Healthy Mind
How to Keep New Year's Resolutions All Year Long
Have you thought about your resolutions for for the new year yet? For the majority of people, weight loss and getting healthy is the number one goal. Why is it that we make this resolution over and over again every...
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5 Pillars of Effective Health Goal Setting
People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. It's as simple as that." - Earl Nightingale Have goals? Here is a blueprint of sorts on how to properly set them to propel you towards success....
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Poll: Are You Blind To Your True Weight?
The mystery of why some obese people think that they look good in Lycra has been solved. Usually a distorted body image is discussed in regards to skinny people who think they are fat. However, a new study reveals...
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Why You Should Keep Your Goals Secret
Think of the day when you decided on a life change. You can't wait to share it with all your family and friends. Maybe you announce it at a party, or share it on-line for all to see: "I'm...
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10 Mind Tricks to Keep Your Day Healthy
It's very easy to talk yourself out of doing something healthy. Whether you're struggling to hike a mountain, thinking of the drive through, don't want to do your knee rehab, or don't want to escape the confines of your...
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10 Life-changing Ways to Build a Bulletproof Self-Esteem
All the traps and pitfalls in life, self esteem is the deadliest and hardest to overcome. For it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase: It is no use, I cannot...
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Women Distort Their Own Body Image
I have no full-length mirrors in my house, except for one which I have to open a closet to get to. (I didn't plan it that way, it's just how it worked out.) My brother and sister-in-law's new house...
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Are You Savvy Enough to Spot Retouched Models?
Just a few years ago, photoshopped images were something of a novelty. We published a list of sites where you could gaze at the multitude of ways that models were altered. The practice has now become so commonplace that there...
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Overweight Women: Stop Looking At Models
From new research in the Journal of Consumer Research: "We recommend that overweight consumers attempt to avoid looking at ads with any models, thin or heavy (perhaps by avoiding women's magazines),"...
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17 Truths About Diet and Exercise That No-one Ever Told You
Got a fitness freak or health nut in your life? Or maybe you want to become one. What are you waiting for: Learn the following by heart....
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"Phantom Fat" May Linger After Weight Loss
Naturally, we focus on the wonderful benefits of losing weight (fat) - the health boost, the self-confidence, the ability to move around with more ease and less discomfort. For many however, the self-image that accompanied being fat lingers long...
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11 Techniques to Turn You Into an Exercise Nut
In a destination-focused world we often ignore the importance of the journey. In doing so, we tend to skip over the crucial foundational behavioral aspects that can impede the chances of long-term success. We seek out the fastest possible route...
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Critical Steps to Setting Your Goals
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. - Les Brown There is little doubt that setting goals is the first step when setting your course towards any given achievement....
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Mauritania: Where Fat is Desirable
The world is a strange place - and not every country equates slimness with beauty. The Islamic Republic of Mauritania presents an opposite viewpoint to the West: To men here, fat is sexy. And in this patriarchal region, many Mauritanian...
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The Beck Diet Solution: How to Think Like a Thin Person
SharpBrains has interviewed Judith Beck, author of The Beck Diet Solution. Beck brings the principles from cognitive behavior therapy into the field of weight loss. The Beck Diet Solution is designed to be used alongside any healthy and nutritious...
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Why Slim People Don't Like Fat People
The UK Independent reports on an interesting "discovery": ...the immune system can be triggered into action at the sight of obesity because it doesn't like the look of what it sees, and associates it with infection. The authors of the...
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Developing a Healthy Relationship With Food
Nothing takes away the pleasure of food, quicker than the feeling of guilt. Guilt is the "buzz-kill" of all disobedient activity. But what if the feelings of guilt could be eliminated? What if consumption of your favorite food was...
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5 Reasons Why We Don't Eat Healthy Food
Despite all the campaigns to promote fruit and vegetable intake - only a third of Americans eat two or more pieces of fruit per day. 25% don't eat any vegetables at all (ref). Why not?...
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Your Self-Worth is Not Measured in Pounds
15 year old Chelsea feels gross and overweight. At 5'4" and 120 pounds (54 kg) she is told that she has a normal weight. Chelsea replies "but normal isn't normal anymore is it?"...
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Make Your Own Diet Blog
Blogs are huge. The blog tracking site Technorati has information on over 12.8 million blogs - a truly bewildering number. Diet and weight loss blogs are a popular phenomenon. I'm referring to those blogs that are personal journals. Some are...
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