Deregulate Home Food Businesses
Chris EdwardsThe pandemic has created lasting changes to the economy. More employees are working from home, videocalls are replacing business travel, and home ‐based entrepreneurship is booming. The internet is a key driver of home entrepreneurship —the number of arts‐and‐crafts businesses on Etsy.com, for example,jumped from 2.6 million in 2019 to 7.5 million by 2021.Another thriving area of internet ‐driven entrepreneurship is home‐based food production for retail sale, often called the cottage food industry. Popular cottage foods include baked goods, canned goods, pickled goods, chocol...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 20, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
10 Simple Ways to Spread the Optimism and Positive Energy Starting Today
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill
Optimism.
It can turn a situation that looks negative or bleak into an opportunity or something to learn from.
It can replace the draining thoughts of pessimism with something that will create more positive energy and enthusiasm again.
And it can help you to jump over obstacles, to keep moving when you fall or stumble and to not give up just because you have had a couple of temporary setbacks.
So not just adding more of it to your own life but to the lives of the people in your world too is a ...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - April 12, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Happiness Personal Development Source Type: blogs
How to Stop Emotional Eating and Make Peace with Food
Do emotions drive your eating? Sadness, boredom, exhaustion finds you at the bottom of a tub of ice cream, wondering how you got there.
Maybe you’re so accustomed to using food to drown your feelings, that each time you’re stressed you gravitate towards food. The urge is so strong that it seems uncontrollable.
Having spent many years of my early adulthood as a self-confessed emotional eater, I know just how distressing it can be. Especially because you feel so ashamed after that last spoonful.
Worse, is that each evening you promise yourself that tonight’s going to be different, but somehow you find ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: drlarazib Tags: depression featured happiness health and fitness psychology self-improvement Emotional eating stress Source Type: blogs
A Valentine ’s Day Full of Chocolate, Roses, and… Tariffs?
Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo ObregonChocolate and roses are the language of love, and through them, millions of people in the United States will today express their affection for their significant others. Yet, for the — *ahem* —dispassionate analysis we conduct here at the Cato Institute, candy and flowers are also prime examples of how free trade improves our lives by making it easier to purchase quality goods at lower prices, and by contrast, how protectionism does just the opposite.In the case of chocolate, we havepreviouslyexplained how the U.S. sugar program – a complex array of government price support...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 14, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome, Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Source Type: blogs
For Valentine's Day, a Good Night's Sleep May Be the Best Gift
With Valentine ' s Day approaching, many may be pondering traditional gift-giving strategies. Maybe it ' s flowers, chocolates, or jewelry? But consider this: As we continue to endure the challenges of pandemic living, perhaps the greatest gift you could give to your partner (and yourself) is a good night of sleep. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - February 11, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Wendy M. Troxel Source Type: blogs
The Book of Ten Sayings 2
The Second Saying in the Book of Ten Sayings 2. Know Yourself How much misery and discontent and needless expense are created by people who don't know who they are or what they believe. At the basic level of rational survival, everyone needs a moral structure to make decision making easier. Of course, knowing that many or most people have no such moral code, the predators and exploiters are at the elbows of the naive and foolish, who let a stranger or a Hollywood film suggest proper and improper behavior--based on their own desire to shape decisions of their victims. And, of course, the religious...
Source: The Virtual Salt - February 9, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Robert Harris Source Type: blogs
The 12 Psychology Studies of Christmas
How to have a happy Christmas according to psychology, the best type of chocolate, when gifts go wrong and more... (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 22, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Happiness Source Type: blogs
People Will Pay Money To Avoid Having To Exert Self-Control
By Emily Reynolds
Self-control — or lack of it — can have a serious impact on our lives. Poor self-control can lead to feelings of loneliness, while those with higher levels of self-discipline experience states like hunger and tiredness less intensely. Yet despite these obvious benefits, the vast majority of us sometimes experience failures in self-control no matter how hard we try.
A new study, published in PNAS, looks to quantify the cost of self-control. Candace M. Raio and Paul W. Glimcher from the New York University School of Medicine find that we’re willing to pay a monetary price to avoid having to exe...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Eating Money The self Source Type: blogs
How To Overcome Instant Gratification: The Dangers of the “Right Now” Mindset
You know the feeling - You realize you've been scrolling through your smartphone for an hour, and it's not even noon yet.
Suddenly, you remember that you wanted to work on that project for school or write your resume.
You decide to take a break, but then, after five minutes of doing something else, you find yourself back on your phone again.
It's easy to succumb to instant gratification, to check social media one more time, or scroll through Instagram or YouTube videos. But this short-term reward can come at the expense of long-term goals and fulfillment.
The good news is there are 9 ways to overcom...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 1, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Varun Pahwa Tags: career creativity happiness psychology self-improvement instant gratification Source Type: blogs
Dark Chocolates and the Heart
Are dark chocolates good for the heart?
A study published in Circulation suggests that eating dark chocolate can improve coronary vasomotion and reduce platelet reactivity [1].
Dark chocolates which contain 70% cocoa have lots of flavonoids – potent antioxidants which helps to overcome the oxidative stress. They also decrease the activation of blood platelets responsible for thrombosis.
High oxidative stress and limited availability of antioxidants can cause endothelial damage in the arteries, leading to increased chances for a thrombosis.
Flavonoid rich dark chocolate has the potential for a beneficial effect on graft ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - September 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Paleovalley: Our preferred source for fermented beef sticks and other products
I’d like to welcome my new Defiant Health podcast’s latest sponsor, Paleovalley, makers of absolutely delicious grass-fed beef sticks, healthy snack bars, and other products.
You know that we are extremely picky around here and insist that any product we consider has no junk ingredients like maltodextrin, carrageenan, carboxymethylcellulose, sucralose or other additives that have potential adverse health effects. You will not find any such unhealthy ingredients in Paleovalley products. And all Paleovalley products deserve the Defiant Health stamp of approval because they contain no gluten, grains, soy...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 6, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open probiotic undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Cancer
I sometimes like to open my posts with a joke. But not this time. There isn ' t a joke for this.Mrs. Dalai has cancer.How ' s that for a kick in the ass? I am neither vain nor arrogant enough to think that I could write the ultimate treatise on dealing with a loved one ' s cancer. There are any number of engaging stories out there on Caring Bridge and the like. You don ' t want to read a tear-jerker anyway, nor do you want to endure every last boring and/or gory detail. Mrs. Dalai would be very upset with me if I shared all that. Hell, she ' s probably going to be upset with me for writing this at all. She is a very p...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - September 4, 2021 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
… of all the Leps I ’ ve photographed
My Mothematics Gallery can be found on my Imaging Storm photography site along with other invertebrates, flora and fauna, etc. I’ve written about several of the species I’ve seen for various outlets, but haven’t yet got around to adding all of the links to this list #bearwith
Moths
Aethes francilana/beatricella (Walsingham, 1898/Fabricius, 1794)
Agapeta hamana (Linnaeus, 1758)
Agonopterix heracliana-ciliella agg NFM 2020
Agonopterix purpurea (Haworth, 1811) NFM 2021 (MYO lure)
Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa, Linnaeus, 1758)
Arches, Buff (Habrosyne pyritoides, Hufnagel, 1766)
Arches, Dark (Apamea m...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 10, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
