Croque Monsieur et Hot Dog (Taken with instagram)
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One of my favorite health reports this week, reminding me why the USA is still the land of innovation and a place for entrepreneurs, ideas and diversity. This is greatly missed by me in France.
The 13-year-old CEO who invented a cure for hiccups
Mallory Kievman is CEO and founder of a company that might just cure one of the world’s oldest and most annoying maladies, the hiccups. The 13-year-old is preparing to launch her product, the Hiccupop, a hiccup-stopping lollipop of her own invention.
After testing about 100 folk remedies, Kievman picked three of her favorites — sugar, apple cider vinegar, and lollipops — and combined them. I’m still “tweaking the taste,” she tells The New York Times, but the combination of ingredients “triggers a set of nerves in your throat and mouth that are responsible for the hiccup reflex arc… It basically over-stimulates those nerves and cancels out the message to hiccup.”
She has a patent pending, financial backers, and a team of business consultants (in training). Here’s her story
“This is a healthcare issue, as this contributes greatly to the physical, mental and emotional well-being of women and their children. The following quote is spot-on correct! It’s not a flash in the pan or a particular political moment—it’s a central part of the way the United States functions. And until we own that misogyny is as American as apple pie, women around the world will continue to suffer.” — Jessica Valenti on the War on Women (via thenationmagazine)
(via thenationmagazine)
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In coherence, the heart rate is not necessarily lowered although there is a change in the rhythm pattern of the heart. In relaxation, there is a lowering of heart rate.
Coherence is an active state of positive engagement, characterized by extraordinary physical activity and mental acuity. Relaxation is a low energy state.
Relaxation can lead to sleep; coherence produces a state of relaxed alertness, opening the heart and brain to intuition, creativity and improved performance.
Love can literally be understood as resonance between cells.
Studies have shown that the heart is an electromagnetic field radiating 12 to 15 feet beyond the body. Moreover this field curves back towards the heart in the shape of a torus suggesting that the frequencies of the heart are accessible at any point within that field.
This means that coherence can and does extend from the body nervous system outward into our personal and social space. The way we feel inside can indeed change the reality of the world outside us.
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