The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marxist and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

Six foreign health concepts from around the globe.

Maybe it was running across the word Kumerspeck, literally translated from German as

grief bacon, meaning weight put on through emotional eating. A strange term, if ever, there was one.

The fact is, I've always been fascinated by how languages can reflect particular feelings or phenomena

most of us would never think to put a word to. When it comes to the language of health and well-being,

I think certain terms have the unique power to literally shift our perception. They make us think

differently about the choices in front of us and the ways we interact with the world.

What health concepts can we learn from other cultures?

How might they change our understanding of the choices we make every day?

Or how we view our options for living in general?

Perhaps you have your own foreign terms that come to mind, but I think

these six concepts offer some intriguing food for thought. Note from the narrator, I'm a Canadian

who speaks some French and a little Russian, so don't shoot me if I pronounce these wrong.

Valdeinsamkait.

This German word, a mouthful, right, means woodland solitude.

As a combination of Wald, forest, and einsemkite, solitude or loneliness,

the term evokes the quiet and seclusion we can feel in the wilderness.

With so many of us living in crowded cities or suburbs these days,

the feeling of Wald Einsemkite can also be a nostalgic experience.

When was the last time you were alone in the forest,

secluded with nothing but the sound of the wind through the trees and bird calls from various corners of the wood. It's a rarer instance these days, and I think

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