Mood on Shine

10 Free and Easy Energy Boosters

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Next time your brain starts screaming “Get me Red Bull!” try these instead.

Wear something bright.

A new holiday dress, a cherry polish on your fingers or toes—just looking at those could help you have a peppier day. One study found that people who wrote on red paper felt more positive than those working with plain white or blue. And another study suggested that workers in colorful surroundings were more upbeat than those in drab environments.

How do low-carb diets affect mood?

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The promise of many popular diets often includes not just weight loss, but a happier outlook. Yet, a new study shows that the expected mood improvement—the added perk usually seen when losing weight—seems to be short-lived in successful dieters on a low-carb diet. The low-carb diet debate is one that doesn’t seem to want to fade away. The diet itself is an old one. The idea that eliminating most carbs as a weight-loss strategy is an idea that preceded Dr. Atkins by more than a century. There are many types of low-carb diets with varying restrictions on the types and amounts of carbohydrates permitted. Just like other diets, they work as long as you eat fewer calories.

Ever Feel Like Eeyore (With a Rain Cloud Over Your Head)? Good News for Grumps

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Pooh, take your honey and shove it! Ever feel like that? I'm normally pretty upbeat, but yesterday I was absolutely overcome with a wave of grumpiness--for no reason, really. I just felt blue. Good news for us grumps, though...

What sports movies motivate you?

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I am not a big sports fan. I will go to a game and cheer but I don't have very much patience for the rules or stats or plays. I love the Olympics but I don't have it in me to follow those athletes throughout the year on Saturday afternoon coverage of figure skating or swimming competitions.…

Is Sex the New Prescription For Depression?

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If you think having frequent lackluster sex inches you closer to drawing the shades and diving head first into a Bell Jar-type depression—you may actually be correct. Read: Bad…

Are rituals healing?

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A Facebook friend -- a man I met and knew for only a few days while traveling through Europe fifteen years ago and randomly found me online a few months ago -- sent me a…