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06/10/2026

Psychology says when you focus on your problems, you will have more problems. But when you focus on possibilities, you will have more opportunities. Your brain is a filter. It shows you what you tell it to find. Tell it to find threats. It will find them everywhere. Tell it to find solutions. It will start spotting them.

Here is what happens inside your brain. Your reticular activating system scans the world based on your focus. Worry about being late. You will notice every red light. Every slow walker. Every delay. Look for ways to save time. You will notice shortcuts. Faster routes. Empty checkout lanes. The world does not change. Your filter does.

The science is clear. Optimists and pessimists see the same events differently. They remember different details. They make different predictions. Their brains literally work differently. One scans for danger. One scans for growth. Both find what they seek.

Catch yourself next time you are stuck in problem mode. Ask "what is one good thing here?" Ask "what could this make possible?" Your brain will answer. Give it better questions.

06/10/2026

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Global Member Interest Group

A third of people with anorexia nervosa don’t recover and treatment has remained stagnant for years. Now we’re beginning to understand the condition's grip on the brain, which could help unlock new therapies.

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As Americans shun traditional meals in favor of smaller, more flexible portions, restaurants are going all in on snacks, Yasmin Tayag reported in March. https://theatln.tc/dHqgifYy

“Blame the coronavirus pandemic; blame Ozempic; blame inflation,” Tayag writes. Whatever the cause, the shift toward intermediary bites—such as the late-afternoon pastry and banana-bread mocha latte—has now become so pronounced that restaurants are adapting to it. Chains that primarily offer meals are rolling out smaller and cheaper options in the hope of capturing customers who want just a snack.

Any item consumed outside the traditional breakfast, lunch, and dinner can be considered a snack, David Henkes, a food-and-beverage analyst, told Tayag. “That includes beverages, as long as they’re purchased at a restaurant during off-meal hours; both a high-protein espresso smoothie and a black coffee count,” she writes.

“Restaurants going all in on snacking is more than just a trend. It’s a major step in codifying America’s upended eating patterns,” Tayag continues. “Restaurants will never entirely abandon breakfast, lunch, and dinner, experts told me, but for the foreseeable future, they’ll likely continue introducing items that people can eat whenever and wherever they need to.”

🎨: Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic

06/10/2026

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You will find strawberries at the market today! Tuesday, June 9th!

06/09/2026

U.S. health agencies are moving to launch new research—and potentially pass regulations—on a food category that industry and some scientists have long dismissed as misleading: ultraprocessed foods (UPFs).

NIH’s Council of Councils has endorsed a $150 million initiative, yet to be publicly launched, to investigate how diets dominated by UPFs harm children’s health and how to help children avoid those foods. FDA, meanwhile, is drafting a legal definition of UPFs as a step toward regulating them.

Some scientists criticize the label as ambiguous and confusing, while others call it a valuable lens on diet. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4oeRq0b

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Poor nutrition is estimated to cost America over $1.1 TRILLION annually. Under Secretary Kennedy 's MAHA initiatives, HHS is encouraging medical schools, health systems, and policymakers to make nutrition and prevention a core component for patient care.

Read the op-ed by HHS Assistant Secretary for Legislation Gary Andres: https://www.realclearhealth.com/articles/2026/05/29/rfk_and_hhs_making_major_strides_to_improve_phys...

06/09/2026

🚨According to Research about our Brain :

This is for the person who watches other people bounce back from things that would take them months to recover from and wonders what those people have that they don’t.

Who has been told they are too sensitive, too affected, too slow to move on as if their depth of feeling is a design flaw rather than a design feature that simply needs the right understanding to work with.

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin has spent decades studying what he calls the neuroscience of resilience mapping the brain activity of people who recover quickly from adversity versus people who stay stuck in the aftermath of difficulty.

What he found completely dismantles the idea that resilience is a fixed trait you either have or don’t.

Davidson identified a specific neural circuit connecting the prefrontal cortex to the amygdala that functions as the brain’s recovery mechanism.

In people who bounce back quickly, this circuit is highly active the prefrontal cortex sends strong regulatory signals to the amygdala after a stressful event, essentially telling the threat system that the emergency is over and it is safe to return to baseline. In people who struggle to recover, this circuit is underactive.

The amygdala stays elevated long after the event has passed because it is not receiving strong enough signals from the prefrontal cortex to stand down.

The critical discovery was not the difference itself. It was what Davidson found when he studied whether this circuit could be strengthened. Through consistent mindfulness practice, deliberate emotional regulation exercises, and specifically through practices that train the brain to consciously redirect attention after distress, the prefrontal cortex to amygdala connection measurably strengthened over time.

People who had spent years struggling to recover from setbacks developed significantly faster recovery rates. The brain had physically changed.

Resilience is not a personality trait reserved for the naturally strong. It is a neural circuit that can be developed with the same consistency you would develop any other skill. The people who seem untouchable by hardship are not built differently than you. They have simply knowingly or unknowingly trained a part of their brain that you have not yet been shown how to train.