In recent years, several studies have showed a link between pursuing activities that keep the mind engaged, such as crossword puzzles and memory games, and a lowered risk of cognitive decline later in life.

As the brain ages, a number of structural and functional changes occur, including atrophy, reductions in cell activity, and increases in deposits of amyloid plaques and tau tangles (both associated with Alzheimer's disease ), all of which can affect cognitive function.

Keeping your brain active could drive some of these brain chemistry signals in the opposite direction compared to where they go as dementia sets in, and now it looks like surfing the Web could be another way to do that. The new study, to be detailed in an upcoming issue of the journal American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, looked at the brain activity of 24 neurologically normal volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76 as they searched the Internet. Half of the participants had experience surfing the Web, while the others did not.

The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging scans to record subtle brain-circuitry changes in the patients as they performed Web searches and read book passages. fMRI scans track the intensity of cell responses in the brain by measuring the level of blood flow through the brain.

All the study participants showed significant brain activity during the book-reading task, specifically in the temporal, parietal and occipital lobes of the brain, which are involved in controlling language, reading, memory and visual abilities .

But Internet searches revealed differences between the two groups. While all the participants showed the same activity as during the book-reading, the Web-savvy group also registered activity in the frontal, temporal and cingulate areas of the brain, whereas those new to the net did not. (These areas of the brain control decision-making and complex reasoning.)

"Our most striking finding was that Internet searching appears to engage a greater extent of neural circuitry that is not activated during reading — but only in those with prior Internet experience," said study leader Gary Small of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.

Compared with reading, the wealth of choices on the Internet requires that people make decisions about what to click on, which engages important cognitive circuits in the brain.

"A simple, everyday task like searching the Web appears to enhance brain circuitry in older adults, demonstrating that our brains are sensitive and can continue to learn as we grow older," Small said. The work was funded by the Parvin Foundation.

With more time and experience, the group that was new to the Web could eventually show the same brain activation patterns as their more Internet-savvy peers.

The researchers noted that more research must be done to address both the positive and negative ways that new technologies might influence the aging brain.

the articles below is take directly from new-medical.net.

The rapidity of ejaculation in men is genetically determined. This is the result of research by Utrecht University. Neuropsychiatrist Dr Marcel Waldinger and Pharmacological Researcher Paddy Janssen studied 89 Dutch men with premature ejaculation and will publish the results this week in the renowned International scientific journal the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

The participants in the study by Waldinger and Janssen were 89 Dutch men who suffer from the primary form of premature ejaculation, in other words, men who always had this problem. A control group of 92 men was also studied. For a month the female partners used a stopwatch at home to measure the time until ejaculation each time they had intercourse. 'This study applies to men who have always ejaculated prematurely from their first sexual contact onwards and not for men who started suffering from this later on in life,' Waldinger emphasises.

Serotonin deficiency
In men who suffer from premature ejaculation, the substance serotonin appears to be less active between the nerves in the section of the brain that controls the ejaculation. Among other things, this substance is linked to sexual activity and appetite. It is a substance that transfers a signal from one neuron to another. Due to the low activity of serotonin, this signal transfer does not occur properly in men with the primary form of premature ejaculation.

Gene responsible
A gene which had already been discovered, namely 5-HTTLPR, appears to be responsible for the amount and activity of serotonin, which means that it controls the rapidity of ejaculation. Three types of the gene exist: LL, SL and SS. The study showed that the LL type causes a more rapid ejaculation. On average, men with LL ejaculate twice as quickly as men with SS, and also almost twice as quickly as men with SL. The researchers are currently also looking for other genes that are involved in ejaculation.

Not psychological
As long ago as 1998, researcher Marcel Waldinger predicted that both the rapidity with which men ejaculate and the primary form of premature ejaculation were genetically determined. 'This theory contradicts the idea, which has been common for years, that the primary form of premature ejaculation is a psychological disorder,' explains Waldinger. 'The results of our research confirm the genetic theory and may contribute to possible gene therapy against premature ejaculation.'

Article
P.K.C. Janssen, M.D. Waldinger and others. Serotonin Transporter Promoter Region (5-HTTLPR) Polymorphism is Associated with the Intravaginal Ejaculation Latency Time in Dutch Men with Lifelong Premature Ejaculation, Journal of Sexual Medicine, October 7, 2008, e-pub. Dr Marcel Waldinger is a neuropsychiatrist at the Leyenburg site of the HagaZiekenhuis in The Hague and is associate professor of Sexual Psychopharmacology at Utrecht University. Paddy Janssen is a pharmacological researcher at Utrecht University.

Things that we need to know. 

Melamine is an organic base and a trimer of cyanamide, with a 1,3,5-triazine skeleton. Like cyanamide, it contains 66% nitrogen by mass and, if mixed with resins, has fire retardant properties due to its release of nitrogen gas when burned or charred, and has several other industrial uses. Melamine is also a metabolite of cyromazine, a pesticide. It is formed in the body of mammals who have ingested cyromazine. It has been reported that cyromazine can also be converted to melamine in plants.

Melamine combines with cyanuric acid to form melamine cyanurate, which has been implicated in the Chinese protein export contaminations.

KENYATAAN AKHBAR KE TIGA BELAS MAKLUMAT TERKINI BERKAITAN ISU MELAMINE
Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia (KKM) ingin memaklumkan maklumat terbaru berhubung dengan pencemaran melamine di dalam produk makanan.
Sehingga hari ini, 780 produk makanan bernilai RM 769,424.90 telah disita di pasaran tempatan di seluruh negara. Pada hari ini, keputusan analisis bagi empat belas (14) lagi sampel produk makanan telah diperolehi dan semuanya mematuhi standard bagi melamine seperti di Lampiran 1. Vigour 888 Filling Roll (Sergestid Shrimp Flavour) yang dianalisa didapati melebihi standard bagi melamine iaitu 4.71 bahagian setiap juta (parts per million - ppm). KKM telah mengenalpasti produk dan syarikat terbabit dan telah mengeluarkan arahan kepada Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri untuk memusnahkan produk berkenaan. Syarikat tersebut juga telah diarahkan untuk menarik balik produk tersebut dari pasaran. Sekiranya pengguna masih ragu-ragu, bolehlah menghubungi
Bahagian Keselamatan dan Kualiti Makanan di empat (4) talian iaitu 03-88833655/88833503/88833652/ 88833500. Talian ini dibuka dari jam 8.00 pagi hingga 9.00 malam termasuk cuti umum. Pengguna boleh mendapatkan maklumat yang dikemaskini di dalam laman web http://fsq.moh.gov.my.

Pengarah
Bahagian Keselamatan dan Kualiti Makanan
Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia
8 Oktober 2008

Lampiran 1
Senarai B : Keputusan Terbaru Produk Makanan Yang Dianalisa
dan didapati Mematuhi Standard Bagi Melamine
1. Minis Milk Chocolate (M&M’s)
2. Peanut Chocolate (M&M’s)
3. Leisure Seaweed Biscuits (Golden Fuji Food)
4. Rice Crackers (Want Want)
5. Chicken Flavour Cracker (Golden Fuji)
6. Burnedmeat Flavour Biscuit [Cui Mei Si (Golden Fuji)]
7. Baby Bites Chicken With Vegetable Taste (Baby Bites)
8. Chocolate Cream Biscuits (Sanwa)
9. Milk Chewy Candy (Want Want)
10. Seaweed Wheet Biscuits (Four Seas)
11. Rice Crisps BBQ (Daysun)
12. Rice Crisps Original (Daysun)
13. Rice Crisps Sour Cream & Onion (Daysun)
14. Gula Udang (KIKI)
Nota : Senarai produk yang telah dianalisa sebelum ini boleh rujuk melalui laman web BKKM.

normally when we talk about herbs; we (locally in Malaysia) will be laughed at and most of us do not trust the facts that herbs is the best remedies. It shows that we have been brained wash by some irrelevant personal who's trying to make profit using the dangerous chemical products. this irresponsible personal doesn't ashamed of introducing his own product which doesn't get the HALAL certificate from local authorities. Continuously promoting the chemical based product - he's maintaining the activity  without social responsibility.

Anyway heres a good news for our reader who might missed yesterday news. as reported in the NST Online - Sunday 21st Sept 2008; no one would have expected a Mat Salleh to be one of the first to market Tongkat Ali in Malaysia, but that's what Benjamin Scott Drewe did.

OR self discipline is very important. imagine what if the world of self regulated community, exist one(1) self unregulated item/person - that would damage the harmony atmosphere immidiately.

now - in a world of information and technology, people seeks for information almost every minutes; with easy internet (forget about the speed :)! ) they can browse for info. this is important for the everybody to make decision. In business, in politics, in studying, in researching - in everything that we do - we want to do/be the best; so we need more info.

this is where self regulated really came into the picture; we should be provided with correct information as the info makes a big impact in our daily decision.

how to determine we are getting the correct info? we need to trust the informer.

how do we learn that we can trust informer? this is a long process of building the information receiver and the informer.

the informer needs to create his/its credibilty over the years. if once, the informer lies - it has become not self regulated. so it could not be trust anymore.

Lies and white lies are different! 

hi, as you are aware, we are not a health consultant, we also seek advice from proffesional. we learn and we develop. most of the advice received are practical. we implement the method, and now it has become our way of life. learn what is important in your daily routine. its your body, no one can tell what is good for your body.

I've met two(2) guys who really made changes in their life after listening from so called dr or medicinal practitioner in Malaysia. unlike other guys who 100% would believe on the advice given; both of this guys - seek for their own answer.

case 1:

Diabetes: according to the doctor, his leg needs to be amputed; to save his life; instead of listening the dr advice; he survive by his own way. How? Heres the secret. He changes totally his way of life; through trial and error process, he discover that the healing power is in our mind and body. do you still believe your doctor?

case 2: 

Dietition: a friend of mine always having problem with his stomach. normally doctors will tell him to take some medicine which is not really solving the problem. when you start taking those medicine your life is depending on the medicine. after discussing with a few friends, he discover how to live life to the fullest in the right way. since than; the previous problem is getting lesser and his health is improving.

well how do you measure when a people is healthy or otherwise? its very simple; the doctor that we are paying for unreasonable charges also would do the same; check your temperature, check your eyes and all the simple checks. Think again....

now its time to changes. you determine what you need; don't just be a follower; be a trendsetter.

this articles is taken and modded from wikipedia to suit readers culture: 

A femme fatale (plural: femmes fatales) is an alluring and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. She is an archetypal character of literature and art. Her ability to entrance and hypnotize her male victim was in the earliest stories seen as being literally supernatural, hence the most prosaic femme fatale today is still described as having a power akin to an enchantress, vampire, female monster or demon. The ideas involved are closely tied to fears of the female witch and misogyny.

The phrase is French for "deadly woman." A femme fatale tries to achieve her hidden purpose by using feminine wiles such as beauty, charm, and sexual allure. Typically, she is exceptionally well-endowed with these qualities. In some situations, she uses lying or coercion rather than charm. She may also be (or imply to be) a victim, caught in a situation from which she cannot escape; The Lady from Shanghai (a 1948 film noir) giving one such example. Her characteristic weapon, if needed, is frequently poison, which also serves as a metaphor for her charms.

Although typically villainous, femmes fatales have also appeared as antiheroines in some stories, and some even repent and become heroines by the end of the tale. In social life, the femme fatale tortures her lover in an asymmetrical relationship, denying confirmation of her affection. She usually drives him to the point of obsession and exhaustion so that he is incapable of making rational decisions.

In the Middle Ages, the idea of the dangers of female sexuality, typified by Eve, was commonly expressed in medieval romances as a wicked, seductive enchantress, the prime example being Morgan le Fay.

The femme fatale flourished in the Romantic period in the works of John Keats, notably La Belle Dame sans Merci and Lamia. Along with them, there rose the gothic novel, The Monk featuring Matilda, a very potent femme fatale. This led to her appearing in the work of Edgar Allan Poe, and as the vampiress, notably in Carmilla and Brides of Dracula. The Monk was greatly admired by the Marquis de Sade, for whom the femme fatale symbolised not evil, but all the best qualities of Women, with Juliette being perhaps the earliest novel wherein the femme fatale triumphs. Pre-Raphaelite painters frequently used the classic personifications of the femme fatale as a subject.

In the Western culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the femme fatale became a more fashionable trope, and is found in the paintings of the artists Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, Gustave Moreau, and the novels of the Frenchman Joris-Karl Huysmans. In À rebours are these fevered imaginings about an image of Salome in a Moreau painting:

    No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.[3]

In fin-de-siecle decadence, Oscar Wilde re-invented the femme fatale in the play Salome: she manipulates her lust-crazed uncle, King Herod, with her enticing Dance of the Seven Veils (Wilde's invention) to agree to her imperious demand: bring me the head of John the Baptist. Later, Salome was the subject of an opera by Strauss, was popularized on stage, screen, and peep-show booth in countless reincarnations.[4]

Another enduring icon of womanly glamour, seduction, and moral turpitude was Mata Hari, 1876 - 1917, an alluring oriental dancer who was accused of German espionage and was put to death by a French firing squad. As such, she embodied the femme fatale archetype, and, after her death she became the subject of much fantastical imagining. She was the subject of many sensational films and books.

20th century film, opera, etc

The femme fatale has been portrayed as a sexual vampiress; her charms leach the virility and independence of lovers, leaving them shells of themselves. Rudyard Kipling was inspired by a vampiress painted by Philip Burne-Jones, an image typical of the era in 1897, to write his poem "The Vampire". Like much of Kipling's verse it was incredibly popular, and its refrain: "A fool there was...," describing a seduced man, became the title of the popular 1915 film A Fool There Was that made Theda Bara a star. The poem was used in the publicity for the film. On this account, in early American slang the femme fatale was called a vamp, short for vampiress.[5]

From the American film audience perspective, the femme fatale often was foreign, usually either of an indeterminate Eastern European or Asian ancestry. She was the sexual counterpart to wholesome actresses such as Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford. Notable silent cinema vamps were Theda Bara, Helen Gardner, Louise Glaum, Musidora, Nita Naldi, Pola Negri, and in her early appearances, Myrna Loy.

During the film noir era of the 1940s and 1950s, the femme fatale flourished in American cinema. Examples include the overly-possessive and narcissistic wife Ellen Brent Harland, portrayed by Gene Tierney, in Leave Her to Heaven (1945), who will stop at nothing to keep her husband's affections. Another is Brigid O'Shaughnessy, portrayed by Mary Astor, who uses her acting skills to murder Sam Spade's partner in The Maltese Falcon. Yet another is the cabaret singer portrayed by Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946), who sexually manipulates her husband and his best friend. Another noir femme fatale is Phyllis Dietrichson, played by Barbara Stanwyck, who seduces a hapless insurance salesman and persuades him to kill her husband in Double Indemnity (1944). In The Paradine Case, a Hitchcock movie from 1947, the character played by Alida Valli is a poisonous femme fatale who is responsible for the deaths of two men and the near destruction of another. One often referred to example is the character of Jane in 1949's Too Late for Tears, played by Lizabeth Scott. During her quest to keep some dirty money from its rightful recipient and her husband, she uses poison, lies, sexual teases and a gun to keep men around her finger.

Other American cultural examples of deadly women occur in espionage thrillers, and juvenile adventure comic strips, such as The Spirit, by Will Eisner, and Terry and the Pirates, by Milton Caniff. Today, she remains the key character in films such as Body Heat, with Kathleen Turner, The Last Seduction, with Linda Fiorentino, Fatal Attraction, with Glenn Close, and Basic Instinct, with Sharon Stone.

In popular culture

In contemporary clture, the femme fatale survives as heroine and anti-heroine, in Nikita and Moulin Rouge!, as well as in video games and comic books. Elektra, a character from Marvel Comics, Fujiko Mine from Lupin the 3rd, Catwoman and Poison Ivy from the Batman stories, and EVA from Metal Gear Solid 3 are examples. The protagonists of the American television program Desperate Housewives use sexual allure to get what and whom they want. A modern example of the archetypal femme fatale is Xenia Onatopp, the character from Goldeneye who seduced men and then murdered them by crushing them between her thighs.

 BELOW IS THE MALAY ENTRIES FROM ONE OF OUR FRIENDS

10 Ciri Perempuan Pisau Cukur

This is among one of our earliest project handle by Two Men Network. This project is considered as a very good one as it started from market research. Information are gathered via SMS services in the year of 2004. QnA was done on sexology - more to online consultation on Malaysia sexual problem.

Surprisingly most of the questions asked by most of us/Malaysians via the sms applications are -

1. How to avoid pre mature  ejaculation? (Camana nak tahan lama)

2. How to increase size? (Camana nak tambah saiz sakar?) 

3. What to do during the first night? (Apa yang harus dilakukan pada malam pertama?)

You may think that we enjoy seeing the questions; nope; we are not. Pity that most of the Malaysians are so naive. Anyway; we seek for the answer and we came with few solutions which is KANDA ring and the ANDRO PENIS. (for the first 2 most FAQ. We have done a lot of research than on the KANDA ring until we have come to the better stage and improvement. The study done on the latest design of KANDA ring shows better results may be achieved when using KANDA latest design.  As well as Andro Penis we have evolve from normal chrome to GOLD Plated Andro which is better than the rest.

We do receive a lot of complaint from public about what we are doing, but someone/somebody need to help those needy that too shy to seek for solutions.  That is the reason why we position ourselves as your reliable portal that suitable for every generation, we mean all (from Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, MTV Gen etc etc ect...). If you browse through the news and the articles around/inside TwoMenNetwork.com we do try to add in as much information into articles that are useful to cover all the basic FAQ. 

Since Day 1 we run this project, we have never stop receiving questions about the same thing and that's why we place an articles about reading habbits among Malaysians.

Will add more later. Latest project www.xtone.com.my

any comments sent directly to rahim@twomennetwork.com