Here are this week's reading diversions for your personal enlightenment. Have an excellent weekend!
by Helen Lamanna, AdvisorAnalyst.com
3 Ways to Clear the Thoughts that Complicate Your Life
Stress is a major problem for many people – a hectic, stressful work environment, a chaotic home life, unpaid bills to worry about, and harmful habits such as unhealthy eating and lack of exercise can lead to a mountain of endless stress.
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40 Quotes to Help You Follow Your Passion
Everything worthwhile in life is work. But if it puts a smile on your face, it doesn't feel like work.
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Pomegranate Health Benefits: The Fruit Helps Protect Against Plaque, Hunger, And Certain Cancers
The thing is pomegranates are healthy in their own right. Sure, like strawberries, they're a rich source of vitamin C and antioxidants, not to mention fiber and anti-inflammatory properties – but more than that, studies show eating the fruit and/or drinking pomegranate juice can help protect against disease, like certain cancers and Alzheimer's.
10 Nuts With Super-Healing Powers | Caring.com
Think that handful of mixed nuts is just empty calories? Think again: Nuts are nutritional powerhouses, packed with fiber, protein, good fats, and key vitamins and minerals.
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All About Arthritis - Arthritis Center - Everyday Health
Most people think of arthritis as a condition that strikes older people, but different types of arthritis affect people of all ages.
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The 7 Powerful Foods You Need to Fight Dementia - LivingBetter50 - LivingBetter50
Folate deficiency is often associated with dementia and leafy vegetables are known to have natural sources of folate. These vegetables are the likes of spinach, kale, and mustard greens. Having a regular diet of leafy vegetables that has high amounts of folate may improve cognitive functions as well as a person's social function.
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7 Benefits Of Quinoa: The Supergrain Of The Future - Forbes
Quinoa is one of the most protein-rich foods we can eat. It is a complete protein containing all nine essential amino acids.
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7 Benefits Of Quinoa: The Supergrain Of The Future - Forbes
Quinoa is one of the most protein-rich foods we can eat. It is a complete protein containing all nine essential amino acids.
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The Health Benefits Of Eating Apples On The Daily
Eating apples on the daily might keep you away from the doctor, but why are apples in general considered such a powerful fruit to begin with?
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8 Extreme Facts About the Human Body | Reader's Digest | Reader's Digest
Also in Reader's Digest Magazine July 2015 9k SHARES Share Tweet july aug 2015 quirky push our bodies Dan Saelinger/Trunk Archive We humans are programmed to grow stronger, faster, and smarter; to climb higher, live longer, and populate every last inch of real estate.
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12 Little Known Laws of Mindfulness (That Will Change Your Life)
Being angry and unhappy about something is easy. Doing something productive about it is the hard and worthwhile part. Life is too precious and too short to spend it being upset. Drop it. Be positive. Be your best.
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14 Reasons You're Tired All the Time | TIME
Striving to be perfect–which, let's face it, is impossible–makes you work much harder and longer than necessary, says Irene S. Levine, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine. "You set goals that are so unrealistic that they are difficult or impossible to achieve, and in the end, there is no sense of self-satisfaction." Levine recommends setting a time limit for yourself on your projects, and taking care to obey it. In time, you'll realize that the extra time you were taking wasn't actually improving your work.
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Anti-Aging
Top Reasons to Go Barefoot this Summer!
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As We Age, Keys to Remembering Where the Keys Are - The New York Times
First and foremost, "be physically active." Numerous studies have documented benefits to the brain as well as the body from regular exercise. For example, among 18,766 women ages 70 to 81 participating in the Nurses' Health Study, those with the highest level of activity had a 20 percent lower risk of cognitive impairment than those who were least active.
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8 Toxic Types of People You Should Keep Out of Your Life
Toxic individuals are completely exhausting to be around and they can have a negative impact on your forward momentum. Entrepreneurs need to remain laser focused – the distractions and stress that toxic people bring into your life act as unnecessary obstacles, so it is best to avoid them.
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The Excrement Experiment - The New Yorker
One morning last fall, Jon Ritter, an architectural historian living in Greenwich Village, woke to find an e-mail from a neighbor, who had an unusual request. “Hi Jon, This is Tom Gravel, from Apt. 4N,” the e-mail began. “I wanted to check in and see if you may be open to helping me with a health condition.”
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Passing Pluto: The New Horizons Flyby - The New Yorker
Soon after the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto, at 7:49 A.M. on Tuesday—seventy-two seconds ahead of schedule, after a nine-and-a-half-year journey—Bonnie Buratti, one of the mission’s scientists, told me that she had been worried that the dwarf planet “would be a bit bland.”
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Super-ageing 80-year-olds have brains '30 years younger' - Telegraph
Now scientists have discovered that they are among a group of octogenarian “super-agers” who have brains like people 30 years younger.
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The 10 Best Carbohydrate Sources For Runners - Competitor.com
Runners need a lot of carbohydrate. Why? Because your muscles are fueled primarily on carbohydrate when you run hard. Thus, sports nutrition experts generally recommend that runners get approximately 60 percent of their daily calories from carbohydrate.
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Running on Empty? How to Recognize When You're on the Road to Burnout | Psychology Today
Warning Signals You Can't Afford to Ignore
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Ten Secrets of Healthy Aging | Martha Stewart
You don't need a fountain of youth. Make wise choices now about how you live, and you'll enjoy vibrant health well into your elder years -- naturally. The top integrative experts show you how.
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Constant Phone Checking Could Signal Depression
If you're always glued to your phone, you'll want to read this
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