Tag Archives for stress
Stress-Busting Tactics
Stress is a part and parcel of our frenetic lives, but chronic stress is not what the doctor ordered. Too much stress hikes up your blood pressure, causes body inflammation and can result in heart problems. So what do we…
Tags: blog, blood pressure, body inflammation, diary, EAP, Employee-Assistance Programs, exercise, heart, journal, massages, stress, stress-relief, Workplace
re MODEL your Brain!
All those early wake-up calls to make those before dawn exercise classes were doing more for me than I thought- according to researchers at Princeton University who were following a comprehensive experiment with running rats… They discovered that the neurons…
Tags: anxiety, Benjamin Greenwood, brain, Dartmouth, Department of Integrative Physiology, dopamine, exercise, Michael Hopkins, mood, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Laboratory, Princeton University, rats, research, stress, University of Colorado, University of Houston
Caring for a Spouse with Alzheimer’s Puts Significant Other at Greater Risk
At the recent Alzheimer’s Association 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease, an eye opening study demonstrated that spouses who care for a mate suffering from dementia were more likely to develop the same condition, with husband caregivers at a much…
Tags: Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimers/Dementia, blood pressure, caregiver, cholesterol, dementia, exercise, healthy diet, NYU, Ralph Nixon, risk factor, spouse, stress
Mind and Heart
There’s a link between the mind and the body. If you think you’re ill, you can make yourself ill, and if you think you’re well, it can help you recover. All of this is part of the well-documented though poorly…
Tags: blood vessels, cardiovascular health, depression, diabetes, exercise, hormones, hypertension, relaxation, stress
Killing Heart Disease
By Lydia Yolen There’s finally good news in the health industry – heart disease and stroke death rates are down down down. Death rates from coronary heart disease are down 30.7% since 1999, and stroke mortality has dropped 29.2%. The…
Tags: birth control pills, blood pressure, coronary heart disease, death rates, diabetes, heart disease, heart issues, high cholesterol, obesity, smoking, stress, stroke
