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10 Ways to Improve Your Health This Month

01. Find out if you're at risk for diabetes
02. Start eating these 25 superfoods
03. Test your food knowledge
04. Get the keys to good dental health
05. Keep your brain sharp
06. Try Dr. Oz's 20-minute workout
07. Check your yoga mat for toxins
08. Make over your family's eating habits
09. Take a class with your kids
10. Beat anxiety and get happy!

Thought for Today

"Whenever you've been touched by love, a heart-print lingers so that you're always reminded of the feeling of being cared for, knowing that, to someone, you mattered."

— Oprah

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4 Ways to Help Your Family Lose Weight

Trying to help your family lose weight? Here are four tips to help them fight the fat, and keep it off for good.

Pizza pie on a scale

1. Set an example: "Kids model their parents—they learn healthy, as well as unhealthy, behaviors from them," says State University of New York at Buffalo psychologist Leonard Epstein, PhD, a pioneer in family-based obesity prevention. Telling a child to go out and get some exercise is far less effective than asking him or her to join you for a bike ride.

2. Set goals: Consider having everyone in the family sign a healthy-living contract. In the short term, don't focus on weight loss. Instead, have everyone agree to specific daily goals, such as recording a certain number of steps on a pedometer.

3. Use nonedible weekly rewards, says Daniel S. Kirschenbaum, PhD, clinical director of Wellspring weight loss programs. A small gift or a few dollars—or even allowing a child to have a friend sleep over—will help reinforce the importance of working toward specific goals.

4. Sit down for a family dinner: Kids who do this at least five or six nights a week are a third less likely to be overweight than children who never eat dinner with their families, according to a 2006 University of Alabama study. Other research shows that kids who eat more family meals consume less fried food and artery-clogging trans fat and saturated fat. Get started with quick, easy recipes for the whole family.

See how one family lost the weight—and kept it off

Timothy Gower is a journalist and the author of several books on health.

The Male Brain: What's Really Going On in There

Man washing a car

Is he truly incapable of putting down the toilet seat? Can he really have passionate sex and not even think about calling you again? We go exploring for answers.

The more science learns about how men are different from us (right down to the structure of their brains), the more we find ourselves hoping it will finally explain some age-old mysteries. For instance:

Why do men keep their cars spotless but live like pigs at home—while for women it's the other way around?

According to Simon Baron-Cohen, PhD, author of The Essential Difference: Male and Female Brains and the Truth About Autism, men's neurological wiring tends to make them better at systems, while women are superiorly rigged for empathy. Which could help explain why—although the culture is changing—guys still take such pride in their machines, while women often care more about maintaining a clean home. Another clue comes from a 2007 study (conducted for BMW by a British team that included Oxford psychologists), which found that male drivers actually view their cars as extensions of themselves. Women, whose self-image is tied more directly to their bodies, are likely to think of their vehicles as separate entities, the authors suggest. But because men are less tuned-in to their bodies, they easily project their identity onto an object. If only that object were a sink full of dirty dishes.

Why do men like to watch violent sports, while a good number of women would rather do almost anything else?

The truth is, football has a lot of female fans (44.3 million women watched the 2009 Super Bowl, for example). But guys are drawn to football (and boxing and wrestling) in ways that women aren't. Men tend to be more aggressive, says Lucy L. Brown, PhD, a professor in the departments of neurology and neuroscience at Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. The difference likely involves hormones (like testosterone) and sensitivities to those hormones in parts of the brain such as the hypothalamus—which, in animals, is associated with aggression. Fine, but does he really have to shriek "Kill him!" when the other team's quarterback is about to get sacked? Yes, he does: If you're a guy, watching your team win increases testosterone levels, according to a 1998 study in Physiology & Behavior. Viewing combative sports also helps men identify with traditional ideals of masculinity like domination, risk taking, and competition, explains Douglas Hartmann, PhD, associate professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota. "In fact," he says, "the less physically competitive his daily life is, the more sports can become a means toward achieving those ideals, at least in his mind."

Why can a man enthusiastically (very enthusiastically) sleep with a woman he knows he'll never see again?

Well, there's the old Evolution Did It theory: Men are hardwired to spread their seed; women, to find a mate who will protect the children she may bear. Physical differences may play a role, too. According to Lisa Diamond, PhD, an associate professor of psychology and gender studies at the University of Utah, not only do female rats have more extensive brain circuits for oxytocin—which helps mammals to bond—than males but in humans, women show greater release of the neurochemical during sex (especially orgasm) than men. Also, biological anthropologist and Rutgers University professor Helen Fisher, PhD, notes: "The two brain hemispheres are less well connected in men than in women. This gives men the ability to focus on one thing at a time and be very goal oriented, whereas the female brain is built to assimilate many feelings at once, and to connect sex and love much more rapidly." Interesting, plausible theories all, but Lucy Brown cautions that we're still really just guessing. And in the end, the fact that men forever remain a bit of a mystery may be part of what keeps us intrigued.

Next: What men aren't saying

By Carol Mithers
O, The Oprah Magazine

Friday, 5 February 2010

Kreatif Itu Perlu



Bila Anda tak ingin tertinggal di tengah tuntutan kerja yang tinggi, bekerja lebih produktif saja tidak cukup. Anda juga dituntut untuk kreatif.

Kreativitas merupakan kemampuan aktif untuk mencari dan mengembangkan ide atau gagasan. Menurut Adi Wijaksana, Psi, konsultan manajemen mutu dari PQM, kreativitas memiliki arti yang sangat luas. Tidak hanya sebatas menciptakan sesuatu yang baru, tapi juga keterampilan untuk menyelesaikan masalah.

Sebenarnya setiap orang bisa jadi insan yang kreatif bila memiliki sikap sebagai berikut; selalu ingin tahu, melihat masalah sebagai sebuah tantangan, mau menghadapi tantangan, peduli pada hal yang tidak normal dan termotivasi untuk menyelesaikannya, optimis,dan punya imajinasi yang luas, termasuk bisa membayangkan masalah dengan berbagai solusi.

Lantas, bagaimana cara menggali kreativitas? Menurut Adi, ada lima kiat untuk menemukan ide-ide segar dan orisinil.

* Pertama, kenali dulu kebutuhan atau masalah yang ingin diselesaikan. Misalnya bagaimana cara menarik klien untuk memasang iklan.

* Kedua, berpikirlah dengan bebas, cari solusi dengan cara yang tidak sebagaimana mestinya untuk menghasilkan terobosan baru.

* Ketiga, masa inkubasi. Tidak perlu langsung mengambil keputusan, namun pikirkan hal lain agar masalah mengendap dalam pikiran. Konsentrasi yang dibarengi relaksasi adalah kunci dari teknik kreatif. Pada tahap ini, luangkan waktu untuk melakukan sesuatu yang sifatnya menyenangkan hati.

* Keempat, temukan solusi. Biasanya solusi sering muncul secara mendadak saat Anda sedang melakukan kegiatan lain, misalnya saat ngemil atau ngobrol. Solusi juga bisa muncul dari berbagai alternatif yang sudah dikeluarkan.
 * Terakhir, lakukan evaluasi. Pilih solusi yang paling signifikan untuk dilakukan, berdasarkan beberapa kriteria, misalnya biaya, kemudahan, waktu, dan sebagainya.
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