Author Archive for Jhay Rocas

Biology student, tech and blog enthusiast. An anime addict!

On memory, addiction and blood tests

Jul 20 2007

Posted by Jhay as Featured Articles, Health Features

A glimmer of hope for curing addiction, epilepsy, and memory diseases have surfaced thanks to research by the Johns Hopkins researchers. They have discovered a new biochemical mechanism for memory storage, one that may have a connection with addictive behavior. Previously, the long-term changes in connection were thought to only involve a fast form of electrical signaling in the brain, electrical blips lasting about one-hundredth of a second. Now, neuroscience professor David Linden, Ph.D., and his colleagues have shown another, much slower form of electrical signaling lasting about a second can also be persistently changed by experience. They simulated natural brain activity ...

Doctor Robot is In

Jul 16 2007

Posted by Jhay as Health Features

We all know about how science and technology fuels the advancement of medicine and health services. We started out with mundane herbal medications during our forefathers' times to today's advanced genetic engineering that is opening up new opportunities to cure HIV/AIDS, cancer, aging and birth defects and so on. That's the biochemical aspect though, mechanically, medical technology has made huge advances too over this past decades. Robotics, engineering and medicine has combined to produce today what was once in the imaginations, drawing boards, fictional literature and art; robotic doctors. A very good sample can be found today at Baltimore's Sinai Hospital, ...

First global warming, now health care

Jun 25 2007

Posted by Jhay as Featured Articles, Health Features

Another film, not by Hollywood, has been generating buzz in today's times. Probably picking up from where Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth", Michael Moore's "Sicko" puts into the spotlight another issue that affects everyone; health care. healthcare

Impeccable timing for Moore especially now that the political climate of the US has shifted towards the coming Presidential elections in 2008, Moore has once again pulled a fast one. Some are saying that the issue about the war in Iraq is old-news, global warming and now health care issues are now at the tips of the electorates' tongues and so ...

Condoms, strechting, weight loss and heart disease

Jun 20 2007

Posted by Jhay as Featured Articles, Health Features

It's time to give to give out some link loves to health bloggers and to provide you our dear readers of what's the latest health buzz in the world wide web. First up, an interesting commentary by Jill Filipovic on the Huffington Post about a condom ad by Trojan, telling us men to evolve! The ad itself though funny really focuses on the lusty, slutty (pardon the term) side of the oldest game in the planet; sex. Wish they brought back those HIV/AIDS-awareness + condom promotion ads shown in MTV back in 2000, that's what ads about contraceptives ...

Remember to eat your fruits and vegetables

Jun 02 2007

Posted by Jhay as Featured Articles, Health Features

Alright, most of us would enjoy a serving of fruit a day. A fruit salad, cocktail or even just picking one from the fridge whenever we feel the craving. As for vegetables, well it's a different story. Especially for the kids and even more so, if they have been raised in the world of fast food. The movie "Super Size Me" was no laughing matter. Experts say America is getting fat, too fat now that we have to do something about it. That perhaps explains why the contestants at the recently concluded Miss Universe pageant were so slim and ...

Of memory, mice and chocolates

May 31 2007

Posted by Jhay as Featured Articles, Health Features, Lifestyle Features, Lifestyle and Leisure

Here's another good reason to enjoy chocolate, even if you're resisting it's delicious charm due to your weight loss or management program. It has a substance, a compound to be exact, that according to recent scientific studies help improve memory - of mice at the very least.

"This finding is an important advance because it identifies a single natural chemical with memory-enhancing effects, suggesting that it may be possible to optimize brain function by combining exercise and dietary supplementation," says Mark Mattson, PhD, at the National Institute on Aging. However there is a condition that ...

An Apple Today Roundup: Nemo talks and cure for baldness

May 18 2007

Posted by Jhay as Lifestyle Features

Another weekend has swung by and we here at Froodee wish you all our dear readers a lovely weekend. To wrap up the week, today will be the first roundup of tech, science and other geeky stuff that's been causing the buzz around the world wide web this past week. First up, Cosmos has a piece about Nemo, not the animated film but the real fish upon its main character has been based on, the clown fish or Amphiprion clarkii, scientists have found out what mechanism in the fish's anatomy creates its "chirps" and "pops" which are the sounds it produces ...

Sesame Classics: 10 Health Commandments

May 14 2007

Posted by Jhay as Health Features, Lifestyle Features

Good TV is hard to find these days. Good TV for kids I mean, and probably grownups too since there is "inner child among each of us." An Apple Today found a classic video about good TV and good health. It's a clip from that classical TV for kids show "Sesame Street" highlighting to kids the 10 Commandments for good health. 1) Wash your hands before you eat. This simple yet often neglected health tip still proves to be one of the best ways of fending off sickness and ...

Introducing: An Apple Today

May 10 2007

Posted by Jhay as Health Features, Lifestyle Features

Greetings everyone! I'm Jhay Rocas, one of the new writers/editors for Froodee. It's so nice to be able to publish my very first post here but I'm sure you've already enjoyed the earlier goodies brought to you by my fellow Froodee bloggers. That earlier piece about a Paris Hilton-inspired sculpture in particular was a good one. Today however, I'd like to introduce you to a new feature column of Froodee, and it's all about health. Yup, living in today's Web 2.0 world is not all worth it if your friends, fellow bloggers, clients and YouTube channel followers would see you ...

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Daryl of Dunder Mifflin

This news is a little sad for me because I am a huge fan of the TV sitcom “The Office”. I’ve been following this show for the past two years and have really admired all the characters. One of my personal favorites was Daryl, the Dunder Mifflin warehouseman whom Michael (the boss) always always try [...]

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Business and Money

Who Moved My Cheese: The Cliff’s Notes! (Part 2)

This post is a continuation of my Cliff’s Notes for Who Moved My Cheese, the book by Spencer Johnson, M.D. (also the Author of The One Minute Manager). Hope you enjoy my annotations of the rest of the principles!

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Lifestyle and Leisure

Your Carbon Footprint

What is your carbon footprint? Hmm… ok, let’s start over… What is a carbon footprint?
A carbon footprint is a “measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide“.
Here’s a nifty tool from ivillage.com, an online calculator to measure carbon footprints. I think this is [...]

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Entertainment

Virtual Tennis

I just got myself a PSP slim today. What fun! I already have one PSP and the reason for this purchase was to try out the player vs. player mode of Sega’s Virtual Tennis. I could tell you we played for hours! While walking in the mall, at home in the living room, and [...]

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Travel

Biking through Amsterdam

It’s not only China that’s going bike crazy, Amsterdam is following the craze with bike rentals by the thousands. If you’re heading the windmill country you may want to consider breezing through the many wonders this city has to offer by riding one of them bicycles.
CNN travel correspondent Rick Steves has written a good [...]

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Family Life

Hit your molars, please!

We all remember how good ‘ol mom would always remind us to “brush your teeth before going to bed, dear”, or “use toothpaste for heaven’s sake” or “would you please brush your molars too?”. It was good for mom to do that, if they didn’t I think half the world (or even more) would be [...]

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From the Editor

One win over the paparazzi

Actress Sienna Miller has won a case against a paparazzi photo published in the Daily Star. This photo was taken when she was waiting for an elevator in an LA building. The court ruled that Ms. Miller was clearly harassed and so therefore has decided in favor of Ms. Miller, this decision after viewing a [...]

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