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Welcome to the Modern Mediterranean Diet
How would you like to eat fats and carbohydrates and still lose weight? Enjoy delicious dishes that are easy to prepare? Eat foods that lower your risk of disease and help you live longer?Do you like...
View ArticleStressors and Suicidal Behavior
Completed suicides and suicide attempts in which a person truly intends to die occur most often in persons suffering from major depression. Does stress also play a role in suicidal behaviors? That...
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When Holistic Medicine and Traditional Psychiatry Clash
I didn't expect that trying holistic medicine, integrative medicine in particular, would cause any conflict with my psychiatric care. My introduction to the idea came through a friend I have known...
View ArticleFriendship Is Key to Lasting Marriages and Romantic Partners
Friendship has been found to be the key to a healthy relationship between partners. Think about a time when you met a new couple -- from early on, you probably were able to guess at the level of...
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The 12 Virtues, and Vices, of Venting
Any scrupulous appraisal of airing out your frustrations with others must conclude that its value —practically as well as ethically—is somewhat ambiguous. Undeniably, emotional ventilation has many...
View ArticleThe Importance of Listening Well to Young People
In my work as an Elementary School Counselor, I meet with young children everyday who are overcome by emotion. On my best days, it is feelings of pure joy, amazement, excitement, and wonder that take...
View ArticleKeep Your Marriage Sexy, 7 Simple Secrets
Keeping Your Marriage Sexy- 7 Simple SecretsAs a wife with two small children I completely understand the lack of time and attention that gets paid to my sex life. Its not that I’m not interested in...
View ArticleLeave Noah Out of It
Whoever said, “God moves in mysterious ways,” really knew what he was talking about. According to the Bible, God employs very subtle and indirect means to achieve His purposes. For instance, when God...
View ArticleDo You Want To Leave A Legacy? This Book Tells You How
I never knew my grandparents. They died before I was born. They left some photographs, their mythical roles in my parents’ childhoods, and family names. I was fortunate to inherit their tradition,...
View ArticleHow Not to Introduce a Speaker
When I attend a presentation, the first thing that captures my attention isn’t the speaker or the material. It’s the person who introduces the speaker.After giving a few hundred speeches in the past...
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On Time
Do you get less done than you think you should? Especially in our harried times, many people feel that way. Perhaps one or more of these ideas will help you.1. Realize you’ll feel better if you get...
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Four Truths About Weight Loss that Nobody Tells You
I Finally Made It!I had been overweight since second grade. Not only was I fat, but I was (and still am) short (5'3"). I endured many nicknames because of my physical appearance, but the most creative...
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ADHD and Refined Sugar
A few facts: As I discuss in ADHD: The High Price Of A Quick, Quick Fix, stimulant medication (the primary treatment for ADHD) sales are now five times what they were in 2002—with revenues exceeding $8...
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What Tactics Motivate Bullies to Stop Bullying?
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak with both Jaana Juvonen from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Robert Faris from University of California, Davis about two very different...
View ArticleBrain Injury: Methods and Treatments Part Two
In part one, I introduced neurofeedback as one of the chief methods that helped me regain my life again. Because of the results neurofeedback has given both me and my clients, I started this five-part...
View ArticleThe Oso Mudslide: Why DO We Live in Harm's Way?
More than 20 people are dead and at least 90 missing and presumed dead after a huge hillside of mud, clay, and rock collapsed and slid down into their little village of Oso in western Washington. As...
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Comic Wit George Carlin Spills All
Famous for his witty and politically incorrect social criticism, comic George Carlin (1937-2008) did stand-up beginning in the 1950s. He released numerous comedy albums, later performing many popular...
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What Is Healthy Distraction?
In Relapse Prevention 101, one of the techniques recovering addicts learn is distraction. Many are already familiar with the unhealthy version of this skill. After all, people often develop addictions...
View ArticleGreat Leaders Are Made
Sylvanus Thayer, a superintendent at West Point Military Academy in the early 1800s, had an enormous vision regarding the education of the cadets. And many of these cadets have, as history tells us,...
View ArticleWhy Gen-X Doesn't Get Boomers or Millennials
I am a card-carrying member of what popular myth refers to as the Me Generation—the dreaded Baby Boomers. According to popular wisdom, we accomplished nothing more than moving to the suburbs, and...
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