Stress Relief, Health and Wellness Blog

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America’s Healthiest Superfoods for Women

You love to eat, but you also love to feel great. You can do both if you choose foods that make you smarter, leaner, stronger—and then use them in tasty new ways.
We’ve made that easy to do with Health’s top 10 superfoods for women. They were selected [...]

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Does Stress Cause Psoriasis?
The Relationship Between Stress, Skin and Psoriasis

Stress can trigger, maintain and exacerbate psoriasis. In turn psoriasis can cause high stress levels in the patients. Exploring this fascinating relationship between stress and psoriasis is of utmost importance in the management of psoriasis.
Stress and Skin
Skin and brain have [...]

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Mood and Working Memory Boosted by Mindfulness Exercises
 

A new study led by University of Pennsylvania researchers has found a positive link between mindfulness training (MT) and improvements in mood and working memory.
Mindfulness is the ability to be [...]

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‘Exciting’ advance reported in peanut allergy therapy

San Diego, California (CNN) — Peanuts are like poison for people who have severe food allergies to them. For some, ingesting even a tiny piece of peanut can trigger a potentially fatal reaction.
But new research is showing that immunotherapy, a method of giving [...]

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7 Snacks That Help Stop Stress
 
Foods that are full of healthy vitamins and nutrients that can help promote calmness, This is a photo gallery.

It is great to think and have on hand good things to eat when you are under stress. I have a bad habit of wanting comfort food. The problem is [...]

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Obesity treatment for kids works, panel says

CHICAGO – An influential advisory panel says school-aged youngsters and teens should be screened for obesity and sent to intensive behavior treatment if they need to lose weight — a move that could transform how doctors deal with overweight children.
Treating obese kids can help them lose [...]

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Biodots, Mood Cards, Stress Cards, Stress Meters, Stress Squares and Stress Thermometer for Research
We often get questions about using biodots, mood cards, stress cards, Stress Meters or the Stress Thermometer as data collection for biological changes. These devices do have reliability and acceptable variance that they can be used as biological measurement. These are [...]

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Michele Obama : Childhood obesity fight is about fitness, not looks

(CNN) — Michelle Obama says her call for the country to fight childhood obesity isn’t about physical appearances, but rather quality of life.
“Teachers are seeing the challenges that kids with weight issues are having — not being able to participate [...]

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40 percent of cancers could be prevented
Avoid disease-causing infections and quit smoking to cut risk, experts say

LONDON – Forty percent of the 12 million people diagnosed with cancer worldwide each year could avert the killer disease by protecting themselves against infections and changing their lifestyles, experts said Tuesday.
A report [...]

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Bike for Beats, Ontario, Canada
Heart Health in High Gear

Bike for Beats is a unique 1-Day cycling event in and around Ottawa on September 26, 2010. Riders of all abilities age 14 and up may choose between 3 course lengths: 25KM, 50KM, and 100KM. All will be fully supported with regular Pit [...]