Category Archives: Healthy living

Improve Your Life with Gratitude

Improve Your Life with Gratitude
An expanded view of gratitude British researchers proposed a new model of gratitude. It extends the more limiting view of gratitude as a response of receiving help from others to a “habitual focusing on and appreciating the positive aspects of life.” Thus, gratitude is more of a trait and a general world view than simply…
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Ectopic Fat

Ectopic Fat
What is ectopic fat? This term refers to the accumulation of fat molecules (triglycerides) in organs not designed to store fat. More specifically, ectopic fat can occur in your liver, pancreas, heart and skeletal muscles with undesirable consequences. Until recently, adipose tissue, which is comprised of fat cells, was thought be solely a fat storage…
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Enrich Your Life to Prevent Dementia

Enrich Your Life to Prevent Dementia
Mentally stimulating activities and risk of dementia Higher levels of daily intellectual activities predict lower risk of dementia. But do people with greater intellectual activities also embrace other healthy behaviors, such as increased physical activity, eating a better diet, and not smoking, which could account for the lower risk of dementia? Researchers addressed this question…
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Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
The type 2 diabetes medical community wakes up For decades, the medical community has regarded type 2 diabetes (T2D) as permanent, progressive, and irreversible. Recent randomized controlled trials show this is false, at least for recently diagnosed cases. British diabetes researcher Roy Taylor developed the idea of reversing T2D with a structured program that begins…
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