4 Ways to Ease Back-to-School and Autumn Anxiety
Middle schoolers aren’t the only ones who feel the jitters as school reopens every year.
Most people I know have trouble as summer draws to a close and autumn begins. All of the stress and transition required to accommodate new schedules, activities, and schools can throw off the limbic system (your emotional center) of even the most grounded creatures.
In fact, Ginny Scully, a therapist in Wales, said in an interview so many clients with feelings of anticipation and nervousness during the last week of August through the first weeks of September that she coined the term “autumn anxiety,” which I’ve written ab...
Source: World of Psychology - August 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Anxiety and Panic Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Self-Help Alternative Medicine Anxious Thoughts autumn anxiety Back To School Depression Diet Healthy Eating School stress Source Type: blogs
8 Foods that Boost Your Mood
What we eat might not be able to cure us indefinitely from depression. I learned that hard lesson earlier this year. However, researchers are compiling strong evidence that what we eat can influence our risk for developing depression and can keep persons in remission from possibly relapsing.
Eating better foods has certainly helped my mood and allowed me to get by on less medication. A 2014 review published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition examined the link between diet and depression risk and found that a diet consisting mainly of fruit, vegetables, fish, and whole grains was significantly associated with a r...
Source: World of Psychology - July 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Depression Mental Health and Wellness Personal Self-Help Caffeine Depressive Episode Major Depressive Episode Mood Disorder phytochemicals Psychology Psychopharmacology Source Type: blogs
Why is magnesium so important?
One of the six core strategies in the Undoctored Wild, Naked, and Unwashed program for health and weight loss is restoration of magnesium.
Magnesium deficiency is alarmingly common in today’s world. Why? Our reliance on filtered water that has had all of the magnesium removed, the reduced content of magnesium in modern crops, and the widespread use of proton pump inhibitors—-drugs prescribed to treat acid reflux and ulcers while reducing magnesium absorption.
Remember those darned phytates in wheat and other grains that bind magnesium and other positively charged minerals in the intestinal tract, preventing absorp...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 18, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle a fib constipation Dr. Davis grain-free grains health healthcare heart rhythm hydrochlorothiazide kidney stones oxalate sudden death Source Type: blogs
10 Summer Depression Busters
Although my mood seems to be better with more sun, I understand why a substantial number of folks get more depressed in the summer. Extreme heat is hard to tolerate. In fact, in a study published in Science in 2013, researchers reported that as temperatures rose, the frequency of interpersonal violence increased by 4 percent, and intergroup conflicts by 14 percent.
There are four distinct types of people when it comes to weather and mood, according to a study published in Emotion in 2011.
Summer Lovers (better mood with warmer and sunnier weather)
Unaffected (weak associations between weather and mood)
Summer Hater...
Source: World of Psychology - June 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Bipolar Depression Personal Research Self-Help Sleep Bipolar Disorder Depressive Episode Dysthymia Major Depressive Disorder Mood Disorder Ruminating Sadness Seasonal Affective Disorder Source Type: blogs
Eating the Same Foods Repeatedly Is Stupid
Do you have a tendency to eat the same foods over and over?
Are you aware that it’s much better for your overall health, mental functioning, and immunity to take in a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, greens, nuts, and seeds? Eating the same limited foods repeatedly increases the chance that you’ll miss out on certain micronutrients, including many that haven’t been identified or studied yet. A nutritionally restricted diet also increases your susceptibility to disease.
Our forager ancestors moved around a lot and ate nutritionally different wild foods wherever they went. With the rise of agriculture, h...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - June 27, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Here’s a recipe from my new book, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor.
Undoctored carries on the Wheat Belly tradition of providing recipes that allow you to indulge without paying a health or weight price. I learned long ago that asking people simply to eat real, whole foods like meats and vegetables quickly backfired. Someone would be doing great, for example, until Thanksgiving rolled around, and they’d return 14 pounds heavier, inflamed, with disastrous labs (sky-high small LDL, increased insulin and blood sugars, etc.)–a metabolic mess–from...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 11, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored cookies gluten grains health recipe Weight Loss wheat Source Type: blogs
How much omega-6 fatty acids do you really need?
Here’s a brief excerpt from my new book, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor, available as pre-order and scheduled for release May 9, 2017:
From Undoctored:
You don’t want omega-6 overload, but you also don’t want omega-6 deficiency. The ideal omega-6:omega-3 index is 2:1 or less. How do you achieve the right balance? It is much more simple than you might think.
To ensure that you are consuming the correct amount of omega-6 vs. omega-3, choose fats such as lard and tallow (provided they are not hydrogenated, if store-bought), coconut oil, palm o...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 6, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Omega-6 vs. omega-3 Source Type: blogs
What to Expect During Your Third Trimester
Congratulations you are at the beginning of your third trimester.
“Babies weigh about 2.2 pounds by the start of the third trimester. They can blink their eyes, which now sport lashes. And their wrinkled skin is starting to smooth out as they put on baby fat. They’re also developing fingernails, toenails, and real hair (or at least some peach fuzz), and adding billions of neurons to their brain. Your blossoming baby will spend his or her final weeks in utero putting on weight.”
Week 28
This week your baby is settling into the proper position for birth, with his/her head facing downward. He/she is also busy adding n...
Source: Cord Blood News - April 3, 2017 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Maze Cord Blood Tags: babies parents pregnancy third trimester Source Type: blogs
Besieged by Lies
Most theories of language assume its main function is to make cooperation easier and richer, but that optimistic idea is challenged by lies. Lying is so easy and the benefits so notable that truth would seem to have little chance of survival. Yet a society of liars would seem to be doomed. If everybody lied, nobody would listen. How could language have become universal amongst humans if it is so easily used to disadvantage others?The standard answer to this puzzle looks outside language. A popular theory holds that people who develop reputations as liars are shunned. But is that true?An excellent paper on this subject appe...
Source: Babel's Dawn - February 15, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Blair Source Type: blogs
A hospital gown to remember
“Orange is his favorite color. It’s all orange, all of the time in there.”
And, indeed it was. Like the deceptively soft glow from a garish, neon storefront light, passing his room, it was impossible for one’s eyes not to be drawn inside. Hunter blaze bedspread, pumpkin spice robe, marigold slippers, and even a persimmon beanie — wavelengths of orange permeated the otherwise drab, muted colors of the space.
It became a bit of an endearing ritual for the nurses to start shift report in this way. Reminding all that beyond the chemo, beyond the complications, their patients were people with wishes and fe...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 8, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/juliet-b-ugarte-hopkins" rel="tag" > Juliet B. Ugarte Hopkins, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital Source Type: blogs
The 10 Best Health Technology Innovations at CES 2017
The biggest tech event of the year, CES brought stunning new health technologies to the stage in 2017 as well. Let me show you the most promising new gadgets, sensors and wearables in medicine!
CES & the latest trends in tech innovation
For geeks and gadget-lovers the year does not usually start with the 1st January, but a couple of days later, when CES opens in Las Vegas. It is even more exciting this year, since the exhibition celebrates its 50th anniversary – so it is obviously bigger and better than ever before.
It’s almost impossible to collect and analyse every novelty appearing at the fair, and I’m...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 7, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers ces digital health future gc3 health technology Innovation Medicine 2.0 Personalized medicine wearables Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly holiday swaps
Yes, you can have pumpkin pie!
Some people worry that, by following the Wheat Belly lifestyle, they will have to suffer through a holiday dinner of dry turkey meat and lettuce leaves and miss out on all the traditional tasty dishes. But that is simply not true. You can enjoy a glorious, delicious, and healthy Christmas dinner, for instance, while living the Wheat Belly lifestyle. But, in order to preserve your health and not gain, say, 3 pounds from the holiday feasting, there are some easy swaps you can use to replace unhealthy holiday staples with a healthy and Wheat Belly-compatible alternative.
So here is a list of eas...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 23, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten grains Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm Sanctuary - Fourth Week of December 2016
As the end of the year approaches, I ’m reflecting on the changes that 2016 has brought. Unity Farm Sanctuary was a distant strategy for leaving a legacy at the end of our lives. Now it is a reality with a population of wonderful creatures who will be able enjoy their days in the pastures, forests, and gardens of a safe, vegan, organic space surrounded by permanently protected rural trust land.The current capacity of the sanctuary is a 5 stall barn, a two adult horse run in, and a pony/donkey/goat run in. Our theoretical maximum capacity is 4 adult horses, 3 ponies, 3 donkeys, and 3 goats.Next ...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - December 22, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
ChooseMyPlate.gov Holiday Infographics
Here is a very colorful and educational infographic on how to choose healthier options during the holidays https://nnlm.gov/bhic/s6bf
Presented as an infographic is how to prepare Pumpkin 5 Ways. https://nnlm.gov/bhic/rcut
And the last highlighted infographic from ChooseMyPlate.gov is Turkey 5 Ways. https://nnlm.gov/bhic/fs3z (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - December 21, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Michelle Burda Tags: General Source Type: blogs
7 Practical Tips for Relieving Holiday Depression
For highly-sensitive folks and people predisposed to sadness, the holidays create a perfect storm for depression. There’s the added stress of holiday shopping, decorating, and parties — not to mention dealing with strained family relations; snowball and gingerbread cookies seem to stalk you; and a sense of forced merriment has a way of making you feel like a total loser if you change the radio station when “Jingle Bells” comes on.
According to research posted by the American Psychological Association, two-thirds of people said they felt stressed and fatigued during the holidays. Half said they felt ...
Source: World of Psychology - December 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Anxiety and Panic Depression Family Holiday Coping Mindfulness Self-Help Stress Bipolar Holiday Stress Mood Disorder Panic Attacks Relaxation Rumination Self Care stress reduction winter blue Worry Source Type: blogs
