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Skinny Suits by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I don't claim to be an expert on fashion, but I have become enamored with fitted suits. I am calling these "skinny suits" for lack of a better term. Above is ac ... Read on »

Paleo Physical Therapy by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The other day I slipped walking down the stairs while carrying something. I sort of tweaked my knee a bit, and so it felt somewhat weak thereafter. After a couple d ... Read on »

Is Sitting the New Smoking? by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Here's a short article with that title that discusses the dangers of sitting. I do think the prolonged sitting at most jobs is going to get more research attention in the ... Read on »

Sleeping Time versus Darkness Time by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine As I wrote about a while back, it is still amazing to me the benefits of turning out the lights earlier at night. Just by pushing the lights out time a half hour earlie ... Read on »

Don't Blame the Portion Sizes by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I believe I previously linked to this study that looks at eating occasions and portion sizes and their links to overweight/obesity. After thinking about it for a while, ... Read on »

Play and ADHD by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Here's an article about a neat approach to ADHD. The focus is on "self-generated" play. WHat they do is basically turn kids loose in nature and let them do what they w ... Read on »

Empty Hollow Sensation by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Here is a link to an interview with Dr. David Lovell Smith, who recently researched hunger signals. What's interesting in this short interview is that he ties dysregula ... Read on »

One Month In: Eating to Hunger and Satiety by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I've now passed the one-month mark in my effort to 1) eat only when actually hungry, and 2) stop eating when satiated. Of the two, I am doing much better with stopping ... Read on »

Pull the Plug by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Ever since I began reading more about eating to hunger and satiety, I have tried to become of aware of such on a daily basis. One kind of shorthand analogy I've been us ... Read on »

Do You Want More Blog Readers? by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine If you type the title of this blog post into Google, you will receive millions of results. This seems to be an issue that always crops up somewhere with blogging: how c ... Read on »

The Evolutionary Function of Reason by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I have been reading a great deal about conceptual change and reasoning lately. After reading, oh say about 200 papers on the subject, I became frustrated as the researc ... Read on »

Stainless Steel by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I read some time ago in Loren Cordain's " The Paleo Diet Cookbook " about the benefits of cooking with stainless steel. Just now I am getting around to making th ... Read on »

Why Floundering Is Good by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This is an article that recaps some research I've been looking into. It shows how "productive failure" (trying on your own but coming up short) is often a pre-requisite ... Read on »

The Scientific Code by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I came across a neat and useful quote that summarizes the scientific approach: "Scientific habits of mind, or the scientific process, can be succinctly summarized as ... Read on »

Corporal Punishment II: Your Mind Is Playing Tricks On You by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine “When I was in school, I was beaten like a rented mule, and it did me good.” Ronnie Sutton, Robeson County, North Carolina. The above quote is from a state ... Read on »

Corporal Punishment Is Still Legal? by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I read this article yesterday about corporal punishment in schools. It had a list of states in which corporal punishment is still legal. North Carolina was on the list ... Read on »

Reel Mower by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Following the advice of the " Organic Lawn Care for the Cheap and Lazy ", I purchased a reel mower last month. I have to say this turned out to be a great purcha ... Read on »

Is Blogging On The Way Out? by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I read an interesting article that showed how blogging is on the decline with some age groups. Predictably, many are moving to Facebook and Twitter, and hence blogging ... Read on »

Downtown Charlotte by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I was downtown for a meeting and saw the skyline from an interesting angle. Read on »

Low Stress Tolerance by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I saw this interesting study that looked at how stress tolerance could affect overeating. As predicted, a lower stress tolerance led to more disinhibited eating measure ... Read on »

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