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Top 10: Brain Foods Via AskMen.com
15. September 2010 by admin.
I seen this on the Askmen.com and thought i would pass it along.Top 10: Brain Foods - AskMen.com
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Omega-3 fortified eggs
Free-range chickens fed diets high in omega-3 fatty acids produce eggs with higher omega-3, consequently improving the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3. This fortification does not change the flavor or consistency of the eggs.
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Grass-fed beef
Grass-fed beef is lower in saturated fat and omega-6 fats than corn- or grain-fed beef; a recent Clinical Nutrition study reports that improving (lowering) the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids provides significant health benefits. Based on these results, you may not need to supplement with omega-3 (fish and flax oil), but rather reduce the intake of foods high in omega-6 (such as most beef, eggs and dairy). Grass-fed cows may also have a lower presence of bacteria such as e coli.
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Greek yogurt
Greek yogurt is strained to remove the liquid whey, which creates a thick, creamy and tangy yogurt. Nutrition-wise, it may be higher in fat than American-style yogurt, but it has more protein and less added sugar (usually none). Enjoy plain Greek yogurt with a teaspoon of honey or use it to replace high-fat, creamy foods such as mayonnaise and sour cream. You can also “thin out” these foods by replacing half the amount with Greek yogurt.
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Chia seeds
Chia seeds are actually a more concentrated source of omega-3 than flax seed. Chia seeds can be ground and used in similar ways as flax seeds (added to smoothies, cereal, yogurt, etc.) or soaked in water or fruit juice to make chia fresca. These soaked seeds are gelatinous in texture and can be used as a substitute for butter or cream cheese in recipes and as a nutrient-dense additive to salad dressings, sauces, jams, cereals, dips, puddings, or soups. It will not affect flavor and will absolutely increase the nutritional value.
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Quinoa
Quinoa (pronounced “keen-wah”) is one of only two vegetarian sources of complete protein (soy is the other), meaning that it contains all the essential amino acids. Use Quinoa (a grain similar to couscous) as a substitute for rice or pasta in many dishes.
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Beans and legumes
Like whole wheat products, beans and legumes naturally provide complex carbohydrates and fiber, but additionally contain high amounts of potassium and phosphorus, which are beneficial for heart and bone health, respectively.
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Whole wheat breads, grains and pasta
These are excellent sources of complex carbohydrates, fiber (both soluble and insoluble) and B vitamins. These whole wheat brain foods are higher in protein than white grains.
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Raw nuts and seeds
Walnuts and almonds are great sources of omega-3. If you want to gain healthy weight, snack on nuts and seeds daily; they are very nutrient-dense and also pack a lot of energy. Raw is preferable since roasted nuts and seeds are often cooked in unhealthy oils (such as hydrogenated oils).
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Fresh fruit
Fresh fruit often gets a bad rap because it is “high in sugar,” which it is true, but it is also high in water, making it relatively low in calories for its volume. Bright-colored fruits, such as strawberries, acai, watermelon, and blueberries, are some of the most nutrient-dense foods available — containing loads of vitamins, antioxidants and phytochemicals. Choose organic when you can, especially for fruits with thin, permeable skins, such as peaches and nectarines.
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Green tea
Moderate amounts of caffeine can improve focus, concentration and increase circulation (especially jasmine green tea). For you daily coffee drinkers, replace one or two cups per week with a cup of fresh brewed tea or choose tea as your late-afternoon pick-me-up rather than a soda or energy drink. Already a tea fan? If you have not already done so, try loose-leaf tea — you’ll never go back.
Top 10: Brain Foods - AskMen.com
Mental illness costing military soldiers - USATODAY.com
25. July 2010 by admin.
Mental illness costing military soldiers
By Jae C. Hong, AP
A U.S. Marine with a bag full of sample tubes between his feet while taking psychological tests at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif., on Sept. 29, 2009.
By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY
The number of soldiers forced to leave the Army solely because of a mental disorder has increased by 64% from 2005 to 2009 and accounts for one in nine medical discharges, according to Army statistics.
Last year, 1,224 soldiers with a mental illness, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, received a medical discharge. That was an increase from 745 soldiers in 2005 or about 7% of medical discharges that year, according to personnel statistics provided to USA TODAY.
The trend matches other recent indicators that show a growing emotional toll on a military that has been fighting for seven years in Iraq and nine years in Afghanistan, the Army and veterans advocates say.
Mental illness costing military soldiers - USATODAY.com
Mental Health Humor
25. July 2010 by admin.
I love this cartoons from my friend and fellow peer Chato Stewart.
What is mental health? The term itself has a stigmatic connotation to it referring more to mental disorders or mental health problems. The truth is, it’s “relating to the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality” associated to both good and bad mentality.
Mental Health Humor
I Can’t Be Depressed… I’m a Guy! | Psych Central
17. July 2010 by admin.
Over the last few years, more and more men have been strong enough to stand up and declare that they suffer with depression. That has led to some really nice coverage on the subject. I don’t want to write about that. They have all the research and studies to back it up, as well as the stories of many high-profile men from movies, TV, and sports. I get it. They are depressed. Yet, they also have the best available services at their fingertips! I’m just a guy, no huge bankroll or million-dollar contracts. Rather, a guy with mounting bills, a family to feed, and a hopeless pit in my soul tearing me apart.
I can’t be depressed… I’m a GUY! I don’t have the time to deal with this mood. So, I swallow the pain and move on. I avoid the help that is out there because I don’t want my other guy friends to think I’m weak. Yes, weak. The stigma of how others think of mental illness keeps me away from talking to anyone about my unrelenting feelings of despair. So I buck up and tell myself I can take this… I’m a GUY. We don’t complain about this type of thing!
I Can’t Be Depressed… I’m a Guy! | Psych Central
Vitamin D Plays a roll in your Mental Health
2. July 2010 by admin.
In a post by .vpnutritionblog.com got me thinking about how vitamins can play a part in our mental health… I know that the sun is good for depression. I was told by a therapist to try and get 15 minuets of sunlight each day. By doing this it would help my depression. When I was reading this article I realized that sun light is a natural source of vitamin D. That’s when it all started to make connect the dots for me. So, starting this week I think I’m going to buy this product Life D3… It a dropper and not a pill, the last think I was to do personally is add another pill to my daily meds… But, that is me.
Does Vitamin D Play a Role in Mental Illness such as Depression? The research says YES! and Our Life D3 can help!
There was a time when you rarely heard someone talking “openly” about Mental Illness such as Depression. It was the secret illness only talked about behind closed doors. Nowadays, it seems like everyone knows someone…either workmates or family members, who have been affected by this illness and/or other Psychiatric Disorders. All this exposure, has lead to more and more open discussion on a once taboo topic….Which has lead to more research, new medications, and various treatments available to the mentally ill.
Dr. John M Grohol PsyD reviewed the latest data for 2010. “According to the most recent prevalence data we have (from the NCS-R, Kessler et al 2005, which is based upon 9,282 subjects), the 12 month prevalence rate for any mental disorder or substance disorder is 32.4 percent.”
Low levels of Vitamin D May play a roll in your Mental Health | VP Nutrition to Keep You Feeling Fit
I want to that VP Nutrition for letting me use the photo and quote the part of the post.
Wrinkled Raisin Blog
2. July 2010 by admin.
I thought this joke was funny since my wife and I will be married 20 years this year.
AFTER BEING MARRIED FOR 44 YEARS, I TOOK A CAREFUL LOOK AT MY WIFE ONE DAY AND SAID, “Darling, 44 YEARS AGO WE HAD A CHEAP APARTMENT, A CHEAP CAR, SLEPT ON A SOFA BED AND WATCHED A 10-INCH BLACK AND WHITE TV, BUT I GOT TO SLEEP EVERY NIGHT WITH A HOT 25-YEAR-OLD GIRL. NOW I HAVE A $500,000.00 HOME, A $45,000.00 CAR, NICE BIG BED
AND PLASMA SCREEN TV, BUT I’M SLEEPING WITH A 65-YEAR-OLD WOMAN. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT YOU’RE NOT HOLDING UP YOUR SIDE OF THINGS.”
MY WIFE IS A VERY REASONABLE WOMAN. SHE TOLD ME TO GO OUT AND FIND A HOT 25-YEAR-OLD GAL, AND SHE WOULD MAKE SURE THAT I WOULD ONCE AGAIN BE LIVING IN A CHEAP APARTMENT, DRIVING A CHEAP CAR, SLEEPING ON A SOFA BED AND WATCHING A 10-INCH BLACK AND WHITE TV.
AREN’T OLDER WOMEN GREAT? THEY REALLY KNOW HOW TO SOLVE YOUR MID-LIFE CRISIS.
Davis spent her career caring for the mentally ill
9. June 2010 by admin.
This was in Today’s newspaper:
ENGLEWOOD - LoAnn Davis spent a good part of her nursing career caring for the mentally ill and believes those suffering from psychological disorders need medical care and nurturing, but not enabling.
"This is not a game they’re playing," said Davis, 76. "Anyone who puts down psychiatric care needs their head examined."
Unfortunately, people will often sooner admit to serving prison time for a serious crime, she said, than admit that they or their family members suffer from a mental disorder.
"It’s fear — ‘there but for the grace of God go I’ — and I said that when I was 26 years old and had no experience with life at all," she said.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 26.2 percent of U.S. residents 18 and older — about one in four adults and more than 57 million people — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.
"People need to be more aware of (psychiatric care) and respect it, and not be fearful of it," Davis said.
Davis, a native Floridian born in Sarasota, started in nursing in the 1960s after her first husband — a commercial fisherman she described as "an ugly man"– was convicted of being a major smuggler of marijuana into Cortez. Having played no part in her husband’s illicit activities, she needed a way out and be able to support her four children. Nursing gave her that way out.
Thanks to a scholarship from the Lions Club, Davis studied to be an LPN and graduated in 1963. She was first hired to work at a psychiatric unit in Sarasota.
"I guess I acted like I walked on the earth instead of on a cloud," she said.
Davis, who only weighed 103 pounds at the time, ruptured three discs in her back trying to get an unruly patient, a much larger woman, into a bed. She kept on working until she said she was pressured to quit after being injured. She has since worked at medical facilities in Sarasota, Manatee, Venice and even Port Charlotte, back when what is now Peace River Regional Medical Center was run by nuns.
"A woman alone with children jumps around because you have to pay the light bills and grocery bills," Davis said. Along the way, she picked up additional education, diverse nursing experience, certifications and eventually became an RN in 1972. She migrated back to caring for psychiatric patients at the Florida Mental Health Institute, associated with the University of South Florida, and other psychiatric hospital units in the early 1980s. She then worked with prisoners suffering from psychological disorders in Hillsborough County.
"Up there, they have 2,000 inmates and a third of them are psychiatric patients," Davis said. "Some of the same patients in psychiatric units and the (veterans hospitals) were prisoners. They do need to be in hospitals."
During her career, Davis said she witnessed the rapid evolution of mental health care. She also talked about how as insurance and other funding sources shrank many of the care facilities closed.
From her experience, Davis believes small group homes integrated within the larger community are a good way to care for and treat the mentally ill. Medications have improved over the years, but the important thing is to help those with psychological disorders learn that remaining on their medications will benefit them. Cognitive behavioral treatments included teaching the patient responsibilities for themselves, she said.
"Number one, they don’t like how (medications) make them feel," she said. "But, number two, they don’t like it because society is so uneducated. Socially, you are put down."
That’s true, said Pascale Iliou with the Charlotte County chapter of the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI). The local NAMI chapter meets every second Monday of the month at the Family Services Center, 21450 Gibraltar Drive in Port Charlotte.
"Because of the stigma, no one wants to be sentenced with the label," Iliou said. Families, she said, can often feel isolated, even though mental illness has biological causes such as other ailments and diseases.
Medications have improved, but they are often expensive and fail to be covered by insurance companies, Davis noted. Even with Medicaid, Iliou said, it is sometimes a struggle to keep the drugs approved for payments. The recession has added pressures and stresses on people while existing services are being cut.
NAMI spokesman Bob Carolla said the move was made to de-institutionalize those with mental disorders and offer more community-based treatments and services.
"The implied promise was that the funding, particularly from the states, would go into services," Carolla said. "But that hasn’t happened."
According to a NAMI study, Florida earned a C in 2006 for its services to those suffering from mental disorders, but that grade slipped to D in 2009. The NAMI study described Floridians with mental disorders as people facing an "uphill battle" to get the treatments and services they need.
"Florida faces tough choices in the coming years," the report concluded. "Although the state Supreme Court and the criminal justice community are standing up for people with serious mental illnesses, (the Department of Children and Families) and the Agency for Health Care Administration are not. Instead of adding more prisons and jails, comprehensive mental health services are urgently needed."
For more information about the Charlotte County NAMI chapter, call 941-268-8033 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 941-268-8033 end_of_the_skype_highlighting. A Sarasota County NAMI chapter can be reached at 941-957-3626 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 941-957-3626 end_of_the_skype_highlighting. In Englewood, an unaffiliated support group can be reached at 941-475-2000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 941-475-2000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
E-mail: reilly@sun-herald.com
By STEVE REILLY
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Mental Health Hero’s draw by Chato B Stewart for his Cartoon-a-Thon
31. May 2010 by admin.
My friend Chato is drawing up a storm for Mental Health Awareness month. Here are a few more of his Mental health heroes for the 2010 Cartoon-A-thon. What some might not know is he is drawing even thought he is in server pain with what could be TMJ or and abscess tooth. Today he will try and finish 10 more caricatures… You go for it Chato!!! We are “pulling” for you.. Pulling that tooth that is… 
 
http://mentalhealthcartoons.com/bio/may26-mental-health-hero.html
 
http://mentalhealthcartoons.com/bio/may25-mental-health-hero.html
 
http://mentalhealthcartoons.com/bio/may20-mental-health-hero.html
 
http://mentalhealthcartoons.com/bio/may19-mental-health-hero.html
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Healing Humor Will Carry Body, Mind and Spirit | Self Help Ideas
31. May 2010 by admin.
I just found this and thought I would pass it along:
Here are some suggestions for enjoying the advantages of humoring yourself and others:
1. Observe humor – Start with you. Look in the mirror and smile for no reason. Continue until you either start to feel higher or someone pounds on the bathroom door. Don’t stop there. There are plenty of times during every day you’re funny. If you do not suppose therefore, you aren’t paying attention. Poke fun at yourself for your mistakes or your bad hair day, but stop calling yourself names for each imperfection. Be kind in your use of humor even when it’s simply you talking to yourself.
2. Seek for humor -Tune into the incongruities of life at work and at home and when you find them, consciously opt for amusement over anger. With apply, the response becomes more natural.
3. Share with others – Share an expertise with others that invites them to laugh with you. The ability of shared laughter is sturdy and bonding. Build sure the humor you share doesn’t return at the expense of somebody else. Ironically, individuals who kid their own mistakes gain the esteem of others while people who try to project an aura of infallibility are magnets for ridicule.
4. Take it home – Do not forget to find laughter to share along with your family. Funny experiences bind relations to every different like few other experiences can. Dare to use humor. Your teens may roll their eyes, however they do that anyway. Deep down they appreciate your attempt at lightness whether or not they pronounce it, “lame.”
5. Take inventory – When a week of your humor regimen asks yourself how your conscious use of humor has altered experiences and relationships.
Healing Humor Will Carry Body, Mind and Spirit | Self Help Ideas
Gary Coleman’s Comedy Legacy
29. May 2010 by admin.
Gary Coleman’s Comedy Legacy - Yahoo! TV Blog
This is sad.
Gary Coleman’s Comedy Legacy
By Mike Ryan | Friday, May 28, 2010, 4:42 PM
Gary Coleman in "The Kid From Left Field"
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When diminutive comedic actor Gary Coleman died on Friday after a brain hemorrhage, pop culture fans of "Diff’rent Strokes" rushed to the Internet to post their "Whatchu talkin’ ’bout, Willis?" tributes, and the news channels tried to piece together the details of his death (he had suffered a seizure on an episode of "The Insider" in February, and was admitted to a hospital in Provo, Utah, on Wednesday).
Mostly, though, there was a palpable sense of shock that the perennially youthful actor was gone so soon.
Almost as shocking as his death is the fact that Gary Coleman was 42 years old. Because his height topped out at 4 feet 8 inches, Coleman would always be young Arnold Jackson in the eyes of TV watchers. In more recent years, the public seemed hard-pressed to accept the more unfortunate aspects of this otherwise-cheerful comedian’s life.
[Photos: Remembering the moments of Gary Coleman’s life]
In his happier days in the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Coleman was a true cornerstone of popular culture, and wherever he went, laughter seemed not far behind.
Gary Coleman broke into acting in a series of successful guest appearances on everything from "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" to "The Jeffersons" and "Good Times.
Gary Coleman as "Mr. President" in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century":
…in a cameo on "The Jeffersons":
…and as a persistent, crushed-out young man on "Good Times":
"Diff’rent Strokes" premiered on November 3, 1978, and ran for a very successful eight seasons. Coleman was just 10 years old when he first played Arnold Jackson, the role that would eventually make him a star. The plot centered on orphans Arnold and brother Willis (Todd Bridges), who were adopted by a wealthy Park Avenue resident named Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain), who learned just as much from them as they learned from him. Willis had a knack for getting involved in many wacky hijinks that would always result in Arnold’s now more than iconic catch phrase, "Whatchu talkin’ ’bout, Willis?":
Coleman had a fairly successful film career as well. In 1979′s "The Kid From Left Field" — a remake of a 1953 movie — Coleman starred alongside Robert Guillaume, playing Jackie Robinson "J.R." Cooper, who wound up the manager of the San Diego Padres even though he was a child:
And later, in 1981′s "On the Right Track" (eventually played relentlessly on HBO), Coleman played an orphaned shoeshine boy who lived in a locker at a railway station. He costarred with Norman Fell (better known as Mr. Roper on "Three’s Company"):
Eventually, Coleman proved so popular on "Diff’rent Strokes" that in 1982, he was given his own Saturday morning cartoon called "The Gary Coleman Show." Eerily enough, given recent news, in his self-titled show, Coleman played an angel who returns to Earth to help other children with their problems:
Gary Coleman’s Comedy Legacy - Yahoo! TV Blog
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