Normally I like to dwell on the positive and be upbeat, constructive, and solution-focused. Just for now, though, I’m going to list seven deadly psychological sins that, if left to themselves, will…
Nancy Baughn had tried everything. She counted carbs and weighed her food. She checked her blood sugars and visited her doctor. But after an eight-year battle with type 2 diabetes, those blood…
You may have noticed that, in the past couple decades or so, vegetarianism and particularly the plant-based diet have become somewhat “cool.” Nowadays, there tend to be more plant-based options on restaurant…
Michael Slepian is a professor at Columbia Business School who is interested in the impact of keeping secrets. In a soon-to-be-published study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology he reports…
As a survivor of abusive marriage who now works with women in the same shoes, I hear more than your average number of horror stories. Before you start casting stones and assuming…
A recent study demonstrated some significant adverse effects of drinking on not only your brain size, but also its function. Any Topiwala and colleagues recently published their 30-year study in the British…
There’s an aspect of the holidays that makes me…sad. I mean, I’m all about the big family get-togethers, the extra chairs pulled up to the dining table, the reasons to turn lunch…
A Buddhist form of meditation called “mindfulness meditation” has taken the mental health field by storm. It has produced many well-documented positive effects and has been basically touted as a panacea for…
It’s funny; I just finished a two-week vacation in Greece and actually lost weight. I dropped just one pound, but my wife lost five! The strange thing is, we hardly exercised, ate…