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.
Who needs coffee when you have water?
Water helps us remain hydrated throughout the day, but it can also help us to react and respond faster, a new study shows. When we feel thirsty, we become distracted from what we are doing. This study shows that by drinking more water, we retrieve the ability to concentrate on a given task – Read More...
It's all in your head
Jim Willett ran a ½ marathon while undergoing cancer treatment. Some call him crazy, some call him stubborn, but Willett simply calls himself an optimistic runner. Willett is the founder of The Optimism Revolution, a social media movement geared towards improving the mindset of anyone he can Read More...
The higher calling of fat
Fat cells play an important role in weight gain, that’s what we all know. But we’re currently learning that those cells are not just passive storage depots. Recent research shows that certain fat cells in your body react to cold temperatures by burning calories. Cell biologist Bruce Spiegelman Read More...
Sleep does more for your health than looks
A quick fix to a late night is grabbing a coffee on the way to work or picking up one of those few hour energy drinks. Consuming high levels of caffeine or taurine wakes you up and is just like getting a few more hours of sleep, right? Wrong. Studies have found that not getting enough sleep, 5 Read More...
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...