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A Practical Guide to Mindfulness (Tessa Watt)
Stepping back from ruminating thoughts
If you’re prone to depression, you probably have a tendency to ‘ruminate’ – to get caught up in spirals of obsessive thoughts which are hard to distinguish from facts. Through mindfulness you can learn to stay grounded in the body and to be less caught up in the mind. You can…
Mindfulness is like brushing your teeth
Mindfulness practice is sometimes described as being a bit like brushing your teeth. It’s something you can do every day as part of your basic mental hygiene. It’s better to brush your teeth every day for 5 minutes, rather than for an hour on Sundays. In the same way, it’s good…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Precise but inaccurate: the faulty glucose monitor
monitor that overestimates blood sugar the same way every time.
LSD is less harmful than alcohol
The law did not ban the use of LSD in research, but now researchers would be required to receive approval from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, which would later become the DEA. Following suit, the UN classified several mind-altering drugs as Schedule I in 1971…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Folic acid and the neural tube
It’s vital that this neural tube develop properly. If it doesn’t, the baby could have a protruding spinal cord or a tumor near his lower back, a condition known as spina bifida. Or the baby could grow without a complete head, a rare condition known as anencephaly. This is why…
Baby blues and postpartum depression
What to make of the transition to parenthood? We have so far outlined an experience that requires a “giving response” three times per minute, allows half the sleep you need, provides little energy for friendships, and turns issues like who takes out the garbage into divorce…
Video games and childhood obesity
What does that literature say about video games and developing brains in babies? There’s not much, and it paints a decidedly mixed picture. This is understandable. The subject is too new, and the technology undergirding it is changing too rapidly. So what parents of newborns…
Exercise boosts executive function
This rise in pediatric obesity is painful to hear in the brain science community, especially because we know so much about the relationship between physical activity and mental acuity. Exercise—especially aerobic exercise—is fantastic for the brain, increasing executive…
Fruttosio al posto dello zucchero: quando il rimedio è peggiore del male
Fruttosio VS Glucosio
Il fruttosio è uno zucchero semplice, presente naturalmente nella frutta e in vari vegetali, nel miele, nello sciroppo di agave e nel saccarosio – il comune zucchero bianco, composto per metà di glucosio e per metà di fruttosio. Pur avendo le stesse calorie del glucosio, il…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
The free spirit
that overplus which confers upon the free spirit the perilous prerogative of spending a life in experiment and of running adventurous risks: the past-master-privilege of the free spirit. In the interval there may be long years of convalescence, years filled with many hued…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Salute, sapere e benessere
L’unico valore assoluto è l’utile, referente necessario per la determinazione di ogni norma etica. Stuart-Mill è il mèntore di Nishi. Su uno sfondo utilitaristico, si stagliano i tre valori fondamentali dell’etica: la salute, il sapere e il benessere. L’uomo deve curare il…
Marmellata senza zucchero: no grazie!
Il saccarosio è naturale quanto il fruttosio e il glucosio
Concludo consigliando di leggere con più spirito critico i libri come "Sugar blues", considerando che non esiste nessuna evidenza scientifica che dimostri che il saccarosio sia un "veleno", e dal punto di vista metabolico è del tutto paragonabile al glucosio e anche al…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
The Secret Chief's clandestine network
Jacob continued to expand this clandestine network throughout his sixties and seventies. By the end he estimated he had initiated some four thousand people, a large percentage of them psychotherapists and health care professionals, into the use of psychedelics—particularly…
Shamanism is about healing
Neither Wasson, nor Eliade, nor Schultes—nor, for that matter, Carlos Castaneda, nor Wasson’s disciple Terence McKenna—none of these great trailblazers of shamanism have paid much attention to what is clearly its primary feature. Shamanism is about healing, about curing pain…
Trauma coded in the body
The coding of trauma in the physical body is an enormous subject; and the two cents’ worth of personal understanding I have of it comes down to a hunch that the convulsive body tremors are of key importance. At the time of these sessions the only analogy I had was from the work…
Psychedelics culturally vindicated
A well-established, even well-heeled cult I had been expecting, but not one thriving like this. The hall was so packed you could barely move. Of all the revolutionary groups of my youth—the hippies, the New Left, the students, the blacks, the feminists—it was, however…
Worry Less About Children's Screen Use, Parents Told - Bbc News
Screen time and children
The recommendation that children should not use the devices in the hour before bedtime comes because of evidence that they can harm sleep. The devices stimulate the brain, and the blue light produced by them can disrupt the body's secretion of the sleep hormone melatonin. While…
Zuccheri - skuola alimentare
Qual è lo zucchero più salutare?
Qual è lo zucchero più salutare? Contrariamente a ciò che ci ha fatto pensare il marketing negli anni, non c’è uno zucchero più salutare di un altro. La molecola che li compone è infatti sempre la stessa, indipendentemente dal fatto che si trovi naturalmente in un frutto o…