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The Internet’s Effects On Your Brain: Heavy Use Changes Neurology, Esp. If You’re Young

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

The Internet’s Effects On Your Brain: Heavy Use Changes Neurology, Esp. If You’re Young
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The Internet’s Effects On Your Brain, The Matrix Has You:
A lot of the time, when we think of health-hazards, the first thing that comes to mind is something like Saturated Fat or Excess Sugar,

Or if you’re really plugged-in, Diesel Exhaust near big cities and highways.

But that gets into things less-explored because it’s easy to ignore what’s around us.

And just like the stealthy air-pollution from engines that are supposed to save fuel,

Other positive initiatives can end up having negative consequences.

And if a team from Western Sydney is right, The Internet itself might be making us less-healthy. No, the irony is not lost here on HT…

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Anxiety And Microbes: Free Your Gut & Your Mind Will Follow, With Diet Changes + Probiotics

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Anxiety And Microbes: Free Your Gut & Your Mind Will Follow, With Diet Changes + Probiotics
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Anxiety, Gut Microbes & Nutrition, Unexpected Improvements:
Tracking down any kind of health-hiccup can be a bit of a trial, no matter what it is.

And one of the most difficult things to fix is your mind, where the recommendations become less obvious.

As SCIENCE improves, it’s finding increasingly strange evidence and solutions.

Like the kind of stuff the crazy Meditation crowd has been telling us for the past few thousand years.

And the best friends of the Meditators are the Yoga & Yogurt wingnuts, who just might be on to something, if a review by Chinese doctors is right…

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Blueberries And Heart Health: Nature’s Superfood Rocks You Like A Tiny Blue Hurricane

Filed Under: Nutrition

Blueberries And Heart Health: Nature’s Superfood Rocks You Like A Tiny Blue Hurricane
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Blueberries & Heart Health, The Little Blue “Pills” That Could!:
Many of the improvements people try to make are to modify things they already do.

But as advanced as we are in the western world, we seem to make lots of mistakes with Diet.

And so the crazy health-hackers out there like us sometimes look for the opposite-extreme: Superfoods, like we found out before with nuts.

Well, we can add another amazing benefit to one of the traditional superfoods we’ve heard about for awhile, because if East Anglia’s work about Blueberries is right, they could be a lifesaver…

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Sense Of Purpose And Longevity: You Might Live Longer If You Can Figure Out A Really Good “Why”

Filed Under: Aging

Sense Of Purpose And Longevity: You Might Live Longer If You Can Figure Out A Really Good “Why”
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Sense Of Purpose & Living Longer. “Why?” Is A Very Important Question:
When most people think about health, the thoughts that come to mind are usually, “Eat Right & Exercise”.

And if they think about brain/mental health, the ideas that come up are: Anxiety and Anti-Depressants.

There’s nothing wrong with that, because those are the big-ticket items in magazines.

But the Yoga & Meditation crowd have subconsciously-circled a much deeper issue.

And scientists from the University of Michigan are finding research-backed evidence that getting the important stuff about your mind right eventually helps your body…

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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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