Red Meat Consumption and Increased Risk of Stroke

March 7, 2011

Red-meat consumption linked to increased stroke risk December 30, 2010 Pauline Anderson Medscape Medical News Stockholm, Sweden – Women who consumed at least 102 g of red meat a day had a 42% higher risk of cerebral infarction than those who ate 25 g or less daily in a new analysis. The findings “suggest that [...]

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Weight Loss Strategy: Mental Imagery

March 6, 2011

The research article below suggests that by repetitively visualizing a food you are craving you can reduce the consumption of the food. This is a strategy that is a combination of “flooding” and visualization. (College students, of course, are not normal people and generalizing from this population to the population as a whole is problematic). [...]

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Weight Loss, Self-Compassion and The Shadow

March 6, 2011

In the last week, the most frequently e-mailed New York Times article was the one below on self-compassion and weight loss. Clearly, it hit an important nerve in the struggle to lose weight. Yes. Compassion at all levels is important, and the article has some useful suggestions. However, the ability to treat one’s self compassionately [...]

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