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Universal Healthcare

The magic of chicken soup Universal Healthcare By Conner Middelmann-Whitney on October 16, 2012 in Nourish If every culture on this planet has its chicken soup, that's not by chance: it is quite...

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What Can I Do to Prevent Colds?

Simple stuff works surprisingly well—once you see how immunity regenerates. What Can I Do to Prevent Colds? By Matthew J. Edlund, M.D. on August 2, 2012 in Getting Healthy Now What if people could...

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Smart Pills vs. Nature Smart

A few years ago, I ran across a particularly intriguing photograph on the 
back page of a magazine. The photo showed a small boy at the ocean's edge. Beyond him you could see a gray sky, a distant...

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Sleep Affects the Power of Vaccines

Research indicates good sleep helps the immune system. Sleep Affects the Power of Vaccines By Michael J. Breus, Ph.D. on September 4, 2012 in Sleep Newzzz How can you give your annual flu vaccination...

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Masculinity and Sport-Induced Head Trauma

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is a progressive neurological disorder caused from blows (not just concussions) to the head, even when wearing a helmet. The problem is not how much padding exists...

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That's Just How I Am

How many times have you heard, uttered, or thought the words in this title? At times when one is confronted because of behavior another finds off-putting, he or she might reply or think, “It’s just how...

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Don’t require a stroke to enjoy peace

Jill Bolke Taylor, neuroscientist, gave an amazing account of having and then recovering from a stroke on the left side of her brain. It changed her life and her perspective. Before the stroke, she...

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Self-Reflection in Ethical Choice Making

Guest Blog by Allison Bashe, Ph.D.Blogger’s note:  Dr. Bashe co-led a session on Making Ethical Choices for a conference of ethics educators sponsored by the Pennsylvania Psychological Association.  I...

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How to Motivate Workers

We have constructed a new, comprehensive understanding of human motivation that is attracting interest from the business community. At the moment, more than 1,000 business consultants use our methods....

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How To Raise Your Good Cholesterol

Most people know it's important to get their bad cholesterol (LDL) down to reduce their risk of heart attacks and strokes. Fewer people know that it's also important to raise their good cholesterol...

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Military Suicides in the Fog of Denial

 Military suicides are averaging about one a day and exceed combat deaths. The rate is only modestly higher than the comparable civilian rate, but it's rising and the military has established a...

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Labels and Expectations Part 3: Fear

The last 10 years or so, I have done a lot of thinking about what my life would have been like had I been labeled in childhood. Unquestionably, there are areas where knowledge of autism would've been a...

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What People Want from the Next Prez - & Their Boss

The 2012 presidential election brings unprecedented domestic and international issues to the forefront. But if you could hypothetically take issues off the table for a moment, character could actually...

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What do you know?

What Do You Know? Not much, You?Michael Feldman asks this question on his radio show. What do we really know? It’s impossible to know the future and often difficult to know the present. At least we can...

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Why Is It So Hard To Get Anyone To Change?

Edgar Levenson, M.D.Change is hard for us all. In the Olden Days of male-oriented, medically dominated, classical psychoanalysis, patients were “screened.” Many people now treated successfully were...

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My Ex Has Too Many Girlfriends

Dear Dr. G.,My husband and I have been divorced for five years. We have three children together.They are 13, 15, and 11. The older two are girls and the little one is a boy. My former husband seems to...

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Punishment and Reward

I have been carrying a vivid memory with me for over 50 years. In it, my father is chasing me around the little circle of dining area, kitchen, corridor, and living room that existed in our apartment....

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Jesus Rules!

I channeled the following discussion during a séance I participated in, when I was infused by the spirit of someone named Buck Faulty, who said he roamed the prairies of East Texas:In Kountze Texas,...

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A tipping point in attitudes about women's weight?

 Looking for a smidgen of good news? Let’s turn from the usual political, economic and sports arenas and try, surprisingly, health. Even more surprisingly, we may have reached a tipping point in our...

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