Stress-Free Living Plant A Beautiful Garden Right Now - And for The Future By article Don’t pack away that shovel and trowel. Fall is a great time to plant a few new additions in the … Read More→
Aging Well Senior Health Stress Management Stress-Free Living Well-being Massage Therapy Could Help You Live Longer By article Aging well requires you to constantly be in check with your mind and body. How often do you take time … Read More→
Aging Well Health Headlines Medical Care Senior Health Stress-Free Living What Vaccinations Should You Get? By article As we get older, it’s more important than ever to keep up with the immunization shots we need. Here, from … Read More→
Aging Well Spiritual Health Stress-Free Living How Rearranging Your Living Room Can Make You Feel Younger By article What we choose to have in our space is a reflection of who we are on the inside—our emotional state. … Read More→
Stress-Free Living Well-being Eco-Friendly Pest Control In The Garden By article Spots on tomatoes, holes in hosta leaves and wilting stems mean insects and diseases have moved into the garden. Don’t … Read More→
Caregiving Stress-Free Living Well-being Disaster Preparedness for People with Disabilities By article Disasters are frightening for everyone and are even more so for people with disabilities and access needs. Here, the experts … Read More→
Aging Well Stress-Free Living How to De-Clutter Your Home By article By Andrea Warshaw Wernick FILE IT: Papers often account for a lot of our clutter. This is because we put them … Read More→
Caregiving Stress-Free Living Dealing with Family Stress When Caring for an Elderly Parent By article It’s a time in life that no one looks forward to, but is often times inevitable: caring for an ill … Read More→
Stress-Free Living Water Wisely for a Beautiful Garden and Landscape By article By Melinda Myers Too much or not enough water and never when you need it. That seems to be the … Read More→
Aging Well Spiritual Health Stress-Free Living Well-being Nature, Art & Religion Boost Immune System By article Taking in such spine-tingling wonders as the Grand Canyon, Sistine Chapel ceiling or Schubert’s “Ave Maria” may give a boost … Read More→
Aging Well Diet & Nutrition Stress-Free Living Five Ways to Control the Aging Process By article What is one element of growing older that has surprised me? Control. You may think you don’t have much, but … Read More→
Alternative Health Stress-Free Living The Benefits of Meditation and Waking Up By article by Barb Schmidt, author of THE PRACTICE Waking Up is a daily morning meditation that helps you tap into your … Read More→
Stress-Free Living Hugs May Keep Stress from Lowering Your Resistance to Germs By article Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University tested whether hugs act as a form of social support that protects stressed people from … Read More→
Stress-Free Living Not Wild about Your Backyard Wildlife? By article By Diane Blum A variety of wildlife routinely exists in many neighborhood backyards. Homes that are near open space, hills, natural water sources, meadows and the like are known as an urban or suburban interface. In these areas in particular, people not only will see deer and other small animals, but sometimes more dangerous wildlife may move in. Hillside development may destroy previously wild habitat. Drought can also cause bears, mountain lions, and other predators to move in to residential areas.
Stress-Free Living Health Issues Stress Americans the Most By article Reports of great a deal of stress are more than twice as common among people in poor health, according to an NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) poll released ton July 8th 2014. The survey examined the role of stress in Americans' lives and found that about half of the public (49%) reported that they had a major stressful event or experience in the past year. Nearly half (43%) reported that the most stressful experiences related to health.
Aging Well Memory Loss Stress Management Stress-Free Living Stress Linked to Memory Loss as We Age By article Research done at the University of Iowa reports a potential link between stress hormones and short-term memory loss in older adults. The study, published in June 2014 in the Journal of Neuroscience, found that prolonged high levels of cortisol can lead to memory lapses as we age.
Exercise Heart Health Stress Management Stress-Free Living Why Stress & Overexertion Trigger Heart Attacks By article Scientists believe they have an explanation for the axiom that stress, emotional shock, and overexertion may trigger heart attacks in vulnerable people. Hormones released during these events appear to cause bacterial biofilms on arterial walls to disperse, allowing plaque deposits to rupture into the bloodstream, according to research published in published in June 2014 in mBio, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
Mental & Emotional Health Stress Management Stress-Free Living Stress Is Contagious By article Watching somebody else try to cope with a stressful situation, even on TV, can be enough to bump up your own level of the stress hormone called cortisol. That is the finding of research done at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig and the Technische Universität Dresden and published on April 17th 2014 in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology.