Source: http://summertomato.com/is-one-of-these-limiting-beliefs-preventing-you-from-getting-healthy/

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One of my hobbies is asking every random person I talk to how they feel about their health. The stories I hear range from super sad to downright hilarious. Yet despite the diversity, a few common themes emerge.

Most people agree that health is important. And while answers may vary about what actually constitutes “good health,” few people believe they have achieved it or are satisfied with where they are at.

Where things really get interesting though is when I ask someone what stops them from being healthier. Surprisingly few people give hedonistic reasons such as “I love junk food too much” or “I just don’t want to cut back on TV,” although I do hear it occasionally.

Instead, the majority of people I speak with give one of two answers:

Family responsibilities take up too much time and energy
Work (or school) responsibilities take up too much time and energy

Sometimes they say both.

Caring for your loved ones and building a career, whether for passion or money, are understandably the most important things in your life, and it is normal to assume that these responsibilities take priority over everything else.

Compared to family and business, focusing on your ow…

Source: http://evolutiontucson.com/training-olympians-at-evolution-fitness/

It was an honor to train Canadian Olympian Emily Batty this year in her quest to medal in the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil. Emily came off of an amazing year winning the Pan Am Gold Medal in 2015! She came to Tucson for the awesome weather to train in the winter. She hire me to be her Strength Coach in December and it was a strong 4 months of strength training. When I started my career as a personal trainer in little ol’ Tucson over 15 years ago I dreamed to train Elite Athletes. The truth is I would not have known what to do 15 years ago with elite athletes. To have the opportunity to coach Emily this year was one of the highlights of my career. She was a pleasure to work with, very coachable, humble, and an extremely hard worker. Emily and Adam(her cycling coach) put this video together and it was an honor to be a part of this video. It is a great commercial for Tucson and the personal training and Strength Coaching we do at Evolution Fitness.

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Source: http://www.theminimalists.com/p017/

By Joshua Fields Millburn · Follow: Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram

In this episode of The Minimalists Podcast, Joshua Fields Millburn discusses diet, exercise, sleep, stress, and more, and he answers the following questions:

What diet supplements are most effective?
How does minimalism change your diet?
What is on the grocery list of a minimalist?
What are the most ideal exercises for a minimalist?

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Mentioned in This Episode

App: f.lux
Book: Eat Stop Eat
Book: Essential
Book: Everything That Remains
Book: Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
Book: The Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion
Essay: 18-Minute Minimalist Exercises
Essay: A Minimalist’s Thoughts on Diet
Essay: Food Is Not Entertainment
Essay: Health Is a Vehicle, Not a Destination
Event: How to Write Better
Event: Tuesdays with The Minimalists
Health Aid: Magic Bullet NutriBullet Blender
Health Aid: Omega Masticating Juicer
Health Aid: Sleep Master Sleep Mask
Meetup: Minimalist.org
Podcast: Found My Fitness Podcast
Recommendation: Bulletproof Radio Podcast
Supplement: Amazing Grass Green SuperFood
Supplement: Natural Vitality Natural Calm
Supplement: New Mood Anti-Stress & Serotonin
Website: Lean G…

Source: http://www.foodpolitics.com/2016/03/what-do-americans-eat-its-hard-to-say/

I’ve just received a new report from USDA’s Economic Research Service, U.S. Food Commodity Consumption Broken Down by Demographics.  This looks at trends in per capita food availability—the amounts of specific foods available in the food supply, obtained from data on production and imports, from 1994 to 2008, corrected for waste, per person in the United States.

Food availability data, especially when corrected for waste, suggest trends in per capita consumption patterns (otherwise why would USDA bother to collect them?), but they are not consumption data.  They are about supply, not use.

With that said, the trends seem odd to me.  They demonstrate a decline in the availability of:

Fruit (mainly oranges)
Vegetables
Dairy (mainly milk)
Beef
Pork
Potatoes
Sugars

The supply of yogurt and cheese, however, has increased (but their per capita availability is relatively low).

The supply of apple juice also has increased:

Food availability data corrected for waste are supposed to come close to what people actually eat.  But if people are eating less of practically all foods, how come so many of us are still gaining weight?  Surely it’s not because of apple juice.

These data are an important source of information on U.S. dietary pat…

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“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” ~JK Rowling

Sometimes the last thing we want to do is feel our feelings. Because feeling can hurt.

Feeling can make you cry in the laundromat.

Feeling can make your face unattractively red in the frozen food aisle.

Feeling can make you think this whole being human racket is not the best way to spend your time.

If you’ve been stuffing your feelings back into your rib cage whenever they try to break for the light, this is especially true. I know, because this is exactly what I did with my feelings for thirty-three long years.

Oh, those crafty feelings would make the occasional jail break, and then I’d vibrate with a nameless rage that ended in cell phone destruction when technology met brick wall. Or I’d start screaming and yanking at my clothes—yes, actual rending of garments—because the rush of pain was too intense to contain within my frame.

My mom is fond of saying that, for the first few years of my life, she thought she was raising a monster. As an empath in a house where emotion was treated like a ticking bomb, I was feeling emotions for the entire family, and all those feelings were processing through my eyeballs and via my vocal chords.

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“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” ~Jack Canfield

When I was in my twenties, I was confident and fearless, and I lived life to the fullest.

I remember going on vacation, and one of my friends was terrified to get on the plane. We had a four-hour flight ahead of us, and I thought her anxiety and fear of flying were ridiculous.

I thought she was being pathetic and selfish, and spoiling it for everyone else. I remember having a ‘quiet word’ with her and berating her for talking absolute nonsense. I had no empathy or compassion for her feelings. In hindsight, I wasn’t being a very good friend.

It’s funny how things can change. In June 2006, life as I knew it collapsed around me because a business I’d put my heart and soul into didn’t work out. I began to feel panicky, disconnected, scared, lost, weak, vulnerable, utterly ashamed, and broken.

Simple daily tasks I once found easy became a chore. Even more disturbing was the realization that everything I previously enjoyed had become a source of fear and dread, such as going away, meeting friends, driving, and ironically, getting on a plane.

Every minute of every day was filled with fearful thoughts; I overflowed with insecurities, self-doubt, and self-loathing….

Source: http://romanfitnesssystems.com/articles/powerlifting-101-beginner/

So, you’ve been hitting the gym and are ready to try powerlifting?

That feeling creeping around the back of your head right now is self-doubt.

And I get it. 

You don’t think you’re strong enough; it’s something I’ve heard from my clients countless times.

As a guy who deadlifted 520lbs while weighing 174lbs (in a hoodie and jeans, no less), I still wasn’t satisfied with my strength levels. You might never be as strong as you want to be, but that shouldn’t keep you from competing.

I am going lay out five important guidelines for you to follow on your journey.

The Basics

Powerlifting is a strength sport comprised of three different lifts: the squat, bench press, and deadlift. You get three shots at each lift, and the highest of each will get added into your total score, aptly called, Your Total.

1. These Important Rules Will Make or Break Your Lifts

In every federation you lift in, there are certain directives for when and how to lift. You can find them in your handbook and since I know you have read it, I won’t get too crazy in-depth here (seriously, read the rule book).

The squat requires that your hip crease is below the knee in order for it to count.

If you execute the lift and you see three red…

Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/11/473158881/for-kafka-even-beer-came-with-baggage?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=thesalt

Many of Franz Kafka’s darkest comedies appear rooted in the cowering relationship he had with his father. Their only true bonding was over beer.

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Franz Kafka wrote powerful stories about the powerless — and to make them frightening, he made them funny. Many of his darkest comedies, including the famous one about a salesman metamorphosing into a bug, appear to be rooted in the cowering, but deeply farcical, relationship he had with his domineering father, Hermann.

But if there was a sparkling boyhood memory that Kafka cherished — and recalled as he lay dying of tuberculosis in a sanatarium near Vienna — it was one involving that primal bonding ritual between father and son: sharing a beer.

In Is That Kafka? 99 Finds, a book of trivia recently translated from German into English, the eminent Kafka scholar Reiner Stach highlights his famous subject’s enjoyment of beer and wine….

Source: http://www.foodpolitics.com/2016/04/sponsored-research-raspberries-this-time/

This morning, I received a query from a scientist:

I have been following your documentation of industry-funded research on health benefits. I’ve been thinking about this issue from the perspective of fruits and vegetables. We know that they are good in general, but how does one fund research to demonstrate that clinically? In particular, how does one get specific about the form and amount that his helpful for specific health benefits?  You may be interested in this press release from the raspberry industry telling about the papers at the Society for Experimental Biology meetings that are relevant to the health benefits of eating raspberries. This seems to be approaching what a good model might look like. I’m interested in your perspective. Furthermore, are the results relevant to nutritionists?

Here’s how I answered it:

Thanks for sending.  I guess my question would be something along the lines of why getting specific about form and amount of specific fruits and vegetables is important for public health.  People don’t eat just raspberries.  They put them in cereal or on desserts.  Raspberries are expensive.  Wealthy, educated and, therefore, healthy people are likely to consume them.  So this looks like marketing research to me—selling raspberries as a superfood.  If you think there is a special benefit to raspberries and that it would be good to quantify it, the best strategy would be to get the research funded by an independent …

Source: http://greatist.com/live/earbuds-why-you-need-to-clean-them-and-how?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed_http–greatistcom-

Imagine a coworker asks to borrow your toothbrush since she left hers at home. You’d be disgusted! So why are earbuds any different?

Studies have found that people who frequently use earbuds have substantially more bacteria in their ears than those who rarely use them. That makes total sense when you think about all the germs earbuds pick up as they go from your pocket to your ear to your bag and back to your ear. Plus the natural moisture and heat from your ear canal is a prime environment for bacteria to multiply.

Before you swear off earbuds for good, there are a few ways you can mitigate the microbial problem. First and foremost: Don’t share them! It’s a surefire way to introduce earwax that isn’t yours. If you must share, disinfect them with a cotton ball dampened with disinfecting spray or rubbing alcohol before you use them again. In fact, you should clean your earbuds at least once a week whether you share them or not. And be sure to store them in a clean, dry place.

(h/t BuzzFeed)

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