A Healthy Meal: Cooking And Cooling Pasta Changes Starch Quality To Cut Calories, Fat. Pasta lovers can all agree their love affair with the heavily carbohydrate-loaded dish has led them to break their diets — and their waistbands.
The noodle and sauce plate can make you feel hungry again, since it is quickly absorbed as simple sugars, which raises blood glucose — an unhealthy meal for diabetics. According to an experiment on the BBC show Trust Me, I’m a Doctor, eating pasta that has been cooked, cooled, and then reheated is significantly healthier than eating it freshly cooked because it turns into “resistant starch,” reducing blood glucose levels by half. Normal starch in bread and pasta turns into sugar quickly when it is digested.
The tangled chains of glucose sugar molecules in normal starch are easily broken down into single sugar molecules and then quickly absorbed, according to HyperPhysics, hosted by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University. Dr. Although this nutritional advice is valuable, Dr. Follow Us. Harbor - Must read and inwardly digest...literally! Identifying And Overcoming Depression. Today it was discovered that comedian and Academy Award-winning actor Robin Williams has died of an apparent suicide, following a struggle with depression.
His tragic death was a somber reminder that we need to continue the conversation about depression and how to overcome this mental disorder. Depression isn’t the same as occasionally feeling the blues or temporarily feeling in a rut. Depression is a serious low mood disorder that can bring about all-encompassing feeling of sadness, irritability, hopelessness, sleep disorder, body aches, and even thoughts of suicide. Approximately 19 million Americans are living with the condition, so anybody who feels alone in this struggle should really know that they aren’t.
Depression can be caused by biological, environmental, and psychological factors, in addition to personal experiences such as divorce or death of a loved one. 5 Essential Rules for Great Presentations. I recently had a long conversation with Peter Handal, the CEO of Dale Carnegie Training, on the subject of giving great presentations.
I've read (and written) plenty of posts on this topic, but Handal managed to boil everything down to these five essentials: 1. Be yourself. 6 Questions to Ask Yourself When Fear Starts Peeking Around the Corner. Most of us have a “fight or flight” response to fear.
We either get reactive about a perceived potential threat, or we want to retreat as far away from the potential danger as we can. The challenge is that fear is usually over a situation that isn’t actually happening at the time. Consequently, we start fighting, disengage, get anxious or run away over something that we think might happen, but isn’t. In other words, we either leap headfirst into drama or run the other way over a story we are potentially making up. We end up damaging our relationships by aligning our behavior with our illusions.
Most of us are not trained to look at fear as a helpful thing, but fear actually flags awareness about what truly matters to us. 13 Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder: Are You Bipolar? Imply or infer? Signs You're Being Passive-Aggressive - Muriel Maignan Wilkins. By Muriel Maignan Wilkins | 10:00 AM June 20, 2014 When was the last time you did any of the following at work?
You didn’t share your honest view on a topic, even when asked.You got upset with someone, but didn’t let them know why.You procrastinated on completing a deliverable primarily because you just didn’t see the value in it.You praised someone in public, but criticized them in private.You responded to an exchange with, “Whatever you want is fine. We All Need Alone Time: Do You Allow Yourself to Recharge? “He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world.”
~Marcus Aurelius At the end of August I moved to Madison, Wisconsin. This was my second major move in a year. In both cases, I was separated from almost my entire prior social network. After college, making friends seems like a totally different ball game. Here in Madison, I wake up before five in the morning to go to work and don’t get back until six or seven on most days of the week. 10 Easy Things That Will Make You Happier, Backed By Science. Anger: Venting Versus Letting Go. There's a myth about anger that goes back a long time.
I call it the steam kettle syndrome. The idea is that anger is like steam in a kettle on the stove. So long as there is heat, the steam builds up, and unless it "goes somewhere", the kettle will eventually explode. If you allow the steam to escape, the risk of explosion disappears. Often anger feels that way. Venting Doesn't Mean "Letting Go" Venting anger doesn't necessarily mean you'll be able to "let it go". How To Let Go of Your Anger If only there was universal solution. The Self-Talk Solution If letting go of anger is a problem in your life, you might benefit from professional help.
While our emotions clearly affect how we behave, what we say to ourselves -- self-talk affects our emotions.