These numbers are hard to ignore. A large international study published in The Lancet has found that there are ten risk factors that account for a staggering 90% of stroke risk. In the U.S., strokes are the third largest cause of death (behind heart disease and cancer), and bring a heartbreaking, life [...]
Exercise health benefits from a good, hard workout… where you sweat like crazy and bring your heart rate up… can include reducing the effects of stress on cellular aging according to new research. It seems that brief bouts of vigorous activity reduced one of the most important signs of cellular aging – [...]
There’s no getting around it, life today is busy, complicated, and filled with more stress than ever before. Kids, jobs, aging parents, responsibilities and financial pressures… they all add up, leaving many of us overwhelmed and totally stressed out.
It’s no surprise that this state of affairs has brought a recent resurgence [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
We all know that stress can have terribly destructive effects on both our physical and emotional health. Sometimes prolonged stress can be responsible for some pretty serious health problems as well.
A new study by scientists at the Nestle Research Center in Lausanne Switzerland has found more about the health benefits of dark chocolate and that [...]
Monday, November 16, 2009
Dr. Mike Miller, a research cardiologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center, has been studying the effect of happiness (or things that make you happy) on the heart for years now.
In 2005 he and his team found that laughter could open up blood vessels so that blood circulates more freely all through the body. [...]
Researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine have found that short term stress, including things like public speaking, job interview, first dates and healthy work stress can actually boosts the immune system and may offer protection against one type of skin cancer, at least in mice and potentially in humans.
If you’re stressing, a French study published in the latest Nutrition Journal offers you a way to reduce cortisol (the stress hormone) by potentially adding a fruit to your diet.
We all know that stress is bad for us, and now new research finds that when you add chronic stress to the lives of female monkeys who eat the typical American diet they put on weight in a most dangerous place – Stress raises fat around the middle of the body, affectionately known as belly fat.
Fat in this [...]
In today’s economy lots of us are dealing with mounting debts and shrinking incomes. But beyond the stress to your bank account, it has been found that if you are carrying too much debt, your health and particularly your weight may be impacted.
This according to the findings of a new cross sectional study out of [...]
The tight economic times aren’t just hard on our wallets (and 401Ks) they bump up our stress level too. But you can stop feeling depressed with these 6 secret steps.
Job insecurity, financial pressures and constant uncertainty that on top of the hustle-bustle of our everyday lives all contribute to a steadily mounting stress level.
What’s worse, [...]
