Month: December 2013

When you make gratitude a practice and express it to others, you shore up your own sense emotional well-being. Gift-giving can then be what it really is: a small sweet moment in a long rich life.

The stress and strain of constantly being connected can sometimes take your life — and your well-being — off course. GPS For The Soul can help you find your way back to balance. GPS Guides are our way of showing you what has relieved others' stress in the hopes that you will be able to identify solutions that work for you. We all have de-stressing "secret weapons" that we pull out in times of tension or anxiety, whether they be photos that relax us or make us smile, songs that bring us back to our heart, quotes or poems that

By Morten Hansen and Dacher Keltner Do you experience meaning at work — or just emptiness? In the United States people spend on average 35-40 hours working every week. That's some 80,000 hours during a career — more time than you will spend with your kids, probably. Beyond the paycheck, what does work give you? Few questions could be more important. It is sad to walk through life and experience work as empty, dreadful, a chore — sapping energy out of your body and soul. Yet many employees do, as evidenced by one large-scale study showing that only 31

A type of treatment already used against cancer is also effective at killing HIV-infected cells, according to a new study in blood samples. Researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine found that HIV infection was reduced to undetectable levels after they administered radioimmunotherapy to HIV-infected lymphocytes (white blood cells), in blood samples from people who already received highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). People with HIV already use HAART to suppress viral replication, thereby lowering the viral burden (the amount of viral particles) in the body. …

Extroverted kids may be more likely to be tricked by bigger bowl sizes than their introverted counterparts, according to a small new study. Researchers from the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab and the University of Groningen found that extroverted kids are more likely than their introverted peers to serve themselves bigger portions in response to a bigger bowl.

Paula Wolfert has authored nine cookbooks and won five James Beard awards. She's a foremost authority on Moroccan and Mediterranean cooking. She also has Alzheimer's disease. In a moving segment on PBS NewsHour, Wolfert describes how the diagnosis and disease has affected how she eats and cooks.

There's nothing particularly new about barre workouts. They've been plié-ing their way through cities for the past few years. But a few different types of classes are now setting the, er, bar a little higher. 1. Cardio Barre Inspired largely by ballet, it promises to strengthen, lengthen and tone your entire body through resistance exercises. Sound similar to other barre classes? It's not. Here's why: The pace is crazy-fast. You're doing tendus, grand battements and other ballet moves at lightning-quick speed, so your heart rate is up almost the entire time. …

For over 20 years, Carbon Leaf has been honing their musical craft that deftly blends folk, country and Celtic and rock elements. While their musical identity has evolved and matured on the road, so, too, has the band's ability to find healthy sleep while touring.

By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko was sentenced to six years in a high-security prison on Tuesday for ordering an acid attack that nearly blinded the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet and tarnished the reputation of the renowned theatre. A judge announced the sentence after convicting Dmitrichenko and two co-defendants of the attack on Sergei Filin last January, which exposed poisonous rivalries over roles, money and power at one of Russia's most prominent cultural institutions. Yuri Zarutsky, who admitted to being the masked attacker who threw acid in Filin's face in January, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Andrei Lipatov, who drove Zarutsky to the scene, was sentenced to four years.

Tis the season to beware of the dreaded gout! Next thing you know your knee, ankle, or big toe starts throbbing in the middle of the night.