Eating Chocolate With This Meal Boosts Weight Loss
Eating chocolate at a certain time of the day can help with losing belly fat and lowering blood sugar levels. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - July 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
The neuroscience behind why our brains will need time to adjust to ‘un-social distancing’
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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Three quick brain teaser games to test your perceptual and cognitive skills
The post The neuroscience behind why our brains will need time to adjust to ‘un-social distancing’ appeared first on SharpBrains. (Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - July 6, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning anxiety brain-teaser cognitive-function cognitive-skills COVID-19 hippocampus mental health neuroscience social distancing social homeostasis social memory Stress Source Type: blogs
Beating Social Comparison: How I Found “Enough” In 4 Ways
Conclusion
Social comparison makes you rely on external metrics to evaluate the quality of your life. That is not only inaccurate but mentally taxing. Fortunately, there are good habits that you can form to eradicate unhealthy social comparisons. I hope you found my journey relatable and the tips useful!
Let me know in the comments below what you named your inner critic (point #3)!
Author Bio
Rochi is a staff writer at Elite Content Marketer who relishes fresh poetry. When she’s not writing on her website, you can find her nose buried under a stack of good books. If you want more art & stillne...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: rochizalani Tags: career communication confidence featured happiness psychology self-improvement comparison FOMO self improvement Source Type: blogs
My Best Chocolate Cake. Ever.
Long time readers of this blog know I’ve been on a many years’ long journey to find and make the perfect chocolate cake. This cake came close, but it took me three tries to get its right, and still it wasn’t quite the best. My friend Susan and I have been trying to get the Black and White Cake recipe from Amy’s Bread, hands down the best cake I’d ever tasted, to perform in our hands, but with disappointing results. (We are convinced she, like many cooks, has left out something in the recipe to make sure that none of us could ever match that amazing cake.)
Well, dear reader, I’m here t...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - May 2, 2021 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized Best chocolate cake Cocoa COffee Ina Garten Source Type: blogs
Edibles and children: Poison center calls rise
If a 3-year-old finds a cookie on the table, chances are they are going to eat it.
Even if it is made with marijuana or THC, CBD, or other components of cannabis.
As more states have legalized the use of marijuana and an ever-widening range of derivative products, it’s not surprising that more children are being exposed — including by eating marijuana edibles. A research brief published in the journal Pediatrics found that between 2017 and 2019, there were 4,172 calls to regional poison control centers about exposures to cannabis in babies and children through age 9. About half of the calls were related to edibles.
The...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Marijuana Parenting Source Type: blogs
Will the Supreme Court Overturn the Infamous Takings Decision of Kelo v. City of New London?
Trevor Burrus andSam SpiegelmanIn the infamous case ofKelo v. City of New London, the Supreme Court allowed the city of New London, Connecticut to take Susette Kelo ’s little pink house (also the name of a very good movie about the case) via eminent domain for the “public use” of furthering economic development in the town’s Fort Trumbull neighborhood. The fight in that case was over the meaning of the words “public use” in the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause, and whether the words provide essentially any limit on what a municipality or legislature says is “public use.” InKelo, one of the major...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 16, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Trevor Burrus, Sam Spiegelman Source Type: blogs
The Pain Is In Your Brain: Your Knees Know Next to Nothing
By HANS DUVEFELT
A “frozen shoulder” can be manipulated to move freely again under general anesthesia. The medications we use to put patients to sleep for such procedures work on the brain and don’t concentrate in the shoulder joints at all.
An ingrown toenail can be removed or an arthritic knee can be replaced by injecting a local anesthetic – at the base of the toe or into the spine – interrupting the connection between the body and the brain.
An arthritic knuckle can stop hurting and move more freely after a steroid injection that dramatically reduces inflammation, giving lasting relief long after any...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Patients Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Self-care
No, not the Instagram “self-care” of floofy slippers and a glass of wine, or an excuse to indulge in chocolate. No, I’m talking about the gritty self-care that all of us humans need to do, only some of us need to it more regularly or we’ll experience Consequences.
Self-care for people living with pain is no luxury, and it does (occasionally) mean walking away from something enjoyable, setting boundaries on demands for time and energy, AND it means many other things too.
I’ll talk about my own self-care needs because I can’t talk authentically about anyone else. Most of you will kno...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - March 28, 2021 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: 'Pacing' or Quota Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Coping Skills Coping strategies Motivation Pain conditions boundaries self management self-care selfcare Source Type: blogs
How To Simplify Your Life And Be Happy
Conclusion
These are some of the proven tips you can use to simplify your life.
But don't just read this article and go about your way.
Write down three things that you can start this week.
Let me know what you're going to try - I'd love to hear about it.
And what are your favorite rules for living a more simple life?
Brooks is an entrepreneur, sponge, father, husband, & follower of the golden rule. He’s also addicted to starting new businesses and any food that includes chocolate and peanut butter. He’s a firm believer in creating multiple streams of income and creates conten...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - March 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: conklbm Tags: confidence featured motivation philosophy self-improvement courage pickthebrain self improvement simple simplicity Source Type: blogs
poem
GlideI would never buy a houseThat didn ’t creak and moanIn the high winter windsNothing is impregnable.I don ’t want to be walled offFrom the world like an inmate.I have a basement for a cryptI have a plot picked out in the earth.I'll sleep under the starsEven when a dry cave isn't far..Every time I hear the howlsOutside and feel a shiver,My walls ought to at least quiver.I want to stowaway with you On a small boat rocked at seaBy an escalating series of waves.I don't get seasick.I want to sway like the treesIn the spring gales And flutter as leavesCupped like hammocksDown to the ground.We ’ll ...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - February 26, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Flowers, chocolates, organ donation — are you in?
Chocolates and flowers are great gifts for Valentine’s Day. But what if the gifts we give this year could be truly life-changing? A gift that could save someone’s life, or free them from dialysis?
You can do this. For people in need of organ, tissue, or blood donation, a donor can give them a gift that exceeds the value of anything that you can buy. That’s why February 14th is not only Valentine’s Day — it’s also National Donor Day, a time when health organizations nationwide sponsor blood drives and sign-ups for organ and tissue donation. Read on if you’ve ever wondered what can be donated, had reservations ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 11, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Health Heart Health Kidney and urinary tract Lung disease Source Type: blogs
Mundane Movies Meme
I posted a fairly simple challenge on Facebook at the weekend:
Make a movie mundane by subtly altering one word in the title. I'll start..."Radiators of the Lost Ark"
I expected a few friends to join in with the fun and for it to fizzle out quite quickly…I watched the first few entries dribble in and then went off and did something completely different. When I came back to Facebook a few hours later there were more than 500 comments, it quickly got to 600 and I added a few more of my own. It’s still going on, at the time of writing 745 comments, which is almost viral for one of my posts. I’d estimate th...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 18, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Year in Review: Our Top Three Posts of 2020
Over the year, we dove into the inner workings of cells, interviewed award-winning researchers supported by NIGMS, shared a cool collection of science-themed backgrounds for video calls, and more. Here, we highlight three of the most popular posts from 2020. Tell us which of this year’s posts you liked best in the comments section below!
The Science of Infectious Disease Modeling
Spike proteins on the surface of a coronavirus. Credit: David Veesler, University of Washington.
What does “modeling the spread” (or “flattening the curve”) mean, and how does it apply to infectious diseases such as COVID-19? L...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - December 30, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Tools and Techniques Cool Tools/Techniques Infectious Diseases Modeling Source Type: blogs
Choosing joy during difficult times
Feeling good may be in short supply these days. The pandemic is on the upswing again, and many of us anticipate spending the colder months ahead cooped up in our homes with computer screens as our only windows into the world. Meanwhile, climate-related natural disasters are driving thousands of people out of their homes. Millions of jobs are being lost. I won’t even mention politics. It is as if the whole universe has conspired to take the joy out of life.
Then, in the midst of it all, I lost my sense of smell and taste after a bout of COVID. I was very distraught. I couldn’t taste the delicious chocolate cake my wife ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - December 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Leo Newhouse, LICSW Tags: Behavioral Health Coronavirus and COVID-19 Mental Health Stress Source Type: blogs
