7 Simple Smoothies to Boost Your Mood
I have mentioned in some of my posts that drinking a green smoothie is one of my more effective sanity tools. For fear of sounding like an infomercial, I must say that I realize there is no simple cure for depression. But I do think chugging down two or three of these leafy-green concoctions a day has significantly impacted my health and begun the healing process for some of my conditions.
The Benefits of Green Smoothies
Why green smoothies?
“Greens are the primary found group that matches human nutritional needs most completely,” explains Victoria Boutenko in her book Green for Life. They are nutrition powerhouses, pa...
Source: World of Psychology - January 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Diet Digestion green smoothie juicing Source Type: blogs
Physical Health and Mental Health, Part 1: Eating Healthfully
Mental health and physical health are closely related. Keeping physically fit actually helps our mental health too; because it is very hard to stay psychologically healthy when our physical health is poor. If we are physical functioning poorly it takes an emotional toll on us as well.
Caring for your body and mind may mean you’ll not only live longer, but better. Eating healthfully, exercising regularly and getting a good night’s sleep are all important aspects to both the health of our mind and body. Just as there are many effective treatments for physical illnesses, besides therapies and medications, lifestyle inter...
Source: World of Psychology - January 5, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Staci Lee Schnell, MS,CS,LMFT Tags: ADHD and ADD Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Anxiety and Panic Depression Health-related Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Healthy Eating Major Depressive Disorder Mental Health Disorders Omega-3 fatty acid Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - Third Week of November 2016
This week we had the Supermoon -the largest/brightest moon since 1948 The pigs enjoyed basking in the moonlight while rooting and hunting for grubs/worms. Here ’s a picture of hazel in the moonlightPigs are hedonists and there are three things that make them happy1. Food2. Warmth3. Belly rubsHere are a few picturesTofu enjoying a fall sugar pumpkinHazel stealing a piece of Tofu ’s pumpkinHazel in the winter pig palace warming her posterior in the mid morning sunA television film crew dropped by the farm this week to get closeups of the alpaca. Here ’s what it looked like. The alpaca are demandin...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - November 17, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Hot soup in a hurry
I come from a long line of skilled soup makers. In the late 1800s, my great-grandmother Enrichetta Cavagnolo, newly arrived from northern Italy, was a soup chef at Delmonico’s in New York City. Enrichetta’s daughter and granddaughters (my grandmother, mother, and aunts) were talented soup makers as well, to the delight of our well-fed family.
But the soup-making gene seemed to skip me. I was never interested in boiling bones for broth, chopping mounds of vegetables, and stirring soup — with love — for hours. It was too much fuss, I thought — until I learned the shortcut.
Fast and healthy
Turns out, making a delic...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heidi Godman Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - First Week of November 2016
Now that I ’m back from my Asia Pacific travels, I’m hard at work in the evenings and weekends catching up on the farm work I missed. The storms of Fall have caused a lot of fallen branches and trees. The 5 inches of rain (so much for the drought), have created a soup of mud, hay, and poop in the animal paddocks. We ’ve created the mother of all brush piles - 50 feet long and 20 feet high from all the fallen branches and debris in the forest around the barnyard. We ’ll grind it next week and use the chips on all the trails we’ll build on the new Sanctuary property when the tr...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - November 3, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
16 Ways to Get a Dementia Patient to Eat More Food
Alzheimer's and dementia patients often eat less, and have difficulty eating, because of problems like chewing, swallowing or digesting food.Alzheimer's Reading RoomAlzheimer's and dementia patients sometimes lose interest in eating. This can happen for a long list of reasons including loss of taste, the ability to smell, memory loss, and thinking they already ate.Medications can also effect appetite, and can increase constipation.When a person has Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia, these problems can becomemore pronounced, and often effect mood, behavior, and physical functioning.When Dementia Patients Don't EatAl...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - November 2, 2016 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's awareness caregiver stress dementia care family caregiving help alzheimer's help with dementia care home care learning memory care senior care Source Type: blogs
13 Foods That Are as Inexpensive as They Are Healthy
You're reading 13 Foods That Are as Inexpensive as They Are Healthy, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Eating a quality, nutritious diet is critical to health and wellbeing. Without the right foods, your body and mind cannot function as nature intended them to. Unfortunately, a small budget can make eating well seem impossible. Nutritious but expensive foods are not an option for those with limited resources. Thankfully, there are plenty of foods that are as inexpensive as they are healthy. Here are thirte...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: jaketyler Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement best self-improvement blogs diet tips healthy inexpensive foods most healthy foods pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Why Carrots Really Are Good for Your Eyes
New research from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health suggests that the more colorful fruits and vegetables we eat, the lower the risk of advancedmacular degeneration (AMD), a serious age-related vision problem that can lead to blindness. Researchers gathered data from health surveys that tracked more than 63,000 women and nearly 39,000 men all of whom were nurses or other health professionals aged 50 and older. They found that from the mid-1980s until 2010 about 2.5 percent of the survey respondents developed intermediate or advanced forms of macular degeneration. Compared to those who reported consuming the le...
Source: Dr. Weil's Daily Health Tips - October 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Weil Tags: AMD Science and Supplement News carrots eyes vision Source Type: blogs
Autumn Anxiety is Real and Treatable
It happens every year. As I watch the first golden leaves fall from the oak tree outside our house and listen to the sound of the cicadas ushering in autumn, my anxiety spikes. I used to think I was relapsing into depression, but having been through this year after year (and documenting it in my mood journal), I now know I’m just going through my annual bout of autumn anxiety: a nervous feeling in my gut that begins the last week of August and continues through the first weeks of September.
I’m hardly alone. Many of my friends who battle anxiety — and even those that don’t have a mood disorder — say ...
Source: World of Psychology - October 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Anxiety and Panic Bipolar Depression Inspiration & Hope Mental Health and Wellness Personal Self-Help Stress Allergies autumn anxiety Breathing Technique cytokines Exhaustion fall fever Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - First Week of October
The drought has taken its toll on the Fall color, with leaves going from green to brown then dropping off the trees. The mornings are crisp - in the 50 ’s and the afternoons barely reach 70. The shadows are long and the hoop house loses sunlight at 3pm. The lettuces and spinaches are thriving in the early fall weather and the furry animals relish the cooler climate.Each week is filled with harvest work and the effort to move Unity Farm Sanctuary forward. We ’re finishing the inspections and well testing of the adjacent property this week and hopefully will progress to a formal purchase and ...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - September 29, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - Fourth Week of September 2016
It ’s the first week of Fall and leaves are beginning to drop. The drought of Summer has stressed all the trees and they are going dormant early. We ’ve done our best to keep our orchards thriving, but the Apple harvest is about half the usual quantity as well as a few weeks early. Last year our Macs and Red Delicious had the desirable sugar levels (15-20%) in mid October. This week, they were already at 16%, so we harvested. We ’ll be pressing cider over the next two weekends and begin the weeks of fermentation for our 2016 vintage. We ’ve harvested the last of our pepp...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - September 22, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - Third Week of September 2016
The nights are beginning to cool down to the 40 ’s and we’ve doubled up on the straw in the pig barn in addition to tucking them in each night with 3 fleece blankets. In a few weeks we ’ll move them from the Summer Pig Cottage (shaded/east facing) to the Winter Pig Palace (sunny/south facing) and given them their cold weather quilts for sleeping. It ’s hard to imagine the farm without the pigs. Like dogs and geese and they are intelligent, emotionally responsive companions that really brighten our days.The drought continues and we ’ve had only half an inch of rain this month. The apple...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - September 15, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
9 Steps to Treat Depression Naturally
Ever since I started an online community for treatment-resistant depression — depression and anxiety that don’t respond to psychotropic medications — I’ve been inundated with mail from desperate people who have tried 30 to 40 different kinds of antidepressants, and feel no relief. I repeatedly hear from family members of folks who have tried everything, and are not getting better. I sense the utter frustration and despair in their words, and it pains me. I, too, felt hopeless after trying countless medication combinations and sitting through years of psychotherapy sessions, only to continue my death ob...
Source: World of Psychology - September 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Depression Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Treatment Alternative Medicine Bipolar Disorder homeopathy Immune System Mood Disorder Omega-3 fatty acid Sleep st Source Type: blogs
Water Fasting Summary
I completed my water fast yesterday. I fasted for 17 days and 3 hours, which is longer than I’ve ever fasted before. This post is a summary of the experience, building upon what I shared on Day 6 of the fast.
Motivation
This isn’t the same world people lived in 100 years ago. The unfortunate truth is that we now live in an environment filled with toxins that our bodies weren’t evolved to efficiently eliminate. These toxins include pesticides, herbicides, pollution, heavy metals, plastics, animal hormones, pharmaceuticals, radiation, and more. We’re exposed to such toxins merely by drinking water, br...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - September 12, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
The Productive Diet: 7 Simple Ways To Eat Your Way To Getting More Done
You're reading The Productive Diet: 7 Simple Ways To Eat Your Way To Getting More Done, 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 type in the words “how to be more productive” into Google you’ll find 36,400,000 results. Much of what comes up will talk about the latest hacks, tricks, and techniques for making you more productive.
However, only a small percentage of these articles talk about one of the biggest productivity “hacks” of all: eating in a way that optimizes your energy and mental fo...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ron Reich Tags: featured health and fitness motivation productivity tips self improvement success being productive best health blogs diet and exercise eat for success focus how to be healthy how to eat for productivity mental health pickthebra Source Type: blogs
