Losing weight is a boost to the brain

Losing weight is not only good for the waistline, it is good for the brain. Scientists say substantial weight loss improves cognitive functions like memory and concentration. Researchers carried out tests on 150 volunteers, all weighing over 21 stone, and compared them with results from healthy people.

In some tests, including memory exams, almost a quarter of the overweight participants scored low enough to be considered learning disabled. Many of them had additional health problems, such as high blood pressure, type two diabetes and sleep apnea. After the initial round of testing, two-thirds of the volunteers had gastric bypass surgery to reduce the size of the stomach and lost an average of about 3st 8lbs.

After 12 weeks, they all took the tests again and the group that lost weight boosted their scores, particularly those involving memory, significantly. They also showed great improvement in organisational skills. The 41 obese volunteers who declined the surgery ended up with even worse results. Professor John Gunstad, of Kent State University, Ohio, said the research showed obesity can damage the brain, ‘especially the parts most important for paying attention and learning new things’.

In the study the researchers also used magnetic resonance imaging to see inside their subjects’ brains. The obese subjects tended to have damage to a particular substance that surrounds and insulates nerve fibres in the brain, suggesting that substance is needed for optimal cognitive function.

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Six tips on how to fight and stay in love

By Merrie Leininger

No matter how good your relationship is, everyone fights at some point. Laurie Puhn, author of "Fight Less, Love More: 5-Minute Conversations to Change Your Relationship Without Blowing up or Giving in," shares six tips with Brides magazine how to give up the drama and settle your issues.

Take a seat. The physical act of sitting will also bring down the heightened emotions. Ask questions. Don't jump to conclusions, and don't assume you understand what's behind his actions. Ask questions in a noncombative tone, like "Why do you think this happened?" or "Can you explain that again?"

Don't namecall. It's OK to be mad, but not to be mean. If you want a respectful conversation, you have to first listen to him with respect.

Find a solution together. Don't just argue – in order to stop a pattern, you have to talk about the root of the problem and make a plan for the future. If he's mad because you have shared information he'd like to keep between the two of you, have him explain what he considers private, and make a promise to keep those topics private in the future.

Go to bed angry. You can't be logical if you are circling the same argument at 2 in the morning. If you haven't arrived at a solution by bedtime, agree to leave the disagreement until the morning. Odds are, you'll wake up in a better frame of mind.

Leave the past in the past. Don't rehash unresolved issues in the middle of a new argument. Settle the current problem first, then go back and work on other issues.

How To Treat Burns

Use egg white.

A simple but effective  way to treat burns with the help of egg white. This method is used in the training of firemen. When sustaining a burn, regardless the degree, the first aid is always placing thei njured part under running cold water till the heat subsides. And next spread the egg white over the injury. Put as many layer as you can until you see white layer on the burns.

How to slipstream SATA drivers in HP Mini 110-3000

I am going to teach on how to slipstream using nLite program. Usually this happens when your Windows XP CD does not have any SATA driver in it. When try booting from the CD, the setup doesnt detect the SATA harddisk. Sometimes blue screen will come out when the CD is starting the Windows.

First download the N-Lite software. Then download the SATA driver. In my case i am installing Windows XP in HP Mini 110-3000 which needs a recognize SATA driver for Intel. Download here. After finish installing N-Lite, create a folder and copy all files in your Windows XP CD into the folder.

Run N-Lite program.

Click Next and it will ask you the Windows XP files. Select the folder contain the XP files from CD.

After selecting the folder, it will scan your type XP version example Service Pack and etc.

Just click Next.

In this case i select Drivers and Bootable ISO(which later i can burn the image onto CD).

Click Insert to select the SATA driver to slipstream. I prefer select Multiple Driver folder.

In above step, click the button Make ISO. It will prompt you where to save the ISO file.

Wait until the process finished and click next. Now you can burn the ISO file and boot from your newly created CD.