Caitlin Boyle, John Hocevar & Jordan Smoller
May 14th, 2012 by frankieboyer
Health Show
After attempting and failing numerous fad diets and feeling generally unhappy with her sedentary lifestyle, blogger Caitlin Boyle was burned out. Tired of the monotony of everyday life and determined to feel better overall, Boyle realized that barhopping three times a week and workplace caffeine binges would have to end. Caitlin had reached a turning point: she began to make healthier choices not because she felt she had to, but because she wanted to. Caitlin had reached what she likes to call her “Healthy Tipping Point.” Inspired by her immensely popular blog of the same name, HEALTHY TIPPING POINT: A Powerful Program for a Stronger, Happier You (Avery paperback original; on sale May 1, 2012; $18.00) is NOT a diet book. Rather, it is a holistic guide to healthy living—without the guilt-trips, frustration and arbitrary markers. In Healthy Tipping Point, Boyle helps readers find their personal ideal balance in food, fitness, love and in life, in an easy-to-implement, breakthrough program.
John Hocevar will be here to discuss fishing and what is being done to protect our oceans. Boston's and Massachusetts' supermarket chains are in a position and some have already taken steps to help end devastating commercial fishing practices that have reduced the population of the oceans top fish like sharks, tuna, and swordfish by as much as 90%. This report shows, for the first time since the first CATO report in 2008, big movement from supermarket chains to protect our oceans and send a message to commercial fishing operations to fish more responsibly by ending bottom trawling and bycatch, the tons of fish thrown overboard each day because of inefficient, indiscriminate fishing methods. In Boston, Safeway ranked #1 and Whole Foods ranked #2 have for the first time reached the "Good" category for their commitment to start selling sustainable canned tuna and their agreement to no longer purchase "red list" fish like Chilean Sea Bass. Ahold/Stop & Shop ranks as #7 and Price Chopper is #11 out of 20 U.S. supermarket chains.
In The Other Side of Normal, Harvard psychiatrist Jordan Smoller shows us that understanding what the mind was designed to do in the first place demystifies mental illness and builds a new foundation for defining psychiatric disorders—from autism to depression. Smoller argues there are no bright lines between normal and abnormal. Psychiatric disorders are variations of the same brain systems that evolved to help us solve the challenges of everyday life. How do we become who we are? Smoller explains where our personalities come from, and how the temperaments we had as infants actually stay with us into adulthood. Why do we choose to date, love, and marry the people we do? Why do some of us form healthy relationships while others form unstable ones? Our relationships are shaped by the biology that drives two imperatives: maternal-child bonding and child-parent attachment.
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