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Today is Social Media Giving Day created to encourage internet users to support charitable causes, make donations, and raise awareness for nonprofits through digital platforms.

Launched in 2013, the day serves as a digital call-to-action to highlight how nonprofit organizations can utilize social media networks to reach millions of potential donors and build strong, engaged communities of support.

Make a Donation: Choose a registered charity and donate directly through their secure website or via social media donation campaigns.

Amplify a Cause: Share fundraising links, create a Facebook fundraiser, or post an Instagram story to highlight causes you care about.

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Millie Bobby Brown is opening up about one of the toughest seasons of her life, revealing she experienced an anxiety attack that lasted nearly three months after a frightening public encounter left her feeling traumatized. During a trip to Japan, she found an unexpected sense of peace through meditation with a Buddhist monk, an experience she says helped quiet her anxiety and begin her healing journey. She also credits her husband for supporting her without judgment, giving her the space to work through what she was feeling.

Read More: Millie Bobby Brown Shares How a Monk Helped Her Overcome a 3-Month Long Anxiety Attack (US Weekly)

In this TED Talk, exercise scientist Keith Diaz dropped a bombshell backed by research: being highly sedentary increases your risk of diabetes, cancer, dementia, and early death — even if you exercise regularly — because our muscles need frequent contraction throughout the day to function like the metabolic "sponges" they're designed to be.

His lab's solution is surprisingly simple: a five-minute walk every half hour reduced post-meal blood sugar spikes by 60% — the equivalent of taking medication — and in a real-world experiment with over 20,000 people, even four to five short movement breaks a day reduced fatigue by 25% and dramatically improved mood and focus.

Read More: What Sitting All Day Does To Your Brain And Body (TED)

A landmark 20-year NIH-funded study following nearly 3,000 adults ages 65 and older found that those who played a specific computerized speed-training brain game plus completed booster sessions had a remarkable 25% lower risk of developing Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia — a finding that surprised even the researchers, with Johns Hopkins' doctors calling it "not at all what I would have expected."

The game is completely free online at BrainHQ, and it works by training your brain to process visual information faster — a skill that appears to build lasting cognitive protection in ways that memory and reasoning training simply did not.

Read More: This Is the Only Brain Game That Actually Lowers Dementia Risk, Study Finds (Yahoo!Health)

MYTH: Kids only get a mental illness because they have bad parents.

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