Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Body”
In 1943, psychologist Abraham Maslow proposes a theory of psychology known as the hierarchy of needs. According Dr. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (frequently portrayed as a pyramid, although Maslow didn’t theorize it as such), physiological needs were the primary needs of humans and as a human developed emotionally, the needs would gain more non-physiological attributes. The most basic needs are …
As I say in Prioritizing Self-Care in the New Year, Physical care is about getting enough movement in your daily lifestyle. You don’t need to get a gym membership and run three to five miles per day, to have proper physical self-care. It’s important to remember that 30 Move Minutes five times per week is recommended by the American Heart …
You remember the adage growing up that you are what you eat. In so many ways today that has been proven true by science. And, even with this insight, we all struggle to some extent today with the mountain of food and beverage options that nutrition self-care can be challenging. In this week’s edition, I cover the basics of nutritional …
After the Great Recession, workers around the world were shocked into a hyper state of productivity. While wage rates have stayed mostly the same for the past 20 years, each professional has had to prove their worthiness in the current economy with greater output and working overtime. The national stress levels have been impacted by the economic crisis since 2008 …
As 2019 rolls into 2020, this marks not only a new year but also a new decade. We mark new decades based on our birth years but also communely when a new decade happens. And, new decades only happen about eight or nine times in our lifetimes, so they’re a little more important than 11:59 PM ticking over to 12:00 …
As we discussed in last week’s post, you can make your own household cleaning products for a variety of cleaning needs. But, if you’re busy and don’t have time to do that, there must be solutions that are healthier and less harmful than those bought generally, right? Buying healthy household cleaning products doesn’t have to be difficult to help you …
How to Get a Good Night’s Rest When Fighting Sleeplessness We all hear about the dangers of lack of sleep. Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Verizon-owned HuffPost (formerly Huffington Post) wrote a 2017 The New York Times best-selling book about the topic of sleep entitled, The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time. In The …
In 1975, acclaimed director Steven Spielberg premiered the summer blockbuster film, Jaws. A summer resort town was terrorized by a man-eating great white shark in New England. The foreboding nature of that shark’s dorsal fin as it raises out of the water that alerts people that there are dangers in the water. But today, in your drinking water in reality, …
The year was 1945 and the United States Food and Nutrition Board, a part of the National Academy of Sciences, was a young five years old. And, they wrote a recommendation for the daily intake of 2 liters (roughly 10.5 cups) of water. And, henceforth the myth of drinking eight glasses of water per day was born. At least, as …
We hear a lot about fat in the news. How much fat we should eat? How to shed pounds of fat with the latest “diet”? One of the topics that comes up is, how healthy cooking oils are in our nutrition? To start, it’s important to understand that there are two types of fat that are often conflated: dietary fat …
