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The food-mood connection
You've heard the claims: Chocolate evokes that loving feeling. Eating fish makes you smarter. Pure carbs calm you down. If you are what you eat, as they say, then it certainly stands to reason that food can influence mood and brain power.
The theory...Tags: Depression, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Behavioral Conditions, Health and Medical Professionals, Science and Technology
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The 'contagion' of social networks
The old folk concept that our personal health behaviors rub off on those around us has received a staggering amount of scientific support of late. Over the last few years, study after study has shown that weight gain, drug and alcohol use, even loneliness...Tags: Depression, Education, Behavioral Conditions, Health and Medical Professionals, Obesity
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Gold Derby nuggets: EW covers 'The Social Network' | 'Tangled' unfurled | Anderson Cooper to daytime
Gold Derby• Dave Karger chats with the cast of "The Social Network" including this week's EW cover boys Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield as well as screenwriter Aaron Sorkin. In the print interview, Timberlake talks about his dormant music... -
Happy (early) birthday, Irving Blum!
Culture MonsterThis month, a gallery announcement landed in art-world mailboxes and inboxes with a bit more splash than usual. On one side of the folded card: a photograph of the storied art dealer Irving Blum posing on a boat called Ferus...... -
Theater review: 'La Victima' at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
Culture MonsterTo celebrate its 25th anniversary, L.A.’s Latino Theater Company has returned to its roots with a revival of its inaugural production, “La Victima.” Back in 1987, mainstream audiences had little notion of the devastation inflicted on the Mexican... -
Jazz review: Nels Cline and David Breskin's 'Dirty Baby' at LACMA
Culture Monster"Someone said these poems were sad," the rich-voiced David Breskin slowly said between recitations at LACMA's Bing Theater Thursday night. "It's not a Broadway musical," he added with a smile. No one in the crowd would have argued. Presented as...... -
Lost L.A.: Rancho Los Alamitos
It is August when spacious skies soar above amber waves of grain in fields stretching from sea to shining sea. It is the month of the fruited plains and purple mountain majesties that inspired Katharine Lee Bates to write her anthem, "America the...Tags: Natural Resources, Photography, Health, Family, Hospitals and Clinics
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Caught in the Web: Lakers preparing for FC Barcelona
Lakers Blog-- The Times' Mike Bresnahan reports on the response from Andrew Bynum to Phil Jackson's speculation about having Bynum be a "short-minute guy." Said Bynum: "I think everything will be all right. I just need to be healthy. I need to get back playing and... -
North Korea parties likes it's 1934
Top of the TicketKim Jong Il's country is ordered to have a grand time marking the 65th anniversary of the imposition of rule by his father's Worker's Party.... -
In Sunday books: A new anthology speaks volumes on black L.A.
When Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramn tell people that Los Angeles has the second largest black population of any U.S. county, the usual response is raised eyebrows and blank stares.
"They're shocked," says Hunt, a sociology professor and director of...Tags: Education, Slavery, University of California, Los Angeles, Social Issues, Minority Groups
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Gold Derby nuggets: 'Nowhere Boy' may be serious comedy contender at Golden Globes | Michael Caine gripes he ought to have more Oscars
Gold Derby• "Proving that its buzz wasn't short-lived, Facebook movie 'The Social Network' topped the box office for the second weekend in a row, with ticket sales down a small 31% from its debut at $15.5 million," reports the L.A. Times. That helps to sustain...
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