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5 Different Types of Intermittent Fasting Plans

Intermittent fasting (IF) is believed to help with weight loss by creating a net calorie deficit. It also helps regulate your metabolic health, which will eventually lead to a longer and happier life. The closing of gyms during lockdown was a driving factor behind the rising trend of this diet. The diet plan includes an ...

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A bowl of fruit sits next to a watch on a wooden surface beside a label that says "intermittent fasting."

9 Incredible Foods to Help Prevent Chronic Disease

Many diseases are caused by improper diet, especially at dinnertime, and eating the wrong foods may bring on chronic diseases. Therefore, it’s necessary to pay special attention to what you eat for dinner in order to prevent chronic diseases. Prevent chronic diseases by avoiding these 3 foods for dinner 1. Avoid foods high in fat ...

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An ambulance on a snowy road.

Choose an Album for Deep Listening and Reclaim Your Calm

Deep listening can be thought of as “listening to learn.” It is an active process that can be applied in any situation, whether you’re catching up with an old friend, meeting a potential business partner, or representing a group of individuals engaged in dialog with another group. It can even be used as a kind ...

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A pile of old vinyl records.

Knock on the Brain to Prevent Dementia!

The human brain is the largest, most complex, most amazing, and most miraculous organ of the human body. It is the most developed brain on planet earth. It is difficult even to know how to fathom and categorize it. Neurologists tell us that we use only a tiny portion of our capacity and potential. What ...

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Enhancing the Human Brain Power

During the Opium Wars, a Story of Virtue and Wealth (Part 2)

During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, foreign businesspeople brought massive amounts of opium into China, leading the people to take on incorrect social values and ruin their health. In the eighteenth year of Daoguang (1838), the imperial court appointed Lin Zexu as the imperial minister and sent him to Guangzhou to ban opium. ...

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Artwork depicting Chinese soldiers fighting the British in the Second Opium War.

During the Opium Wars, a Story of Virtue and Wealth (Part 1)

During the time of the Opium Wars in China, Zeng Guofan led the Hunan army with full authority from the Emperor and was responsible for all the financial management, but he never embezzled any of the army’s money. At the time, the salt trade was a way of making money using coupons to exchange during ...

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Painting that depicts the Opium Wars.

Foods That Can Improve Memory

Do you often leave your wallet or phone behind only to think of them after leaving home? Or can you never recall where you last put certain things around the house? Have you become forgetful despite your young age? Is your memory failing you? The early loss of memory for most people is often due ...

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Cracking walnuts with a hammer.

Chinese Pangolins: Critically Endangered

Chinese pangolins are nocturnal mammals mostly distributed in the southern part of the Chinese mainland and throughout most of Taiwan. They are also found in northern India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh. Once common in China, their population has dropped sharply since the late 20th century due to poaching and trafficking. Now, they are on the ...

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A pangolin curled up in a ball.

When People Using YouTube All Got an ‘Internet’s Dad’

The importance of good parenting is undoubtedly proven. Parents teach children to overcome adversities and protect them from atrocities. Yet proper parenting is limited to a few. Recently, tweets about a YouTube channel called “Dad, how do I?” got loads of attention from netizens. This channel, intended to help kids growing up without fathers, was ...

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Rob Kenney.