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Body Fat And Brain Shrinkage: Obesity May Put Even Your Brain Health Into A Vicious Cycle

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Body Fat And Brain Shrinkage: Obesity May Put Even Your Brain Health Into A Vicious Cycle
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Body Fat, Obesity And Brain Shrinkage, A Vicious Cycle:
Weight loss is something that comes with a lot of challenges and motivations.

Most of which starts with looking better, and maybe eventually even feeling better.

And while many of us just assume that excess bodyfat is an unsightly-inconvenience,

Science is finding out that it’s a lot more problematic than just looks.

And if you need to lose fat, then the study by Ilona Dekkers at the University of Leiden will make you want to put your running-shoes right on,

Because excess-bodyfat affects a lot more than just your looks…

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Eating Nuts During Pregnancy: Moms Can Give Us The Gift Of Life And Also Intelligence

Filed Under: Family

Eating Nuts During Pregnancy: Moms Can Give Us The Gift Of Life And Also Intelligence
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Dietary Nut Consumption & Pregnancy, Good Nutrition Starts Early!:
A lot of us concerned with health and wellness also spend time worrying about nutrition, and with good reason!

One of the smartest men in the ancient world, Hippocrates, advised people to pay serious attention, too.

While we all obsess over the changes we can make in our own lives,

We might not always think about the changes we can make for others.

And it turns out some researchers in Spain are finding-out even more about the wonderful gifts that some mothers can give their children after the miracle of life…

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How You Can Become An Intuitive-Eater: Recalibrating Your Appetite Might Be Worth The Work

Filed Under: Weight Loss / Fat Loss

How You Can Become An Intuitive-Eater: Recalibrating Your Appetite Might Be Worth The Work
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Weight-Loss Made “Easy”, Becoming An Intuitive-Eater:
So everyone out there considering nutrition and weight-loss programs wants the same thing. -Ease of use.

Diets are an unnatural pain in the butt, and they rarely work.

So a recent trend reminded me of something I’d heard of before: Intuitive-Eating.

The most recent data-point was investigating the mysterious Yazemeenah Rossi.

It’s hard to know her true secrets, but I put might have found a few good-guesses.

And let’s face-it, the allure of being an Intuitive-Eater is that staying slim becomes effortless because the ultimate code now resides in you…

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Time-Restricted Eating: It Looks Like Intermittent-Fasting’s Magic May Also Help Blood-Sugar, Too

Filed Under: Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Time-Restricted Eating: It Looks Like Intermittent-Fasting’s Magic May Also Help Blood-Sugar, Too
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Time-Restricted Eating Vs. Blood-Sugar, The Sweet Study Results:
Much of the time we consider nutrition, it’s for simple but superficial reasons.

Trying to just lose weight, or even get that movie-star physique.

Food-choices factor greatly; but the specific Plan can influence results, too.

One of the more interesting ones of late is something called Intermittent-Fasting.

Though it comes in many forms, the most popular one is Time-Restricted-Eating.

And the more science progresses, the more it finds that it’s probably the most useful diet-strategy of all.

Especially if you believe the new work out of the University of South Adelaide…

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Electrical Brain Stimulation: Frankenstein Your Forehead For Improved Working-Memory

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Electrical Brain Stimulation: Frankenstein Your Forehead For Improved Working-Memory
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Electrical Brain Stimulation For Memory. IT’S ALIIVE!!!:
In 1894, Pierre DeCoubertin coined the Olympics Motto: Faster, Higher, Stronger.

To an extent, non-Olympian humanity is constantly trying to do something similar.

And as our population becomes both older, and also more focused on mental-work,

The importance of being a lifelong Cognitive Athlete, or at-least maintaining fitness in that area becomes increasingly-apparent.

And a team at Boston University is showing that science previously-dismissed as Frankensteinian hokum can actually improve mental-performance…

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Vitamins From Food Vs. Pills: You May Not Be Able To Supplement Your Way Out Of A Bad Diet

Filed Under: Vitamins/Supplements

Vitamins From Food Vs. Pills: You May Not Be Able To Supplement Your Way Out Of A Bad Diet
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Vitamins From Food Or Pills. Can Supplements Fix Bad Nutrition?:
So we all try to focus on eating healthy, with varying levels of success.

And as we showed before, there are some real pitfalls out there,

When it comes to going for what’s cheap, tasty, or quick.

So as a result of our dietary-sins, when we’re not dieting or exercising,

Many of us are using Supplements and Vitamins to try to make-up for the mistakes and deficiencies,

And even though it seems well-intentioned, some research from Tufts has come out that may discourage you, even from taking vitamins…

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Ultra-Processed Food Dangers: Ready To Eat Foods Can Readily Shorten Your Life

Filed Under: Nutrition

Ultra-Processed Food Dangers: Ready To Eat Foods Can Readily Shorten Your Life
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Ultra-Processed Food Dangers. The Snack That Bites Back!:
We all worry to some extent about Nutrition.

And we’re all reminded on a fairly-regular basis to eat right.

This also comes with some vague stipulation about avoiding certain things.

But it may not always be clear other than the obvious platitudes.

However, recently a French team is looking into the How & Why of avoiding increasingly processed-foods,

And they are slowly putting together some actual Facts & Figures about why you really want to listen…

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Birth Month & Your Health: The Astrologists Were Right About Your Future After-All!

Filed Under: Disease

Birth Month & Your Health: The Astrologists Were Right About Your Future After-All!
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Birth Month & Disease Risk. Your Horoscope = Your Health?:
As much as we’d like to think so, Science is not new.

Mankind has been trying to solve problems using their best guess since the beginning of time.

Sometimes that involved explanations using natural phenomena, like the stars.

And although people haven’t put much stock in Astrology since the Tarot-card-reading days of the 1600s,

A new take on this old system may prove the prior wisdom correct, in surprising ways…

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