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The Beginner's Guide to HIIT – Get Healthy U

Maybe you’ve heard the hype about High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) workouts and how they improve your cardiovascular fitness while helping you build lean muscle and burn fat. Guess what? It’s not hype! HIIT workouts work. I love doing and teaching these high-intensity workouts because they can be done in 30-minutes or less. Oh, and they are stinkin’ fun. Build muscle, burn calories, and boost metabolism all in one workout! Better body in less time? Sign me up! Right?

Sounds good right?  Well, the key words to focus on are high intensity. Don’t be fooled…  Read More

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Train Your Brain…Here's Why and How!

Try These Cognitive Restructuring Exercises to Improve Your Mood and Reduce Stress

Cognitive restructuring is a core part of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). CBT is one of the most effective psychological treatments for common problems like depression, anxiety disorders, and binge eating. Here, clinical and social psychologist Alice Boyes shares some CBT techniques you can try at home to reduce problems with mood, anxiety, and stress.

Practice Noticing When You’re Having a Cognitive Distortion

Choose one type of cognitive distortion to focus on at a time. Example: you recognize that you’re prone to “negative predictions.” For a week, just notice any times you find yourself…READ MORE

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Food That's as Beneficial as Exercise and Quitting Smoking

Based on the findings in a new study by Science Daily: Eating plenty of protein-rich foods (packed with amino acids) might be just as good as taking up running, and ditching salt, booze, and cigs. In this article written by Caitlin Carlson for Men’s Fitness researchers find amino acids in protein-rich foods lower heart disease risk factors as well working out and tossing the cigs…Read more

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Zuckerberg, Gates lead 'Breakthrough' coalition on clean energy

In an article published on www.wired.co.uk by Emily Reynolds, an elite group of private investors including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and Mark Zuckerberg have formed a coalition to help companies “get clean-energy innovation out of the lab and into the marketplace”. Breakthrough Energy Coalition is designed to bring “widely available energy that is reliable, affordable and does not produce carbon” and …Read more

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Musicians' Brain Waves Dance to the Beat

Bianca Nogrady helped clarify why some people are just plain better at music than others.  In an article she wrote for  ABC Science Online, she pointed out that musicians get more out of music because their brain waves are better able to synchronize with musical rhythms.
Cortical oscillations — the rhythmic firing of neurons in the brain — are fundamental to our ability to hear and process sounds.  Aligning the frequency of these cortical oscillations with the frequency of the sounds we wish to focus on allows us to better tune into these sounds; for example, …Read more
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What's Behind Road Rage?

Have you ever wondered what makes some people snap when they drive?  According to an article written by Eric Niiler for Discovery Phycology, “Being inside a car can lend a sense of anonymity, which can lead some to act out rage.”

What drives people to take shots at other motorists from behind the wheel of a car? Aggression, territoriality and a feeling of anonymous power are the psychological ingredients of road rage, experts say.

Police say the violence was preventable.  “We’re starting to see this throughout our nation,” said Albuquerque Police Chief Gordon Eden at a Wednesday news conference. “And this is something that should not be happening in Albuquerque, New Mexico, let alone anywhere else in the United States.”

Police said the girl was shot when…Read more

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Woman Can 'Smell' Parkinson's

Can women smell disease?  In an article by AFP written for Discovery Health, one woman could.  The widow of a man who suffered with Parkinson’s has triggered new research this week into the condition after she discovered she could “smell” the disease.

Joy Milne, 65, told researchers that she had noticed a change in the odor of her late husband, Les, years before he developed symptoms of Parkinson’s.  He passed away from the disease, a nervous system disorder whose symptoms include shaking and slowness of movement, earlier this year at the age of 65.

“I’ve always had a keen sense of smell and I detected very early on that there was a very subtle change in how Les smelled,” Milne, from Perth, Scotland, said on Thursday.  “It’s hard to describe but it was a…Read more

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Doctor dubbed 'the father of cyborgs' tested implants in his own brain

As asked by James Trew on Engadget:  How far would you go to create a brain-controlled speech decoder? Doctor Philip Kennedy already helped blaze a trail in brain-computer interfaces back in the 80s. Now, a report in MIT Technology Review explains how the neurosurgeon decided to crank his research up a notch. Well, several notches, really, by having implants put into his ownbrain to better learn how neurons function with speech. What’s more, Kennedy paid $25,000 and underwent highly invasive surgery — including the removal of the top of his skull — for the privilege.

Kennedy is often dubbed the “father of cyborgs” for his early work with connecting brains to computers. Work that has given people with severely debilitating conditions new ways to communicate by…Read More

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