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Saturday, 18 April 2015

10 Mantras From Inspirational Movies That Could Change Your Life

Inspiration can come from anywhere and anyone. Mine often comes from books and movies – books and movies that combine life stories with a spiritual journey.

Here are my 10 inspirational mantras and movie quotes that may impact you the same way it does to me.

1. To live is to explore.

“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”

– The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

2. Do what you have to do.

“I know what I have to do now, I’ve got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?”

– Cast Away (2000)

3. Believe in your authentic swing.

“Yep… Inside each and every one of us is one true authentic swing… Somethin’ we was born with… Somethin’ that’s ours and ours alone.”

– Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

4. The only real failure is the failure to try.

“The only real failure is the failure to try. And the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment. As we always must. We came here, and we tried. All of us, in our different ways. Can we be blamed for feeling we’re too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, we do our best. Nothing else matters.”

– The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)

5. Protect your dream.

“Hey, don’t let anyone tell you you can’t do something. Not even me, alright? You got a dream, you got to protect it! People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period!”

– Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

6. Never give up hope.

“Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. Get busy living or get busy dying.”

– The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

8. Prove it to yourself.

“In this life time, you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody, except yourself. And after what you’ve gone through, if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen.”

– Rudy (1993)

9. You are the master of your fate.

“Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be, For my unconquerable soul. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

– Invictus (2009 – as read from the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley)

10. Let go and say goodbye.

“I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye. I was never able to thank my father for all I learned from him, to tell him that without his lessons I would never have survived.”

– Life of Pi (2012)

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10 Mantras From Inspirational Movies That Could Change Your Life

1. To live is to explore.

“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”

– The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

2. Do what you have to do.

“I know what I have to do now, I’ve got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?”

– Cast Away (2000)

3. Believe in your authentic swing.

“Yep… Inside each and every one of us is one true authentic swing… Somethin’ we was born with… Somethin’ that’s ours and ours alone.”

– Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

4. The only real failure is the failure to try.

“The only real failure is the failure to try. And the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment. As we always must. We came here, and we tried. All of us, in our different ways. Can we be blamed for feeling we’re too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, we do our best. Nothing else matters.”

– The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)

5. Protect your dream.

“Hey, don’t let anyone tell you you can’t do something. Not even me, alright? You got a dream, you got to protect it! People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period!”

– Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

6. Never give up hope.

“Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. Get busy living or get busy dying.”

– The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

8. Prove it to yourself.

“In this life time, you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody, except yourself. And after what you’ve gone through, if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen.”

– Rudy (1993)

9. You are the master of your fate.

“Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be, For my unconquerable soul. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

– Invictus (2009 – as read from the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley)

10. Let go and say goodbye.

“I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye. I was never able to thank my father for all I learned from him, to tell him that without his lessons I would never have survived.”

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How Poor Sleep Might Shape Mental Health Later In Life

A poor night’s sleep can affect performance at work the next day, but over time, could disrupted sleep affect brain function in a permanent way? New evidence suggests it could.

A new study found that patients with issues like sleep apnea or heavy snoring developed problems with cognition around 10 years earlier than those without sleep-breathing troubles.

“Abnormal breathing patterns during sleep such as heavy snoring and sleep apnea are common in the elderly, affecting about 52 percent of men and 26 percent of women,” explained the study’s lead author, Ricardo S. Osorio, M.D., of the NYU School of Medicine in New York, in a press release.

In sleep apnea, breathing starts and stops repeatedly over the course of the night. Osorio and team wanted to see whether sleep apnea and other abnormal breathing patterns (called sleep-disordered breathing) were tied to cognitive issues.

To do so, these researchers looked at data from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, which involved over 2,000 adults between the ages of 55 and 90. Some patients had no cognitive problems, while some developed Alzheimer’s disease or mild cognitive impairment (MCI). In MCI, cognitive issues have developed beyond what is expected in normal aging but not far enough to be considered dementia.

Osorio and team found that patients who had sleep-disordered breathing started showing signs of cognitive problems an average of 10 years earlier than those who did not have issues with abnormal breathing patterns during sleep.

When looking only at patients with cognitive issues, those with sleep-disordered breathing started showing signs of MCI at an average age of 77. The same was true for those without the breathing troubles at an average age of 90.

In this group of patients, Alzheimer’s disease was also seen earlier – at an average age of 83 among those with sleep-disordered breathing, compared to an average age of 88 among those without breathing issues.

Osorio and team also looked at the effects of treating abnormal breathing patterns with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). CPAP delivers air pressure through a mask during sleep, helping to keep the airways open.

Treatment with CPAP seemed to reduce the risk of developing cognitive issues earlier, Osorio and colleagues found. Patients who used CPAP developed MCI at an average age of 82, compared to an average age of 72 among those who did not receive treatment for their sleep-disordered breathing.

“These findings were made in an observational study and as such, do not indicate a cause-and-effect relationship,” Osorio noted. “However, we are now focusing our research on CPAP treatment and memory and thinking decline over decades, as well as looking specifically at markers of brain cell death and deterioration.”

This study was published online April 15 in the journal Neurology.

Several study authors received industry support within the past two years and held patents involving procedures related to the study. A number of groups funded this research, such as the Foundation for Research in Sleep Disorders and the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

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ICYMI: An Infuriating History Of Breast Cancer And The Psychological Depth Of ‘YOLO'

ICYMI Health features what we’re reading this week.

This week, we took a closer look at psychology across disciplines. We were fascinated that 18th-century doctors blamed women for their breast cancer diagnoses and disappointed that new research confirmed what many already suspected: teachers tend to punish black students more harshly than white students for the same infractions. In pop psychology, we learned that living life without regret is the common denominator uniting Miley Cyrus’s and Friedrich Nietzsche’s world views.

Read on and tell us in the comments: What did you read and love this week?

1. The Psychology (and Philosophy) of ‘No Regrets’ – Pacific Standard

Miley Cyrus, circa 2013; Friedrich Nietzsche, circa 1887. (Photos: Debby Wong/Everett Historical/Shutterstock/Pacific Standard)

A highbrow look at the psychology of you-only-live-once (YOLO) culture using Friedrich Nietzsche as a lens.

Quote: “YOLO is the late capitalist predecessor of carpe diem, the rallying cry of a Millennial culture tired and frustrated with burdens of the economic crisis and the constant nagging of doddering New York Times op-ed columns.”

2. How Doctors of the Past Blamed Women for Breast Cancer – TIME

Eighteenth-century doctors found women’s biology so confusing that they claimed everything womanly – including wearing a corset, makeing choices about whether or not to breastfeed, and having an irregular period – caused cancer.

Quote: “When the female body and its breasts were not used for their ‘correct’ purpose -– childbearing and rearing –- the risk of breast cancer increased.”

3. Groundbreaking Research Suggests Medical Marijuana Could Reduce Seizures In Children – The Huffington Post

A new drug derived from a non-psychoactive compound in the cannabis plant is undergoing clinical trials to see if it is effective for treating early-childhood epilepsy.

Quote: “It is irresponsible for doctors to condemn parents whose only other option is to watch while their children suffer and possibly die.”

4. How Can We Stop Farmer Suicides – Grist

In isolated farm towns, where everyone knows everyone, it can be extremely difficult for farmers to seek help for mental illness.

Quote: “I’ve had many men tell me, ‘I’m not going to park outside the mental health center with my pickup, everybody’s going to know I’m nuts.’ That is a problem.”

5. In Defense of Wide Hips – Boston University Research

For 50 years, anthropologists thought there was an evolutionary battle between wide-hipped and narrow-hipped women. Wide hips were good for childbirth and narrow hips were good for efficient running (read: fleeing danger). Turns out, that theory might be totally wrong.

Quote: “Even outside of textbooks, the general public thinks that if your hips are wide, you’re a bad biped, and that does not seem to be the case.”

6. When ‘Deshawn’ And ‘Greg’ Act Out In Class, Guess Who Gets Branded A Troublemaker – The Huffington Post

A new study from Stanford shows that when a student has multiple infractions, teachers tend to fall back on racial bias.

Quote: “Teachers tend to view black students more harshly than white students even when their disruptive behavior is exactly the same – possibly triggering a destructive cycle.”

7. The Virtue of Being Short – The Atlantic

Despite the popular perception that taller people are healthier, the longest living population on the planet – the people of Japan’s Okinawan islands – only average 4 feet, 9 inches in height.

Quote: “While being tall can suggest evolutionary advantage in some places, it doesn’t in others. And reproductive viability does not mean longevity.”

8. How Should Journalists Cover Quacks Like Dr. Oz or the Food Babe? – Vox

Is it better to mock pseudoscientists, to earnestly debunk their theories or to refuse to give them media attention at all?

Quote: “Even when you’re telling people not to worry about something, they worry a bit more about it. It doesn’t help to start screaming, ‘There’s no fire in the theater, everybody!’”

9. Why Men Used to Be Scared of Shopping Carts – New York Magazine

The first shopping carts were so unpopular that shop owners had to trick shoppers into using them – and buying more stuff in the process.

Quote: “Faced with an army of tired women and men determined to show off their virility while buying diapers and cereal, Goldman ‘eventually had to hire attractive models to walk around the store pushing the carts to make shopping carts seem like an acceptable or even fashionable item to use.’”

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Having Both Depression And Type 2 Diabetes Increases Dementia Risk

By: Agata Blaszczak-Boxe

Published: April 15, 2015 12:14pm ET on LiveScience.

Adults who have either depression or type 2 diabetes may have an increased risk of developing dementia, and the risk may be even higher for people who have both conditions, according to a new study.

In the study, researchers examined the risk of dementia in more than 2.4 million people in Denmark ages 50 and older, a group that included people who had type 2 diabetes, depression or both conditions. About 2 percent of the people in the study developed dementia over the six-year study period.

But among those who developed dementia, more than 26 percent had depression, and almost 11 percent had type 2 diabetes. In addition to those groups, another 7 percent had both conditions.

The researchers found that the people with diabetes had a 20 percent greater risk of dementia compared with the people who did not have diabetes or depression. For the people who had depression, the risk of dementia was increased by 80 percent.

The researchers were surprised that the risk of dementia for the people with depression but not diabetes was so much higher than for those who had diabetes but not depression, said study author Dr. Dimitry Davydow, of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle.

“Essentially, what we found is that the risk associated with depression was four times greater than that associated with diabetes,” Davydow told Live Science. [7 Ways Depression Differs in Men and Women]

The people who had been diagnosed with both diabetes and depression were more than twice as likely to have dementia during the study period than people who did not have either condition. (In people with type 2 diabetes — which is the most common type of diabetes, making up about 90 percent of cases — the cells of the body can no longer respond to the hormone insulin by taking in sugar from the bloodstream.)

The investigators also found that the risk of dementia related to having both diabetes and depression was greater among people younger than 65. For people in this age group, the combination of diabetes and depression explained about 25 percent of the cases of dementia. In comparison, in the overall population of the study (all age groups), about 6 percent of the dementia cases were explained by having both conditions, Davydow said.

The authors of the new study did not examine the potential mechanisms that could explain the relationship between diabetes and/or depression and type 2 diabetes. However, Davydow said it’s possible that diabetes affects the blood supply to the brain and may contribute to dementia.

The link between depression and dementia may be related to the increased inflammation that tends to accompany depression, as this inflammation may also lead to dementia, he said.

The rates of both dementia and type 2 diabetes are increasing in the United States, Davydow said. Eating a healthy diet and exercising can help prevent type 2 diabetes.

“If we don’t do something about this, we could have an even greater epidemic of cases of dementia developing at even younger ages than what we are seeing now,” Davydow said.

The new study was published today (April 15) in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.

Follow Agata Blaszczak-Boxe on Twitter . Follow Live Science @livescience , Facebook & Google+ . Originally published on Live Science .

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You Are Who Your Pet Thinks You Are

Your pet loves you unconditionally – but do you offer yourself the same courtesy?

Our furry friends bring us a lot of joy (and even some health benefits) but perhaps one of their quietest, yet best qualities is what they can teach us about loving ourselves. The short of it: Look at yourself the way your dog or cat looks at you.

Self-acceptance is key to a happier life (science says so!) but often our minds berate our abilities and focus on our flaws. Our pets don’t see us that way.

As the video above shows, Fluffy is happy with us no matter what – even if we made a mistake at work or skipped the gym. If you’re feeling down, give it a watch. You may just gain a little perspective by looking through an animal’s eyes.

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ICYMI: An Infuriating History Of Breast Cancer And The Psychological Depth Of ‘YOLO'

1. The Psychology (and Philosophy) of ‘No Regrets’ – Pacific Standard

2. How Doctors of the Past Blamed Women for Breast Cancer – TIME

3. Groundbreaking Research Suggests Medical Marijuana Could Reduce Seizures In Children – The Huffington Post

4. How Can We Stop Farmer Suicides – Grist

5. In Defense of Wide Hips – Boston University Research

6. When ‘Deshawn’ And ‘Greg’ Act Out In Class, Guess Who Gets Branded A Troublemaker – The Huffington Post

7. The Virtue of Being Short – The Atlantic

8. How Should Journalists Cover Quacks Like Dr. Oz or the Food Babe? – Vox

9. Why Men Used to Be Scared of Shopping Carts – New York Magazine

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