Zzzzz!
Yup, that’s all you need to do. Get some zzzzz’s and you lose weight! Dozing to be fit. My kinda health strategy!
Anyway, what I’d suspected to be true all along has now formally be proven by scientists at The University of Chicago and University of Wisconsin–Madison in “Effect of Sleep Extension on Objectively Assessed Energy Intake Among Adults With Overweight in Real-life Settings: A Randomized Clinical Trial,” published in the prestigious Journal of
Hands!
Deaths from unintentional injuries are the seventh leading cause of death among older adults. According to the Centers for Disease Control, falls are the leading cause of injury-related death among adults age 65 and older, and the age-adjusted fall death rate is increasing: it went up 30% in the last ten years, to about 604 deaths per 100,000 older adults (that’s about 29,700 adults in the US dying in the last year for which we have numbers).
Apparently one in four U.S.
Bowels!
The gut is the unsung hero of our bodies. It regulates digestion, but that’s not all it does, apparently. Your mental health and personality, it appears, can be affected by your gut. Because, we are not alone. That is to say, there are a lot of living beings within us, in our guts.
[I know you’re probably thinking I’m going to talk about the indwelling of God the Spirit, but, nope, I’m not.]
I’m talking about the trillions (yes, 1,000,000,000,000s) of little beasts
Pacifier!
Shiri Melumad is Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. This researcher has done a lot of work on smartphones and our relationship with that ubiquitous, ever-present device.
Said Melumad, of her own experience:
Just holding it made me feel good. It gave me a sense of ease or calm. It was similar to children who seek out their pacifiers when they are stressed. For many of us, our phone represents an attachment object, much
Ephesians 6:10–24
Victory against supernatural foes is achieved by divine empowerment in the form of God’s armor (commitment and dependence upon God) and by Spirit-driven prayer.
It is not surprising that “power” occurs a number of times in this pericope: believers are “empowered” (Eph 6:10), so that they “may be able/may have power” (6:11) to stand against the devil, thus “being able/having power” (6:13) to resist in the evil day, and “being able/having power” (6:16)
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.