Healthy Living Articles

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• 10 Traits of Highly Productive People
  For many of us, productivity sounds like an intimidating word. Or it’s akin to catching a butterfly. You keep running after ...
• The Truth About Grief: The Myth of Its Five Stages
  Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s famous five stages — denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance — have been taught all over America and basically become part of our vernacular. In fact, in many ways these stages have been ...
• Meditation for Beginners
  I’m a mess when it comes to meditating. I feel like I break all the rules. I fidget. I daydream. I am ...
• Five Pathways to Happiness
  We all yearn for happiness, but many of us go about it the wrong way. For instance, acquiring things makes us ...
• What You Need to Know Before Living Together
  Over 12 million unmarried Americans are living together in 6 million ...
• A Good Sex Life is Not Just About Chemistry
  Sometimes sexual problems are the body’s way of communicating a message to us that cannot ...
• Choosing the Right Diet
  Starting a new weight-loss program can be intimidating. There are so many questions and so many different answers. With so much ...
• Humor As Weapon, Shield and Psychological Salve
  Humor has long been recognized as more than mere fun and games. It presents an alternative means of expressing criticism about injustices, ...
• When Mental Illness Strikes: Tips for Couples
  Mental illness is tough on couples. “The stress level often stretches into a crisis mode, in which managing the illness becomes, for ...
• Getting on Track with Your Eating Behaviors
  For those who struggle with food and eating, the new year often brings the resolution to do better this time around: Lose ...
• The Mindful Way through Holiday Anxiety
  The holidays are filled with joy, cheer, good food -- and often a whole lot of stress. There are gifts to buy and mall crowds ...
• 10 Tips for Setting Successful Resolutions That Stick
  We know what you're thinking: Here's another article that’s going to give me the same old tips for making and keeping ...
• When Your Child Asks, Is Santa Real?
  December rituals are similar in millions of households around the U.S. There’s a big buildup to Christmas with trips to visit ...
• Do Carbohydrates Keep Dieters Happy?
  Low-carbohydrate diets may negatively affect dieters' well-being, researchers have found. A team from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia looked at ...
• Total Relaxation: Healing Practices for Body, Mind & Spirit
  Who among us could not use a little more relaxation in our lives?  Especially since Americans as a whole seem to have forgotten how to incorporate active rest into the quotidian, relying instead on mindless ...
• What We Eat: Morality and the Dinner Table
  We humans enjoy dividing things into categories. Doing so helps us form cognitive shortcuts and organize large sets of information. ...
• Proximity to Green Spaces Boosts Health
  New research confirms the importance for health of living near green spaces. Dr. Jolanda Maas of the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam, ...
• Food, Family and the Holidays
  If you tend to struggle with food, weight and body image, holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas can be particularly challenging, because they revolve so much ...
• Wannarexia: What Parents Can Do
  Anorexia nervosa is a serious illness with dangerous health consequences and has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Yet some people yearn ...
• Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
  In his new book Spent, leading evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller takes us on a journey through modern consumerism. He explains how and why we choose to buy the things we do, and what these choices ...
• Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life
  “Humans suffer, in part, because they are verbal creatures.” So says Steven Hayes, PhD, authors of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life. We, as humans, learn specific names for specific things and we ...
• Eliminate Outdated Attitudes on Mental Health
  Spring is a time for new beginnings. This year, let’s celebrate the season with a new approach to America’s mental health -- one that will save Americans much shame and suffering even as ...
• Tipper Gore on Mental Illness
  Speech given at Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry Dartmouth Hitchcook Medical Center Thursday, January 14, 1999 Good afternoon and thank you, Dr. Silberfarb for the kind introduction It's great ...
• Changepower! 37 Secrets to Habit Change Success
  In Changepower! 37 Secrets to Habit Change Success, Meg Selig uses Prochaska and DiClemente’s Transtheoretical Stages of Change Model as a “springboard” for inspiring habit change. Selig breaks down each stage (Pre-Contemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, ...
• Your Brain After Chemo: A Practical Guide to Lifting the Fog and Getting Back Your Focus
  For those who are preparing, experiencing, or just finishing chemotherapy and are interested in how the treatment may affect their brain, and for those who live with cancer survivors who suffer cognitive setback, this is ...