Healthy Habits

What Matters: Taking Back Your Life

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 05.08.2012

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W. Hunter Roberts

We make choices we call practical without questioning what it is we wish to practice. We give away our "one wild and precious life," as Mary Oliver called it, for comfort, but do not ask what it is we feel we should be comforted for.

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5 Tips for Boosting Your Willpower

Christine Carter, PhD | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Habits, Change, Diet, Exercise, Willpower, Will Power, Gps-Soul, Diet Willpower, Healthy Habits, Self Discipline, Emotional Intelligence, Increase Willpower, Healthy Living News
Christine Carter, PhD

Who among us has not made a plan to get up in the morning and exercise, but then hit snooze one time too many, sleeping through our morning jog?

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Habits Are Everything

Christine Carter, PhD | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Habits, Meditation, Change, Diet, Mindfulness, Exercise, Eating Habits, Good Habits, Happiness, Old Habits, Happiness Tips, Healthy Habits, Bad Habits, Gps-Soul, Healthy Living News
Christine Carter, PhD

Habits are a critical component of the happiness equation. It is one thing to know what to do to be happy (or to raise happy children, or to create a happy marriage) but it is quite another thing to actually be able to do those things.

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Simple Tricks To Beat Food Cravings

Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Triggers, Health, Cravings, Control, Food Cravings, Stop Cravings, Gps-Soul, Healthy Habits, Diet and Nutrition, Stop Food Cravings, Magnesium, Cravings for Food, Healthy Living News
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.

Everyone has cravings, but it is how we handle our cravings that will affect our health and/or our weight loss success. It is possible to manage your cravings in a healthy way. Read on to find out what your must-have-now urges mean and how you can control them.

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Does Being Healthy Matter?

Mitch Plotnick | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Healthy Habits, Personal Wellness, Personal Health, Healthy Lifestyle, Personal Health Habits, Exercise, Healthy Diet, Healthy Living News
Mitch Plotnick

Healthy foods, beverages and lifestyle behaviors make you look so good and feel so good. They reward you with better health. And yes, that does matter -- more than anything else in life.

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Lent, Sacrifice and Fitness

Penny Love Hoff | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Easter, Weight Loss, Dieting During Lent, Lent, Diet, Fitness and Exercise, Personal Health, Perseverance, Health Habits, Healthy Habits, Habits of Health, Restraint, Habits for Health, Healthy Living News
Penny Love Hoff

I challenge you all to use this final phase of Lent to consider giving up one of your addictions, even if it's just for a few days. Four is the magic number for success with any new fitness regime. Day four is breakthrough day.

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Four Tips for Spring Cleaning Your Cuisine

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: White House, Seeds, Spring Cleaning, Healthy Eating, Gardening, Spring Meals, Healthy Food, Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids, Spring, Healthy Habits, Get Healthy, Family Dinners, Food News
Linda Novick O'Keefe

Spring is a time of renewal, of first plantings and pea shoots. What better time to clean up your family's food habits? Here are four simple changes that I'm trying to bring into my own home this spring.

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Bored Into Weight Gain?

Judith J. Wurtman, PhD | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Self Awareness and Weight Loss, Exercise Benefits, Health, Weight Gain, Binge Eating Triggers, Weight Loss Tips, Healthy Habits, Weight Gain Triggers, Diet, Vary Exercise Routine, Weight Loss, Healthy Living News
Judith J. Wurtman, PhD

Boredom often gives us pause to our too busy and stressful lives, but if we can deal with boredom correctly, it might actually help us lose weight.

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Embodying With Awareness

Willow Dea | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Awareness, Education, Being, Embodiment, Healthy Habits, Wellbeing, Teaching, Integral Education, Education News
Willow Dea

Ultimately, if we "are what we teach," as Parker Palmer once famously offered, we are called to enact our deepest wisdom while we teach, parent, work, and walk through life.

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We Are Our Parents' Mirrors

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Healthy Habits, Parenting, Raising Kids, Charity, Setting a Good Example, Volunteering, Family, Parents News
Linda Novick O'Keefe

Whether we admit it or not -- whether we want to or not -- we mirror our parents. Parents are the single greatest influence on our lives. We see, absorb and act out their best and worst habits and behaviors.

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Small Habit Change? Big Health Result

BJ Gallagher | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Habits for Health, Fitness Habits, Healthy Habits, Dieting Habits, Changing Your Habits, Healthy Living Body, Personal Health, Healthy Living News
BJ Gallagher

Habit -- that is the universal word that everyone used when I asked about their weight loss, health and fitness.

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Picking Up the Tab for Medical Care: Who Should Pay?

Carole Carson | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Fat Tax, Mitt Romney, Health Care Reform, Tax on Soda, Obesity, Health Care, Health, Personal Accountability, Obesity Costs, Healthy Habits, Obesity Problem, Politics News
Carole Carson

Americans must address the question of who will foot the bill for rising medical costs. Even as we complain about mounting healthcare bills, we are reluctant to adopt healthier lifestyle habits to reduce costs.

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Healthy Weight Loss: Get on the Juice

The Baietto Brothers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Getting Healthy, The Innergizer, Balanced Living, The Baietto Brothers, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Complete Balance, Juicing, Healthy Weight Loss, Home News
The Baietto Brothers

Juicing is a great way to get in the recommended five to seven servings of fruits and vegetables a day.

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Healthy Weight Loss: The Prequel

The Baietto Brothers | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Baietto Brothers

"Healthy Weight Loss." It's certainly not as catchy of a title as "Star Wars" or "Return of the Jedi." And I'm pretty sure that this article is not go...

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9 Halloween Healthy Tips

Janice Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

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Janice Taylor

Halloween, and its platters full of candy, is also the unofficial kick-off to the holiday season. For many that means that the season within which the healthy living goes out the window.

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Is Healthy Weight Loss an Oxymoron?

The Baietto Brothers | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Baietto Brothers

When you make being healthy a habit, you don't just get good results some of the time, but all of the time.

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Try It: Make Being Healthy Into a Game

The Baietto Brothers | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Healthy Habits, How to Be More Healthy, Live Healthy, Healthy Living, Healthy Lifestyle, How to Be Healthy, Health, Healthy Living News
The Baietto Brothers

A team in Sweden painted the subway station stairs into a full piano keyboard that even played the corresponding notes. In less than a day 66 percent more people were using the stairs.

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Make Gratitude a Game

The Baietto Brothers | Posted 11.17.2011

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The Baietto Brothers

Count the good things that are happening and you will start to see more and more of them. Pretty soon your antenna will be consistently dialed to good content, delivering only the best of what is happening.

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Baby Love: 5 Healthy Homemade Meals For Infants (PHOTOS, RECIPES)

Norah O'Donnell | Posted 11.17.2011

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Norah O'Donnell

Make no mistake: what you feed your baby now will affect the rest of their lives. Babies who eat fresh fruits and vegetables grow up to be children who eat nutritiously.

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Can You Change Your Personality?

Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Nature Versus Nurture, Healthy Habits, Bad Habits, Nature vs. Nurture, Healthy Living News

It's an age-old question: can we change the personalities we're born with? Now, a new study from the University of California Riverside is weighing in...

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A Food Hater's Manifesto

Natalia Brzezinski | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Processed Food, Slow Food, Food Rules, Michael Pollan, Organic Food, Health, Food Revolution, Slow Movement, Nutrition, Cooking, Healthy Habits, Diet, Healthy Living News
Natalia Brzezinski

According to Pollan, the "Western diet"-- overprocessed and chemically-saturated food -- is not only making us fat, it is killing us.

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Is Merck Engaged?

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, Merck & Co, Healthy Living, Type 2 Diabetes, Lifestyle Diseases, Healthy Lifestyle, Diabetes and Nutrition, Health, Healthy Habits, Healthy Living News
Christina Pirello

Merck Engage seems to be designed for that segment of the population who is sick, scared, not sure what to do to change habits...and for those living with or caring for those same people.

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Are You Eating Fake Mashed Potatoes?

Hemi Weingarten | Posted 11.17.2011

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Hemi Weingarten

A friend recently related a story how she was utterly shocked when, at age 19, for the first time in her life, she realized that mashed potatoes don't come from a box.

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Who Or What Do You Trust?

Anne Naylor | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Creativity, Bolivia, John-Roger, John Morton, Doubt, Trust, Zambia, New Wealth Book, Eckhart Tolle, Ingenuity, University of Santa Monica, Healthy Habits, Diet, The Inner Life, Self-Awareness, Spirituality, Excercise, Video, Healthy Living News
Anne Naylor

Risking doing something different can build trust; the trust that you are capable of learning new skills -- old dogs can learn new tricks.

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How to Eat Well on a Budget (VIDEO)

ICYOU | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, Cheap Healthy Food, Money, Budget, Nutrition, Health, Cheap Food, Healthy Habits, Diet, Recession, Finances, 5min, Healthy Living News

Dr. Ann Kulze says one of the most powerful health investments you can make is to buy and eat healthy food. In this video, she gives tips for how to e...

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