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Snack Better With Healthy Snacks

Snack Better With Healthy Snacks
Snack Better with Healthy Snacks Snacks are frowned upon by health authorities. They cite the abundance of sugar, fat, and salt in most snack food-like materials. But can you imagine not snacking? I can't. Rather than feeling guilty about snacking, I suggest a better approach: Snack better with healthy snacks. Do tasty, portable, and healthy…
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Stop Catastrophic Thinking

Stop Catastrophic Thinking
Stop Catastrophic Thinking, Reduce Stress When a problem arises, do you launch into catastrophic thinking? Thinking of all the awful things that could happen? If so, do you know that you can learn to stop catastrophic thinking? Here’s a fresh personal example. Two days ago, my iPhone 6 developed a huge problem. I couldn’t send…
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Eat Better is Pretty Simple

Eat Better is Pretty Simple
Broccoli for breakfast will help you eat better Imagine that you’re highly motivated to eat better. You start reading articles and books. You talk to others whom you respect. It won’t take long before you run up against conflicting opinions as to what to put in your mouth. A reasonable person might become discouraged and…
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Forgiveness

Forgiveness
Learn to Forgive Fred Luskin is the Director and Co-founder of the Stanford University Forgiveness Project. His book, Forgive for Good, provides a readable and helpful account of how you can use forgiveness to get over long-term grievances that sap energy from your life. You can learn to forgive everyone for perceived slights that you…
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