Happy Nirvana

We believe what we tell ourselves, whether it’s true or not.  And when we talk negatively about our bodies, we start to feel negatively about them.  That creates problems with our motivation to do the things necessary to take care of them.   Helping people understand that is one of the reasons behind Fat Talk [...]

Photo via SurFeRGiRL30 Natural history museums and herbaria are piled high with samples of flora and fauna dating as far back as 250 years. Now the scientific fervor over collecting samples of the natural world is helping climate scientists learn how warming trends are altering the timing of plants’ lives. A team of ecologists from [...]

A new beverage labeling initiative that is starting this fall provides an interesting example of how businesses can change without government mandates or laws. Launched by the American Beverage Association (ABA), Clear on Calories provides a standard disclosure system for the calorie content on the front label of any single-serve beverage item. Participation is not [...]

Image credit: GenBug (Creative Commons) With all the evidence of human-induced global warming, you’d think it would be good news that some of our activities, like releasing aerosols for example, are also helping to cool the atmosphere. Unfortunately, often the opposite is true. This is starkly illustrated by a new study showing the regional cooling [...]

Instead of talking with you today about how there is research currently being conducted about how you view your body and how your body responds to and mimics that outlook, I want to share with you a simplified approach to losing weight. I find that too many people who enter a weight loss program focus [...]

photo: @marco via flickr Just as Lester Brown writes about rising temperatures leading to rising food prices, a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences details the connection, already evident and likely to become more so, between rising temperatures and declining rice yield… Read the full story on TreeHugger Credits to:TreeHugger

Patients with glaucoma appear to have more rapid visual field change if they are older or if they have abnormal levels of anticardiolipin antibody (an antibody directed against a certain protein in the body), according to a report posted online today that will appear in the October print issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of [...]

My last post was about setting SMART goals to help manage your diabetes. But just because you are setting goals does not always mean that you are ready to make changes in your behavior. In order to change behavior you need to know what stage of change you are in. This will determine your readiness [...]