Stress Relief, Health and Wellness Blog

Stress Card vs Mood Card – which is better to measure stress? This animation shows how the Stress Card or Mood Card changes color as it measures stress. Warm Hands are Relaxed, Cold Hands are Tense. Stress Cards or Mood Cards are a fast and easy way to measure stress. They can be used over [...]

Insomnia is deadly for men Insomnia kills. That’s the central finding of a large study looking at men who complained of chronic insomnia and slept fewer than six hours a night. Men with insomnia were more than four times as likely to die as “good sleepers” during the 14-year study, published Wednesday in the journal [...]

Why are food allergies on the rise? It seems like more and more children in the U.S. are developing food allergies, and there’s data to back that up. The number of kids with food allergies went up 18 percent from 1997 to 2007, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 3 [...]

Back pain? Alternative therapies may help The lower back is a complex spot, with many potential sources of pain. Although surgery would seem to be a quick fix, in reality about 85 percent of people don’t need — and won’t benefit from — back surgery, says Dr. Anders Cohen, M.D., chief of neurosurgery at the [...]

What Causes Emotional Eating? Emotional eating has many causes. The following are some of the main reasons – besides hunger – that stressed people eat: Cortisol Cravings: Stress can bring on increased levels of cortisol, known as “the stress hormone.” Cortisol has a beneficial function in the body, but excessive levels of cortisol brought on [...]

Biodot Mood Colors Chart Body Temperature changes under Stress Under stress muscles tense and blood flow is restricted to the main body and shut down from the hands and feet. Stress Level Rule – Warm Hands Relaxed, Cold Hands Tense. Hand/foot temperature ranges over 40° degrees from a low of 60° degrees to as high [...]

THIS Asthma Solution Costs No Money… Asthmatic children with low blood vitamin D levels may have a greater risk of suffering severe asthma attacks. A study followed more than 1,000 children with asthma for four years, and found those with vitamin-D insufficiency at the outset were more likely to have an asthma attack that required [...]

Kids of lesbians have fewer behavioral problems, study suggests (CNN) — A nearly 25-year study concluded that children raised in lesbian households were psychologically well-adjusted and had fewer behavioral problems than their peers. The study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, followed 78 lesbian couples who conceived through sperm donations and assessed their children’s well-being [...]

Spray may treat premature ejaculation in Men It’s fitting that “PSD502″ sounds like a code name, since it relates to a distressing problem most men would prefer not to talk about: premature ejaculation. Researchers recently presented findings on PSD502, a topical spray medication, at the American Urological Association Annual Meeting. The spray, made by pharmaceutical [...]

Watch the oil spill as it changes, NASA shows spreading oil. Some of the most reliable witnesses to the changes in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have been satellites in orbit. A newly released NASA video traces the changes that have taken place in the spill’s extent – and there’s more where that came [...]