Author: John Ingram Walker, MD

Have parents who live a long time Exercise 60 minutes six times daily Have an optimistic personality = 55% lower risk of death Drink 3-5 ounces of red wine daily. 

A British woman planning to start a new life with her husband in New Zealand was banned from entering the country because she was too fat. According to a British

Mind-body research (psychoneuroimmunology) has show that negative thoughts produce stress hormones. Optimistic thoughts cause the release of endorphins and other beneficial brain chemicals causing good feelings. What we think determines

   Buckner Fanning, former pastor of a San Antonio mega-church, told about his daughter who worked for Child Protective Services:One night a disheveled five-year-old came to the shelter. The girl

Not all the things we want turn out to be good for us. Although some fulfilled wishes cause no harm, they may still interfere with our getting that which is

UCLA psychologist Jim Stigler gave American and Japanese elementary school students the same convoluted math problems to solve. The American kids struggled briefly with the problems and then gave up.

Here are some ideas for becoming smarter than our IQ: Know Thyself Knowing our internal states—our emotional strengths and weaknesses—can help us develop our talents while minimizing our defects. For

 My good friend, Bill Hendricks, MD, and I were discussing the blog on emotional intelligence. Bill said, “That was good stuff when it came out twenty years ago, but have

Daniel Goleman, a former brain sciences editor of The New York Times, has written a follow-up book to his enormously popular, Emotional Intelligence. The sequel, Working with Emotional Intelligence, is

We all know someone who scored a perfect 2400 on the SAT and flunked out of college by the second semester. That’s because success in college, and in life, has

Following a thunderous rain my granddaughter, Lori, and I left the house to play in the neighborhood creek. We put two matchbook boats side by side in the stream. We