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Health and Fitness Blog articles and Book Extracts from John Mason and staff at ACS Distance Education
We asked our psychology tutors and writers for some tips on how to manage anxiety.
 
Research in the UK has shown increase levels of reported distress.
 

The link between play and the environment is an important one.
Understand more about the aesthetic criteria involved in playground design.

 
We all know capsicums as the vegetable that can be eaten fresh or cooked; or used to add flavour to a huge range of dishes, from Asian stir fries to Mediterranean dishes and Mexican chilli beans.
 

How we perceive the world around us has been one of the greatest mysteries of the human world. How we see, how we hear, how we smell.

We still did not understand how our nervous system senses and interprets information from our environment in how temperature and mechanical stimuli (For example, if something brushes against us, such as a hair or something else) are converted to electrical impulses in our nervous system. 

Joint Nobel prize winners Julius and Patapoutian further advanced our understanding of the sense of touch.