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.
Brain Food
Turn on the television, open a magazine or listen to the radio, and in short order you will no doubt be exposed to an advertisement extolling the virtues of some newly discovered exotic fruit juice that has the highest antioxidant content on the face of the Earth. You may wonder—why all the Read More...
The use of oil
How do you propose to balance the exploitation of Ecuador’s natural resources with preservation of its amazing ecological diversity? Rafael Correa: “It is madness to say no to natural resources, which is what part of the left is proposing—no to oil, no to mining, no to gas, no to Read More...
Beyond the couch
Sarah was 18 when she first saw a psychiatrist for her depression. Antidepressants helped her climb out of the hole she was in. But her depression returned in early 2012, when she was 26. “I was tired and gloomy; I dragged myself to work every day. I didn’t enjoy anything anymore. I’d always Read More...
A cure for modern times
Pick one of these three options: One. I want to die from heart disease. Two. I want to die from cancer. Three. I want to die in the arms of my beloved after great sex and a long life If you picked No. 3, the odds are overwhelmingly stacked against you. And if you live to be 85 years old, you have Read More...
Four steps to serenity
Eat Well. What we eat has a huge influence on our brains. The consumption of artificial and sugar-laden foods can lead to inflammation at the cellular level. This increases the likelihood of psychological disorders such as depression. A return to organic foods can reverse this process, Weil Read More...
A recipe for losing weight
Most of us live in a world in which food is all around us for the taking. Yet our DNA is still programmed for scarcity. Human evolution lags behind. And so it is that excess weight has become Public Enemy No. 1. In the fight against obesity, what usually gets emphasized is what you should and Read More...
Good health in a poor economy
Time has been good to Maria Tomas. At 62, the dark-skinned Cuban’s large brown eyes still glitter and her smooth skin makes her look a decade younger. But not long ago, Tomas developed a persistent mouth infection that made her mucus membranes constantly itch and burn. She visited five doctors in Read More...
Pharmacy in a box
“You shouldn't spoil people in developing countries with donor money; you need to help them develop a sense of entrepreneurship.” This motto of Healthy Entrepreneurs—an organization that works to ensure that generic medicines are affordable and available in developing countries—is also Read More...
Near death, a physician discovers life
EXTRA: Don't miss our online course about the afterlife, with Eben Alexander, Jeffrey Long and Pim van Lommel. For seven days, an American neurosurgeon underwent a spiritual journey through time and space—despite a demonstrable absence of brain activity. When he woke from his coma, he wrote Read More...
More attention, less worry
It’s an understandable reaction when people are told they have cancer: they worry. But in half of all cancer patients, worry slides into depression or an anxiety disorder. That complication disrupts the healing process. Hospital stays are longer and mortality rates are higher among depressed Read More...