Fibermaxxing — Hype or Healthy? | All Healthy

High-fiber diets aren't new, but fibermaxxing gave them a trendy rebrand. Learn how much fiber you actually need, the best sources, and what experts are saying.

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The midterms: Impact in the therapy room

After a long week, I can imagine that, regardless of where you stand politically, you have heard and read enough about the blue wave results of the midterm elections by now.

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The Drama of Insignificance

How are we to live as creatures who matter infinitely to ourselves and, in some larger sense, hardly at all?

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What if we stopped treating social care like a service?

A village in England has created a social care community based on communal living and shared responsibility. Could it catch on?

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3 Gut Interventions Tested For Cognitive Decline — One Outperformed the Rest

The brain-boosting power of your microbiome

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The Fairy Tale Heroine: Live and Write Her Journey

Chapter Eight: The Wild Crone

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What Weakens Your Immune System? 9 Daily Habits

Wondering what weakens your immune system? Often it's everyday habits like poor sleep and too little daylight, not a missing supplement.

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Music is the Universal Language and Love is the Key

Long before humans had written languages, text messages, or the ability to say, “I’m fine,” when we absolutely were not, we had music. We beat drums, clapped our hands, hummed melodies, and...

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This Antioxidant “Wakes Up The Brain” Similar To Exercise

The astringent sensation caused by flavanols could act as a direct signal to the brain, triggering effects similar to a mild workout. 

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At 75, He Still Carves the Tiny Wooden Tool That Helps Turn Thread Into Kashmir’s Pashmina

A Pashmina shawl begins long before its embroidery and finishing. In Srinagar, Abdul Majeed Zargar hand-carves the wooden shuttle that makes traditional weaving possible.

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I Feel, Therefore I Am: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio the Consciousness of the Body

“Ultimately, we are puppets of both pain and pleasure, occasionally made free by our creativity.”

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Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk — Harvard Gazette

Caffeinated tea also found to slow cognitive decline in study.

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How India Is Embracing Social-Emotional Learning

India is prioritizing social-emotional learning in education, but students and educators have unique needs and challenges that programs need to address.

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What if we stopped treating social care like a service?

A village in England has created a social care community based on communal living and shared responsibility. Could it catch on?

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What’s Next for Creativity?

As someone who writes a lot about creativity, I am now being asked frequently, “What will creativity look like in the age of AI?” Here is one possibility,

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Advice From a Climate Therapist: Touch Grass. (No, Really.)

Caring about nature can feel hollow when we lead a life disconnected from it. Therapist Leslie Davenport offers advice for building in moments of connection.

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Do This to Increase Motivation

Do one little thing

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What Happens to Your Body When You Drink Matcha Regularly

Matcha is a type of green tea rich in antioxidants and other compounds offering an array of health benefits. Most people can benefit from daily matcha consumption.

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An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days

In nearly two decades of The Marginalian, nothing has stirred a more passionate response from readers than the strangest, most sidewise, most private of my labors — the bird divinations I ori…

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Eggs: A love story

A couple of weeks ago, I was talking with friends about, of all things, eggs. And I suggested that eggs could be looked at as a love language. And someone replied, “Oh great.

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Does the body really ‘keep the score’ after trauma? How the debunked idea of ‘repressed memories’ is making a comeback

In the 1990s, repressed memories sparked a major scientific dispute about how trauma works. Now, the idea is back – with a twist.

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Creating Community Wealth and 'Food Dignity' in San Diego

Project New Village uses a strategy called equitable food-oriented development to reduce food insecurity and build long-term resilience.

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Friendship and Joy - The Grief and Happiness Alliance

Someone from the mainland of the United States asked me the other day if the people of Hawaii are as kind as he had heard they are, and I have to say my experience with the people I have met who live ...

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Nature People and Everyone Else

A reflection on our relationship with the natural world

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