Are you ready for spring? Perhaps now is the time to revisit your New Year resolutions and recommit to them, if you’ve let them slip away from your daily activities.
Are you ready for spring? Perhaps now is the time to revisit your New Year resolutions and recommit to them, if you’ve let them slip away from your daily activities.
February is heart health month-and while thinking of what I could share with you, the questions occurred, do you have a healthy heart? How would you know? Do you need an angiogram or your cholesterol to let you know for sure?
The medicinal benefits of meditation and yoga are now firmly established in scientific literature. One of the latest studies to emerge on the matter comes from Harvard researchers working at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). They determined that meditation literally rebuilds the brain’s grey matter in just eight weeks. It’s the very first study to document that meditation produces changes over time in the brain’s grey matter.
Women who eat fewer than two serves of fruit a day face a greater risk of developing depression, University of Queensland research shows.
Inflammatory processes occur throughout the body, with a primary function of promoting healing after injury. However, when too active, these inflammatory processes can also damage the body in many ways, and may contribute to heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, and other significant medical problems.
During the holiday season, we usually focus on giving gifts to our loved ones. I’d like for you to consider an overlooked, but critically important aspect of this time of year-the importance and primacy of self-love.
Can negative beliefs about aging cause brain damage and lead to Alzheimer’s Disease?
Were you bullied during your childhood? Most of the media coverage about bullies relates to those during childhood and teen years. Bullying doesn’t stop on the playground. From the workplace to the boardroom, research shows that adult bullying takes many forms. And it can have a detrimental impact on your health.
Job related stress is a significant contributor to our physical health and emotional well-being. A recent meta-analysis of six studies has found evidence that jobs with high mental or physical stress may be linked to a higher risk for stroke. Those with high stress jobs – jobs with high demand and low control had a 22% increase in stroke.
The single-blind trial, conducted at the University of California-Irvine (UCI), is the first scientific confirmation that the ancient Chinese medical technique is beneficial for patients with mild to moderate hypertension.. In the journal Medical Acupuncture, the team describes finding how electroacupuncture can lower blood pressure for up to 6 weeks in patients with hypertension. Electroacupuncture […]