_ Stress-Free LivingPlant A Beautiful Garden Right Now - And for The Future By articleDon’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-beingMassage Therapy Could Help You Live Longer By articleAging 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 LivingWhat Vaccinations Should You Get? By articleAs 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 LivingHow Rearranging Your Living Room Can Make You Feel Younger By Adprime Admin articleWhat 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-beingEco-Friendly Pest Control In The Garden By Adprime Admin articleSpots 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-beingDisaster Preparedness for People with Disabilities By articleDisasters 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 LivingHow to De-Clutter Your Home By articleBy 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 LivingDealing with Family Stress When Caring for an Elderly Parent By articleIt’s a time in life that no one looks forward to, but is often times inevitable: caring for an ill … Read More→
_ Stress-Free LivingWater Wisely for a Beautiful Garden and Landscape By articleBy 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-beingNature, Art & Religion Boost Immune System By articleTaking 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 Healthy Diet & Nutrition Stress-Free LivingFive Ways to Control the Aging Process By articleWhat 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 LivingThe Benefits of Meditation and Waking Up By articleby Barb Schmidt, author of THE PRACTICE Waking Up is a daily morning meditation that helps you tap into your … Read More→
Stress-Free LivingHugs May Keep Stress from Lowering Your Resistance to Germs By thirdAGE articleResearchers at Carnegie Mellon University tested whether hugs act as a form of social support that protects stressed people from … Read More→
_ Stress-Free LivingNot Wild about Your Backyard Wildlife? By Sondra Forsyth 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 LivingHealth Issues Stress Americans the Most By Sondra Forsyth articleReports 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 LivingStress Linked to Memory Loss as We Age By Sondra Forsyth articleResearch 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 LivingWhy Stress & Overexertion Trigger Heart Attacks By Sondra Forsyth articleScientists 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 LivingStress Is Contagious By articleWatching 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.