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Most Americans want to lose weight , but it's no simple feat. Just ask someone who's done it.

That's exactly what TIME did in a recent cover story looking at new weight loss science . After speaking to people who had successfully lost weight (after failing many times), it became clear that there's no best way to go about it. Instead, evidenceboth scientific and anecdotalshow that it's possible for anyone to reach a healthy weight through a strategy that works best for them.

Here's what worked for five people who lost weight and kept it off.

Ive been overweight my entire life. Id try different diets, lose a few pounds and then gain it back. When I turned 25, I was 485 lb. and I knew I was fighting for my life. I want to have kids one day and be more active with my husband. I wanted to stop sitting on the sidelines of my own life. At the beginning of 2016, I started tracking my calories, working out and making healthier versions of the foods I loved. Ultimately, I fell in love with taking care of myself. My advice is to focus on each day, not how far you have to go. Weight loss is a journey, not a sprint.

Lexi Reed , age 26, lost 278 lb. in 16 months

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Dont just write down everything you eat. Write down how you feel that day, what is going on in your life and how you feel after eating. After a while, look through your journal for patterns. Chances are youll find some. Im a recovering food addict, and nothing was more freeing than realizing what behaviors or events were triggering my addiction. It wasnt that I had no willpower; my brain was reacting to certain habits that made it hard for my willpower to do its job. Once I removed those patternslike keeping cookies around the housemy willpower muscle could finally flex.

Erika Nicole Kendall , 33, lost 170 lb. over two years

You dont have to eat salad all the time to lose weight. There are so many ways to tweak ingredients and make food you actually love to eateven pancakes. (Try almond flour.) That being said, the type of food you eat also defines your lifestyle. You can eat junk food and lose weight, but you will probably be hungry all the time. So give yourself an occasional cheat day or reward for sticking to your plan. In the end, you want to lose weight in a healthy way, without feeling like youre hurting yourself.

Nivedith Renga , age 26, lost 65 lb. in nine months

"When I graduated college in 2012, I was at my highest weight ever. I was embarrassed about my weight and what I looked like, and I was terrified of being the person in the gym who didn't know what they were doing. I sat in my doctor's office and remember deciding that I was going to do whatever it took, however long it took, to change my life. I tried a variety of different diets that worked, but I felt like I was losing my mind not being able to eat certain foods, and I hated that even though I was 'losing weight', I still had a really disordered relationship with food. Food is supposed to bring joy and happiness.

I decided to give 'macro counting' a whirl. It's similar to calorie counting, but rather than keeping track of your calories, you keep track of the number of grams of protein, fat, and carbs you eat per day. Following this is what ended up giving me the biggest change overall. I felt like I wasn't starving myself or depriving myself to lose weight. You have to find something you can stick to. What works for one person may not work for another. Whatever you choose, it has to be for life."

Kelly Rojek , 27, lost 50 lb. in 18 months

"You have to make slow and steady adjustments, that worked for me. I measured and weighed food to become more aware of portion size. I wrote down what I ate and ate more frequent, smaller meals throughout the day. I try to include protein in each meal to control hunger. I don't deprive myself, and I've gotten rid of 'all or nothing' thinking. People could still look at me and consider me overweight. You have to accept youre never going to be a willowy model, but I am at a very good weight that I can manage."

Jody Jeans, 52, lost 75 lb. over five years.

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Can people be taught to think their way to smaller waists?

Scientists in Roanoke and Blacksburg plan to team up with Carilion Clinic doctors to explore the answer.

The work will be done at a new lifestyle center that the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute is building in Roanoke. Researchers will look at the connection between the mind and the body, and at whether people who are coached to think differently will eat better, exercise more and change the way their bodies burn calories.

Warren Bickel, who studies how people make decisions, and Matthew Hulver, who looks at how their bodies use energy, will head the Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors in Roanoke.

One of the impetuses for this is we are getting better at treating diseases that have a strong biological basis, Bickel said. Whats going to be a bigger piece of health care, and the costs, are the things we do to ourselves. We eat too much. We dont exercise enough. We consume too many substances. We dont follow physicians advice. So health behavior, in a very real sense, has a great potential to be the future of medicine.

The center will be in Carilions Riverside 1 building, a stones throw from the VTC Research Institute and School of Medicine, and is the first spinoff to be created within the Roanoke Innovation District.

Bickel and Hulver have been meeting with other Tech researchers and with Carilion physicians to pursue collaborations that will help them better understand the body-mind connections that affect health.

Bickels research at the VTC Research Center looks at which regions of the brain are involved in decision-making. People who use regions that are more prone to impulsive behavior tend to value the future less and think more short-term. They are also more likely to overeat, drink too much and become addicted to substances. Its a process he terms discounting the future.

Hulvers research at the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise looks at the physiology of metabolism and how it is affected by high-calorie, high-fat, Westernized diets that contribute to obesity and diabetes.

One of the first conversations Warren and I had was that certain parts of the brain are more impulsive and certain parts are more logical. It would be interesting to see how those affect obesity, Hulver said. If this part of your brain is lighting up, and youre impulsive, there have got to be some signals going out to the body.

They have started screening 200 people using Bickels method of assessing the way they value the future, and will then use Hulvers methods to measure whole-body metabolism and how people with extreme ways of thinking respond to a meal with the aim of exploring a link between brain decisions and metabolism.

Bickel and Hulver said the center goes beyond their collaborations and will function as a clearinghouse for others studying health behaviors.

Bickel said he and Michael Friedlander, Techs vice president for health sciences and technology and executive director of the research institute, were talking about moving into health behaviors at the same time Techs translational obesity center was looking for a new direction.

We said, what if we combined our interests, because they clearly overlap they are different parts of the same beast, sort of like the elephant, ones grabbing one part, the other is grabbing another part and actually put it together? Wed have more than the sum of the parts and could actually generate more interest and excitement and involvement, Bickel said.

The center plans to link researchers in Blacksburg and Roanoke with Carilion clinicians to work on projects that can affect the health of people living in the area.

Knowing how to change health behaviors, that lead to major expenses and utilize a lot of resources, and helping people change is where medicine is going to be heading in the next 20 to 30 years, Bickel said.

The center is expected to open in June.

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With summer fast approaching, you might be thinking now is the time to get healthy. Well, if you're going to start a new diet or a fitness program, don't put it off until tomorrow... Monday is the best day to start a new diet.

Maligned Mondays are actually days that tap into the "fresh start effect," when we feel like "a new person," ready to take on a change in habits, according to a report.

On certain days, called temporal landmarks, you just have a different view of yourself, said Jason Riis, visiting professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of the report. You become more forward looking.

People think, I am going to be a new person and I am no longer going to be a part of the path of failure," said Hengchen Dai, a co-author of the paper and doctoral student at Penn. Its changing the perception of the self."

To determine these temporal landmarks, the Wharton researchers conducted three experiments: They scoured Google analytics to see when and how often people searched for diet and exercise; Then they tracked the most popular days at the University of Pennsylvania gym; Finally, they examined a website where people made contracts with themselves to change a behavior they lost money if they failed.

The Wharton researchers didnt study whether people achieved their goals, but psychologist John Norcross of the University of Scranton said that people who make New Years resolutions or quit smoking during events like the Great American Smokeout actually are more successful than expected.

Here are the most popular days for starting a diet, beginning a new workout program, or even switching your 401K into an IRA, according to Wharton researchers.

Monday is going to be a fresh start, Dai said. Ann Kearney-Cooke agreed that Mondays motivate people.

I think it gives an energy surge to people, said Kearney-Cooke, the psychologist at the Cincinnati Psychotherapy Institute.

Mondays do have drawbacks. People can use all their energy and willpower up early on, meaning they can burn out later in the week. If you fall off track by Thursday, don't wait until Monday for a new start, says Kearney-Cooke.

The key to change is at the next meal or the next morning, starting over, said Kearney-Cooke.

There's no evidence of a "bad day" to start a new behavior, but she says don't start something new when you feel low energy and willpower.

Dai realized that she made promises on her birthday and anniversary and wondered if others did, too.

Every year I make birthday resolutions, I make resolutions on my anniversary. For me, I feel like those are the landmarks that I would like to seize upon, she said.

It turns out shes not alone.

The researchers found that day after a birthday many people hit the gym, with the exception of the 21st birthday (too many people are nursing hangovers to consider a workout after that birthday).

[Birthdays] are meaningful events looking forward, Riis said, adding that they spur changes in behaviors.

Birthdays also can serve as a time to revisit an earlier goal.

I think humans like to be reminded Here is an opportunity, go for it, said John Norcross, a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Scranton. We ask people to start on a day that signifies a new beginning or a meaningfully important date.

Gym attendance is up in the beginning of the month, according to Google search data. So don't be surprised if workout classes are more crowded or you have to wait for a popular exercise machine.

Many people make changes at the beginning of the seasons, researchers found. Spring is a time to clear clutter from our lives, or a reminder that bathing suit season is coming. Fall brings the start of a new school year.

One of the times students are more likely to work out is at the start of the semester, Wharton researchers found.

It's a clich, but people have made New Years resolutions since ancient Roman times.

It is the get out of jail free card Here is the socially acceptable time to start anew, said Norcross.

He has studied New Years resolutions and found that about 40 percent of people who make them, stick to their resolutions.

Success rates are better than most people imagine, Norcross said.

He finds that while a new year gives people an opportunity to think about the future and their future selves, it also helps them reflect on the past and their negative behaviors. He believes people need both perspectives to change.

Using both sources tends to be associated with success not just being disgusted [but] looking forward and saying here is my new life.

People are more likely to change around the new year because there is more social support and more information available, he added.

But you don't have to wait for New Year's. Patients modify habits on many holidays, including Mothers Day, Cinco de Mayo, Lent, Yom Kippur or any other holiday that holds meaning for them.

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The Major Diet Change That Helped This Man Lose Nearly 70 Pounds Men's Health Along with his runs, Garcia also started working with a personal trainer, but once he started traveling more for work, he had to find routines he could do on his own time. Now, he breaks a sweat six times a week through a mix of jogging, cycling, a ton ...

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I was 13 years old when my dad brought home our first digital scale. It was Christmas, and at first it provoked the same excitement I felt whenever we got any sort of newfangled, vaguely techy object in those more analog days. I rarely weighed myself before that, usually only at annual doctors visits, but this machinery was sleek and shiny, with the ability to tell weight to the absurdly precise tenth of a pound.

Its not that I didnt already know that I was severely overweight. If the difficulty finding clothing that fit and the perpetual physical discomfort hadnt already clued me in, fellow middle schoolers flip cruelty wouldve done it. But seeing the number on the scale was my come-to-Jesus or, rather, come-to-Atkins moment. I stopped housing restaurant-size dishes of fettuccine alfredo like I was a tween Caligula at a banquet, I reluctantly started exercising, and I convinced myself that flavored seltzer was a treat. (I was way ahead of the curve with that last one.)

Within a year, I lost all the weight I wanted to, and have more or less maintained it since. It wasnt all that simple or straightforward, but both then and now, I rarely discussed the effort I put into what was a major, ultimately positive life change. For one thing, talking about your diet is inherently uninteresting. But I also held back out of a specific sense of shame that I couldnt necessarily articulate at the time. I was bookish, inquisitive, and defiant, and I prided myself on those qualities; even though I deeply wanted to lose weight, this desire felt vain and ignoble, an admission that I cared about how others saw me.

Ive been reminded of that feeling often since then, especially as the body-positivity movement has gained traction and weight has felt increasingly politicized. When Marisa Meltzer explored dieting as a feminist taboo for Elle back in 2013, she admitted, the guilt I once felt about what I ate has been replaced by guilt over being the wrong kind of feminist or maybe no kind of feminist: a woman pursuing something as pedestrian and frankly boring as losing weight. She theorized that many self-identifying feminists who struggle with their weight may feign an attitude of indifference as a front. In the years since her essay was published, I suspect thats only become more common.

Back in 2013, Meltzer pointed to Lena Dunham as the ultimate self-acceptance icon. Her body has been subject to relentless, often harsh, scrutiny since Girls first aired; most recently, the focus has been on her noticeable weight loss, due in part to working out with Tracy Anderson and eating a more plant-based diet. Shes been vocal in objecting to positive press. A couple of weeks back, Dunham responded to a magazine that included a new photo of her next to the headline 20 Slimdown Diet Tips Stars Are Using. In a widely circulated Instagram post, she attributed her smaller figure to everything from her long-running battles with endometriosis and anxiety to living in Trumps America and realizing who ya real friends are. Shed previously written, my weight loss isnt a triumph because my body belongs to ME at every phase, in every iteration, and whatever Im doing with it, Im not handing in my feminist card to anyone.

Regardless of the whys and hows of Dunhams weight loss, Im struck by the highly charged way the discussion progressed. Numerous publications (especially woman-centric ones) praised her reaction. But, I found myself wondering, what if she had just wanted to lose some weight for the sake of losing some weight? Should it really be all that controversial or shameful to want to control how you look, especially if you have a job that keeps you in the public eye? Must dropping a few pounds come with a disclaimer, or 20? If women used to avoid saying they were on a diet because it might not seem cool or fun, now we worry about the possibility of offending others or losing our feminist card.

Fat acceptance was indeed born during the same era as second-wave feminism; today, body positivity and pop feminism exist as the significantly less radical, more widespread versions of their predecessors. As these ideals have deviated further from their origins, becoming more watered-down and commercialized, theyve also become inextricably linked. A typical triumphant viral web-story plotline, especially for womens sites, involves a woman clapping back at body shamers. Body positivity is now a savvy branding move: Take ModCloth, which pledged not to use Photoshop and publicly lent their support to the 2016 Truth in Advertising Act, calling for federal regulation of airbrushing in ads. (The indie retailer sold to Walmart earlier this year.) And when Dove created soap bottles modeled on different female body shapes, it was hilariously misguided and widely panned but it was also a natural extension of the infantilizing way businesses have attempted to profit off this mind-set.

Its not like the industry devoted to shrinking us down has taken a blow: We can hardly go a few weeks without hearing about a new diet plan that features seemingly arbitrary restrictions (what, exactly, is wrong with mushrooms?) or an insanely punishing cleanse. But now, when it comes to actually discussing the deliberate changes we make to our bodies, we either wrap them in innuendo or scramble to deny them altogether, in an attempt to appear more enlightened.

One cultural barometer is the way celebrities talk about their eating and exercise habits (and the media coverage they generate). Unsurprisingly, its a long-standing tradition to ask people whose job it is to look conventionally attractive how they got that way and what they consume every day. But few ever admit to being on a diet nobody wants to reveal how the sausage, or, more appropriately, the grilled chicken breast, is made. Wellness has also become a catch-all euphemism that allows one to admit to undertaking a transformation, but chalk it up to health instead of superficiality. Eva Mendes couched an answer about her routine by saying that she eats clean and, because shes busy, truly enjoys having the same thing for lunch and dinner every single day. Spoiler: Its salmon, quinoa, and salad. (Eva Mendess Simple Eating Regimen Is So Refreshing, Refinery29 gushed, either in willful ignorance or a profound misunderstanding of what a diet is.) A Glamour listicle titled 10 Celebrities Who DGAF About Eating Healthy celebrated stars like Gigi Hadid, Emma Stone, and Jennifer Lawrence for being quick to admit eating burgers, pizza, or red velvet cupcakes is just part of life, though something tells me that, based on the industry theyre in, they must G at least a tiny bit of AF. At least Lawrence whose meteoric rise to become Americas sweetheart was certainly aided by red-carpet sound bites about loving McDonalds finally admitted: I dont feel like I have a normal body. I do Pilates every day. I eat, but I work out a lot more than a normal person.

The current cultural discomfort around dieting has trickled down to how even I someone with firsthand experience undertaking significant weight loss react when confronted with it. When acquaintances said they were trying Whole30 for the new year or posted hashtagged meal shots to Instagram, I remember balking: My first reaction was to think that they didnt seem like the type of people to go on a diet, much less talk about dieting. (By contrast, the girls I knew in high school and college who now appear to be engaged in a Facebook weight-loss-shake pyramid scheme definitely do fit the mold I associate with people who diet though are their motivations really all that different?) While visiting an old friend, I noticed that she had downloaded MyFitnessPal and felt an odd rush of embarrassment, like I had accidentally stumbled onto something I wasnt supposed to see. We could talk to each other about our sex lives without batting an eyelash, yet counting calories seemed like a step too far.

Im not saying we should necessarily be talking about our diets more again, its boring, and Im generally a proponent of all of us dialing back our abundant over-sharing a bit. But what a relief it would be to shed the anxiety surrounding how we discuss them, to lose the doublespeak and welcome more honesty.

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Believe certain dark corners of the internet and weight loss can seem incomprehensibly complicated. Every weight loss plan contains nuggets of dietary truth, padded out with a heap of creatine crap peddled by people who have done little to no research.

Well, we have done some research and filleted all that conflicting information into the only rules to follow to lose weight. And keep it off. Forget palaeolithic diets; this is the 21st-century way to a better body.

Its not just bodybuilders who should reach for muscle food. According to a study published in the , upping your protein intake is proven to increase satiety (how full you feel).

That means that unlike carbohydrates, which spike the bodys blood sugar and cause the crash that leads to doughnut cravings, with some extra chicken breast in your lunch youll forgo the afternoon snack run.

The average gym session burns around 500 calories. Fit in four a week and one 12-inch pizza will cancel out all that work. To stoke the fires, you need to move more, all the time. Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) is the energy expended for everything we do that is not sleeping, eating or sports-like exercise, says Rob Aitken, a senior trainer at Matt Roberts gyms.

Three hours at a stand-up desk adds 750 calories a week. Get off your tube or bus a stop early to walk and get another 570 calories back. Swapping lift for stairs could add another 300 calories. Just dont consider that carte blanche for a stuffed crust.

Lying down could be the best way to burn fat. People who dont get enough sleep have elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which reduces feelings of satiety. Decision-making is also impeded, which means that not only are you hungry, but you pick a bacon sandwich, not a muesli pot.

To ease your way to the land of nod, stop all screen time 30-minutes before bed, says Aitken. He also recommends investing in blackout curtains, to cut out street light; taking a bath before bed and calming an overactive brain with a pre-snooze brain dump. Write down everything thats worrying you. The brain knows that its on a pad, so stops trying to hold on to all that work stress and will actually let you sleep.

Complicated diets can work, but only if you stick to them. Thin, white women on Instagram might tell you to cut out meat and gluten to achieve better wellness, but its not much use when youre in a restaurant and the only thing your diet plan allows is chips. So dont overthink it.

Its all about choosing the right foods and keeping it varied, says Dylan Jones, founder of P4 Body. Then you will be able to stick to it for longer and are less likely to fall off the wagon.

Build every meal around lean protein and make sure there are at least three different colours on your plate. Ideally vegetables, not ketchup, mayo and barbeque sauce.

To burn fat, eat fat. Just make sure that its the right kind. Like protein, fat makes you full, and if the fats you eat are from vegetables and not bacon, they can also reduce the risk of certain cancers and type-2 diabetes.

Theres a reason why youve never seen a tubby squirrel: according to research published in the , people who eat fatty nuts like almonds or cashews seven or more times a week die later than those who avoid them and, according to a study in the journal , are also 43 per cent less likely to be overweight. Have a handful whenever the cravings for ready salted kick in.

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(1 of ) Petaluma, CA, USA. Tuesday, July 07, 2016._ Road work will soon begin on South Petaluma Boulevard to continue the narrowing of lanes. (CRISSY PASCUAL/ARGUS-COURIER STAFF)

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Petaluma is in line to receive an infusion of regional transportation funding, which could help complete projects including a narrowing of Petaluma Boulevard South and a bike path along the SMART train tracks.

The $3.5 million for Petaluma is part of a $26 million countywide funding package announced by the Sonoma County Transportation Authority last week. Most of the funding comes from federal gas tax, though the Metropolitan Transportation Commissions One Bay Area Grant, vehicle license fees and state sales tax.

The road diet will extend work already completed on Petaluma Boulevard. The road has been narrowed from Lakeville Street to E Street. With the new funding, Petaluma Boulevard South will go from four to two lanes from E Street to the round about at Crystal Lane in the Quarry Heights development.

Petalumas Deputy Director of Public Works Larry Zimmer said that the project is fully approved and fully funded. The money is expected in the 2018 funding cycle and construction is expected to begin in 2019 and take about one year to complete.

We got the complete ask, he said. Its wonderful. The great thing about getting the full construction money is now we can do the full project.

Dave Alden, a member of the citys Transit Advisory Committee, said he helped push the city to apply for the grant to fund the road diet. He said that road diets have a calming effect on traffic and make roadways safer for pedestrians and cyclists.

Because you have more asphalt, it reallocates the asphalt to provide a better experience to pedestrians and bicyclists, he said. Im a big fan.

The Petaluma Boulevard North road diet was controversial as some motorists said it created a bottleneck where the road narrows. However, Zimmer said that traffic counts show that the same number of cars are using the street in the same amount of time as before the road diet.

The Petaluma Boulevard South segment is marked by potholes and cracks. Zimmer said that the road diet will also repave the street. He said that, in order to use federal funds for pavement, the city must complete the road diet so that the lane width meets federal standards.

The project includes 12 percent matching funds from the city.

Other Petaluma projects that received funding include $79,000 for bike and pedestrian facilities at Crystal Lane and Edith Street, $69,000 for Petaluma Transit marketing, and $400,000 for a SMART bike path between Payran Street and Southpoint Boulevard.

Bike advocates say that the Payran-Southpoint path will be a key route across Petaluma, connecting west side residences with an east side business park. The only pathway across town restricted for motorized vehicles is the Lynch Creek trail, the final portion of which was completed in December.

I am eager to have the SMART pathway move forward in Petaluma, along with new pavement that will benefit everyone on Petaluma Boulevard South, said Petaluma City Councilwoman Kathy Miller, an SCTA board member.

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A new study into the stress levels of journalists appears to haveconfirmed some well worn clichsabout the industry that hacks love a drink, had poor diets, but arguably had better coping mechanisms when it came to workplace stresses.

The study was titled Study Into The Mental Resilience of Journalists and was conducted over a seven month period by British neuroscientist Dr Tara Swart.

Forty journalists were selected for the study and all had to completea blood test, weara heart-rate monitor, kept a food diary and complete a brain profile questionnaire.

Some of themajor findings of the study included:

Despite being ranked as a highly stressful job namely due to the deadlines thecortisol from participantsblood samples showed that journalists werent more stressed than those in other industries. In fact, the studysparticipants cited outside work pressures (family, finances) as a bigger stress than work.

Most of the respondents said they enjoyed their job and felt that journalism was a noble profession, hence they were more likely to do it for less money.

Some 41per cent of the subjects said they drank 18 or more units of alcohol a week, which is four units more thanthe recommended weekly allowance. Less than five per centof them drank enough water, and some said they drank no water at all.

Journalists were also much more likely to consumecaffeine during the workday and this correlated with higher reported stress and physical manifestations of stress (increased heart rate variability and higher cortisol levels).

As a group, the journalists also exhibited lower executive functioning scores than the average person, indicating a lower than average ability to regulate emotions, suppress biases, solve complex problems, switch between tasks, and think flexibly and creatively.

Over 25 per cent of respondents said they suffered from poor sleep due to alcohol consumption, caffeine intake, eating late and disturbances from children.

Half of the respondents were aged over 35 and this group were shown to have less stress and higher resilience than their Gen Y counterparts. Dr Swart noting that measures to dealwith workplace stress could be learned over time.

Journalists were found to excel at abstraction the ability to think outside the square and see things others dont.

They were also found to be good at value tagging or the ability to prioritise one thing over another. Journalists were found to be very good at sifting through large amounts of information and picking out the important bits.

Respondentswere found to have poor executive function which meant they suffered from poor sleep, nutrition, exercise andmindfulness.Many participants reported they had no time for breaks while working.

Journalists were also terrible at silencing the mind, meaning theyd often fret about the past and worry about the future.

Compared to other professions such as bankers, traders, or salespeople, journos showed they were more able to cope with pressure. Traits that make journalism a particularly stressful professions are deadlines, accountability to the public, unpredictable and heavy workloads, public scrutiny, repercussions on social media, and poor pay.

The report noted: The headline conclusion reached is that journalists are undoubtedly subject to a range of pressures at work and home, but the meaning and purpose they attribute to their work contributes to helping them remain mentally resilient despite this.

Nevertheless, there are areas for improvement, including drinking more water and reducing alcohol and caffeine consumption to increase executive functioning and improve recovery during sleep.

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Child injuries from 'innocent-looking' hoverboards are increasing Jerusalem Post Israel News This is because our food preferences and ability to work toward goals or follow plans affect what we eat and our ability to stick with diet changes. Ours is the first study describing how brain genes affect food intake and dietary preferences in a ...

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