Browse Category: Mental Health and Stress

Prescription drug abuse in highschools

A frightening new trend in teenage drug abuse is covertly destroying the youth of America. Prescription drugs are readily available in the home, often belonging to a parent or sibling who is unaware that their prescriptions are being stolen.

Stress Really Does Make You Fat!

Do you have a stressful household? If so, it may be making you – and your children – fat. New evidence from a study of Swedish families indicates that living in a stressful environment can increase your children’s risk of becoming obese. Keep reading for more details on this recent study and helpful ways to avoid and prevent potential stressors in your life.

Beat Stress Naturally with These 6 Foods

Do you suffer from stress? It wouldn’t be surprising. It is estimated that 65 percent of Americans are “stressed out.” And, more than 30 percent of Americans are seeking medical advice or medication to help alleviate their stress. Aside from economic issues, many experts believe that a great deal of stress results from poor diet, lack of exercise and a toxic lifestyle. Before you turn to drugs to address your stress, take a look at these stress-busting foods that will help you calm down naturally and healthfully.

Worried About Your Health? Try Positive Psychology

Are you a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty type of person? Well, if you want to improve your health you might want to consider filling up your glass a bit! Positive psychology is becoming more and more popular as a way to boost not only your emotional health, but your physical health as well. Keep reading to find out why you should keep your glass half-full all of the time. . .

Change Happens. . . When You're Ready!

Do you want to know how true positive change happens?  Then read on.

Help Reduce Stress for Your Loved One

Heart disease is the number one killer of men—and half of men who die of a heart attack fail to show previous symptoms. Stress is a major risk factor, so reducing stress is a critical part of the preventive process. To help your loved ones reduce their stress and keep their hearts healthy, follow this advice.

Don’t Overthink Your Life or Health

There’s an old saying in golf that applies to any of us: Don’t overthink your swing. The Kaizen method of continuous improvement calls for not overthinking your life. As a reward, you can be healthier after just a few days of “small thoughts.” Kaizen devotees know it as visualization or mind sculpture. You imagine yourself in a situation of wellness success—less junk-food eating, more exercise, sounder and longer sleep, increased time with loved ones. You put yourself in that scene by creating sensory experiences of what you might feel, taste, smell (breathe in that fresh air), see (a person you admire in the mirror) or hear (“you look great!”), and it works! Keep reading for more insights into this powerful Kaizen visualization practice. . .

Stress and the Single Life

Married people live longer than never married or divorce adults. That’s a fact from decades of health research. This finding has always been puzzling to those people among us who are steadfastly single—along with the happily divorced and unhappily married. The single life offers would-be health perks to all three demographic groups, such as doing what you want with your free time, deciding how clean (or not so clean) your home needs to be and a diminished amount of conflict in intimate relationships.

Smile! Scientists Confirm Happiness is Contagious

It might sound like a catch-phrase for an optimists club, but new science shows that happiness can be contagious. Harvard Medical School researchers recently reported that the more happy people you know, the greater the chance you will be happy yourself.

5 Easy Ways to Lower Stress for Your Loved Ones

Heart disease is the number one killer of men—and half of men who die of a heart attack fail to show previous symptoms. Stress is a major risk factor, so reducing stress is a critical part of the preventive process. To help your loved ones reduce their stress and keep their hearts healthy, follow this advice.