Reducing Stress Lowers Risk of Cardiovascular Problems
A Review in The Lancet reveals the importance of healthy lifestyle choices to reduce stressors related to cardiovascular risk factors. Researchers from John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore examined records between 1990 to 2006. They observed how stress affects the sympathetic nervous system, impacts physiology, and the effect it has on the cardiovascular system. Lead author, Daniel Brotman, claims "Acute physical stressors such as sugery, trauma, and intense physical exertion are well known triggers of cardiovascular events. Emotional stressors are increasingly recognized as precipitants of such events."
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Insomnia Study
So, what do you do when you can’t fall asleep? Count sheep? Just lay there? Toss and turn and throw the pillow?
Now true, these are all approaches that don’t involve medicine, but they are unfortunately all the wrong things to do!
In fact, they feed the problem of insomnia.
However, the good news is this: there are ways to get a better night’s rest, and not use medicine.
The latest research in the Journal of the American Medical Association in fact compared cognitive behavioral therapy interventions--ways to change the way one mentally approaches insomnia--to medicine like lunesta, the popular sleeping pill.
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Women, Obesity Rates, and the Fountain of Youth
The fattening of America is so out there, so obvious, the question has become how do we get the message that we need to reverse the trend?
Perhaps, the message is sinking in, at least among women.
New research released by the CDC shows, among women, no significant increase in obesity was observed between 1999 and 2004…roughly a third of females remain obese
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Work Stress and Metabolic Syndrome
It would make sense at first glance that workplace stress leads to heart disease--no surprise, right?
But the latest research shows chronic stress at work can also leads to diabetes--and that--raises eyebrows.
“Deadlines, they ask you questions all the time, is this done yet, is that done yet,” cries Esteban Chavez.
Do you ever feel like work just wants to make you scream?!
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Health Wrap - Salty Foods; Nuts; Sleep
A person's liking for salty taste may be related to how much they weighed when they were born.
In a paper looking at two month old babies, lighter birth weight infants showed greater acceptance of salt-water solutions than do babies who were heavier at birth.
The authors believe the early appearance of this relationship suggests that developmental events occur while the baby is in the uterus and may have a lasting influence on an individual's preference for salty taste.
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LONG WORKING HOURS
Do you feel like you work too many hours? Are you fried? Are long working hours leaving you exhausted? Even getting sick from too much time spent at the workplace?
New research says that long working hours can be more harmful than thought.
No question we are a society of people who drive overwork, and make the people we supervise overwork. In fact, one-third of all overtime is mandatory. But in a drive to get more production, are we making our workers and ourselves sick from excessively long working hours?
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SLEEP APNEA AND CARDIOHEALTH
Andre mark found himself in good company when his wife informed him he was snoring-- a lot--and he was diagnosed with sleep apnea.
About 4-percent of middle-aged men suffer from obstructive sleep apnea--a blockage of their airway…that literally stops them from breathing many times a night.
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LACK OF SLEEP AND HUNGER
“I really found that one effect of sleep deprivation was that my appetite grew. I was so hungry I wanted to eat my pillow,” says Matthew Tierney.
Matthew Tierney participated in a study conducted by the University of Chicago which put sleep deprivation and the effects of sleep deprivation on appetite to the test.
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Why The Body Ages
How the body Ages.
The nucleus of every cell has 23 pairs of chromosomes. And they contain DNA or the genetic material of the cell. A prime cause of ageing is every cell’s chromosomes are capped with a protein button called a telomere.
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SLEEP, ASTHMA, AND ADHD
Are asthma and sleep patterns connected? Can trouble sleeping affect an asthmatic’s condition? Can troubled sleep and asthma-related symptoms cause someone to develop the symptoms of ADHD? Yes, according to new research, which says that lack of sleep can affect symptoms of asthma, as well as increase the likelihood that a person will suffer from ADHD.
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