December 2011
5 posts
Happiness: The Upside of Stress
Anxious about last-minute holiday preparations? Worried about all that one-on-one time with the fam? Stress away.
A study published this month in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science found that, despite how it seems, stress isn’t all bad. In fact, researchers found that those who dealt with moderate lifetime adversity maintained a more stable sense of well-being than those...
11 Holiday Health Tips
Follow this advice to enjoy a little holiday indulgence without sacrificing your health goals
Indulging Without Overindulging 1. Relax. You won’t gain 10 pounds. It’s a misconception that you’ll need to go up a pant size in January. The average person gains only about a pound during the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. That’s no excuse to eat with abandon, though. (After all, gaining...
Your Body On: Overeating at a Holiday Feast
Who hasn’t stuffed themselves silly at Thanksgiving dinner? Overeating is tradition, after all—a 3,000-plus-calorie one! Here’s how your system deals with the overload.
In the first minute
Your taste buds are atwitter and send pleasure signals to the brain. The message: More, please! As you chew, enzymes in your saliva break down the sugars and starches in the stuffing...
31 Ways to Boost Your Mood—and Health This Month
1. Join a running club In a new study, mice that “worked out” en masse lost 50 percent more abdominal fat than their solitary peers. According to lead researcher Matthew during, Ph.D., a professor of neuro- science at Ohio State university Medical Center, this evidence suggests that being more social can help people shape up faster.
2. Give in to pressure An easy way to work the kinks out of...
