When you are fasting, like when you get up early in the morning and haven’t eaten since your evening meal, your blood glucose should be under 100. If you consume any kind of food, especially food high in sugar, that glucose level should rise. If the blood glucose is low and if it doesn’t go […]
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The deck off the south door of our house is over twenty years old now. While we have taken good care of it, a twenty year old deck will show its age. The third step on the stairs from the deck has two nails that work their way up. I see them and shudder to […]
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Reframing is the process of putting a new definition, a new “frame” around an event. How we define an event it tremendously important. It predicts how the event will affect us. Alia Crum, Peter Salovey, and Shawn Achor have a new article out, “Rethinking Stress: The role of mindsets in determining the stress response.” The […]
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At this year's American Psychiatric Association meeting in San Francisco, just completed, Dr Drew Ramsey, MD, talked about three large studies suggesting that what we eat does have a large impact on our moods. He reviewed Sanchez-Villega's large study of Spanish college students (1). In this well-known study, she and her colleagues found that one's […]
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Recently a man asked me how to keep people working hard when they aren’t having much success. His business involves encouraging people to make sales of the company’s products. His products are of high quality, but not everyone wants them. So the sales representatives have to make a lot of calls to make their sales […]
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What are your strengths? Are you using them each day? The new website, viame.org, offers the Values In Action (VIA) to both adults and youth, and their versions are only half as long as the versions you might have seen on www.authentichappiness.org. Still at no cost, although if you want a more extensive report (rather […]
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Magpies have a particular “here is a cat” call they do. For years, a pair of magpies have had a nest in one of our Austrian pines. I have seen them squawking at our cat when he comes out to patrol the yard. They get right down on the lawn with him, hop up within […]
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In an interview with me, Dr. Charles Raison, University of Arizona School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the School of Agriculture, discussed the shocking hypothesis that we are sicker because we are too clean. At the risk of doing heedless damage to his well-articulated ideas, I will try to explain. There are a […]
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In his TED talk, the deliciously named Allan Savory described “desertification,” the process we see throughout the whole world in which formerly green areas are turning to desert. Some climates, such as Britain, get year-round rainfall and are always green. But the majority of the world’s surface gets episodic rain, heavy at one time of […]
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(Dr David Duemler has kindly offered this book review to us. Read and enjoy!LJ) In her book Love 2.0, Barbara Frederickson proposes that love is based on micro-moments of “positivity resonance.” In these moments there is sharing of positive emotion, synchrony in biochemistry and behavior, and motivation resulting in mutual care. Frederickson is not the […]
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