Working At A Computer Causing You Eye Strain?

With all the time we are spending at computers, iPads, iPhones, Androids and e-readers, more of us are getting eye fatigue and eye strain.

While there may not be any long-term damage from long hours looking at screens, it can hurt and be bothersome to have eye fatigue and headaches.

Gamers seem to have found an answer. It’s wearing yellow-tinted glasses which cut down on glare and general fatigue. So…yellow eye glasses here I come.