Breakthroughs Today

If you think depression just comes to adolescents without reason at all, think about. Any reason might do. Read on to find out. BRITISH rowing athlete Penelope Sweet once said: “Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts.” At times, though, the hurts do not have last a lifetime. Among adolescents, depression comes as a natural part of growing up. That’s what Colleen Conley and Karen Rudolph found out in their recent study, published in Developmental Psychopathology and available online on Jan. 1. Conley teaches at the Loyola University Chicago Department of Psychology while Rudolph at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Campaign). Adolescence comes as a period of multiple... ( Read more. ) This article appears in Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on 23 June 2010.

Like any social destination, the bar can attract patrons based on motives that generally reflects how it is generally perceived by consumers. Find out what motives are these. ERNEST Hemingway wrote in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940): “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.” Each different man or woman has his or her own reason for visiting, even patronizing, a bar or two. Recently, though, eight different focus groups, consisting of 82 individual each including bar patrons and bartenders, identified four clusters of motivations that people have in frequenting bars. ( Read more. ) This article appears in Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on 16 June 2010.

If you think that obesity is only in the genes, think again when you see that it is in the family with genetics out of the consideration. Television writer Gene Perret once said: “Like good wine, marriage gets better with age.” A recent study adds, though, marriage gets the couple obese together. But even unmarried cohabiting partners, too, have not been spared, noted lead researcher and nutritionist Natalie The, on what we may as well call “cohabitational obesity.” ( Read more. ) This article appears in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 09 June 2010.

“I RECKON being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better,” wrote Samuel Butler in The Way of All Flesh (1903). The term “antioxidant” was originally used in the 18th century to refer to a chemical that prevents the consumption of oxygen in laboratory experiments. However, in the late 19th and early 20th century, extensive study exploded... ( Read more ) This article appeared in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 02 June 2010.