Red Rabbit does a Google search

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The sun begins to rise, and a new day is starting. Jelly Queen did not have a peaceful sleep last night. She is going to see if Red Rabbit is home. Maybe he can help her.

“Oh, Red Rabbit, I am so happy that you’re home,” sighs Jelly Queen. “I could use your help please. Are you on the computer? I need you to look something up for me on Google. Remember that I told all of you that I did terrible things before coming here? I told everyone that I loved my green jelly and I used to jellify all the characters in the Cotton Kingdom. Well the urges to do it again are coming back real strong. I am supposed to be meeting with Rancid on Friday. I am hoping that he can share some ideas on how to stop thinking of the jelly.  Maybe you can look something up on Google that can help me until I see him.”

Fortunately for Jelly Queen, Red Rabbit was already on Google and he just finished his search. He begins to look up bad habits and finds something interesting in an article “Breaking bad habits, why it’s so hard to change”. He starts reading this article to Jelly Queen.

“Habits play an important role in our health,” says Dr. Nora Volkow, director of NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse. “Understanding the biology of how we develop routines that may be harmful to us, and how to break those routines and embrace new ones, could help us change our lifestyles and adopt healthier behaviors.”

Habits can arise through repetition. Habits can also develop when good or enjoyable events trigger the brain’s “reward” centers. This can set up potentially harmful routines, such as overeating, smoking, drug or alcohol abuse, gambling and even compulsive use of computers and social media.

The general machinery by which we build both kinds of habits are the same, whether it’s a habit for overeating or a habit for getting to work without really thinking about the details,” says Dr. Russell Poldrack, a neurobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin. Both types of habits are based on the same types of brain mechanisms. .” (Read more here)

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