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Mindless Eating: Healthy Living Tips0
- Food & Nutrition
- August 15, 2011
This ABC News report on the hidden household traps that lead to mindless eating is all about how to put healthier food on your plate and consume less. According to the report, Americans tend to eat 92 percent of what we put on our plates. So, it helps to use a 10 inch plate as
READ MOREMind Over Mind? ‘Decision Fatigue’ Saps Willpower – If We Let It0
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- August 23, 2011
In the all out battle between decisions and willpower, it seems like you might have the final say. Though there is conflicting research in the field about whether one’s ability to make decisions becomes continually worn down and withered, those who believed in their own willpower were more likely to overcome this weariness. Because making
READ MOREMind Games Grow in Popularity as Exercise for the Brain0
- Health & Healing
- April 6, 2014
Exercising your brain at any age is good for you! Websites like Luminosity provide online games to help jog your memory and keep your thinking sharp. Created by neuroscientists, the games are designed to help train your brain, much like a personal trainer helps you train the muscles in your body at the gym.
READ MOREMillionaire uses fortune to help kids in struggling town0
- Making a Positive Difference
- April 22, 2013
Good for You! to self-made millionaire Harris Rosen, who's used the fortune he amassed in the hotel business to help young people in the crime-ridden Orlando, FL neighborhood of Tangelo Park. Rosen created a scholarship program to pay free tuition to Florida state colleges for any students in the neighborhood. In the two decades since
READ MOREMillennials spur capitalism with a conscience0
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- April 2, 2013
Millennials are demanding capitalism with a conscience, and some of America's biggest brands are delivering. Good for You! to the founder of Panera Bread, Ron Schaich, who has created Panera Cares restaurants, where anyone can come to enjoy a meal. What's different about these particular restaurants is that customers pay whatever they can afford. The first Panera Cares opened in St. Louis
READ MOREMilitary Wife Magazine on NBC0
- Making a Positive Difference
- August 2, 2011
Being separated for long periods of time is a reality all too common for military families. As the wife of a military pilot, Babette Maxwell knows these feelings of loneliness and wanted to do something to help military families cope with the enormous stress the war in Afghanistan has placed on them. Though she has
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