Month: April 2019

Longevity Tip

by

What physical activity is best for healthy longevity?

The one you enjoy most, but also the one you can easily incorporate into your daily schedule and the one you can keep doing up to your hundredth birthday and beyond. . . . What’s important is working all your body parts with rigor — meaning to the point of breathing rapidly or sweating — for five to ten hours a week . . . It’s important to exercise, but not to overexercise, because knees, hips, and joints will eventually get damaged — particularly if you continue to exercise when you feel pain.

Source

Wellness Tip

by

E

Eat Nuts

Despite being high in fat, nuts are incredibly nutritious and healthy.

They are loaded with magnesium, vitamin E, fiber and various other nutrients.

Studies show that nuts can help you lose weight, and may help fight type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

Additionally, about 10-15% of the calories in nuts aren’t even absorbed into the body, and some evidence suggests that they can boost metabolism .

In one study, almonds were shown to increase weight loss by 62% compared to complex carbohydrates .

Source

Writer’s Wisdom ~ Jane Hirshfield on Story

by

Story, at its best, becomes a canvas to which the reader as well as the writer must bring the full range of memory, intellect, and imaginative response. The best stories are almost mythlike in their ability to support alternative readings, different conclusions. ~ Jane Hirshfield

Serenity ~ Lord Byron

by

“Here’s a sigh to those who love me
    And a smile to those who hate;
  And whatever sky’s above me,
    Here’s a heart for every fate.”

Today’s Reflection ~ Compassion

by

I’ll lift you and you lift me, and we’ll both ascend together. John Greenleaf Whitter

Longevity Tip

by

When she died at age 116 in 2015 Gertrude Weaver of Camden, Arkansas was the world’s oldest woman. When asked, she attributed her longevity to kindness: “Treat people right and be nice to other people the way you want them to be nice to you.” Her advice to those aspiring to a long life was a bit more specific: “Use a lot of skin moisturizer, treat everyone nice, love your neighbor and eat your own cooking. Don’t eat at fast food places.”

Source

Wellness Tip

by

Does Walking Backwards Boost Memory?

A study published in the January issue of Cognition found that people who walked backward, imagined they were walking backward, or even watched a video simulating backward motion had better recall of past events than those who walked forward or sat still. . . . In all cases, people who were moving backward, thought about moving backward, or saw a video depicting reverse motion were better able to recall the information they had been shown earlier, compared with those sitting still. In five of the six experiments, memory was better when people moved backward than when they moved forward. On average, the boost in memory lasted for 10 minutes after people stopped moving.

Source

Writer’s Wisdom ~ Jane Hirshfield on Making a Poem

by

Making a poem is neither a wholly conscious activity nor an act of unconscious transcription — it is a way for new thinking and feeling to come into existence, a way in which disparate modes of meaning and being may join. This is why the process of revising a poem is no arbitrary tinkering, but a continued honing of the self at the deepest level. ~ Jane Hirshfield

Life is for the Living ~ Langston Hughes

by

Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music. 
And death a note unsaid.

– Langston Hughes

Today’s Reflection ~ Determination

by

I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars. Jacqueline Cochran

Verified by MonsterInsights