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Studies
have shown that weight-loss diets can impact the brain negatively in several
ways. It can disrupt the synthesis or creation of neurotransmitters, alter
brain chemistry, and trigger mental-processing problems. According to the
author of 20/20 Thinking, you can shed smarts as well as pounds when
going on crash diets or rapid-weight-loss diets. (e.g., less than 1000 calories
per day) Dieting can starve the brain of serotonin, which can trigger a cycle
of dieting and bingeing as there is insufficient serotonin to signal
satisfaction. According to author Faith Hickman Brynie, dieting starves the
brain of serotonin. This can trigger a cycle of dieting and bingeing—as there
isn’t enough serotonin to signal satisfaction. I would suggest you could be healthier by eating moderately all the time.
That is the question for millions of individuals. Samuel Beckett has been quoted as saying, ‘Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.’ Those concerned about their weight can get caught in dieting traps. UCLA researcher Stuart Wolpert reported that dieting does not work. By their very nature diets are designed to fail. Initially you many lose a few pounds as the brain and body respond temporarily to something new and different. But dieting cannot be maintained over time, especially when it involves food deprivation. Within a space of just two to three years, most eventually gain back everything they lost—often more—and risk damaging brain and body systems in the process. A study published in the journal American Psychologist found that dieting does ‘not lead to sustained weight loss or health benefits for the majority of people.’
I could tell you that. However, it would not align with current research. Maintaining an optimum weight is a vital part of protecting your health. Studies of 8,000 twins found that being overweight doubled the risk of dementia, while being obese quadrupled that risk. Estimates are that reducing risk factors such as smoking, diabetes, obesity, and inactivity by 25% could prevent half-a-million cases of Alzheimer’s annually in the USA. The goal is to stave off the disease long enough so you can live life to its fullness without ever suffering Alzheimer's symptoms. (Gary Small, MD. The Alzheimer's Prevention Program)
Your
genetically determined body odor or Odortype, acts like an olfactory nametag, helping to
distinguish one person from another. What can alter your odortype? If you eat a great deal of garlic,
it can impact your breath for 24-28 hours, and if you are sweating a lot,
sometimes it can temporarily alter the odor of your sweat. Many people are
familiar with stress-related odors. When you are stressed, you tend to secrete
more apocrine from the apocrine sweat glands in your armpits. In combination
with the bacteria on your skin, this milky fluid, most commonly secreted in the
presence of emotional stress, can create a rather unpleasant odor. Drinking
plenty of fluids, practicing good body hygiene, using appropriate deodorants,
and taking appropriate steps to manage emotional stressors, can help reduce
these stress-related odors. Some very rare conditions can impact one’s
odortype, as well. For example, a genetic disorder known as trimethylaminuria (TMAU) affects about 1 in 200,000 people. They
don’t process trimethlamine efficiently and it tends to build up in the body,
resulting in a fishy odor in urine, sweat, reproductive fluids, and breath.
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In his book Answers for
Aristotle, Massimo Pigliucci pointed out that research on intuition has clearly shown that it is a domain-specific
ability. This means that a person can be very intuitive about one thing but
just like an average person about other things. Intuition can often be improved with
practice. To use it effectively, however, intuition needs to be combined with
rational thought and analysis. Here are some ideas.
· Learn to recognize and pick up on changes in your body quickly. If suddenly your body signals a sense of uneasiness, ask yourself what that dis-ease is trying to tell you.
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Intuition studies have shown that females seemed more attuned to intuitive information from the heart and were more responsive to prestimulus information than were males. Processes in the prefrontal cortex were moderated by the heart. In general, females appear to process the prestimulus more frontally; males process it more in the posterior portions of the brain. The bottom line: the heart and the brain together are linked in the actions of receiving, processing, and decoding intuitive information. The concluding hypothesis was that intuition is a system-wide process in which the heart and the brain (and possibly other body organs or systems) are involved together in responding to intuitive information. According to the author of The Intuitive Compass, Francis Cholle, the best decisions result from a combination of intuition and rational thinking. Unfortunately, many disregard their intuitive hunches—to their detriment.
According to French Philosopher Henri Poincare, through science we ‘prove’, while through intuition we ‘discover.’ Human brains have a built-in ability to pick up on patterns and respond to them in a nanosecond in the form of intuitive insights. What have studies shown about the benefits intuition can provide:
· Opens your brain to new ideas that can lead to success
· Enhances your ability to identify potential dangers
· Assists with brainstorming and problem-solving
· Assists in identifying your life vision and goals
Each person may have his or
her own definition of intuition. This brain function is difficult to define—at least
with a definition that is recognized universally. According to Sophy Burnham,
author of The Art of Intuition,
intuition is the subtle knowing without ever having any idea how or why you
know it. Intuition is different from thinking, from logic, or analysis. It is a
type of knowing without knowing. Scientists believe that intuition is always
there, whether or not you are aware of it. An article published in the Journal
of Alternative and Complementary Medicine defines intuition as a process by
which information that is normally outside the range of cognitive processes is
immediately sensed and perceived in the body and mind as certainty of knowledge
or feeling about the totality of a thing distant or yet to happen. This
experience is very different from the processing of normal awareness that
occurs incrementally. Intuition is a sense of the whole all at the same time.
It can generate a positive sense of excitement or a negative sense of dread. In
working with women who have been date raped, I cannot count the number of times
I heard variations on a theme. For example: “When he picked me up, I had this sudden dis-ease about going on this date. Too bad I dismissed the thought.”
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- - Have a strong impression that you need to take a specific action immediately
- Perceive an internal mental picture about something only to recognize it in reality some later on
- Mentally ‘hear’ or sense that you need to stop something that you are currently doing
- Experience a strong physical sense in your body as an aversion toward or an affinity to something or someone
- Experience a flash of insight or perceive a solution to a problem when you are day-dreaming or doing an unrelated task
- Dream about something literally or symbolically, in which case you would need to ponder the symbols and sort out what the dream might be trying to tell you.
- Disregard an impression and later on realized you needed to pay attention to it
· According to Encyclopedia Britannica, German chemist August Kekule von Stradonitz (1829–1896) is famous for having clarified the nature of aromatic compounds, which are based on the benzene molecule. He claimed to have had a dream while dozing in which he saw the figure of a snake that seized its own tail in its mouth, giving Kekule the idea for the benzene ring.
· James Dewey Watson, KBE (hon.), an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist and a co-discoverers of the DNA structure, reportedly got the idea from a dream. Reportedly he dreamed of a double sided spiral staircase—which makes sense when you recall that the spiral DNA strands look something like a twisted ladder.
· According to NOVA, one night Einstein was riding home in a Bern streetcar. Looking back at the famous clock tower that dominated the city, he imagined the streetcar racing away from the clock tower at the speed of light. His ponderings eventually resulted in the theory of relativity (events that were simultaneous in one frame of reference were not necessarily simultaneous in another) and the world's most famous equation, E = mc2.
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The Mere Exposure Effect, also described as the Familiarity principle, posits that we tend to develop preferences for things simply because we become familiar with them. The more familiar you are with something, the more likely you are to repeat it. Studies have shown that individuals are more likely to adopt ideas that they are repeatedly exposed to, especially by the media. Sometimes this is a helpful thing—as in developing healthy habits. Sometimes it is an unhelpful thing—repeating old habits instead of an option with which the individuals is initially unfamiliar. Learn to become aware of what you do and ask yourself if this is a good path to continue to follow or it would be better to take a new path and learn new skills.
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I went to read your blog last week and couldn’t find it. Are you still writing every week day?
Oh my! I thought I had written and posted blogs for the week
of Thanksgiving. That sometimes happens when I see things clearly in my mind’s
eye and then later on thought I had actually done it! According to an article in
the Journal of Experimental
Psychology, the familiarity misattribution theory posits
that “the imagination inflation effect is likely to occur because imagining an event increases familiarity with that event. This familiarity is then misattributed and
interpreted as evidence that the event actually occurred.” Apparently,
this phenomenon is more likely to occur with activities that frequently occur.
I write a blog every weekday. Thinking about doing that ended up as a
perception that I had actually done it for the Thanksgiving week—which,
incidentally, I took off from work. I regret you didn’t find a blog! Now we both
know the reason!
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