The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

Hunger, apparently, is the best sauce.

Fear is apparently a mindset often felt prior to experience.

A team at the NIH recently found that for every two pounds a person loses, for example, their brain unconsciously ramps up their hunger and causes them to eat about 100 more calories.

“A much more healthful recipe would be more gentle exercise throughout the day,” said McGill. Running the body through all the movements it can do: squat, lunge, plank, hinge, hang, twist, carry, bend, and more. Raichlen’s study backs up the health of resting in a squatting or kneeling position over lounging in a chair. Or adding carrying into our

New situations kill the mental clutter.

We’ve now deteriorated from helicopter parenting to snowplow parenting.

found that obesity began to skyrocket in 1978, when Americans added an average of 218 extra calories per day (mostly because we snacked more and moved less). That figure alone—the equivalent of 13 tortilla chips—they believe, is enough to explain the boom in obesity.

New situations kill the mental clutter. In newness we’re forced into presence and focus.

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