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Stress Management
The Seven-Step Guide to Beating Holiday Stress
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Jane Farrell
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The holiday season brings families together. But when that togetherness stirs up past hurts, stress can replace any good tidings. … Read More→
Stress Management
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The Health Magic of Thermal & Mineral Baths
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Nestled in the snowy Jemez mountains of Northern New Mexico, miles and miles from the nearest paved road, an unlikely … Read More→
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Mind & Body Wellness
Stress Management
Community Gardens are Growing Revolutions
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Almost everything starts as a seed. You started as a seed, your pets, the tree outside your window, the ideas … Read More→
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Stress-Free Living
10 Ways to Micro-Meditate (No Sitting Still Required)
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Meditation, the act of practicing awareness of one’s thoughts, body, and surroundings, has an incredibly long list of mental and … Read More→
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10 Ways Stress Is Written All Over Your Face
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Stress is written all over our face and can result in looking years older when stressed for prolonged periods of … Read More→
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Caregiving and Cancer
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Jane Farrell
Jane Farrell
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Caregiving is more often than not an unexpected event. Many caregivers have a daily routine caring for a loved one. … Read More→
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Massage Therapy Could Help You Live Longer
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Aging well requires you to constantly be in check with your mind and body. How often do you take time … Read More→
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Mental & Emotional Health
Stress Management
People Create Differing Stress Responses
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People faced with stressful situations display a number of different coping behaviors, and those behaviors can affect them the following … Read More→
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Heart Health
Stress Management
Stress Linked to Poor Recovery from Heart Attack in Women
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Younger women who have suffered heart attacks go through more stress than their male counterparts, and that could lead to … Read More→
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Aging Well
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Stress Linked to Memory Loss as We Age
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Research done at the University of Iowa reports a potential link between stress hormones and short-term memory loss in older adults. The study, published in June 2014 in the Journal of Neuroscience, found that prolonged high levels of cortisol can lead to memory lapses as we age.
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Why Stress & Overexertion Trigger Heart Attacks
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Scientists believe they have an explanation for the axiom that stress, emotional shock, and overexertion may trigger heart attacks in vulnerable people. Hormones released during these events appear to cause bacterial biofilms on arterial walls to disperse, allowing plaque deposits to rupture into the bloodstream, according to research published in published in June 2014 in mBio, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
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Mental & Emotional Health
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Stress Is Contagious
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Watching somebody else try to cope with a stressful situation, even on TV, can be enough to bump up your own level of the stress hormone called cortisol. That is the finding of research done at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig and the Technische Universität Dresden and published on April 17th 2014 in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology.
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Healthy Diet & Nutrition
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Chronic Stress Makes Junk Food Even Worse for You
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File this under “That’s not fair!” People who are not dealing with chronic stress can get away with eating a lot of high-fat, high-sugar food without upping their risk of metabolic syndrome, but stressed out people can’t. That’s the finding of research done at the University of Califorina, San Francisco.
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Aging Well
Senior Health
Stress Management
Stress-Free Living
Stress Hormone Linked to Frailty
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Low levels of cortisol in the morning and high levels in the evening are associated with declining grip strength and walking speed, which are indications of frailty in older adults. That is the finding of research done at Helmholtz Zentrum München in Neuherberg in Germany and published in the March 2014 issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
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Brain Health
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Stress-Free Living
Nature’s Balm for the Stressed Brain
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New findings on nociception, a system in the brain that naturally moderates the effects of stress, shows promise for the development of therapies for anxiety and addiction. Collaborating scientists at The Scripps Research Institute, the National Institutes of Health, and the University of Camerino in Italy published their results in the January 8th in the Journal of Neuroscience.
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