Broadening Your Mind Through Friendship
I have a friend from high school. It’s the classic sentence that starts every character evaluation, diagnosis, and competition. Maybe it’s because high school is frozen in a space outside normal time where friends became more than the person who sat next to you in social studies. Close friendships have an undeniable power that can affect people long after childhood. Especially for women.
A UCLA study reports that female friendships are unique in the sense that they help biologically reduce stress. A ten year Australian study found that friendships can improve brain functioning as we age. Study after study shows that f...
Source: World of Psychology - September 24, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rebecca Lee Tags: Friends Personal Relationships Research Women's Issues acceptance Belonging Camaraderie Friendship Making Friends Open Mindedness Perspective taking Source Type: blogs
Blueberry, Carrot, and Greens Prebiotic Shake
Another delicious recipe from my new Undoctored book.
If you are into getting more greens and other nutritious foods through a shake or smoothie, here is one way to combine them with prebiotic fibers. The spinach is interchangeable with your choice of greens, such as kale or collard greens— great sources of vitamin K1.
Makes 1
1 peeled green banana or peeled raw white potato, coarsely chopped
1 cucumber, coarsely sliced
1 cup fresh spinach
1 carrot, coarsely sliced
1⁄2 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
cup water
Sweetener equivalent to 1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon inulin or FOS powder (optional)
In a blender, combin...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 1, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes Undoctored Vitamin K Wheat Belly Lifestyle 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
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
Using Photosynthetic Microbes to Oxygenate Ischemic Tissue
Ischemic injuries, in which insufficient oxygen is delivered to tissues, can occur in numerous ways, but heart attacks are among the most common, evident, and dangerous. A sizable branch of the research community works on ways to efficiently and quickly provide oxygen to the impacted tissues so as to reduce the long-term damage and speed recovery. At the end of this road lie permanent enhancements such as respirocyte nanomachinery that will provide hours of supplemental oxygen for all tissues, but for now researchers are still working on the first potential advances in emergency oxygen supplementation, such as the example ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 15, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 192
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 192.
Question 1
Which gas was used in Europe for chemical warfare during the Second World War?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 8, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five bornholm disease cadmium poisoning chlorine conditioning coxsackie B virus daae-finsen devil's grip dinar sylvest gas masks iron mustard gas Pavlov popeye spinach tai-itai vitamin A world war two Source Type: blogs
4 Amazing Reasons to Live Life like a Beginner
You're reading 4 Amazing Reasons to Live Life like a Beginner, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
There’s something about our world that frowns upon people for being beginners.
Job boards are riddled with entry-level positions asking for 4+ years of experience. No one wants the newbie on their sports team because they suck and won’t help them win. No guy in his right mind would want a virg…wait, that’s probably a bad example...
Anyways, beginners often get a bad rap, and this deters many people fr...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jason Gutierrez Tags: featured happiness motivation self improvement best motivation blogs find your passion how to live live life lessons pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
6 Harmful Thoughts Fueling Your Battle with Food
This article courtesy of Tiny Buddha. (Source: World of Psychology)
Source: World of Psychology - May 29, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Disorders Eating Disorders Health-related Personal Publishers Tiny Buddha acceptance bodies Brenda Godinez Diet dieting Eating Habits food Losing Weight nourish Self-Conscious Skinny Source Type: blogs
Diet not working? Maybe it ’s not your type
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Have you heard of the blood type diet? I thought it had been debunked long ago but patients keep asking about it, so I figured I should learn more.
What’s the Blood Type Diet?
In 1996 Peter D’Adamo, a naturopathic physician, published a book in which he described how people could be healthier, live longer, and achieve their ideal weight by eating according to their blood type. One’s choice of condiments, spices, and even exercise should depend on one’s blood type. Soon, the book was a best seller and people everywhere were finding out their blood type, revising their grocery l...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
So my life is having its normal ups and downs. There are definitely the good, the bad, and the ugly.What is good? A whole bunch of things:I actually got enough sleep for a couple of nights. I slept late two days this week which helped. Spring is actually springing. I planted some spinach and peas. Both are cold weather tolerant. Spinach actually will not grow in the heat of the summer. I finally see some progress on my SSDI claim. This means I actually heard back from SSDI for more information for the first time in six months. My husband and I went to the beach for a day last weekend when it was 80 degrees.&...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - April 22, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: being a patient life Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm Sanctuary - First Week of April 2017
In North America, Easter and Thanksgiving are traditionally associated with eating ham and turkey. You can imagine that a vegan sanctuary is very popular with creatures who want want to avoid being eaten.This week, we had the great turkeychautauqua . Every wild turkey in the local forests assembled at Unity Farm Sanctuary for an afternoon of companionship, dancing and gentle conversation. To put this photo in context, it ’s taken from the sanctuary loft - about a football field away from the turkeys. There are 17 turkeys in just this view. Yes, the Tom turkey in the middle of the ph...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - April 6, 2017 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
April in Paris: Voyager Avec Enfants (Day Four)
I had a whole itinerary for the Day 4, though what we ended up doing was …slightly different. But we’ll get there.Breakfast in the morning was a relaxed affairchez-nous again, and by the time we left the apartment, around 10:30am, we had plans to walk across the bridge at Passerelle Debilly to take 72 line of the city bus up to theCentre Pompidou. The Pompidou Center is architecturally unique, of course, and between the modern art and therobust children ’s programming I ’d read about, I figured we could spend most of the morning there into the early afternoon.The bus ride was fine, and easy to negotiate. We ’d bo...
Source: the underwear drawer - April 6, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Michelle Au Source Type: blogs
Spinach Stuffed Mushrooms
Tired of serving the same old cheese plate and cracker appetizer? Looking for something just as satisfying and crowd pleasing but without the calories or carbs?
Look no further than these delicious, easy to make, healthy spinach stuffed mushrooms.
Eat them with a knife and fork, cut into quarters and you have four incredible mouthfuls. Serve with a bowl of spicy olives – there’s nothing that tastes better than a bite of each in your mouth at the same time.
These mushrooms are so satiating that I’ve served them as a main dish. Add a side salad following a small bowl of soup and you’ve got a light bu...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - March 5, 2017 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Appetizers best easy Make-ahead Spinach stuffed mushrooms use bread crumbs vegetarian Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Healthy Foods That Fight Stress
You're reading Top 10 Healthy Foods That Fight Stress, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Nowadays, many people suffer from stress due to busy lifestyles. In fact, too much stress may cause a lot of side effects on the mood, behavior, and body. It may even result in short-term and long-term physical issues such as impaired learning ability, impaired memory, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, a weak immune system, and coronary heart disease. Keeping a healthy lifestyle and having a proper diet will help to c...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ann Nguyen Tags: depression diet featured health and fitness self improvement antioxidants best self-improvement blogs diet and stress foods to beat stress home remedies pickthebrain trending diets Source Type: blogs
Five Meditation Practices For People Who Don ’t Want to Meditate
You're reading Five Meditation Practices For People Who Don’t Want to Meditate, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
If you've ever thought that meditation wasn't for you for whatever reason, you may be surprised to find out that you've been practicing it all along. While traditional meditation in a monastery does entail sitting in the lotus position for long periods of time, it's not the only method. Even monks practice meditation in different ways like when they're eating or doing medial chores.
The ru...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: MeeraWatts Tags: creativity featured happiness health and fitness meditation philosophy self improvement alternative meditations best self-improvement blogs easy meditation practices health benefits of meditation mediation pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
