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Apart from the fact that child obesity increases the chances of being overweight during teenage years and adulthood, it has also been linked to social problems and a plethora of diseases. As parents, a proactive approach must be employed to deter the early onset of obesity in our children. Here’s the good news, though, obesity can be avoided and if your child is already obese, it can be corrected. In this article, we’ll take a look at the factors that dispose children to obesity, its health implications and how to identify obesity....

Chances are you forgot about them back in January. The good part is everyday is an opportunity to revive your New Year’s resolutions. Now that you know what it takes, the chances of failure are substantially lower. With that in mind, the infographic above can tell you what you should do differently to ensure you power through the rest of the year strong. The tips mentioned in the visual are very practical and can be applied immediately....

If you aren’t psyched about losing that much good disk space to crap, you can flush it using Windows built-in Disk Cleaner utility. V Laurie recently posted an article on Gizmo’s Freeware explaining the process and it’s pretty quick. You simply right-click your C: drive in the File Explorer, click “Properties” and then click “Disk Cleanup.” Select “Clean up system files” when the utility launches and wait for it to scan....

There are several other reasons goals can fail, including: The goal is too ambitious and so far from being achievable that there is no point working on it as you feel you’ll never achieve it. The goal completion target is so far off into the future that you just put it off as there is no urgency. The goal isn’t specific enough and so vague and hard to plan for as they may sound great, but you’re not sure how you’ll achieve them....

Let me start by saying this: I am practically giddy with the idea of you sitting on the other end of this computer. You’re about to start a whole new lifestyle, and that’s no small feat. The confidence, energy, vibrancy, passion, and discipline it will bring to your life will be well worth it! While I know you’re committed, I’m sure there are some questions you have on your mind as well, including “Where do I even begin?...

You may need to answer an emergency call or take care of an urgent financial matter. And more importantly, you need to oversee the work of different departments to track progress and growth while also keeping an eye out for mishaps. So if you are a business owner who has to wear multiple hats, here are a few recommendations to stay organized and productive. How Do You Wear Multiple Hats?...

This is all normal. It does feel terrible when you’re stuck in this state for far too long. However, the situation becomes dangerous when you feel sorry for yourself so much that it becomes a part of you. The first stage of getting better is recognizing that you are addicted to feeling this way. This guide aims to help you get back up by giving you all the tips you may need to fight such an overwhelming feeling....

The key to avoiding this negative distortion and stopping the mental spin is to understand what initiates the cycle. Once mindful of the triggers, people can train themselves to avoid it, or stop it before it does any harm. Triggers Thoughts, actions, feelings and sometimes even physical reactions can be triggers. On its own, a single trigger has little impact on your view of the world or emotional state. You can easily dismiss a feeling of frustration after dropping a dish on the floor, because there are no further triggers to escalate a cycle, it is an isolated incident....

Be mannerly. Before asking “What are your office hours?”, check your syllabus. If hours aren’t listed or won’t work, ask your professor when he or she can meet with you. A reasonable professor will understand that office hours cannot accommodate every student’s schedule. When you arrive, knock on the door, even if it’s open, and greet your professor by name. I’m always slightly amazed when a student walks into my office without saying a word and waits for me to say something....

What age is best? Of course, there is no exact correct answer. It is a good idea to have “the talk” before all those changes actually start, so take the lead of most elementary schools. Fifth grade is when they separate the boys and girls and have the puberty lesson. Age eleven is a good time, if not a little late, to talk to your kids about growing up. Ideally, this is an ongoing conversation that started when he or she was learning to talk and learning the names of body parts....

Think back to what you were like as a teenager. Was there a power struggle with your parents or was there mutual respect? The idea of having our kids respect us is usually at the back of our minds while our kids are young. It’s not usually a problem. Outside the occasional tantrums, there are just rainbows and unicorns. Learning about respect is probably less important than learning to tie shoelaces, right?...

That being said, for those of us who have relatively average level of hand muscle and softness, this is a good starting point for cooking red meat if you don’t have much experience cooking a steak or a meat thermometer to give you an accurate reading. Of course, there is no substitute a good meat thermometer that can give you a much more accurate reading of the readiness of your steak....

What if there was a way that you could travel the world without having to raid any savings accounts and credit cards that you have to your name? The world has many hidden gems and there has to be more to life than a mundane 9 to 5. A person that managed to make it around the world without spending much was Shantanu Starick. He wanted to travel across all seven continents without spending a dime; instead he would trade off his photography services for food and a place to stay....

With the ease that the label “bad attitude” gets applied these days, it is unlikely that you catch yourself saying “I have a bad attitude today.” Though having it is something that you rarely consciously admit to yourself, your own bad attitude is more impactful on you than the attitude of anybody else around. Staying in a company of people with a bad attitude is something you can choose. It’s similar to an elevator that stinks when you walk in....

How long ago they were laid. How well they were stored. How many transfers during shipping. How your local grocer treated them. And you might not eat a dozen eggs as soon as you bring them home from the store. So how do you know if an egg is still good to eat? There is a simple test that takes just a minute to complete. Fill a bowl with water, at least three inches deep....

That one little journal (okay…I called it a diary back then) unlocked a world of potential to me which quite literally became my saving grace, my happy place, for the rest of my life. Over the years, the aesthetics of my journal evolved, as did my writing subjects and style thankfully. But the one thing that’s been constant is that, no matter how sad I am or how bad things have seemed before I started writing, somehow the world and my place in it always becomes clearer and less noisy after just 5 minutes of “writing it out....

Here’s an excerpt from this lesson Featured Photo Credit: Climbing young adult at the top via Shutterstock 1). Your resolutions are unrealistic 2). Life gets in the way and you lose your passion 3). Your goals are too broadly based Take for example, the resolution that many Americans have every year to lose weight and exercise more. It typically is not achieved because a lot of folks simply don’t have the time to (realistically) fit it into their busy schedules, and… well, for most people exercise sucks....

Research has revealed numerous theories of motivation and motivating factors. They all have their merits and can work especially well as a mix. But what is motivation really, and what effect does this have on the reality we create for ourselves? What Is Motivation? Motivation generally includes an experience of desire or aversion. This means we either desire something we want, or we have the desire to avoid something. This motivates people in certain directions....

This lyric no doubt resonates with anyone who’s ever had to sit through a period of delayed gratification. Perhaps waiting for a future event or circumstance makes you feel tense or stressed (even if you’re waiting for something exciting to happen). Maybe you fear that you won’t actually get what you want, or that things won’t be as great as you’re imagining they will be. This state is referred to as anticipatory anxiety, wherein you feel anxiety when you think about an event or situation that’s expected to happen in the future....

Walnuts Can Lower Your Cancer Risk Cancer, like heart disease, is still a top killer in the United States, Europe, and many other parts of the world. Walnuts can lower the chances of cancer due to a number of their active ingredients, including ellagic acid (a powerful antioxidant), as well as compounds called phytosterols and omega-3 fatty acids. Research has shown that all of these compounds have anti-cancer properties and recent study found that people with a higher intake of walnuts had a greatly reduced chance of pancreatic cancer....