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Health Benefits of Daily 10,000 Steps
In a 2019 article on Domino, a home and life style magazine, Reven Ishak describes What Happens to Your Body When You Walk 10,000 Steps Every Single Day. While the Centers for Disease Control doesn’t specifically recommend this exact number of steps per day, it does suggest getting at least 30 daily minutes of moderate […]
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Is Standing an Exercise?
In a recent issue of The Atlantic magazine, Maggie Mertens, a writer from Seattle, writes that after the pandemic and remote working, Standing Now Counts as Exercise. Perhaps now we can collectively redefine what counts as exercise. As parts of our life continue to be mediated through a screen, moving our body with intention can […]
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Is Being Fat Unhealthy?
In this post, Chris Coyier writes referring from a slide posted to Instagram that “Isn’t being fat just unhealthy?” Chris dwells on the issue of “fat” and “fat-phobia” just like “trans jokes” or similar other jokes and writes: As a fat, I’m mostly I’m annoyed at the world for all the fatphobia. Fat jokes, like […]
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Today is Memorial Day
Today is memorial day in the US, which is celebrated every year to “honor veterans of all wars, but its roots are in America’s deadliest conflict, the Civil War. Approximately 620,000 soldiers died, about two-thirds from disease“. The work of honoring the dead began right away all over the country, and several American towns claim […]
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FOMO
FOMO ( fear of missing out) is a feeling peoples experience when they feel that they are missing out new experiences, trends, friends, wealth, etc. that other peoples have, according to Aarti Gupta, psychologist and Clinical Director at TherapyNest in Palo Alto, California, who recently spoke with NPR. FOMO is about having thoughts on missing […]
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Overthinking
Melody Wilding, coach and author of Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work, writes in a recent Harvard Business Review article: Intuition (the term used to refer to gut feelings in research) is frequently dismissed as mystical or unreliable — but there’s a deep neurological basis for it. When you approach […]
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Outsider
In his latest article in The Atlantic, Arthur C. Brooks, a contributor, suggests his readers to Find More Ways to Be an Outsider. Though Dr Brooks encourages people to be outsider, he warns that being outsider is not easy. Being an outsider can be lonely and difficult, especially if all the strangers around you seem […]