The Last Father's Day Gift I Gave My Dad -- An Excerpt From the Forthcoming book: Let Me Out (A Practical Guide for Bringing Your Ideas to Life)
Love can make you a more creative person. Understand that when I use the term creative, I don't mean that you'll suddenly have mastery of any particular skill. I mean that the more you love, the less attention you will pay to your inner-critic and the freer your thinking will become. Getting space from this inner-critic is what allows a person to be fearlessly responsive to what's taking place around them. This ability to sense and respond is one of the underpinnings of creativity itself, and it is for example, a quality a high-level jazz pianist must have to be able to improvise. Research shows that one of the most effect...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The 9 Highest-Calorie Meals at Chain Restaurants
This article originally appeared on Health.com.
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10 Easy Ways to Slash Sugar from Your Diet
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Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
I ate my gritty placenta with onions and garlic. Twice
A new report has questioned the health benefits of new mums eating their own afterbirth, as many celebrities have advocated. Here, one mother explains why she decided to chown down on her placenta (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - June 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: kardashian chinese medicene mad men placenta pregnancy mum mother january jones afterbirth pregnant labour tom cruise Source Type: news
Why Eating Healthy Is Like Dating A Guy That Looks Good On Paper
We all strive for eating healthy and trying to be as nutritionally sound as possible. But sometimes eating chai seed smoothies, flax oatmeal, and kale as every side dish can actually turn out not so great.
Let me explain...
Let's say a client hands me their food journal and it looks like this:
8:00 a.m.: greek yogurt and blueberries
11:00 a.m.: handful of almonds
12:00 p.m.: salad with grilled chicken and extra vegetables
3:00 p.m.: an apple with nuts
6:00 p.m.: tilapia with broccoli and cauliflower
This is like the quintessential near-perfect diet diary, am I right?! I mean, submit this in class and you'd get an A++...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
ICYMI: A Young Runner Battles Tourette Syndrome And The High Health Costs Of Contaminated Chicken
ICYMI Health features what we're reading this week.
This week, we were taken by personal stories, including HuffPost Highline's first longform feature piece about a record-breaking young runner with Tourette syndrome. We were also captivated by a daughter chronicling her mother's mental illness through photographs, and touching public radio interview with British neurologist Oliver Sacks, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer earlier this year.
Read on and tell us in the comments: What did you read, listen to and love this week?
1. The Friend -- Esquire
When the author's 36-year-old wife is given a terminal cancer dia...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bone Broth Is The Morning Drink That Will Start Your Day Off Right
You may be hearing growing talk about bone broth lately -- actress Shailene Woodley recently revealed she's been a huge fan -- and, according to health and wellness experts, there's good reason for it. Melisse Gelula and Alexia Brue of Well + Good agree that it's definitely time to make room in your diet for this healthy, beneficial drink.
Bone broth, Gelula and Brue explain in the above video from #OWNSHOW, is essentially slow-cooked soup made using the bones of anything from beef to chicken. "Bone broth has so many benefits," Brue says. "They're filled with calcium [and] magnesium, which is said to be great for bone he...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Artificial muscles can be made by covering onions in gold, scientists say
Onions might one day be used to create artificial muscles, after scientists found that painting the vegetable’s skins gold makes them stretch and flex like real tissue. (Source: The Independent - Science)
Source: The Independent - Science - May 6, 2015 Category: Science Tags: News Source Type: news
Does happiness have a smell and is it contagious?
Conclusion
The findings from this small experimental study suggest that smelling sweat produced during different emotional states can influence people’s feelings.
However, the study has many limitations and cannot prove this theory. It only looked at sweat samples from nine men, and all of the testers were female students. The researchers say this was deliberate because men sweat more and women have a better sense of smell and greater sensitivity to emotional signals. Nevertheless, this means that we do not know if similar results would be found for men smelling female sweat or within the same sex. We also don’t know w...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Mental health Source Type: news
Most Of Your Asparagus Comes From Abroad These Days. Here's Why.
These are hard times for the American asparagus farmer.
A casual supermarket shopper, even one who loves asparagus, may not realize this is so. Fresh asparagus is now available in most U.S. supermarkets all year long. And sales of asparagus have steadily climbed over the past couple of decades as consumers have embraced healthier diets. But the odds have never been lower that the asparagus at your local grocery store was indeed grown domestically.
Why? In the early '90s, two trade agreements -- the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Andean Trade Preference Act -- eliminated protective tariffs on asparagus impo...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - April 10, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Sperm quality pesticides claim 'should be treated with caution'
Conclusion
Whether pesticide exposure in the diet is linked to male fertility problems is an important issue, but, as the authors point out, there are several reasons to view the results of this trial with caution:
the men were all attending a fertility clinic with their partner, so some of them will have had fertility issues unrelated to their diet or lifestyle
they used national surveillance data, rather than looking at individual diets, to assess how much pesticide residue the men had consumed
they did not have information on whether the men were eating organic or non-organic food
the men had to reme...
Source: NHS News Feed - March 31, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Lifestyle/exercise Source Type: news
Onions CAN taste like apples: the Tony Abbott effect
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott recently caused much confusion by publicly eating a raw onion in the manner people would usually eat apples, with no complaint or objection. Whilst baffling to many, this may be one instance where science supports Tony Abbott’s actions. Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 14, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Dean Burnett Tags: Science Tony Abbott Psychology Food & drink Source Type: news
Yoga Was My Catalyst
I was terrified the first time I walked into a hot yoga studio. The stifling heat got my heart pumping before the class began. The room was packed and I squeezed my 6'4" frame onto a small section of the floor. My yoga mat felt like an island I was hoping to be rescued from. The class started, and the instructions from the teacher might as well have been in a foreign language. I found some advanced yogis to mimic and surprised myself with flexibility I wasn't expecting. I stretched muscles I hadn't used in years and felt a cleansing detox. Water had never tasted so good. Upon leaving the studio I felt a rush of endorphins ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 4, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why onions can cause more than tears
The allergy that makes it almost impossible to eat out (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - February 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Only 2% Of My Cancer Patients Have Had This Checked
I saw a patient recently who has stage four breast cancer.
She’d been to some of the best hospitals and specialists for care. Before she came to me she’d had a mastectomy and chemotherapy. Then the cancer spread to her backbone and she had radiation treatment.
Yet still, after all that time and until she came to my clinic, no one had mentioned a possible estrogen problem. No one ever bothered to measure her estrogen. They never looked at whether her breast cancer was estrogen positive or progesterone positive.
The rates of most cancers have stabilized. Most cancers aren’t a death sentence the way they used to be. But...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - January 23, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jeff Brodsky Tags: Anti-Aging Source Type: news
The 272-Calorie Chinese Take-Out Favorite You Can Make At Home (VIDEO)
When many of us have a craving for Chinese food, we reach for the takeout or delivery menu and try to choose among our favorite dishes. It certainly makes for a cozy night in, but, according to registered dietician and author Sharon Palmer, there's something you may be overlooking when it comes to ordering Chinese food.
"Many Asian restaurants can pack in the calories through the oils and all these salty sauces we add," Palmer tells #OWNSHOW in the above video. "In fact, some vegetarian meals that you might think might be healthy could have over 1,000 calories -- and that's not even including the rice, which can add anoth...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
