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Useful relaxation techniques to help you reduce stress
While experts say that some stress is good for you (since it can sharpen the mind and the senses,) too much stress is bad for your mental and physical health. At the same time, relaxation can do wonders to regain balance in your life — and could even decrease some of the health risks linked to stress. What follows are 10 on-the-spot techniques you can use anytime and almost anywhere to decrease the tension in your … Read entire article »
Filed under: Disease Prevention, Fitness, Mental Health
5 common misconceptions about pain and pain relief
The things you don’t know about pain and pain relief can hurt you. Huge leaps have been achieved in the understanding of pain and its treatment throughout the last decade. Pain that was once considered untreatable is now manageable. Medical evidence shows that many beliefs about pain and pain relief are no true. Here is what experts in this field say you should know about 5 of the most common pain relief myths: Pain relief misconception 1: … Read entire article »
Filed under: Disease Prevention, Pain Relief
How rage affects your heart
If you knew that repeated anger may increase your risk of heart disease significantly, would you still blow off steam by shouting and breaking things during an argument or getting furious if traffic comes to a dead stop while on your way to an important meeting? It’s time for hot heads to pay heed: increasingly, the negative, irritable, raging and intimidating personality type concerns heart researchers and doctors alike. “You’re talking about people who seem to experience high levels of anger very frequently,” states Laura Kubzansky, PhD, MPH, an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health in Cambridge, MA, who has evaluated the role of stress and emotions on cardiovascular disease. The key word here is “high” levels. Moderate levels of anger might not be the problem, according to Kubzansky. … Read entire article »
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Potassium and Heart Health
Potassium is a simple mineral with an essential function: helping your heart beat. About a hundred thousand times per day, potassium helps trigger your heart’s squeeze of blood through your body. If you currently suffer from high blood pressure, heart failure, or heart rhythm problems, consuming enough potassium is extremely important. And even though potassium and cholesterol are not directly linked, eating a diet rich in this mineral may lower your cholesterol as well. Potassium: Abundant and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Adult nutrition, Diet, Heart Disease
Healthy Habits That Prevent Cold and Flu Viruses
As your infants grow up, and grow past the “everything must go in my mouth” stage, you can begin to teach them habits that will help protect them from germs such as cold and flu viruses. When to start? The earlier the better. Laura A. Jana, MD, a pediatrician in Omaha, Neb. And co-author of Heading Home with Your Newborn and Food Fights, states that it is much easier to introduce healthy hygiene habits when children … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cold and Flu, Disease Prevention
Taking walks can help deal with a common cold.
In order to keep colds at a distance in the coldest months of the year, exercising may just be the key. David Nieman, a spokesperson for the American College of Sports Medicine, states that it has been shown in studies that people who do at least 45 minutes of exercise four or more days a week take 25 to 50 percent less time off work due to being sick. In a news release from the sports medicine … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cold and Flu, Disease Prevention, Fitness
Even minimal smoking can damage young adult’s arteries.
Smoking only one cigarette can stiffen the arteries of young adults by about 25 percent, states a new study. The harder a persons arteries, the higher their propensity for stroke or heart disease, says Dr. Stella Daskalopoulou, a specialist on internal and vascular medicine at McGill University Health Center in Montreal. She assessed arterial stiffness in both smokers and non-smokers, from ages 18 to 30, at rest and after exercising. To set up a base measurement, the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fitness, Heart Disease, Smoking Cessation
Fitness decrease speeds up after age 45
Fitness levels decrease with age and speed up past age 45 in men and women, according to a recent study. But remaining at a healthy weight and embarking on regular physical activity can help. “The U.S. population is aging and is becoming more obese and sedentary,” Wrote Andrew Jackson, PED, from the University of Houston and colleagues in a recent release of Archives of Internal Medicine. He goes on to explain that it has been recorded … Read entire article »
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The new school year bring worries about H1N1 Flu
The coming of the new school year brings more worries that swine flu could start to flare up again this fall. Although the CDC does not expect widespread school closures like in the fall last year, this flu season may be potentially worse than usual. Parents, kids and teachers do need to take preventative precautions and act early to reduce their risk of contracting the H1N1 virus. “We do know that [the virus] is going … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cold and Flu, Disease Prevention
Excessive caffeine intake may cause headaches
Caffeine, previously known to aid in headache relief, might actually trigger them if consumed in large amounts. Those are the conclusions of a study of over 50,000 people who were probed about their caffeine consumption and frequency of headaches as part of the Nord-Trondelag Health Survey conducted in Norway between 1995-1997. People who consumed high quantities of caffeinated drinks every day experienced 18 percent more non-migraine headaches than those who drank a low amount of caffeinated drinks, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Disease Prevention, Migraine Headaches