Author: Dr. Smita Mehta, MD
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Two Long-Promised Links!
Kudos to everyone who followed up on their New Year resolution to start a scientific daily meditative practice! The great feedback you’ve given me is very heartening. This is heart health month which makes it an ideal time to integrate this practice into your life, even if only for a couple of minutes twice daily.…
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Combating the Five Kinds of Fake Hunger: A Playbook for Victory
Fake hunger is very different from real hunger. We’re often manipulated into feeling extremely hungry even at odd times. In this post, I share tips on winning the wild games fake hunger plays to manipulate both body and mind…
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Hungry Me…Constantly Hungry Me
It has happened at one time or another…I eat a big meal. I have proof: my eyes saw how much I ate, and my wallet definitely feels lighter. Twenty minutes later, it’s as though it was all a distant dream. I’m literally starving, and I simply cannot explain it to myself. The “helpful” ones quickly…
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This Yoga Day, Enjoy a Game of “Freeze” or “Statue”!
You may be scratching your head, wondering what the connection between Yoga Day and this popular childhood game could possibly be…well, the answer is that being still is *the* major ingredient in the secret sauce of happiness and good health. Yoga poses, or asanas, play only a small role in the vast science of yoga,…
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The Body is Only 16…
What does that mean, you ask? Well, we’re made of only 16 elements! And of these 16, fully 12 are minerals. These minerals are really important in producing electric currents in the body. Isn’t that cool? We need 5 minerals in large amounts, and 7 in much smaller (trace) amounts.
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Overpowering the Enemies of Happiness
An easy example is taming the tongue/taming the taste buds. Anything they taste frequently for about 8 days, they no longer dislike. Why is that? It’s because humans only desire what (at least one of) the five senses has encountered at least once. And humans only like what (at least one of) the five senses…
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The 5 Surprising Enemies of Happiness
(Not what you were thinking)! We’re born with our five senses, who live in our house, so to speak. All our waking hours, they keep making demands of us. When we satisfy one of their desires (which are likely not *our* desires, but only theirs!), they quiet down and let us have a few brief…
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About the 16…
What are these 16 components of the human body? Well, 4 are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. We pay attention to them in our diet by classifying our food into carbs, protein, and fat. We also pay attention to the calories in our diet. However, it’s not often we pay attention to the remaining 12…
Dr. Smita Mehta, MD 