Category: Live The Good Life

Live The Good Life

Is there a way to trick yourself into exercising more?

o studies demonstrated that leading individuals to mentally reframe the time required for an exercise program (e.g., 2 hr per week) in terms of the equivalent daily amount (e.g., 17 min per day) reduced the perceived time commitment and increased people's willingness to try the program. Study 2 also identified a cognitive mechanism that mediated the effect of temporal framing on exercise intentions. Consistent with findings in other domains (Gourville, 1998), reframing exercise duration in daily units led participants to retrieve comparison activities…


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Here’s A Safe, Over-The-Counter Way To Treat Anxiety

a Elsevier Mental Health: Consuming more fish oil seems to significantly ease anxiety and inflammation among healthy young people... Half the students received omega-3 supplements while the other half were given placebo pills. Those receiving the omega-3 showed a 20 percent reduction in anxiety compared to the placebo group. Scientific studies have shown fish oil has a number of positive effects. The type I use is here. Join over 151,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: Read this if you are…


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What are proven tips that will help you achieve your goals?

rst, here's what doesn't work: By comparing the techniques of successful and unsuccessful resolution makers, he came up with a list of tips for staying the course when making changes in one's life. People who failed tended to dwell on the ''bad things'' that would happen if they did not achieve their goal, said the professor. They were likely to remove temptation from their surroundings, adopt role models, fantasise about being successful, and rely on will power. ''Many of these ideas are frequently…


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Is optimism associated with better health?

positive outlook on life might lower your risk of having a stroke, according to new research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. In an observational study, a nationally representative group of 6,044 adults over age 50 rated their optimism levels on a 16-point scale. Each point increase in optimism corresponded to a 9 percent decrease in acute stroke risk over a two-year follow-up period.. "Our work suggests that people who expect the best things in life actively…


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Live The Good Life

The Most Wonderful Way To Reduce Your Chance Of Getting Prostate Cancer

ve lots of orgasms: Context  Sexual activity has been hypothesized to play a role in the development of prostate cancer, but epidemiological data are virtually limited to case-control studies, which may be prone to bias because recall among individuals with prostate cancer could be distorted as a consequence of prostate malignancy or ongoing therapy. Objective  To examine the association between ejaculation frequency, which includes sexual intercourse, nocturnal emission, and masturbation and risk of prostate cancer. Design, Setting, and Participants  Prospective study using follow-up…


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If you choose not to read this, will I get stupider?

a New Scientist: Rejection can dramatically reduce a person's IQ and their ability to reason analytically, while increasing their aggression, according to new research. And: "These are very big effects - the biggest I've got in 25 years of research," says Baumeister. "This tells us a lot about human nature. People really seem designed to get along with others, and when you're excluded, this has significant effects." Baumeister thinks rejection interferes with a person's self-control. "To live in society, people…


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Live The Good Life

A Quick And Easy Way To Make Yourself Tougher

and up straight. Via Eurekalert: ...poor posture not only makes a bad impression, but can actually make you physically weaker. According to a study by Scott Wiltermuth, assistant professor of management organization at the USC Marshall School of Business, and Vanessa K. Bohns, postdoctoral fellow at the J.L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, adopting dominant versus submissive postures actually decreases your sensitivity to pain. And: ...their research suggests that curling up into a ball may make…


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Live The Good Life

What makes us selfish: happiness or sadness?

oks like happy people are thinking about themselves. If you break the law, pray for a sad judge: Does temporary mood influence how fair or selfish we are in interpersonal situations? These three experiments predicted and found that when people have the power to allocate scarce resources between themselves and others in the dictator game, positive mood increased selfishness, and sad mood produced greater fairness. In a public setting (Experiment 1), happy persons kept more raffle tickets to themselves when…


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