Tip: Healthier Body and Calmer Mind will Naturally Lead to An Optimum Self

"I have learned that if you are seeking happiness in a number, you will probably be busy searching for something you cannot find when happiness actually passes you by. So sign up for that yoga class. Enlist the help of that nutritionist. Do what’s right and healthy and enjoyable for your body, mind and spirit. But do so with the awareness that living in the future will rob you of all you really need: the beauty of this unique, irreplaceable, fleeting moment. And I leave you with this – a picture of the most peaceful, most enlightened being I “know.” I wonder how he would feel about Yoga for Weight Loss. I suspect he might say lose the pain, lose the anger, lose the emotional and physical toxins, lose the self-imposed limitations and the negative self talk, lose the hatred, lose the numbness … those are the things that truly weigh us down."
Yoga for weight loss? No thanks. - Holistic Health - Medicine Blog - timesunion.com - Albany NY:
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Update: Adopting "Market Approach" & Democracy in Climate Change Solutions

“Alternative energy sources, such as wind, solar, nuclear and hydroelectric are certainly part of the solution long term, but private industry must take the lead for true innovation to be a bigger part of our future energy needs. If alternative energy sources are found to be inexpensive, safe and plentiful, then American consumers will choose to purchase them. Let the markets decide which forms of energy fuel our cars, heat our homes and which ones will keep America working.”

Mitt Romney, the perennial second-place candidate, has gotten the message only half right, according to environmentalists. “The nation will also need to develop and harness alternate sources of energy such as nuclear energy, biodiesel, ethanol along with exploiting more domestic sources of oil such as Outer Continental Shelf and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.” Romney also is of the opinion that the solution to our environmental problem lies in adopting a market approach. “While solving the environmental challenges, we should also be supporting growth,’ he states."

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Tip: Parents w/ Kids Emotional Workshop Now a Necessity to Build Emotionally Healthy Home

The workshop will be facilitated by mental health professionals trained to address child and adolescent behaviors. Topics such as how to recognize common issues faced by children today; ways to help children express themselves appropriately; and coping skills to handle life challenges will be addressed. Trained professionals from Suncoast Mental Health Center, The Mental Health Association Walk-in Center, and Treasure Coast Community Health will lead breakout sessions for groups broken out by age (5-8, 9-12 and 13-and-over). Parents will remain in the cafeteria to hear guest presenter Dr. Raymond Dean, a Board Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with over 25 years of professional experience. Dr. Dean's presentation will include anger management skills to help parents manage their emotions so they can model positive behavior and support their children in managing their own emotions."
Learn how to build an emotionally healthy home » TCPalm.com (User story from MAUREEN NICOLACE): "
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Prince Charles on sustainability issues; didn't comment directly that fossil fuels & carbon emissions are causing global warming & climate change

Prince Charles endorses university post on climate change - CNN.com: "The prince urged international organizations and summits "to bring together the narratives of climate change, sustainable development and economic stability -- surely the very bedrocks of national security," Charles said. "These are currently encapsulated -- although separately and distinctly -- in the forthcoming COP17 in Durban, the Rio+ 20 conference and G-20 meetings." One starting point, he said, could examine data "on energy, water, agriculture, biodiversity and climate change to compose a full picture of what is actually going on, and then to use this picture to calculate the real cost of our current use of natural capital," the prince said.
"Surely an evaluation of that cost on an on-going basis is the bare minimum we need if we are to develop effective policies that address food security, poverty and climate change, and so build properly resilient economic systems -- green economies, if you will -- that have the capacity to adapt to what will, from now on, be very rapidly changing circumstances?" the prince said."

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Tip: Don't Start to Smoke & Avoid "Gateway Sequence" - cigarettes & alcohol serve as gateway drugs before progressing to marijuana, cocaine, etc

Alternate orders of exposure to nicotine and cocaine were examined. The authors found that pretreatment with nicotine greatly alters the response to cocaine in terms of addiction-related behavior and synaptic plasticity (changes in synaptic strength) in the striatum, a brain region critical for addiction-related rewards. On a molecular level, nicotine also primes the response to cocaine by inhibiting the activity of an enzyme―histone deacetylase―in the striatum. This inhibition enhances cocaine’s ability to activate a gene called FosB gene, which promotes addiction. The relationship between nicotine and cocaine was found to be unidirectional: nicotine dramatically enhances the response to cocaine"
Health News - Nicotine “Primes” the Brain for Cocaine Use: The Molecular Basis of the Gateway Sequence of Drug Use for Nicotine and Cocaine: "Cigarettes and alcohol serve as gateway drugs, which people use before progressing to the use of marijuana and then to cocaine and other illicit substances; this progression is called the “gateway sequence” of drug use. An article in Science Translational Medicine by study author Denise Kandel, PhD, of the Mailman School of Public Health; and Amir Levine, MD; Eric Kandel, MD; and colleagues at Columbia University Medical Center provides the first molecular explanation for the gateway sequence.
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We should protect those areas which provide longer term refugees, where velocities are low, and where refugees from climate change may arrive

When we talk about velocity of climate change, we mean the speed and direction of movement of temperature. So when temperature increases in a particular spot, anything wanting to stay at the same temperature as before needs to move to a cooler place. In an area where there is a very flat thermal landscape, or where temperatures vary little from place to place, that cooler place could be a long way away. And so velocity of climate change would be high. Where cooler places are right next door, like up a nearby mountain range or on the other side of an oceanographic boundary, life only needs to move a short distance to follow temperatures over the same time period. So, the much flatter thermal landscape in the ocean tends to increase velocities, and therefore offsets the effect of greater warming on land to bring the velocities for the two environments closer together. By a similar process, reduced seasonal changes in the ocean tend to push up estimates for seasonal shifts to values close to those for land."
New Evidence That Climate Change Threatens Marine Biodiversity - Hans Villarica - Life - The Atlantic: "
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Update: India & China, huge users of coal. Biggest jump in global warming gases.The good news is that their economies are growing rapidly, however...

"The more we talk about the need to control emissions, the more they are growing," said John Reilly, co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.
The world pumped about 564 million more tons (512 million metric tons) of carbon into the air in 2010 than it did in 2009. That's an increase of 6 percent. That amount of extra pollution eclipses the individual emissions of all but three countries — China, the United States and India, the world's top producers of greenhouse gases. It is a "monster" increase that is unheard of, said Gregg Marland, a professor of geology at Appalachian State University, who has helped calculate Department of Energy figures in the past. Extra pollution in China and the U.S. account for more than half the increase in emissions last year, Marland said. "It's a big jump," said Tom Boden, director of the Energy Department's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center at Oak Ridge National Lab. "From an emissions standpoint, the global financial crisis seems to be over.""
The Associated Press: Biggest jump ever seen in global warming gases: "
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