Health
Finding good health news amidst a pandemic can be quite daunting. That’s not the case with The Optimist Daily, where positive news is in high supply. Our Health section covers the latest good news from the health sector, featuring solutions ranging from mental and physical health to immunity, nutrition, and cutting edge medical research.
Germany is leading a meat-free, vegan revolution
Eating less meat is a global trend that substantially helps decreasing carbon emissions. According to a recent report, between 2005 and 2014 American beef consumption decreased by 19 percent. The Germans are well known for their bratwursts and schnitzels, but they are also leading vegan innovation. Read More...
Inspiration: A year without processed food
From The Optimist Magazine Fall 2015 Megan Kimble, a journalist based in Tucson, Arizona, decided to spend one year eating only whole, unprocessed foods. Her book Unprocessed: My Busy, Broke City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food tells about her journey. Why did you decide to stop eating Read More...
Possibility: How to become like Steve Jobs
From The Optimist Magazine Fall 2015 This article previously appeared in What Doctors Don’t Tell You Fruit may well have contributed to the mental sharpness and creativity of Steve Jobs, the late founder of Apple. And it’s not just Jobs who benefited: anyone who regularly eats fruits that are Read More...
Possibility: Kale is dead. Long live watercress.
From The Optimist Magazine Fall 2015 Marketing is an art, and more often than not it doesn’t produce the best results for the consumer. Take the case of kale. In recent years, this vegetable has become the darling of the health-conscious movement. There’s hardly any healthy-cuisine restaurant Read More...
Everybody’s friend, The onion is keeping it real
From The Optimist Magazine Fall 2015 When you bring everyone who wants to work with you to tears, and you still make it into countless dishes all over the world every day, you must be pretty special. The culinary qualities of the onion are indeed extraordinary. You can coax almost any flavor out of Read More...
Better quality relationships linked to reduced dementia risk
Positive social support from adult children is associated with reduced risk of developing dementia, according to a new research published today. Conversely, negative social support is linked with increased risk, according to the 10-year follow-up study carried out by a team of researchers from the Read More...
Just 10 minutes of meditation helps anxious people have better focus
Just 10 minutes of daily mindful meditation can help prevent your mind from wandering and is particularly effective if you tend to have repetitive, anxious thoughts, according to a study from the University of Waterloo. The study, which assessed the impact of meditation with 82 participants who Read More...
Harvard just launched a center for happiness
As two enormous, golden doors part, sunlight pours into an atrium filled with babies and puppies. Everyone is smiling. The air smells of freshly mown mint. Ripe avocados rain from the sky. (Somehow, they always miss the babies.) This is Harvard University’s new Center for Health and Happiness. At Read More...
Engaging in these 8 mindfulness practices decreased HIV patients’ viral loads
Mindfulness meditation has been practiced in East Asia for thousands of years. In the 1960s and 70s, interest in it brought this Zen staple to the US and Europe. It was common within the counterculture movement and continued over the decades among “crunchy granola” and “New Read More...
Study: Orange essential oil may reduce symptoms of PTSD
Those who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have limited options when it comes to treatment. A new study suggests that orange essential oil may offer a non-pharmaceutical option to help reduce the stress and fear associated with the disorder. Previous studies have shown that orange Read More...