Food and Environment

Top 10 Profit Trends and What it Means for Your Health

I enjoy reading about sociology, business, and entrepreneurship and love to tie it in to what it means for our health. It’s so much of a passion of mine that I designed my own major in “Social Issues and Health” while at Juniata College. So along the way, I tend to keep up with economic [...]

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The Power Behind Memes Part IV: Taking the Quantum Leap

Books like SuperFreakonomics, Outliers, The Tipping Point, & Predictably Irrational (affiliate links) have become extremely popular by detailing how outcomes and observations can be dependent on seemingly unrelated phenomena. Gaining understanding of the “unpredictable” and “unexpected”, can be important because they can help guide us through difficult decisions, and prepare for the unknown. Understanding the quantum nature of memes can help [...]

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How Can We Use Memes to Create Health?

Commonly Infected Memes: Food is not therapy. You always eat dessert after dinner. It’s okay to eat fast food every once in awhile. It’s okay to have your cake, you deserve it! Grilled chicken and vegetables is not breakfast food. A little bit doesn’t hurt. Medical problems need medicine, nutrition problems need nutrition. Everyone should [...]

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What is a Meme?

The Power Behind Memes (and What Memes Are in the First place) Get ready to make a choice for the red pill or blue pill, this multi-part series is going to read like a Tarantino film, ruffle some feathers, and get your mental juices flowing while making no sense and perfect sense at the same [...]

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New Insights on Losing Excess Weight

There’s been some great advances in research on losing excess weight that have came out over the last five to ten years. Here are some notes about what we now know… 1.) Bacteria Imbalance in the gut…research shows that probiotics may assist with weight loss. Probiotics aid in digestion, may help reduce inflammation, and generally help [...]

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