Boost Your Brain Power

Brain is the most important of our body. Without the brain we can not do anything. So, you must take care your brain correctly.
Here, some tips to boost your brain power.

1. Keep your weight, cholesterol and blood pressure under control by eating nutritious, low-fat foods.

2. Include plenty of whole grains, fruits and vegetables in your diet.

3. Skip saturated fats.

4. Include omega-3 fatty acids in your diet, such as by eating fatty fish.

5. Ask your doctor if you should take any supplements.

may these tip are useful for us and another people in the world.

How to Keep Nail Polish From Separating

A popular beauty myth is that storing your nail polish in the refrigerator will allow it to keep longer and prevent discoloration. In fact, putting nail polish in the refrigerator can actually cause it to thicken and separate faster. There are a few methods you can use when storing your nail polish that will keep it from becoming thick and separating. When nail polish has separated, it will have a layer of oil on the top. If you do end up with separated nail polish, there is a way to fix it.

Things You'll Need
    Nail polish
    Nail polish thinner

 Prevention

• Store your nail polish in a cool, dry place. A medicine cabinet or makeup box is an excellent location. Placing your nail polish on a surface where heat or sunlight can reach it will cause separation.

• Store your bottles of nail polish upright. This may seem obvious, but if a nail polish bottle falls over, set it back up right away. It will keep the ingredients properly layered and prevent separation.

• Invest in quality nail polish. Cheap nail polish is more likely to separate and is harder to fix. More expensive nail polish will be a better investment in the long run, and it stores well.

Fix

• Open the nail polish and check that it has separated. If the nail polish is stringy, it can’t be salvaged and needs to be thrown away.

• Add two to three drops of nail polish thinner to the nail polish, and place the lid back on.

• Roll the bottle of nail polish between your hands to pick the thinner. When you open the bottle, the polish should have mixed back together. If not, add another drop or two of thinner and repeat this step.

Kentucky is 43rd among the states in health rankings report

Kentucky is near the bottom of the list in a ranking that determines which states are the healthiest. It came in 43rd, up from 44th last year.

Kentucky's low ranking is attributed to its unusually high numbers of people who smoke, are obese, die of cancer and are hospitalized for preventable reasons, according to America's Health Rankings, funded by the United Health Foundation.

"As it has for the last decade, Mississippi was ranked 50th on this year's list, which was topped by Vermont at No. 1," Louisville's Business First reports.

"Kentucky's rank of 43rd is a reminder that, while are making progress, as Kentuckians we still have much to do to keep ill health from holding us down," said Susan Zepeda, president/CEO of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. "The good news is there are many concerned civic leaders working to reduce rates of smoking and obesity in the state and keep young people from starting to smoke."

Highlights of the report show:

• While smoking has decreased from 30.5 percent to 24.8 percent of Kentucky adults in the past 10 years, 822,000 still smoke. Recently, Kentucky ranked 36th in the nation for its smoking cessation efforts.

• Almost 1.1 million Kentuckians are obese, 353,000 more than 10 years ago.

• Diabetes decreased from 11.5 percent to 10 percent of the populations in the past year, but there are still 322,000 adults in Kentucky with diabetes.

• In the past five years, the percentage of people without health insurance increased from 13 percent to 15.4 percent.

• In the past 10 years, the percentage of children living in poverty increased from 15.2 percent to 24.7 percent.

As for the entire country, overall health has not improved this year over 2010. "Between 1990 and 2000, the overall health of the nation ... improved by an average of 1.6 percent each year. After 2000, however, the upward trend slowed to 0.5 percent annually," until this year, Health.com reports.

"Physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco: If we could get people focused on those three, we could take a huge bite out of the chronic-disease epidemic," said Georges Benjamin, the executive director of American Public Health Association. "This is not an infinite list of things that people have to address."

America's Health Rankings has been assessing health data for the past 22 years, making it the longest-running health assessment report in the country. For its methodology, researchers look at four groups of health determinants: behaviors, such as smoking and obesity rates; community and environment, such as children living in poverty, violent crime and infectious disease; public and health policies, such as lack of health insurance and public health funding; and clinic care, such as prenatal care, the number of primary care physician and preventable hospitalization rates.

Each of these four determinants are intimately connected with one other, researchers contend. "For example, an initiative that addresses tobacco cessation requires not only efforts on the part of the individual but also support from the community in the form of public and health policies that promote non-smoking and the availability of effective counseling and care at clinics," the report reads.

Data sources include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; American Medical Association; Federal Bureau of Investigation; U.S. Census Bureau; and National Center for Health Statistics.

Number of sleep-disorder facilities growing as Kentuckians admit they're tired

The number of sleep-disorder facilities in Kentucky doubled from 25 to 52 in the past 10 years, part of a nationwide trend to help the 70 million Americans who have trouble getting some shuteye.

"Demand growth is a result of more physicians being better educated to recognize sleep deprivation symptoms as well as the public having more and better access to information and advertising that focuses on it," reports Anne Charles Doolin in an in-depth piece for The Lane Report. "Changes in insurance reimbursement also is playing a major part in the accredited facility surge."

Estimates show Americans suffer from more than 80 kinds of sleep disorders, though 85 percent of people are undiagnosed. "When we look at the most common sleep disorder, sleep apnea, we have evidence that demonstrates 25 percent of men are at risk and 9 percent of women are at risk," said Kathryn Hansen, executive director of the Kentucky Sleep Society.

In general, people don't think sleep problems can be fixed. "A typical patient is a male, in his 50s, slightly overweight," said Dr. Pam Combs, a cardiologist who has been studying sleep issues since the 1990s. "They don't think about sleep problems as the problem. They just think they're getting old and tired."

But not getting a good night's rest "is associated with a myriad of health conditions, and mental health conditions, and it undoubtedly affects productivity," said Dr. Ryan Wetzler, a clinical psychologist at Louisville's Sleep Medicine Specialists. "When you get a patient who has taken two hours to go to sleep for years or even decades, getting maybe four hours of sleep a night, and then with treatment they fall asleep quickly and get seven hours a night, it's a huge difference."

"Addressing the problem means less illness, less missed work and more productivity," said neurologist James M. Thompson. It's also less costly. Sleep disorders, sleep deprivation and sleepiness add up to about $15.9 billion to the national health care bill, the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research has found. "Other costs to society for related health problems, lost worker productivity and accidents can't be calculated, but educated guesses begin at 10 times NCSDR's health care cost tally," Doolin reports.

The assessment of sleep disorders has become more widely accepted as a field of study, with a recognized board exam, formal training programs and journals, said Dr. Barbara Phillips, director of the Sleep Center at the University of Kentucky Good Samaritan Hospital. But not all changes have been positive, with some fly-by-night "apnea mills" popping up "where the focus is on lucrative testing, and actual patient care and follow-up get shortchanged," Phillips said. (Read more)

Passport to lose exclusive contract for Louisville-area Medicaid at end of 2012; more choice needed, federal agency says

The exclusive contract the state has with Passport Health Plan, which provides Medicaid coverage for 170,000 people in Jefferson and 16 neighboring counties, has been extended until the end of next year. But after that, the state must adopt a different "delivery model that ensures adequate choice for Medicaid beneficiaries" in that area, a letter from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reads.

Since 1997, Passport has exclusively provided coverage for that population, reports Tom Loftus of The Courier-Journal. Gov. Steve Beshear said Tuesday the state will start looking at alternatives for how to provide choice for the area. In the rest of Kentucky, Medicaid recipients can choose from three managed care organizations.

Sen. Julie Denton, R-Louisville, said she is "very concerned" about the major changes that will be involved. "We don't know what's going to happen," she said.

A year ago, Passport received a scathing report from state auditor Crit Luallen, who found wasteful spending "and said it had improperly transferred millions of its reserves to the health care provider organizations represented on its board," Loftus reports. After an investigation by Attorney General Jack Conway, those providers paid $26.4 million to pay for the transfers. (Read more)

Nicki Minaj in Opening Ceremony Margot Wedge Sandal

Nicki Minaj was spotted out in Miami, Florida wearing a pair of Opening Ceremony Margot wedge sandals ($730). These orange leopard print and patent leather platform sandals feature a lace-up front, open-toe, open heel, and a high wedge heel.

Michelle Obama Wears Vera Wang's Sapphire Chiffon Gown

(AFP OUT) First lady Michelle Obama and U.S. President Barack Obama arrive for a Kennedy Center Honors reception in the East Room of the White House on December 4, 2011in Washington, DC. For their accomplishments and contributions to the arts actress Meryl Streep, singer Neil Diamond, actress Barbara Cook, musician Yo-Yo Ma, and musician Sonny Rollins where etched recognized as this year's recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors.