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Common Forum/Request/Suggestions / 7 Ways To Become More Mentally Immune And Emotionally Resilient

« on: August 15, 2018, 04:07:07 PM »

5. Be willing to see change.

When people struggle with something for long periods of time, there can be a resistance to seeing anything change, simply because of the length of time it has been going on. The willingness to see something change actually begins to change it. If you can do nothing else in a day, say out loud: I am willing to see this change.

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Common Forum/Request/Suggestions / 7 Ways To Become More Mentally Immune And Emotionally Resilient

« on: August 15, 2018, 04:06:41 PM »

3. Stop trying to eradicate fear.

Expect the fearful thought, but recognize that it is not always reflective of reality.

4. Interpret "weird" or upsetting thoughts as symbols, not realities.

If you are afraid of driving in the car by yourself, or losing a job, or being stuck in some kind of natural disaster, consider what that could represent in your life (perhaps you feel as though you are disconnected from loved ones, or that you are "unsafe" in some way). Most of these are trying to direct you to make a change, so honor them.

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Common Forum/Request/Suggestions / 7 Ways To Become More Mentally Immune And Emotionally Resilient

« on: August 15, 2018, 04:06:13 PM »

2. Be careful not to identify with that which you struggle.

A lot of people who have spent their lives struggling with anxiety begin to assume that it is just part of their personality. "I am an anxious person," or similar phrases, are common but not necessarily true. Adopting an idea about yourself into your identity means that you believe it is who you fundamentally are, which makes it significantly more difficult to change.

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Common Forum/Request/Suggestions / 7 Ways To Become More Mentally Immune And Emotionally Resilient

« on: August 15, 2018, 04:05:37 PM »

1. Adopt an attitude of progress, not perfection.

Aiming for even a 1% improvement in your behavior or coping mechanisms each day is more effective than trying to radically revolutionize your life for one reason only: the former is actually attainable.

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Common Forum/Request/Suggestions / what is mental immunity?

« on: August 15, 2018, 02:07:18 PM »

Mental immunity is the foundation of emotional resilience.

The same way in which a cold or flu can derail the health of someone who is already ill, a small setback or troubling thought can do the same to someone who is not "mentally immune." Mental immunity is what happens when we condition our minds to not only expect fearful thoughts or external challenges, but to tolerate them when they arise. It is shifting one's objective in life from avoiding pain to building meaning, recognizing that pain will be some part of the journey regardless.

Mental immunity is not being able to resist or deny negative thoughts, it is being able to observe them without acting on them, or automatically believing they represent reality.

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Human Nutrition / OBESITY AND CANCER

« on: August 15, 2018, 02:05:43 PM »

Researchers have found that obesity is a significant risk factor for cancer and they are still untangling the relationship. While White’s study doesn’t directly address the matter, he says it does show a concrete link between lipids and cancer growth. In that sense, it adds one piece to what is likely a very large puzzle.

Whether altering one’s diet to consume less fats might forestall melanoma progression is another open question, one the team is interested in exploring further.

The study shows the utility of model systems like zebrafish for studying cancer, and the advantage of a place like MSK, where basic scientists and clinicians can easily collaborate. MSK melanoma specialists Jedd Wolchok, Charlotte Ariyan, Travis Hollmann and Paul Chapman collaborated on the project.

“We started this in the zebrafish and were able to take it all the way through to human tissues,” White says. “It would have been tough to pull this off at another institution.”
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award (DP2CA186572), the Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (K08AR055368), the Melanoma Research Alliance, the Pershing Square Sohn Foundation, the Alan and Sandra Gerry Metastasis Research Initiative at Memorial Sloan Kettering, the Harry J. Lloyd Foundation and Consano, the Starr Cancer Consortium, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Translational Research Oncology Training Program fellowship, and National Cancer Institute F32 Postdoctoral Training Grant (CA210536-01A1).

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Human Nutrition / RICH SOIL FOR CANCER GROWTH

« on: August 15, 2018, 02:04:31 PM »

In studying the connection between body fat and cancer growth, researchers found that consuming fat changed the cancer cells’ behavior. Fat-fueled melanoma cells showed an enhanced capability to chew through collagen and cross membranes, allowing them to spread more easily. They also changed their metabolism to burn fat for energy instead of sugar.

The results led the team to wonder if blocking a melanoma’s ability to take up fat would dampen its aggressiveness. To test the premise, they used a drug to block a protein, called the FATP transporter, that enables the cancer cells to take in fat. Cancer cells have much more of this protein than normal cells, so they are more sensitive to the drug. As predicted, reducing the cells’ ability to take up fat slowed their growth and spread.White says the results could instruct a new treatment regime against melanoma. “Can we identify a subset of patients that are particularly lipid dependent? Those might be the ones who could benefit from an approach geared toward blocking fat uptake into the cells,” he says.

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Human Nutrition / Re: Cancer's Hidden Helper: Your Fat

« on: August 15, 2018, 02:02:21 PM »

That the presence of fat cells could help some cancer cells grow and spread sheds new light on the deepening connection between obesity and cancer and could offer a new avenue for treatment. For certain cancers, cutting off the fat supply could be a means of fighting the disease.

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Human Nutrition / Cancer's Hidden Helper: Your Fat

« on: August 15, 2018, 02:01:17 PM »

Pound for pound, fat contains more energy than any other nutrient. So it’s perhaps not surprising that certain cancer cells show a clear preference for growth in fatty tissues.

According to a new study by researchers at the Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK), melanomas prefer to grow near adipose (fat) tissue. The team, led by Richard White, a physician-scientist in the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program at SKI, showed that melanomas actively take in lipids if given the chance, and they tend to migrate toward tissues rich in fat cells.

“This is the seed-and-soil hypothesis,” White says. “Tumor cells like to go to places where there is fertile soil. Based on our results, we think that adipose tissue can be very fertile soil for melanoma.”

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: What Counts as a Fruit and What Counts as a Vegetable? It's Not What You Think

« on: August 15, 2018, 01:57:39 PM »

good

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Teaching & Research Forum / Re: ক্যারিয়ারে বিদেশি ডিগ্রির স্থান

« on: August 15, 2018, 01:55:35 PM »

thanks

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Teaching & Research Forum / Re: Innovative Ways to Make Your Teaching Methods More Effective

« on: August 15, 2018, 01:53:43 PM »

nice

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Transforming Student Learning Through Student Research / Re: The Importance of Soft Skills for Students

« on: August 15, 2018, 01:52:21 PM »

we need to inculcate soft skils first within us and then among our sudents

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Transforming Student Learning Through Student Research / Re: Transforming Learning Through Student Research by Patrick Blessinger

« on: August 15, 2018, 01:51:03 PM »

inspiring

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Transforming Student Learning Through Student Research / Re: How to Make a Mind Map for Studying

« on: August 15, 2018, 01:49:13 PM »

very useful