Frozen treats: Navigating the options
When it’s my turn to go to the grocery store, it takes me forever to make selections. I’m mesmerized by the endless options in every aisle. This week I got tripped up in the ice cream department. Halfway between dark chocolate truffle and coconut caramel swirl, I realized I was caught in a little decision swirl of my own.
There was ice cream, frozen custard, frozen yogurt, sherbet, and gelato. Some treats were full fat, reduced fat, low fat, nonfat, low carbohydrate, or sugar-free. And there was a huge selection of dairy-free frozen desserts. What was in all these colorful packages, and which one would be best?
I reach...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heidi Godman Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
“ I need something to dip into guacamole ”
Dipping foods into various dips and sauces surely ranks among the favorite ways to enjoy food: dipping chips into salsa, celery sticks into guacamole, crackers into cheese, shrimp into cocktail sauce, etc.
So how do we go about resuming our dipping habits sans wheat and grains? Here are some ideas for foods to use for dipping, healthy choices that contain no wheat or grains and provide limited exposure to carbohydrates, while remaining otherwise healthy. And some, like jicama and asparagus, also provide prebiotic fibers to nourish bowel flora; dip them into hummus and you’ll add even more probiotics to your day. Vegg...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 25, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates gluten-free grain-free wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly: Ten Rules for Healthy Eating
A hundred thousand years ago, you’d have no doubt what and how to eat. You would wake up every morning, grab your spear, club or axe and go kill something, wander and gather berries, nuts, or dig in the dirt for roots and tubers, or set traps for fish and reptiles. If you succeeded in the hunt, you would consume every organ that included thyroid, thymus, pancreas, stomach, liver, as well as meat. You’d drink water from streams and rivers, allow skin surface to be exposed to sunlight. You would NOT shower with soap or shampoo, apply hand sanitizer, drink chlorinated water, consume foods laced with herbicides and...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 20, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates autoimmune gluten-free grain-free grains Inflammation undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Best of Our Blogs: February 19, 2019
Anyone else glad Valentine’s Day is over?
Don’t get me wrong, I love flowers, chocolates and dinners with my significant other.
What I could do without is all the pressure holidays bring up. I despise the commercialism of it, the way the prices plummet the following day. What is most despicable is the way it makes you feel whether you’re partnered up or single. This is why I waited so long to post this.
I’m sure you had enough hearts, flowers and updates on your friend’s Valentine’s date by now. Instead check out our top posts this week which offers help for those who suffered childhood ...
Source: World of Psychology - February 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs Source Type: blogs
What does your name taste like?
Julie McDowall (@JulieAMcDowall) usually writes about nuclear war, in fact she’s got a book on that subject coming out soon. But, a few days ago she mentioned on Twitter that she has synaesthesia (the condition where the senses are “mixed up”, so that a person with condition can smell music or see colours when they touch different textures). She said that to her different names conjure up different tastes. Needless to say, everyone who follows her on Twitter wants to know what their name tastes like.
The thread has gone viral, she has had 6 million twitter interactions as of 29th January. She has been tr...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 30, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
How Busy Working Moms Can Take Meaningful Breaks
When you’re a working mom, it can easily feel like you have no time for genuinely restorative breaks—or any break for that matter. Which can quickly lead to everything from resentment to burnout.
But mothering doesn’t have to be one massive hustle without any respite. We just think it does. And these narratives dictate how we spend our hours and our minutes—minus real, meaningful pauses.
Namely, we have “outrageous expectations” for ourselves in every arena of our lives, according to Lauren Smith Brody, mom to two and founder of Fifth Trimester Consulting, which helps businesses improve their culture for new pa...
Source: World of Psychology - January 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: General Happiness Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress Women's Issues Motherhood Parenting stress reduction Work Life Balance Source Type: blogs
Diversity beyond gender — a new year pledge
You can read the original post Digital Science’s Medium blog.
Happy New Year! As we regret our former cheese-based life choices and get back into the swing of things, January is also a time to look forward and make resolutions. 2019 could be a year of great change and uncertainty. One topic never far from our minds is diversity and inclusion, specifically ensuring that ALL people are represented and heard. During this time of change, one way that we can achieve greater representation within research is to each commit to doing one small thing to change the current culture.
On Saturday 3rd November 2018 we held a sess...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - January 23, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Suze Kundu Tags: Uncategorized Diversity SpotOn SpotOn18 Source Type: blogs
Diversity beyond gender – a new year pledge
You can read the original post Digital Science’s Medium blog.
Happy New Year! As we regret our former cheese-based life choices and get back into the swing of things, January is also a time to look forward and make resolutions. 2019 could be a year of great change and uncertainty. One topic never far from our minds is diversity and inclusion, specifically ensuring that ALL people are represented and heard. During this time of change, one way that we can achieve greater representation within research is to each commit to doing one small thing to change the current culture.
On Saturday 3rd November 2018 we held a sess...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - January 23, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Suze Kundu Tags: Uncategorized Diversity SpotOn SpotOn18 Source Type: blogs
8 Ways to Hear Your Own Voice
For the last 12 years, I have kept a binder full of advice from friends and mental health professionals. After every doctor’s visit or coffee date, I would scribble down notes of what they said so that I could access their words when I needed them. Similarly, I kept a self-esteem file, full of positive comments from readers and loving notes from friends to pump me up when I needed reassurance and validation that I was a decent person who ought to stick around.
We all need to rely on doctors, psychologists, and friends to guide us. The gems inside my binder and file afforded me great reassurance in times of darkness. Howe...
Source: World of Psychology - January 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Inspiration & Hope Mental Health and Wellness Mindfulness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Mindfuless-Based Stress Reduction Personal Growth Present Moment Source Type: blogs
5 Questions for Self-Growth in the New Year
The adrenaline that pushed you through December has worn off and you’re feeling the January blahs. That’s not uncommon. In fact, January 24 is on record as being the most depressing day of the year, due to a combination a factors: Christmas bills, broken resolutions, and dark and dreary weather.
However, if you are brave enough to sit with the uncomfortable feelings of this depressing time of year, January can be a period of important personal growth. With a new year, we get a blank page of paper — a shot of creating the life we want. Exercises of self-examination can lead us to new goals. By gently observing wha...
Source: World of Psychology - January 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Creativity Inspiration & Hope Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration New Year's Personal Self-Help Stress journal prompts New Year's resolution overwhelm Personal Growth Source Type: blogs
5 Questions for Self-Growth for a New Year
The adrenaline that pushed you through December has worn off and you’re feeling the January blahs. That’s not uncommon. In fact, January 24 is on record as being the most depressing day of the year, due to a combination a factors: Christmas bills, broken resolutions, and dark and dreary weather.
However, if you are brave enough to sit with the uncomfortable feelings of this depressing time of year, January can be a period of important personal growth. With a new year, we get a blank page of paper — a shot of creating the life we want. Exercises of self-examination can lead us to new goals. By gently observing wha...
Source: World of Psychology - January 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Creativity Inspiration & Hope Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration New Year's Personal Self-Help Stress journal prompts New Year's resolution overwhelm Personal Growth Source Type: blogs
Feast on fats
One of the most common mistakes people make when starting out on the Wheat Belly lifestyle is to remain fearful of fats. They continue to hold onto old misconceptions such as “fats raise cholesterol,” or “fat causes heart disease,” or “fats are calorie-dense and therefore make you fat.” None of this is true, no more true than “healthy whole grains” are a key to overall health. (The rationale dashing all these misconceptions is discussed in detail in Wheat Belly Total Health.)
This accounts for why some people, even after removing the gliadin-derived opiates that come from wheat and related grains, continue...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 7, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates appetite cholesterol fats gluten-free grain-free grains Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
The Mental Snag That Makes It Seem Like Food Is Everywhere, Especially If You ’re Overweight
By guest blogger Stacy Lu
If you’re planning to take off weight in the new year and it suddenly seems like food is everywhere – and is especially enticing – that’s probably your mind playing a particularly unhelpful trick on you. Thinking about food, even in terms of trying to avoid it, can actually make it more likely that you’ll notice food in your environment, especially if you’re already overweight or obese.
That’s according to a recent study in the International Journal of Obesity that compared how overweight and healthy weight people pay attention to food. Food cues – sights, smells, advertisements a...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cognition guest blogger Health Source Type: blogs
Addicted to Sugar: The Other White Powder
In that first meeting I went to for my sugar addiction, I heard others admit to doing the same things I did. Sneaking. Lying. Throwing food in the bin to halt a binge only to come back later and fish it out to eat.
It was right in front of my face, but I couldn’t see it for what it was for years. Addiction is a wayward beast. God knows you can’t see much when you’re laid flat on your back, pinned down by invisible yet ferocious forces.
The narrative was just so unfamiliar that I doubted it was real. Where were the used syringes, grubby spoons, and Ewan McGregor swimming in a lav to Brian Eno music? Where were the gin...
Source: World of Psychology - January 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Addiction Eating Disorders Health-related Personal Publishers The Fix addicted to sugar Binge Eating Food Addiction Source Type: blogs
