Posts Tagged“health”

How to Cultivate a Sharper Sense of Taste

You might be able to distinguish Pepsi and Coke, but that doesn’t mean you are a world-class taster. In fact, if you regularly consume processed foods like sodas and frozen meals, you could be doing damage to your taste buds by overloading them with sugars and salts. These powerful tastes are everywhere in our modern diets, and they tend to overwhelm our tongues, impeding our ability to savor subtler and more exciting flavors. There is more to life than sweet and salty. Instead of accepting an atrophied sense of taste, you can take the following steps to regrow your taste…

Feeling Blah? Ways to Cultivate A Positive Outlook on Life

Whether it’s the culmination of the holidays, a cold winter or just feeling blah, climbing out of a rut can be difficult to do. Fortunately, the following suggestions can help you cultivate a positive outlook on life, while making you feel better about yourself. Do Something for Others Everyone suffers a case of the Mondays on occasion. However, if you’re having difficulties getting out of a funk, you may need to get proactive. While it may only be for selfish purposes, doing something good for someone else can boost your life’s outlook just as much as it will benefit the person…

Understanding Chronic Conditions: Diabetes

If you’re interested in moving from RN to MSN, you’ll need to pay extra close attention to the mélange of chronic conditions out there.  These are conditions that you will come across frequently as you progress in your career. One such chronic condition, Diabetes, will afflict 1 in 3 U.S. adults by the year 2050 if things progress as they have so far. Learn more important health facts in our latest infographic: Organization Devleopment | New England College Online

Five negative side effects of extreme dieting

Kai Hibbard should be happy with the “The Biggest Loser”. The American reality show, which places a team of obese people in an extreme fit camp and challenges them to compete against each other to lose weight, sliced more than 120lbs of weight from her 5ft 6inch frame. But the intense schedule destroyed her, and many of her colleagues, and she has some stark stories to tell about her time on the programme. NBC claims it looks after its contestants and the impressive weight loss transformations have changed their lives across 16 series. True, not everyone has such a horror…