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Understanding and Reducing Loneliness

Understanding and Reducing Loneliness
Loneliness is feeling You can avoid loneliness with social connections Loneliness refers to the discrepancy between expected and actual social relationships. Loneliness is a subjective feeling, while social isolation reflects to objective scarcity or absence of members of a social network. While similar, loneliness and social isolation can lead to different poor health outcomes. The…
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Flourishing

Flourishing
Flourishing reflects human self-actualization Six domains of flourishing Positive psychology researcher Martin Seligman’s book, Flourish, provides a broader context for desirable outcomes such as happiness and life satisfaction. According to Seligman, people flourish when their lives have three core features (positive emotions, engagement and interest in life, and purpose and meaning in life), as well…
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A Healthy Way to Start Your Day

A Healthy Way to Start Your Day
Eat a healthy breakfast Go for a 22-minute brisk walk Why not start your day on a positive note? It’s easy and it can help you live better. First, eat a healthy breakfast. You have many possibilities. Find one that suits you. By way of example, here’s what I eat most mornings. I start off…
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Reduce Your Blood Sugar Variability

Reduce Your Blood Sugar Variability
Wide swings in blood sugar predict poor diabetes management Keeping your average blood sugar in a healthy range isn’t enough Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) uses a small device painlessly affixed on an upper arm. The unit measures glucose levels in the fluid between muscle cells every 5-15 minutes and periodically transmits that information to a…
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