Healthy Living Articles

Listed by most recent articles first.

• 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• Eliminate Outdated Attitudes on Mental Health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 ...
• The Depression Cure
  Upon reading Stephan Ilardi’s book The Depression Cure, a quote from Chuck Palahniuk’s book Fight Club continued to pop up in my mind. In one chapter, a character by the name of Tyler Durden explains ...
• Diet, Exercise Protect Brain in Later Life
  Research supports a healthy diet and moderate exercise for protection against cognitive decline and dementia. Results presented at last year's Alzheimer's ...
• Fear Affects Cancer Screening Decisions
  Research suggests that fear plays a major role in deciding whether to get tested for cancer. Kelly Ackerson, PhD, of Western Michigan University and colleagues used decision theory from economics and psychology to investigate why some ...
• Train the Brain: Use It or Lose It
  Dr. Gareth Moore has authored several puzzle and brainteaser books aimed at exercising the “brain muscle.”. Train the Brain: Use It or Lose It is Dr. Moore’s latest work in this field. In the introduction ...
• When You’re Not in the Path of a Hurricane
  Even if you were not directly affected by the hurricanes, you may experience a sense of vulnerability from witnessing the results of the disaster. This can be especially acute if a relative or friend was affected ...
• Managing Stress After a Hurricane
  It is common for people to experience very strong emotional reactions with the arrival of a hurricane and its accompanying damage to homes and community infrastructures. If you are experiencing distress in the wake of ...
• Emotionally Prepare for a Hurricane
  Preparing for and anticipating the arrival of a large-scale hurricane can be distressing for people living in the hurricane’s path. There may be uncertainty ahead about your living arrangements, work and other important life factors, ...
• The Skinny on Willpower: How To Develop Self-Discipline
  You might manage a perfect weight, exact self-discipline in all areas of your life, and achieve everything you set out to do. Or you might be like everyone else, and struggle with your ...
• The Importance of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Pregnancy
  How important are omega-3 fatty acids in a pregnant woman's diet? Pregnant women are advised to eat about 12 ounces of fish ...
• Top 10 Daily Habits To Keep Depression Away
  There are certain things that, done regularly, help keep my depression symptoms at bay. Some are very familiar while others ...
• Body Dissatisfaction and Pregnancy
  Pregnancy is associated with dramatic changes in women's body shape and size, and for many women, these changes trigger mixed emotions. For some, ...
• Natural and Herbal Supplements for Common Mental Disorders
  Many medications for common mental disorders, although helpful, can cause unpleasant side effects that discourage patients from taking their prescribed dose. In recent years, there has been a great deal of interest in ...
• 10 Ways To Find New Motivation and Rise Above Roadblocks
  How often do you lament, “If only I were more motivated, I could get so much done and ...