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Beware of the Health Halo | Berkeley Wellness
The “health halo” effect
It occurs when food that has some healthy qualities is seen as being virtuous in all respects.
For example, many people think that organic foods are healthier because they're lower in calories and higher in fibre than their conventionally grown counterparts. But the term "organic" refers to agriculture practices and has nothing to do with health or nutrition.
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"May the fourth be with you"
"May the fourth be with you" plays on the phrase in Star Wars "may the Force be with you."
"May the fourth be with you" was popularized by Margaret Thatche...
Becoming a slogan
The pun on "May the Force be with you" has been used a number of times over the years.
Once In 2008, a Facebook group celebrated "Luke Skywalker Day" and adopted the May the Fourth slogan. Since then, May 4 has been a regular fandom celebration. In 2013, Disney also joined in the celebration.
Rigid Thoughts: Feeling Stuck In Negative Emotions
We get stuck in our emotions due to our spiralling mind, our fixation with old ideas and behaviours, our need to be always right, perfectionism and thinking in absolute terms.
...Things We Do To Cope-Up With Negative Feelings
These are the three usual suspects, stuff we do to cope-up with our emotions:
- Bottling up our emotions, leading to stress.
- Brooding over our emotions, which usually leads to self-blame.
- Forcing ourselves to see everything as positive, which can be delusional in many cases.
Get Unstuck: Cultivating Emotional Agility
- Acknowledge and accept the various bad ways used to cope-up with negative emotions.
- Identify the feelings and be comfortable with the uncomfortable emotions like frustration and hopelessness.
- Start a journal and write down your deepest feelings and insecurities.
- Look for clues in these negative thoughts, trying to find the underlying cause or pattern.
- Identify the basic inconsistencies and try to make a course correction in the right direction.
Defining Millennials
Millennials were born between 1981 and 1996.
Similar to how baby boomers were named after an increase in birth rate after World War II, millennials were named beca...
Major characteristics of millennials
- Millennials are the children of baby boomers and were raised with the mindset of 'We want it to be easier for our children than it was for us.'
- Millennials were around for the rise of the internet and came to age alongside the internet. A good way to describe millennials is technology-dependent, not technology-savvy.
- Millennials got hammered by student loan debt, which was then compounded by the Great Recession. The results are years of economic struggle and delayed major milestones such as starting families and buying houses.
- They were the first to force others to break stereotypes of their generation.
What defines Gen Z
The children of Generation X are known as Generation Z. They were born between 1997 and 2012. Gen X's main parenting goal was to raise their children so they do not end up like millennials.
Gen Z turns to the web for everything, from entertainment to news. They choose the entertainment of YouTube or TikTok over traditional outlets and spend about 50 hours per week on social media.