Prime Your Brain for a Permanent Performance Gain (in a Few Minutes)
Inside your skull is a massive supercomputer. You own it free and clear. With its 100 billion neurons, and with a typical neuron linking to 1000 to 10,000 other neurons, your highly networked brain is incredibly powerful and capable.
Pick up a simple object nearby like a pen or a spoon, and look at it. Turn it upside down. Spin it around. Notice that your brain is able to recognize the object no matter how you position it. You can change the lighting by putting the object in shadow. You can obscure part of it from view. You can bend or break it. And your brain still recognizes that object simply and easily. Even a child ca...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - March 24, 2014 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Consciousness & Awareness Goals & Goal Setting Intention & Manifestation Motivation Personal Development Problem Solving Productivity Source Type: blogs
MixMyOwn.com May Be the Coolest Way to Get Your Cereal Fix
Ever wish you could take all your favorite individual ingredients from all your favorite cereals and make the perfect one for you -- a raisin here, a granola cluster there, a nut from somewhere else? Well, now there's a website that allows you to do just that. MixMyOwn.com was created by Klara Charvatova and her fiance, David, because they wanted to give customers a fun, simple way to whip up their own AM meals -- according to their own tastebuds, natch. (Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S.)
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - March 21, 2014 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Nutrition breakfast cereal diet food health snacks superfood Source Type: blogs
Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right with Flavorful Foods
It’s National Nutrition Month and all month long we’re sharing fun and delicious ways to “enjoy the taste of eating right.” To me, it’s all about making practical food choices, and about blending taste and nutrition. When we’re trying to eat right, we want to focus on FLAVOR, because who wants to eat something that doesn’t taste good, right?
I was on Let’s Talk Live this week sharing some of my favorite tips for snacks and breakfasts that are full of flavor and packed with nutrition. Hopefully it can help make eating right a little easier (and a little tastier!) for you and your family. ...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - March 13, 2014 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: cooking eating healthy food fruits recipes vegetables healthy eating lets talk live national nutrition month Thomas' Bagel Thins Wonderful Halos Wonderful Pistachios Source Type: blogs
Getting a Foot Up On Diabetes Care
By Jan Chait
"Check your feet."
How many times have we heard it? Many times, however, that's all we're told: Check your feet.
What am I looking for? What do I do if I find it?!
And, come to think of it, why am I checking my feet?
Furthermore, they tell us, put lotion on our feet, but not between our toes.
Huh? Why not?
It's a puzzlement. So I asked my podiatrist, Ken Krueger, DPM, to 'splain some of this stuff.
What we're looking for are things such as:
• A red spot
• A crack or opening in the skin
• A blister
• Any drainage (or odor)
• Any change in skin color
"All of these are signs of an in...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - February 25, 2014 Category: Diabetes Authors: Jan Chait Source Type: blogs
Let it go
I've been sleeping hippie style on a short platform bed - just 2x4s and plywood, no headboard. It's comforting somehow - closer to how I slept as a kid on the futons on the floor, against the wall, my hand tucked above my head, up in the corner. The house is pretty quiet this Saturday, the kids sprawled across different areas of the house catching up on their books, texting friends about their first week of school. They started at an area public elementary school just a week ago, and they've made it through 5 consecutive days of 6 a.m. wakings, grumpy breakfasts, walking home…so much change in so little time! We are all ...
Source: Turquoise Gates - February 16, 2014 Category: Cancer Tags: bittersweet growing up homeschool mothering parenting school choices Source Type: blogs
Thursday Over the River and Through the Woods
I stood watching as she dropped spoonfuls of dumpling dough into the boiling water.
By Karen Brenner
+Alzheimer's Reading Room
“Gosh, you make that look so easy!” My 22 year old self was honestly impressed with the elderly woman’s skill in the kitchen.
Grandma Schadi, my boyfriend Tom’s grandmother, banged the spoon on the side of the large pot and looked at me with her fierce blue eyes,
“It would be easy for you, too, if you had been making dumplings for 65 goddamned years!”
You Say Goodbye and We Say Hello:
The Montessori Method for Positive Dementia Care
I now own...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - November 15, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Three Health Benefits of Raisins
In this article, I discuss three health benefits that can result from eating raisins. Two of those health benefits include boron and iron.Contributor: Jocelyn CrawleyPublished: Nov 05, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - November 6, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
How Breakfast Should Be…
My friend, David Myers, took this delicious shot down at the Hardee’s in Opelika this morning. This is how a good Hardee’s breakfast should be, but I would be big as a house in about a month if I ate this way all the time. This is artery clogging goodness with a fried steak biscuit, fried hashrounds, and two glazed cinnamon raisin biscuits. Yum! Charlie brought Maggie and I our breakfast this morning right on cue. Charlie was in an uncommonly good mood laughing and joking. We got breakfast burritos this morning which was a nice change of pace. “I’ll be right back,” Charlie told me as he got in ...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 6, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Source Type: blogs
The Road to Success: Tips for Feeding Your Toddler – Part One
As your baby grows into toddlerhood his taste buds and tolerances will be more in line with an adult’s. However, you want to make sure that the food he (or she) eats is still the best that you can offer because what he learns to like now will probably stay with him for a very long time.
Toddler Food Rejection
Toddlers are constantly testing limits and mealtimes are no exception. Expect plenty of refusals. At mealtimes, you never know when he will reject a food, even a food that he previously relished. Try not to take rejections personally and continue to keep mealtimes pleasant and relaxing. As a new parent you have alre...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - October 3, 2013 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Ruth Yaron Tags: Perspectives Infant Infant Feeding Source Type: blogs
When Food Becomes Weird: From Arsenic to Insects
This study was done by looking at data of 187,000 people. Almost 13,000 of them developed Type 2 diabetes. Of course, this study was conducted by looking at questionnaires that the participants completed. Still, it's interesting. Also, the researchers found that people who drank fruit juice were more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes (we already knew this). Were there flaws in this study? Probably. But the take-home point is that eating whole fruit (not juice) is good for us and, as we've learned, may help protect against one of the most significant health issues we face today.
More next week!
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Source: Diabetes Self-Management - September 30, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Amy Campbell Source Type: blogs
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This week I've written a number of new articles:
Low-Bacteria Diet
How Beneficial is a Low-Bacteria Diet?
How Do I Follow a Low-Fat Diet?
What are the Six Classes of Nutrients?
Healthy Ideas for Apricots
Healthy Ideas for Grapes and Raisins
Healthy Ideas for Grapefruit (Source: About.com Nutrition)
Source: About.com Nutrition - September 10, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Source Type: blogs
What I've Done for You Lately
This week I've written a number of new articles:
Low-Bacteria Diet
How Beneficial is a Low-Bacteria Diet?
How Do I Follow a Low-Fat Diet?
Healthy Ideas for Apricots
Healthy Ideas for Grapes and Raisins
Healthy Ideas for Grapefruit (Source: About.com Nutrition)
Source: About.com Nutrition - September 10, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Source Type: blogs
Delicious Oatmeal Recipe
This delicious oatmeal recipe, chock full of oats, raisins, and other super foods, is sure to be a hit with your family.Contributor: James SymanskiPublished: Aug 31, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - August 31, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
How to Get Your Kids Eating 5 A Day!
Why should your kids be eating a rainbow every day? Each color group provides a unique set of vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients. When kids eat from the 5 color groups it becomes an easy and fun way to ensure that they are benefitting from this wide spectrum of nutrients.
By breaking produce down into groups of fire-engine red, bright orange, sunshine yellow, emerald green and rich blue/purples you can make eating fruits and vegetables fun for your kids and we all know that kids love to have fun!
So how do you get your kids to eat a rainbow? As parents, we need to get into the habit of serving fruits and veggies at e...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - August 15, 2013 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Kia Robertson Tags: Perspectives Healthy Family Eating Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Gotta Try It: The New Sierra Trail Mix CLIF Bar
If you are looking for a pre-workout snack that will give you sustained energy you need to go the extra mile and satisfy your sweet-and-salty cravings, you've got to try CLIF bar's newest flavor, Sierra Trail Mix. As a member of CLIF's dietitian advisory bench, I am super excited about this bar's nutrient-packed -- and flavorful! -- ingredients. The Sierra Trail Mix bar is crafted with crunchy peanuts, rich chocolate, sweet raisins, plus pumpkin and sunflower seeds to create a balanced sweet and salty flavor profile inspired by the classic trail mix combination. Like other CLIF Bars, Sierra Trail Mix provides a nutritious ...
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - August 1, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Nutrition diet food Source Type: blogs
