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January is the diet month where people look outside themselves for answers. Starting looking inside. Follow @willclowerFor more information: Click here to visit Will Clower’s website....

When I was 6, I had my parents paint my walls crimson to match my team, the Alabama Crimson Tide. In 3rd grade, their legendary football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant came to our little town in lower Alabama to sign his book. I got to leave school to get it...

This is a fun article on the nature of happiness working the workweek versus the weekend.  The author is something of a nerd (love that) with great perspective for getting more happiness into your weekday. You data-heads like me will appreciate how he approaches and analyzes this question. I also...

Think of gratitude like a muscle that you have to use to develop. Make it a practice. Follow @willclowerFor more information: Click here to visit Will Clower’s website....

Taking vitamin D may not reduce risk of falls (link here) via @TIMEHealth In fact, higher doses resulted on worse outcomes....

I wanted to do something for our employees today for the holidays.  Follow @willclower We are so blessed. And often the richness of our lives is so pervasive that we forget. It gets tuned out like the white noise we no longer see or feel or taste. Just as we...

We want to live healthy lives, and be our best every day. But it isn’t always easy when we’re bombarded by ALL CAPS claims of revolutionary results (!), super solutions (!), and unbelievable outcomes (!). Follow @willclower In addition to the ads, there’s the fact that we just have a...

HOW you eat, can determine how much you are hungry for. This, in turn can contribute to obesity. Follow @willclower That’s the theory anyway. But how does it hold up if you were to actually test it?  These scientists performed a systematic and exhaustive review with a “meta-analysis of...

From now until the end of August, I want you to do some amount of situps and some amount of pushups every day. It’s something we do in my house, and are encouraging our corporate groups to do as well. Follow @willclowerDo you have to wear spandex? NoDo you have to...

I find myself in an awkward position.  Journalist John Bohannon wanted to show that the scientific review process can have huge holes in it. He also wanted to show that the media review of scientific (sounding) stories is often completely uncritical.  Because of these two factors, what gets to...

If you’re a snail … just sayin … IF you were a snail slithering through your life in the pond, and wanted to exercise your brain cell, you might want to have a little dark chocolate and red wine to complement your algae salad. This study showed that snails...