Article: Some research has shown that people who maintain close personal relationships and emotional support from friends have a better chance of fighting dementia. Even general social connectivity has been shown to help the brain. Call a loved one once a day. Send a hand-written letter to a grandparent. Try a new social media interaction with a younger relative. Aside from lowering stress, research has shown that volunteering in a social setting can increase your mental ability. Volunteering involves attention, control, and in some cases, a bit of memory. All of these practices promote a healthier brain. A few possible options follow: Cook at a food bank. Helping with the recipes could engage mathematical portions of your brain. Try tutoring to stimulate thinking skills. Read to children at a library. Try to make new friends in locations you currently don't have any. Engaging in social activities has been shown to improve brain health, but doing so in many different ways could ramp up the benefits. Join more groups. Make new friends. However you can, engage more people for a greater amount of time. Simply put, higher levels of social interaction relate to lower risks of poor mental health. Sit with coworkers at lunch. Choose people you don't speak to often. Try taking a new course or class. Look to local community colleges or a lifelong learning center. Chat up a random stranger. This can be done anywhere (e.g. grocery store, hardware store, restaurant, in line at the bank).
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Stay in touch with friends and family. Volunteer your time. Expand your social circle.
Article: Your mom's advice on dealing with the schoolyard bully as a child was spot onjust ignore them. Most jerks feed off of the negative reactions they get from the people they torment. If you try to stand up for yourself when there's nothing to be proved, it just feeds the flames. Jerks will always try to rock the boat, so don't let yourself be thrown overboard. Don't spend your time around people who make a habit of being malicious. It's better to just avoid them altogether when you can. It may seem childish, but if a jerk's every barbed comment is met with silence, they'll have no choice but to desist. Carrying on would just be like talking to a wall. Stay calm and don't let yourself get upset. Getting aggravated is just playing their game. If a jerk knows he or she is getting under your skin, they'll continue to needle you in order to feel like they're in control. When they see that their efforts are being wasted, they'll eventually give up. Remember, the only person that has control over your emotions is you yourself. Point out the jerk's rude behavior and let them know that you don't appreciate it. Do this politely to avoid making a scene or causing angry feelings to flare. It can really take the wind out of someone's sails to have the person they're harassing call attention to their nastiness. Simply make a calm, level-headed statement like "you're being rude right now, and there's no reason for it" and move on. Try to stay poised and reasonable. Write off the jerk's behavior the way you would explain a scientific fact. Take care not to come across as on-edge when denouncing a jerk. It may seem like their behavior is getting to you, and this could potentially just egg them on. Sometimes there's just no getting through to a jerk. If your attempts to diffuse the situation aren't working, all you have to do is leave. Making a swift, unceremonious exit sends the message that you're not interested in getting caught up in a dispute loud and clear. Putting yourself in a different place from the source of scorn is one immediate way to make the problem stop. The jerk might interpret you leaving as a sign of victory: they got to you so bad that you fled in disgrace. Let them think that. There's no sense in arguing with them. If you don't even care to be around them, why bother trying to change their perception?
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Don't listen to them. Show no frustration. Dismiss them openly. Walk away.
Article: Once the sugar is dissolves, remove your badam milk from the stove. Divide the milk evenly between four glasses. Add a few sliced almonds to the top of each glass of milk. You can also sprinkle a sweet spice, like cinnamon, on top of the milk. Badam milk should be refrigerated in a sealed container. You can transfer your badam milk to an empty milk carton or a mason jar between servings. Badam milk can last up to three weeks when stored properly, but some milk goes bad sooner. A sour smell, change in color, and the presence of mold and crust mean the milk has gone bad and should be thrown out.
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Pour the milk into individual glasses to serve. Garnish the milk with sliced almonds. Refrigerate extra milk. Discard milk once it goes bad. Finished.