First Friday Five

Several readers have been writing me to request for my recommendations for health and medical websites. I have been planning to put every great website I found so far, but I think doing so in one shotgun affair would probably overwhelm you. So I thought of making every Friday a day when I will post not only the coolest sites I found about health and medicine, but other websites that are also worth your while and will inspire you to learn something new.

For this Friday, here are my top 5 recommendations:

1. 29 HEALTHIEST FOODS ON EARTH - if you can make it a habit to include 1 or 2 servings of any of these daily, then you can be confident that you are making a conscious effort to be on the healthier side of eating.



2. TEN NUTRITION MYTHS - does skipping meals help you lose weight? Is brown sugar better than white sugar? Find out and learn from this website.
   
   
3. BREATHING EARTH - find out how our planet breathes. Interesting country numbers on life and death, too. In the Philippines, for example, 1 person dies every 1.2 minutes.



4. LEARN JAPANESE - learning a new language makes our brains sharper.



5. CHALLENGE YOUR SENSES - how sharp are your 5 senses? This short quiz will tell you how sharp your senses are. Includes explanations. I think I was lucky to score 19 out of 20 because I did this after a soothing catnap. Tell me what score you got, ok?

I wish everyone a happy, peaceful weekend. Stay healthy!