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Diet Soda Cheesecake
Quad Cities Onlines - For cheesecake: With electric mixer, mix together the softened cream cheese, milk powder and half of the diet pop. Mix until smooth. With wooden spoon mix in the pudding powder and the rest of the diet pop. DO NOT BEAT. Quickly pour into pie crust
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The Coca-Cola Company Announces Distribution Plans for glaceau
Forbes - Along with Coca-Cola, recognized as the world’s most valuable brand, the Company markets four of the world’s top five nonalcoholic sparkling beverage brands, including Diet Coke, Fanta and Sprite, and a wide range of other beverages, including diet
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Time, gentlemen, to change your bad food habits
Times Online - Time, gentlemen, to change your bad food habits Even alpha males can eat a healthy diet rich in omega3 and vitamins
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Brain’s Impaired Ability To Sense Glucose Might Play Role In Type 2
Science Daily - Science Daily New findings from studies in mice suggest that defects in the brain’s ability to respond to glucose play a role in the development of non-insulin dependent (type 2) diabetes, and that a high-fat diet may contribute to impairing
Source: www.sciencedaily.com
August 30th, 2007
Naturally as every woman gets older they are going to go
through the period time know as menopause. As most women
read and work to better understand the affects and symptoms
of menopause, what do men think? When talking to family
members and friends many women confide that the men in
their life either at home or at work no nothing about
menopause. Of course don’t tells guys that because they
are so confident they are right.
Listed below are the top ten myths associated with
menopause and what the right answer and what do most men
think.
Menopause Lowers Your Sex Drive
Most men think that the woman’s libido goes down during
menopause. They may say it goes down after marriage though
that myth is for another article. Research shows that the
hormone estrogen is not linked sex drive and that when
surveyed most women report no drop in sexual desire.
Menopause Makes You Gain Weight
Almost all men believe that women gain weight during
menopause. The reality is that weight gain or weight loss
is not associated with menopause. This myth probably
exists because Americans as a whole are getting fatter, so
many women will simply be gaining weight from poor
nutrition and exercise choices. Many women living a
healthy lifestyle lose weight during menopause.
Menopause Causes Huge Mood Swings
Men believe that menopause forces women into becoming an
emotional collapse. The truth is that menopause has
nothing to do with the ability to handle ones emotions.
Many women experience menopause quite placid. Coping
mechanisms, peer influences, and lifestyle play the role of
mood swings and emotional collapses, not just the presence
of menopause. One interesting stat the 46% of Americans
take hormone therapy during menopause while in Japan only
6% do.
All Women have Terrible Menopause Symptoms
Men prepare themselves for the horrific symptoms the women
in their lives are going to go through. Not all women have
symptoms during menopause though most do. Intensity has a
tremendous amount to do with healthy lifestyle and
attitude. It is amazing how if we believe bad things are
going to happen they do. About 85% of all women will
experience hot flashes at some level.
Menopause Occurs at 50
This basic myth is true as the average age of women to
undergo menopause is 52. Many women though experience
menopause in their 40s and some a little later than 50.
The normal range for women is between 45-55 years of age.
Menopause Lasts a Year or Two
Most men thing menopause is something a woman goes through
for a couple of years and she is done with it. The true
answer is that menopause can last any where from 6 to 13
years. Menopause is a long natural process that takes time
and many of the changes don’t disrupt any daily activity.
There is a Cure to Menopause
Menopause is a natural process not a disease so there is
not cure. Women in some cases use products or therapies to
cope with symptoms during menopause. A common natural
menopause symptom reducers is Femestra which many women
chose over hormone therapy.
Women’s Hormones can be Fixed
Every guy always wants to fix things. Though for all the
guys that want to do their part, a healthy diet of soy
protein, cashews, peanuts, corn, apples, and almonds have
phytoestrogens and isoflavones that have been shown to
reduce the symptoms like hot flashes. This is one reason
why Femestra works so well as it is rice bran oil.
Menopause is a World Epidemic
Many men believe that this is a suffering time for women
around the world. The reality is that many cultures report
few or no symptoms during menopause. New research shows
that psychological factors influence symptoms of menopause
more than any physiological changes and issues.
Menopause Causes a Loss of Memory
Men believe that during menopause women lose some brain
tissue causing a loss of certain memories. One thing most
people don’t know is that your brain starts to shrink after
the age of 30. So, all men and women lose a little brain
tissue as they age. Don’t fret a 10% loss in brain tissue
may only lead to a difference in 1% of mental ability.
Your brain becomes more adept to deal with the loss of
tissue which I guess is where wisdom comes from.
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August 30th, 2007
One of my recent articles gave a statistic from the sports
psychology world stating that it requires about 5 positive
comments to overcome 1 negative comment when coaching young
players. This means that negative comments carry a lot more
weight in the mind of a child than do positive comments.
Most people lack real confidence.
But this extends far beyond young athletes to most of the
population. Most people dwell on criticism or a bad
experience far more than they think about praise or
positive experiences. This all comes back to the beliefs
that you have implanted in your brain throughout your life.
If you continually tell yourself that you are no good at
something then your brain will pay a lot more attention to
the evidence to support that viewpoint than it will to
evidence that contradicts it. Your brain is always trying
to uphold your beliefs.
Since most people have limiting beliefs, they are more
focused on negative feedback than positive feedback and
that’s how the whole 5 to 1 (positive to negative) ratio
gets established – 1 negative piece of feedback is as
powerful as 5 positive pieces.
Seeing the sunny side of life
I ran across a couple of papers this week in Psychological
Science and The Journal of Neuroscience showing how brain
activity that controls this, changes as we get older. Our
brain circuits that filter your positive and negative
experiences actually rewire as you age.
When we are younger, our brains allow negative information
and bad experiences to go straight to our automatic
responses. We don’t think about them too much or evaluate
them before we allow them to affect us. On the other hand,
positive feedback and good experiences get some extra
processing by the ‘higher functioning’ part of our brains
before we allow them to effect us. The positive stuff has
to pass through a filter before we believe it but the
negative stuff doesn’t.
As we age this begins to reverse. Our filters of the
negative stuff get stronger and our filters of the positive
stuff get weaker. We allow positive stuff to affect us more
easily (in a good way) and screen out some of the negative
stuff. We don’t spend so much time dwelling on criticism
and accept more praise.
This is just an average description of the whole
population. Of course, there are people that are good at
filtering out the negative stuff early in their life and
others that never get good at it. There are people that
take complements and praise very well at a young age and
others that never learn how to accept it.
Speeding up the process
So the question becomes, can we do anything to accelerate
the process? Can we ‘train our brains’ to become better at
accepting positive stuff and better at filtering out
negative stuff without having to wait until we get to our
elder years?
I believe that you can. There are certainly things that you
can do directly to pay more attention to feedback that will
boost your confidence and dismiss other experiences that
tend to bring you down. There are also many indirect things
that you can do to support the health and maintenance of
your brain.
This comes back to performance concepts that I’ve discussed
before. Your brain is in a constant state of remodeling
itself. It is up to you whether the new updates you make on
a daily, weekly and yearly basis will be the same as the
old ones, or improved.
You can ensure that your new updates are physically
stronger with the basic nutrition, sleep and physical and
mental exercise needs – or not. You can also ensure that
your new updates perform better by working on your ability
to think for yourself and replacing some of your limiting
beliefs with empowering ones.
Over time, this will strengthen your filters to deal with
all your negative experiences and allow more of the
positive experiences to get through. Science shows us (as
discussed above) that our brain circuits have a natural
tendency to improve on this front as we get older, but the
speed at which you do it and the final levels that you
reach are up to you.
Focus on the good feedback and your health, and the brain
circuits that control your positive beliefs will literally
get stronger and faster. This will increase your confidence
and your ability to control your own life.
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August 29th, 2007
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