From an evolutionary perspective, we only live as long as we need to replace ourselves efficiently. For example:<ul><li>Mice live 2-3 years. They divert most of their resources into reproducing rapidly and little into preserving their bodies.</li><li>Whales live hundreds of years because they're at the top of the food chain and they can live as long as they want. So they breed slowly and build a body that lasts.</li><li>We, as humans, are somewhere in between mice and whales.</li></ul>From a biological perspective, there's no maximum to human lifespan. There's nothing that says biological organisms have to die.

Aging

<ul><li>Diet: Eat healthy food. Don't overeat. Don't become obese</li><li>Exercise: Do aerobic and strength training a few times a week</li><li>Sleep: Get into a constant sleep-wake cycle</li><li>Manage your mental stress</li><li>Don't smoke because it accelerates aging</li></ul>

Tips to slow down aging

<ul><li>Eat a moderate amount of calories and eat during a shorter period during the day. You can do this through intermittent fasting and calorie restriction.</li><li>Eat plenty of leafy greens, such as broccoli, spinach, kale, or Brussels sprouts.</li><li>Reduce fruits that give you a sugar high because spiking your sugar is unhealthy in the long run. High sugar fruits include grapes, cherries, pears, watermelon, and bananas.</li><li>Limit your servings of red meat.</li></ul>

Diet

<ul><li>Fasting is one of oldest ways to improve health. We know it works, but we don't know why. Current research is aimed at figuring out what's optimal and how it works.</li><li>It's been shown that fasting activates some longevity genes, but the research is ongoing, so no recommendations can be made to the general public yet.</li><li>Results from animal studies show it's more important when you eat than what you eat. Mice that ate general food once a day lived longer than mice that ate carefully chosen food 3 times a day. But you want to focus on both — eat good food at the right time.</li></ul>

Research on fasting

It's been proven that exercise extends lifespan. People who exercise regularly have lower risk of major diseases such as heart disease.A basic routine with aerobic and strength training, done a few times a week, is enough. The main goal is for the aerobic training to reduce your heart disease risk, and for the strength training to maintain your hormone levels.However, bear in mind there are diminishing returns to exercise. Over-exercising is detrimental to your health as you wear out your joints.

Exercise

Get into a constant sleep-wake cycle.Results from studies on people who work shifts show that disrupting your sleep-wake cycle accelerates aging and increases your risk of developing certain age-related diseases.

Sleep

Do what works for you and what you enjoy. What's a long life if it's not enjoyable?

What is the best way to live longer? Here are a few factors within your control

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How To Live A Long Life

TIL diseases show up more often in older people because of aging. It's causation, not correlation 🤯 So if we slow down aging, we decrease the risk for many age-related diseases

David Sinclair is a geneticist at Harvard and author of Lifespan. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Onnit: https://lexfridman.com/onnit to get up to 10% off - Clear: https://clearme.com/lexpod and use code LexPod to get 2 months free - National Instruments (NI): https://www.ni.com/perspectives - SimpliSafe: https://simplisafe.com/lex and use code LEX to get a free security camera - Linode: https://linode.com/lex to get $100 free credit EPISODE LINKS: David's Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidasinclair David's Website: https://lifespanbook.com PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:34 - Staying young at heart 5:30 - Bringing people back to life 11:05 - Wearables and tracking health data 20:18 - How to solve aging 30:22 - Why do we age? 35:50 - Genetic reset switch that reverses aging 38:20 - AI in biology 40:52 - Health data 48:58 - Fasting 56:29 - Diet 1:04:40 - Exercise 1:10:01 - Sleep 1:18:29 - Data 1:24:00 - Extending lifespan 1:26:42 - Immortality 1:32:28 - Denial of death 1:35:45 - Meaning of life without death SOCIAL: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman

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35:50 - Genetic reset switch that reverses aging
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40:52 - Health data
48:58 - Fasting
56:29 - Diet
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UK watchdogs under the banner of the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) have called for views on the benefits and risks of how sites and apps use algorithms. Whether that's which video to watch next on YouTube, which film you might enjoy on Netflix, who turns up in your Twitter feed, search autosuggestions, and what you might like to buy on Amazon – the algorithm governs them all and much more. While that all sounds pretty benign, regulators are hip to the fact that algorithms don't always work for the benefit of consumers.

The DRCF – comprised of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), and the Office of Communications (Ofcom) – has set out a workplan for the coming year in which it aims to: <ul><li>Better protect children online </li><li>Promote competition and privacy in online advertising </li><li>Support improvements in algorithmic transparency </li><li>Enable innovation in the industries they regulate </li> </ul>

"Just one of those areas is algorithms. Whether you're scrolling on social media, flicking through films or deciding on dinner, algorithms are busy but hidden in the background of our digital lives."That's good news for a lot of us a lot of the time, but there's also a problematic side to algorithms. They can be manipulated to cause harm or misused because firms plugging them into websites and apps simply don't understand them well enough. As regulators, we need to make sure the benefits win out."

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Brit watchdogs ask how they can better regulate algorithms

<ul><li>30' of meditation</li><li>30' cardio</li><li>shower with cold ending</li></ul>Doing exercises in the first morning hours is most beneficial for your brain.

Wendy Suzuky's morning routine:

Giving your hippocampus a boost by growing new cells.Giving your brain a bath of good chemicals and growth factors: dopamine, serotonin, adrenaline.Even a 10 minute walk will improve your mood.Repetition is important: exercising daily improves neuro plasticity.The more you exercise, the more you're motivated to exercise.

What happens in your brain when you exercise?

Interesting talk about how regular morning cardio exercises can improve your brain. It all starts with that one hour in the morning. Doing early work-outs is the most beneficial to your brain: brings clarity, better mood and resilience when problem solving.

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self-care is a way to express your love and emotions for yourself. It's a simple way to make yourself feel important. self-care is simply the act of caring about yourself by doing some simple tasks that make your mood better.

What Is self-care?

Self-care is important because :- <ul><li>It keeps you positive. </li><li>You are able to understand yourself. </li><li>It makes you happy. </li><li>It helps in reducing stress and anxiety. </li><li>Self-care makes you more valuable in your own eyes. </li> </ul>

Why Is self-care Important?

In this busy world you must have some time for yourself, continuously working for months and not giving time for yourself makes you stressed and frustrated. Take out some time for yourself. It can be Saturday or Sunday because most of the people stay free during these days.  Start doing self-care with these 10 ways that will make you relax and refresh

10 ways to do self-care

Start reading your favourite comics or a book that you love to read. Reading is a part of our childhood. Our parents used to dictate the stories from the story books but the time has changed so pick up your favourite book and Start reading it from today. It will make you happy and <a href="https://inspirationalblogs45.blogspot.com/2021/08/Top-5-ways%20to-improve-your-positive-thinking%20.html">positive </a> and it will give you a vibe of your childhood too.

1. Start Reading

What can be a better option rather than spending time with your friends ? Friends are very important in our life as sharing problems with them makes a person more relaxed. So, hangout with your friends, collect some memories or ask them to come and have dinner. That's the best way of self care. You must try out once, whenever you feel stressed then talk with the person whom you loved the most and you will realise that all your <a href="https://inspirationalblogs45.blogspot.com/2021/08/18-effective-ways-to-reduce-stress-from-your-life%20.html">stress is gone </a> .

2. Hangout with your friends

Everybody loves music because it connects you with your soul, so what can be the best way rather than listening to music. Listen to your favourite songs whenever you are free and whenever you get time it's the shortest way to make yourself happy.

3. Listen to your favourite music

Walking makes you a healthy person in life and if you have enough time to spend on yourself then you can go for a walk. It can be a solo walk or you can go with your partner. This will make you more attracted towards your partner and help you in reducing stress. So why don't you go for a walk on the upcoming Sunday?

4. Go for a walk

If you are an introvert like me then this is a golden tip for you. I mostly like to stay alone because it makes me happy. So if you are introverted then you can spend some time alone witnessing the iconic sunset at the beach. This will make you happy and if you can't do that then just go for a small self talk, talk with yourself on any topic. It sounds weird but believe me that actually sharing your pain with yourself helps in controlling that pain.

5. Spend some time alone

Self-care is important because it's the need of today's generation. Don't waste your time and life for others. Look out for yourself because once time is gone it's never going to come back. It's your life and you have to live it. That's all Good day:)

Conclusion

Why is self care important? How to practice self care? What does self care mean? Get the most common questions answered in this self care guide.

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Drinking my iced latte and just standing around other people is good enough! LoL!

Something An Introvert Enjoys.

I'm very introverted and I think other introverts would agree with this!

Understand yourself and those around you.

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<ul><li>To achieve happiness, wisdom, and strength, you have to practice seven ways of being, including steadiness, lovingness, fullness, wholeness, nowness, allness, and timelessness.</li><li>The seven ways of being require you to experience feelings openly (first step), accept them (second step), let go of what is painful or harmful, and let in what is positive (third step).</li></ul>

There are seven ways of being that form the basis of true awakening

<ul><li>Scientists have proven that our every sensation, thought, and desire depend on our nervous system and the brain. Changing our neural activity can enhance our psychological well-being.</li><li>Our brains are made up of 85 billion neurons connected in a huge network. Mindfulness and meditation can help us control this neural activity and reduce stress and overreactions.</li><li>Meditation can help you develop greater resilience and well-being by weaving qualities of steadiness, lovingness, and presence into your nervous system.</li></ul>

Changing our neural activity can enhance our psychological well-being

<ul><li>When the author first began to meditate, he didn't take things that seriously. After a few practices, though, he realized something real was taking place.</li><li>The author explains that concentration is one of the three pillars of Buddhist practice, and that modern society constantly bombards us with distractions.</li><li>To calm the monkey mind, we can practice focused attention through meditation. During meditation, we can concentrate on a specific object of attention and lead our wandering mind back to this object of attention.</li></ul>

The first step toward awakening is steadying the mind, which requires us to concentrate while meditating

<ul><li>The author attended a conference at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, where he met the Dalai Lama. The bodyguard radiated happiness and love, and he taught the author that being kind and compassionate to others is part of awakening.</li><li>The author's favorite practice for this meditation involves offering warm wishes to five types of people: a benefactor, a friend, a neutral person, someone who is challenging to be around, and ourselves.</li></ul>

Living with a warm heart means being compassionate to yourself and others

<ul><li>The author realized that unhappiness is common, and that it can take many forms. Buddha himself called this suffering, which can be healed by resting in fullness, which is the third step on the path to awakening.</li><li>To rest in fullness, replace negative material with positive material. To do this, have an experience of the positive material, enrich the emotion by staying with it, absorb the positive material, link the positive material to the negative material, and let go of the negative material.</li></ul>

We can heal our suffering by learning the practice of resting in fullness

<ul><li>The fourth step to awakening is to feel truly whole. This is achieved by accepting yourself fully, despite the mind's natural tendencies toward negativity.</li><li>The brain's default mode network drives rumination, which can make us feel unfulfilled because we get lost in thought throughout the day. Expanding the brain's lateral networks can help suppress the midline cortical networks and allow us to see the bigger picture.</li><li>Gestalt awareness helps us feel whole, by bringing awareness to our whole bodies and our minds as a vast sky. This allows us to be present in the moment.</li></ul>

Strengthening neural factors can help us foster a sense of wholeness and live in the now

<ul><li>If someone asked you what is meant by the word self, you might say that it is the essence of a human being. A strong sense of self can cause suffering because it makes us take things personally, act defensively, and even get possessive over others.</li><li>When we detach from the sense of self, we start to look at the world from the perspective of "we" rather than "I". We can do this by following practices for opening into allness.</li></ul>

Well-being increases when we decrease our sense of self and instead open into allness

<ul><li>The author was curious to learn more about nibbana, the ultimate spiritual goal in Buddhism. The teacher Steve Armstrong replied that nibbana is like standing on top of the highest peak in a deep valley enclosed by mountains, and seeing the world in its entirety.</li><li>Finding timelessness means letting go of past pain and experience, and worrying about the future. The following meditation can help with this, as well as practicing steadiness, lovingness, fullness, wholeness, nowness, allness, and timelessness.</li></ul>

Finding Nibbana, or true happiness, means accepting impermanence

Rick Hanson's neurodharma approach to happiness combines modern neuroscience with teachings from the Theravada Buddhist tradition to help you become more mindful, balanced, and connected to the world.

LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • “An easy-to-follow road map for creating day-to-day inner peace in today’s increasingly complex world.”—Lori Gottlieb, MFT, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Throughout history, people have sought the heights of human potential—to become as wise and strong, happy and loving, as any person can ever be. And now recent science is revealing how these remarkable ways of being are based on equally remarkable changes in our own nervous system, making them more attainable than ever before. In Neurodharma, the follow-up to his classic Buddha’s Brain, New York Times bestselling author Rick Hanson, PhD, not only explores the new neuroscience of awakening but also offers a bold yet plausible plan for reverse-engineering peak experiences, sense of oneness, and even enlightenment itself. And he does so with his trademark blend of solid science and warm encouragement, guiding you along this high-reaching path with good humor, accessible tools, and personal examples. A groundbreaking yet practical book, Neurodharma shares seven practices for strengthening the neural circuitry of profound contentment and inner peace—qualities that offer essential support in everyday life while also supporting the exploration of the most radical reaches of human consciousness. Step by step, this book explains how to apply these insights in order to cultivate unshakable presence of mind, a courageous heart, and serenity in a changing world. The breakthroughs of the great teachers are not reserved for the chosen few. Dr. Hanson shows how we can embody them ourselves in daily life to handle stress, heal old pain, feel at ease with others, and rest in the sense of our natural goodness. The Buddha didn’t use an MRI to become enlightened. Still, 2,500 years after he walked the dusty roads of northern India, neuroscientists are discovering the mechanisms of the brain that underpin the Buddha’s penetrating analysis of the mind. With deep research, stories, guided meditations, examples, and applications, Dr. Hanson offers a fascinating, inspiring vision of who we can be—and an effective path for fulfilling this wonderful possibility.

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LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • “An easy-to-follow road map for creating day-to-day inner peace in today’s increasingly complex world.”—Lori Gottlieb, MFT, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Throughout history, people have sought the heights of human potential—to become as wise and strong, happy and loving, as any person can ever be. And now recent science is revealing how these remarkable ways of being are based on equally remarkable changes in our own nervous system, making them more attainable than ever before.   In Neurodharma, the follow-up to his classic Buddha’s Brain, New York Times bestselling author Rick Hanson, PhD, not only explores the new neuroscience of awakening but also offers a bold yet plausible plan for reverse-engineering peak experiences, sense of oneness, and even enlightenment itself. And he does so with his trademark blend of solid science and warm encouragement, guiding you along this high-reaching path with good humor, accessible tools, and personal examples.  A groundbreaking yet practical book, Neurodharma shares seven practices for strengthening the neural circuitry of profound contentment and inner peace—qualities that offer essential support in everyday life while also supporting the exploration of the most radical reaches of human consciousness. Step by step, this book explains how to apply these insights in order to cultivate unshakable presence of mind, a courageous heart, and serenity in a changing world. The breakthroughs of the great teachers are not reserved for the chosen few. Dr. Hanson shows how we can embody them ourselves in daily life to handle stress, heal old pain, feel at ease with others, and rest in the sense of our natural goodness. The Buddha didn’t use an MRI to become enlightened. Still, 2,500 years after he walked the dusty roads of northern India, neuroscientists are discovering the mechanisms of the brain that underpin the Buddha’s penetrating analysis of the mind. With deep research, stories, guided meditations, examples, and applications, Dr. Hanson offers a fascinating, inspiring vision of who we can be—and an effective path for fulfilling this wonderful possibility.

Rick Hanson, PhD

Neurodharma

When people use the term hot mess, they generally don’t mean they’re running from the Mob, entangled in a deadly love triangle, or waking up after a bender missing a kidney. Instead, they mean that they feel steaming, churning emotional disarray—they’re unsure of themselves, insecure, and neurotic. Everyone can see them for the disaster they are.

Being In A Hot Mess

Most people experience self-criticism in<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886903001065"> two ways</a>. First, there is comparative self-criticism, in which they contrast themselves negatively with others, whom they conclude are superior. Second, there is internalized self-criticism, in which they don’t live up to their own high personal standards and expectations and thus experience a lot of daily failure.<a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.386.5404&rep=rep1&type=pdf">Studies show</a> that you are the best judge of your neuroticism; those close to you are the best judges of your intellect; meanwhile, everyone can accurately judge your extraversion.

Self-Criticism: The Two Kinds

Many people abet this asymmetry by believing that if they admit to weakness, others will perceive them more negatively than they actually do. We are generally unforgiving of our own weaknesses and thus keep them hidden. At the same time, we are blasé about others’ shortcomings, and even find them attractive. Some psychologists <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-34832-002">call</a> this the “<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/01/beautiful-mess-vulnerability/579892/">beautiful mess effect</a>.” We incorrectly think that others will judge us harshly for admitting to a mistake or for asking for help, when in reality people see vulnerability as sweet, or as a mark of character.

Admitting Our Asymmetric Behaviour

Comparing ourselves with others makes all of these effects worse. Thinking about how others see us—called “metaperception”—seems like it should help us understand ourselves better. Unfortunately, the conclusions we draw while doing so tend to be inaccurate.Social media massively magnifies the problem by encouraging everyone to post only happy, self-flattering things. You see your friends hiking on a sunny day—smiling, social, and cheerful. They might have been crying their eyes out or yelling at a loved one earlier in the day, but you would never know.

The Magnifier Effect Of Social Media

Accurate self-perception and metaperception require knowledge of your biases. Left to your devices, you might find it easy to think of yourself as messy in comparison with others. But being mindful of the errors that lead you to that conclusion can help you reevaluate. Next time you feel ashamed of your inadequacies, meditate on two facts:1. You are the only person who sees inside your head.2. Others are suffering inside their head, just like you.

Two Things To Remember

Being open about your suffering in others’ service is a form of self-compassion as well. <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2003-03727-001">It allows you</a> to understand your pain nonjudgmentally and treat it as part of a normal human experience. This kind of self-compassion has <a href="https://self-compassion.org/wptest/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/JRP.pdf">been</a><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671-020-01363-0"> found</a> to improve your mental health more than self-esteem approaches in which you try to change your subjective evaluation of yourself. For example, next time you are nervous about a conversation with someone, instead of trying to psych yourself into being confident, tell the other person you are nervous.

Self-Compassion

Embrace your hot messiness as a gift. It might be encouraging creativity and lead you to seek out new experiences, which can <a href="https://www.proquest.com/openview/7124e880d8ed7c86b0e0ca581ef9bcca/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=47758">raise your happiness</a>. To understand this, consider studies of people’s rooms, which<a href="http://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/tidy-desk-or-messy-desk-each-has-its-benefits.html"> have shown</a> that although physical tidiness may have benefits such as encouraging us to eat right and give to charity, a little bit of clutter can encourage the generation of creative ideas. Messiness releases you from conventionality and thus inspires fresh insights.

A Radical Approach

No one’s judging you as harshly as you judge yourself.

The Perks of Being a Hot Mess

People know Picasso for his cubist art but what they may not know is he is an incredible “normal” artist who can capture the emotion of a subject better than you could imagine without seeing it for yourself. The difference with Picasso is he understood the imbalance of nature so understood art shouldn’t be balanced either. No eye is exactly the same. No leg is exactly the same. Cubism highlighted this in an unorthodox way. Picasso was also a sculptor who saw art in things as simple as a broken bicycle.

Finding Art Where No One Could

In his 90+ years of life, he created over 5000 works. The incredible thing is he didn’t sell one a piece until after he died. His focus was to create a collection for himself. A memoir of sorts. He loved painting and drawing images of his wife and his child, his family, different matadors, artists, acrobats and all sorts of things that he could remember his travels. He created beautiful works during the Depression and the World Wars that oozed pain and uncertainty in his own way.

Creating For Himself

Even at 90, he painted with a childish flair. He painted matadors with a range of strange colours, kind of like a circus clown. He painted men with no backgrounds or context…just dots and strokes of different colours and shades. Picasso never lost his love of life and of his art and this shone through even at the end of his life. Going back to the previous point, it wasn’t about other people…he kept his childish nature to create art that made him happy, that told his story.

Painting Like A Child

While in Màlaga, Spain, Scott and I escaped the rain for a few hours to visit the Picasso Museum. I expected to be wowed by the amazing art but I was not expecting to walk out of there with an…

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3 Life Lessons from Pablo Picasso | by Angelica Nohra | Medium

There is no secret. No inspiring stories will move you. No "life changer" book will trigger you either

Achieve

All you need is to get up and show up!Do what you said or promised yourself to do, when the inspiring moment came to you.

Get Into Action! 

I do not understate the books, motivational pieces and all. All those would mean nothing, if no implementation is done.Get into action and be consistent! No matter how mundane you consider your vocation or goal to be, implementing and acting on it consistently will eventually move the needle.

Implement

The unexamined life is not worth living.

How to achieve more? 

An elimination diet program created by a husband-and-wife team, Whole30 encourages people to give up alcohol, dairy, grains, legumes, and sugar for exactly 30 days.Toward the end of the 30 days, you're supposed to slowly reintroduce these foods into your diet, to identify which ones work for you.

The Popularity Of 30 Day Challenges: The Whole30 Fad

<ul><li>Whole30 and other challenges are essentially hashtag-optimized versions of New Year's resolutions.</li><li>These were popularized by "Try something new for 30 days," a 2011 TED talk by Matt Cutts.</li><li>Research shows that resolutions are largely ineffective when it comes to establishing long-term behaviour.</li><li>Only 8 percent of people achieve their resolutions in the long term.</li></ul>

The Effectiveness Of Whole 30

<ul><li>The idea is that doing something consistently for 30 days will help you establish a healthier attitude toward indulgences (food, alcohol, Paris Hilton memes on Instagram, etc.) in the long run.</li><li>Drynuary, a month-long period of sobriety that's probably the most popular 30-day challenge on social media, is another example of this.</li><li>Another number that's frequently tossed around in behavioural psychology circles is 21 days, or three weeks, which stemmed from plastic surgeon Dr. Maxwell Maltz's observations of how long it took for his patients to become accustomed to their new faces.</li></ul>

The Reasoning Behind 30 Days

<ul><li>Generally speaking, short-term weight loss and dietary challenges can be effective to help teach better, sustainable eating habits.</li><li>If they are too restrictive, they can also backfire</li><li>Short-term diets do little to help keep weight off in the long run, and can even serve to slow down your metabolism.</li></ul>

The Effectiveness Of 30 Day Challenges

From Whole30 to Dry January: why 30-day challenges are so popular

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