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Gratitude’s Health Benefits: The Pilgrims Were Right. Being Thankful Can Make Your Life & Health Better!

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Gratitude’s Health Benefits: The Pilgrims Were Right. Being Thankful Can Make Your Life & Health Better!
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Gratitude, Optimism, & Quality Of Life. You Could Live Better & Longer!:
With the end-of-year holidays upon us now, that means at least one thing.

We all survived Thanksgiving with our weird, and probably-alcoholic relatives.

Which bring us to an important point: Many holidays try to emphasize at least some good personal qualities.

Especially when it comes to remembering people who had almost nothing and risked it all to try to start over.

Those people were genuinely thankful for every tiny bit of something they had.

And that’s not just an exercise in “woo-woo”. SCIENCE! has found real benefits…

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By: Will  /    /    

Intermittent Fasting And The Eating-Time Window: Killing Your Midnight-Snack To Optimize Your Life

Filed Under: Aging

Intermittent Fasting And The Eating-Time Window: Killing Your Midnight-Snack To Optimize Your Life
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Intermittent Fasting Vs. Time. How To Optimize Effort & Reward:
The type of thing that we all come to sites like HealthTrekker for is: Improvements.

What are Science’s little tricks that might turn into huge benefits over time?

And part of that question implies the idea of Cost/Benefit.

One example of the strife many people have with Cost/Benefit is the amount of weight & fat they lose for whatever diet & exercise program they’re on.

Well one recent diet-program that’s been getting a lot of attention is Intermittent Fasting/Time-Restricted Feeding.

Given IF’s many benefits, it’s no wonder researchers are trying to optimize costs…

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By: Will  /    /    

Feeling Younger Vs. Aging: Another Chapter In The Way Your Mindset Affects Your Longevity

Filed Under: Aging

Feeling Younger Vs. Aging: Another Chapter In The Way Your Mindset Affects Your Longevity
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Feeling Younger Than Your Calendar Age. Mindset Is The Fountain Of Youth:
One of the more interesting challenges in health is testing out the “Old Wives’ Tales”.

Does an ounce of prevention really equal a pound of cure? etc.

Because as we’ve said here before, Ancient Man was not stupid.

And since !SCIENCE! is finding that different aspects of your health are increasingly-interconnected,

Another old saying seems to be gaining some modern traction: “You’re only as old as you feel, and age is just a number.”

Read on to find out how researchers in Germany are figuring out this one too…

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By: Will  /    /    

Olive Oil & Living Longer: Deep-Dive Of Mediterranean Diet Finds A Secret Code For Longevity

Filed Under: Aging, Highlights

Olive Oil & Living Longer: Deep-Dive Of Mediterranean Diet Finds A Secret Code For Longevity
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Olive Oil & Living Longer An Unexpected Find, With A Twist:
A doctor friend once said, “When you finish medical school, they tell you that half of what you just learned is wrong. The problem is, we don’t know which half.”

So a lot of what we think we know is really just general observations and anecdotes.

Like the success of The Mediterranean Diet.

We know it’s one of the best plans out there, but for the “Why?”, we only have educated-guesses.

Until now. Because a UMinn team looked into some of the more interesting benefits and found they come from really odd places…

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By: Will  /    /    

Milk Fat Vs. Aging: The Weird Science Of How Something That Always Seemed Healthy May Not Be

Filed Under: Highlights, Nutrition

Milk Fat Vs. Aging: The Weird Science Of How Something That Always Seemed Healthy May Not Be
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Milk Fat Levels Vs. Aging. Cellular Research Finds Stealth Threats:
Sometimes when researchers go hunting, they can approach things from increasingly-unexpected directions.

And even though SCIENCE would seem a pretty arithmetic endeavor,

It makes sense that they need to get increasingly-creative to find new solutions.

And so just the way we hear of more discoveries in the genetic-testing field from companies like 23 And Me,

One such scientist found a cellular-level health-risk in one of the most unexpected places of all…

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By: Will  /    /    

Finding Meaning In Life: The Discovery That Could Help You Be Happier, Healthier, & Live Longer

Filed Under: Highlights, Mind/Brain

Finding Meaning In Life: The Discovery That Could Help You Be Happier, Healthier, & Live Longer
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Finding Meaning In Life: A Discovery That Might Help You Live Better:
A lot of the time when we think about health, it can seem fairly nuts & bolts.

But ancient-science has always said there was more to it.

And the more crazy health & wellness sites you read, the more you hear from that point of view.

But since it’s so far-off from the daily, pedestrian, trudge,

Most people might think it’s both a silly and elusive idea that there might be more.

So one more out-there study this time by UCSD, adds another link in the chain connecting lowly body to lofty mind, and it’s appropriate for just this time of year…

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By: Will  /    /    

Running & Longevity: A Little High-Quality Cardio May Lower Your Risk Of Premature Bucket-Kickage

Filed Under: Exercise

Running & Longevity: A Little High-Quality Cardio May Lower Your Risk Of Premature Bucket-Kickage
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Running & Longevity. Kick-Up The Cardio, Not The Bucket!:
When most people think about their health, it’s almost always about weight-loss.

And as we’ve shown many times before, Nutrition is king when it comes to that.

The question then becomes, “Why Exercise?” “Isn’t that just for vain gym-rats?”

As PE programs seem to dwindle away from schools and we get fatter as a nation, those might seem like increasingly-valid questions.

But as Science progresses, it finds new proof for old ideas; Ex: Food-as-Medicine.

And an Australian team just found out some concrete info on why you might want to consider getting back into exercise…

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By: Will  /    /    

Optimism & Living Longer: Does A Shift In Your Attitude Also Raise Your Altitude?

Filed Under: Aging, Highlights

Optimism & Living Longer: Does A Shift In Your Attitude Also Raise Your Altitude?
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Optimism & Increased-Longevity. Does The Mindset Control Matter?:
The more Science progresses, the weirder it seems to get.

And conversely, it often tends to confirm many adages from a long time ago.

Like the one by Hippocrates about food being medicine and it being a better idea to get your vitamins and minerals there.

Well another old adage is one about being young at heart and never acting your age.

And if the work by BU, Harvard and a few others is right, a positive mindset might actually make the difference between a long life and a shorter one…

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By: Will  /    /    

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