Sentences with phrase «in vicious cycles»

But just as we can get caught up in vicious cycles, we can also create virtuous cycles: One person's yes encourages the other's yes.

This serving of «financial interest» traps people in vicious cycles of low - self esteem and comfort eating, diminished mobility / health and car use — all to the detriment of the environment.

Video games should not be trapping people in vicious cycles of debt, shame, and abuse.

Communications that are attacking and defensive keep us stuck in the vicious cycles of competition and confrontation.

Youth who feel trapped in vicious cycles of repeated failures may be helped to interrupt the cycle by being coach - ed and supported as they accomplish modest realistic goals.

As I travel around the country visiting and consulting with congregations and clergy, I find that many are caught in vicious cycles.

Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these children are born at or near the poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by poverty and systemic racism.

«The corporate sector today is stuck in a vicious cycle of earnings management, questionable allocation of capital, low productivity, declining margins and growing indebtedness,» Druckenmiller said in May.

That makes it all the more difficult for a direct - seller reliant on «word - of - mouth» to make consumers aware of its products and for reps to make money, resulting in a vicious cycle of declining sales for Avon.

Overweight people become more resistant, which causes them to become fatter in a vicious cycle.

THE mining industry is in a vicious cycle with little light at the end of the tunnel.This is the general consensus of opinion among leading mining companies and economic analysts.

In this vicious cycle, it is not only the Two - Thirds World who are entangled but the rich world.

They claim that these externalities are all interacting with one another in a vicious cycle, approaching a tipping point that will lead to imminent global collapse.

Why is it that once a person crosses a certain line in his drinking he is caught in a vicious cycle from which he usually can not extricate himself unaided?

«It's about making sure we offer help and a way out to these young victims who find themselves caught in a vicious cycle of abuse.»

He is trapped in a vicious cycle of drinking to overcome the effects of drinking — the «squirrel cage» of alcoholism.

We are in a vicious cycle of ignorance, denial and hopelessness at arsenal.

Given that players with a history of major injuries are often more prone to connected problems, there is the clear danger that Arsenal have become stuck in a vicious cycle.

Now she is in a vicious cycle of not eating well, then awake to long and then not sleeping long.

I know this might feel counter intuitive to you as a parent and like you are condoning taking revenge, but it is too easy for revenge to get in a vicious cycle.

Stunting traps children in a vicious cycle of poverty and undernutrition.

In this vicious cycle the baby's body doesn't get enough time to process each feeding before gearing up to digest the next.

In general, building capable institutions in Yemen in any field (including political finance) is a long and uncertain process, and if we are not able to freely elect the right people who are committed to building these institutions, then we will continue to spiral in this vicious cycle forever.

They plan to make several return trips to see if they can improve the health care system, which is losing money, doctors and patients in a vicious cycle that threatens to undermine one - fifth of the economy.

But the shocking levels of English and maths among too many jobseekers are holding them back from getting work, and trapping them in a vicious cycle between low paid work and benefits.

«Our findings suggest that if the pursuit of self - interest goes unchecked, it may result in a vicious cycle: self - interest leads people to behave unethically, which raises their status, which leads to more unethical behavior and inequality.»

Over time, the heart continues to deteriorate in a vicious cycle that culminates in extremely poor quality of life, frequent hospitalization, and early death.

Before you know it, you're stuck in a vicious cycle of itching and scratching.

In fact, stress and sleep deprivation may fuel each other in a vicious cycle leaving you exhausted by the time the New Year rolls around.

In a vicious cycle, toxins and old hormones are reabsorbed because the bile doesn't leave the body, leaving the digestive system inflamed.

Life is a hamster wheel, and you're caught in a vicious cycle of work - worry - sleep - repeat that plays out every day, right?

I was trapped in a vicious cycle of damaging behaviors with no sensible means of escape.

For example, tiredness, excessive stress or pressure to perform «as you used to when you were young», can result in a vicious cycle of erection disorder.

And I feel better when I ditch most of the grains — even whole ones — that had me in a vicious cycle so I can safely enjoy very modest amounts of Essene breads or baked breads made of sprouted non-wheat grains.

«So we end up in a vicious cycle of stress, leading to rapid breathing, leading to even more stress,» says Adler.

We're again in that vicious cycle of caffeine and cortisol.

Hypersensitivity, stress, and adrenal fatigue can walk hand in hand in a vicious cycle when any one part of it is left unchecked.

And I find that you're gonna crash by lunch or 10 or 11AM and you're gonna be setting up yourself for more cravings and then you're gonna be more driven to eat a more poor choice that's gonna make you feel even worse at lunch and then you just get in this vicious cycle.

Unfortunately, as testosterone levels rise, the cells become more resistant to insulin, thus creating more testosterone in a vicious cycle.

We get stuck in a vicious cycle.

In addition, by eating that muffin or couple of cookies, the resulting insulin response triggers our appetite — causing us to crave more and more of these types of carbohydrates, resulting in a vicious cycle of overeating.

Like that of many of its complex neurodegenerative counterparts, AD research is stymied by the problem of identifying what the first steps are in a vicious cycle wherein an underlying disturbance is perpetuated by the very results of the disturbance.

While diet plays an important role, there are several other, seemingly unrelated risk factors that can cause acid reflux symptoms to flair up and stick around, and ignoring them is one way people get stuck in the vicious cycle of reliance on dangerous acid - blocking medications.

Because there is no change in IR, this will continue to lead to higher insulin levels in a vicious cycle.

It also appears that high levels of insulin also leads to insulin resistance in a vicious cycle.

We promise ourselves it will never happen again, but it does because we are in a vicious cycle.

It can put you in the vicious cycle of feeling inadequate because you don't look like that.

The intracellular T3 deficiency seen with these conditions often results in a vicious cycle of worsening symptoms that usually goes untreated because standard thyroid tests look normal.

As you age, you can become trapped in a vicious cycle that can lead down the road to abdominal obesity.

Now insulin and leptin are not staying high for a few hours a day, but staying high throughout the entire day... and night, whether one eats or not... Causing more and more insulin and leptin resistance in a vicious cycle until, at least for insulin, the islet cells start burning out... lowering insulin but further raising glucose... and now we are into full - blown diabetes.