Eight Directions Wellness

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This is basically the entire argument for meditation in two sentences. Someone cuts you off in traffic, your boss says something annoying, your kid pushes every button — and there's this tiny gap before you react. Most of us blow right past it. Meditation makes the gap bigger. You still feel the thing. You just don't have to be owned by it.

Now is the time to pick up a copy of the Dal Chawal cookbook I worked on! Another wonderful cookbook is the Rancho Gordo Bean Book!

When times are hard, we eat more beans. And it's happening again now The fiber craze is pushing more people into the broad world of beans, as the U.S. bean industry looks to double American consumption of pulses by 2030.

It’s about time.

More medical schools are teaching students how to cook and use food as a tool for treating patients. It's part of a growing movement called Food Is Medicine. Think of it as a modern, research-backed version of “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” https://nyti.ms/4mEPpth

I’m far from a Luddite and use LLMs for certain tasks and research, but if we’re concerned about wellness- especially of our brains - this is worth reading.

MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH