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June 19, 2025
Feeling Stressed? Take Back Control of Your Life
Stress is a normal part of life. When something in our environment changes, our bodies react to these changes physically, mentally, and emotionally. However, stress isn’t always a bad thing. Positive stress kicks your body into high gear by flooding your body with hormones, elevating your heart rate, and boosting your energy as a way of preparing you to deal with the problem. Good stress only turns into bad stress when you face continuous challenges without relief, thereby becoming chronic stress. When stress-related tension builds up in your body, it leads to physical health problems such as headaches, stomach upsets, high blood pressure, and asthma, as well as mental health problems such as depression and anxiety. Reducing your stress levels is an important part of being healthy. But it isn’t always easy to do, especially when each day brings a new set of challenges and stress! Social Relationships Strong social relationships are a stress buffer. They act as a protective layer and create psychological distance between you and the source of your stress. Emotional support fills you with a strong sense of self-acceptance, which makes it easier for you to deal with challenges. Friends and family may also offer material and informational support in the form of new ideas and advice. Both kinds of support are invaluable when you’re having a tough time. Spirituality and Faith Psychologists agree that spirituality and faith make coping with stress much easier. This is mainly because believers have a Higher Power to lean on…
Feeling Stressed? Take Back Control of Your Life
Stress is a normal part of life. When something in our environment changes, our bodies react to these changes physically, mentally, and emotionally. However, stress isn’t always a bad thing. Positive stress kicks your body into high gear by flooding your body with hormones, elevating your heart rate, and boosting your energy as a way…
Learn MoreAre Superfoods Real?
“Superfoods” has become one of the most popular buzzwords in healthy living circles. When the word first came into use in the early 1990s, it referred to foods that provide the essential building blocks that your body needs to build resistance to diseases. Nowadays, it’s a marketing term used to assign near magical powers to…
Learn MoreShots To Consider Getting…
Vaccines aren’t just for kids; age, lifestyle habits, and travel can make adults vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases. Protection from childhood vaccines also wears out with time, leaving you vulnerable to serious diseases. The Flu shot When was the last time you thoroughly enjoyed having the flu? The aches, fever, nausea…having the flu isn’t fun. It…
Learn MoreDon’t Fall For Clever Marketing on Food Packaging!
Shopping for groceries can be extremely confusing especially when you’re trying to make healthier food choices. Every product on the shelf claims to be better than the rest in one way or another. This is why you need to learn how to separate the facts from clever marketing gimmicks. Here are some guidelines to help…
Learn More5 Less Obvious Ways to Add Years to Your Life
Americans live to 79 years, on average. Everyone knows that to live to, or past, this age, you need to eat a healthy diet, exercise regularly, maintain a healthy weight and stay away from cigarettes. However, there are some other less obvious ways to live longer and stronger. Friends and Family Humans are social beings….
Learn MoreNourish Your Mind and Spirit with Food!
Yes, that’s right. You can nourish your mind and spirit with food! We all know that hunger, cravings and food allergies have a very big impact on our moods and energy levels. Conversely, our moods and emotions influence our food choices. There is a whole branch of science, called nutritional psychiatry, dedicated to studying these…
Learn MoreRegular Soap is Healthier and Safer than Antibacterial Soap?
When buying soap, most people subconsciously reach for antibacterial soap without giving it a second thought. They believe that antibacterial soap is better than regular soap because it kills germs. The FDA, however, has a different opinion. Scientists have yet to find evidence that antibacterial soaps are any better than regular soaps. Some studies have…
Learn MoreGet Your Family and Friends to Support Your Healthy Lifestyle
Social support from family and friends is an absolute necessity when changing your lifestyle. It’s a lot easier to adhere to a healthy lifestyle when you don’t have to worry about endless questions and criticism from the people closest to you. And if you’re married, your partner can make or break your healthy lifestyle! He…
Learn MoreStop Dieting and Start Eating Healthy
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think about healthy eating? All the unhealthy foods you’ll have to give up? There’s a huge difference between healthy eating and dieting. Dieting is limiting. It focuses too much on restricting what you can eat instead of enjoying good food. Plus, most fad diets have…
Learn MoreIt’s Okay to Fall Off the Wagon!
When you first start living a healthier lifestyle, it’s hard to stay loyal to new eating habits and exercise routines. Face it, you’ll probably feel a little deprived and have STRONG cravings and urges for unhealthy things (at least at first). It’s no surprise that most people fall off the wagon at least once when…
Learn MoreAre You Getting Enough Sun and Vitamin D?
Did you know that your body produces vitamin D when your skin is exposed to sunlight? However, despite this unique ability, 40%-75% of people are deficient in vitamin D. This is because there are just too many factors that affect your skin’s ability to produce vitamin D. They include season, time of day, air pollution,…
Learn MoreA Healthy Lifestyle Doesn’t Have to Cost a Fortune
When times are tough and money is tight, the last thing you need is a lifestyle that costs more than you can afford. Sometimes, it’s just not possible to pay for a gym membership or buy certified organic food. This doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy a healthy lifestyle just because you don’t have a…
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