Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Jennifer Rainey Marquez, Georgia State
New research about the relationship between neuron activity and blood flow deep in the brain, as well as how consuming salt affects the brain.
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- Written by: Valerie Segrest (Muckleshoot)
A panacea garden awaits our next steps. In early summer, we introduced seven traditionally healing wildflower plants and how to invite them into our gardens. Now is the time for harvesting and transfiguration.
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- Written by: Connie Zweig, Ph.D.
Each day, as sunlight dims and dusk falls, I stop. I watch the light turn to darkness, then close my eyes to make the transition from doing to being, from fast to slow, from outward to inward...
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- Written by: Joe Alexander
There are dozens and hundreds and thousands of diets, diet books and diet experts in the world today. For one reason or another, many people have decided to adopt some restrictions. The greatest value of the raw food diet is its transformative value.
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- Written by: Christian Moro, Associate Professor of Science & Medicine
We all know the burning sensation we get when eating chilies. Some can tolerate the heat, while others may be reaching for the milk carton.
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- Written by: Michele Siegel, Ph.D., et al.
When an eating disorder exists, it is recognized by certain behaviors, the most noticeable being an obsession with food and weight. This obsession can take the form of binge eating, starving, vomiting, compulsive exercising, or other behaviors focused on eating, getting rid of, or avoiding food.
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- Written by: Eric Maze, University of Missouri
We believe differences in metabolic requirements for male and female embryos as early as the first trimester, combined with dynamic differences in the way the male and female placenta reacts to environmental factors...
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- Written by: Thomas Hatsis
Beginning in the late 1950s, five hospitals (in the province of Saskatchewan in Canada) offered a new kind of psychedelic therapy: treating alcoholism with LSD.
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- Written by: Thomas Hatsis
Beginning in the late 1950s, five hospitals (in the province of Saskatchewan in Canada) offered a new kind of psychedelic therapy: treating alcoholism with LSD.
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- Written by: Faith Elicia
Saying no to ED should be a no-brainer — maybe to somebody not suffering from an eating disorder. My recovery journey has demonstrated that it’s a daily struggle, something I must fight one day at a time. It’s easy to forget that ED will bring me to my death if I don’t remain conscious of its presence.
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- Written by: Faith Elicia
Saying no to ED should be a no-brainer — maybe to somebody not suffering from an eating disorder. My recovery journey has demonstrated that it’s a daily struggle, something I must fight one day at a time. It’s easy to forget that ED will bring me to my death if I don’t remain conscious of its presence.
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- Written by: Nicholas R. Longrich, Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology and Paleontology, University of Bath
Humans constantly alter the world. We fire fields, turn forests into farms, and breed plants and animals. But humans don’t just reshape our external world – we engineer our internal worlds, and reshape our minds.
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- Written by: Janelle Weaver, Stanford University
A diet rich in fermented foods boosts the diversity of gut microbes and decreases molecular signs of inflammation, according to new research.
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- Written by: Alison Jones-Duke
When it comes to picking a snack, taste has a hidden advantage over healthfulness in the brain’s decision-making processes, a new study shows.
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- Written by: Ida Eriksen, University of Copenhagen
Depending on their discipline, some Olympic athletes could potentially enjoy some junk food without affecting their performance, an expert explains.
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- Written by: Katie Bohn-Penn State
It can be difficult to get young kids to eat enough vegetables, but a new study finds that simply adding more veggies to their plates can result in children consuming more vegetables at the meal.
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- Written by: Julia Evangelou Strait, Washington University in St. Louis
Researchers have identified ingredients for snack food prototypes formulated to deliberately change the gut microbiome in ways that can be linked to health.
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- Written by: Kristin Grayce McGary
The Old English word haelp meant "wholeness, being whole, sound, or well." The Proto-German word hailitho also means "whole." Old Norse offers helge, meaning "holy, sacred." This wholeness refers to all your vital parts and processes as present, properly arranged, and in harmonious balance.
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- Written by: Gary Sacks, Deakin University
Public health experts have long argued that when it comes to preventing obesity, we need to stop blaming individuals.
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- Written by: Duane Mellor, Lead for Evidence-Based Medicine and Nutrition, Aston Medical School, Aston University
Since the beginning of the pandemic, it’s been suggested that certain foods or diets may offer protection against COVID-19. But are these sorts of claims
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- Written by: Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of South Australia
Diets that exclude meat and fish (vegetarian) or all animal products including dairy and eggs (vegan) are becoming increasingly popular for health, environmental and ethical reasons.
