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Affirmation of the Week
Every goal begins
as an inner vision
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Health Tips of the Week
- Postmenopausal women who were very active or walked for at least seven hours a week had a reduced risk for breast cancer, according to a study published in a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
- The ways parents or caregivers interact with children around mealtimes can have unintended consequences, according to a new report in the Journal of Adolescent Health. The study found that teenagers’ negative attitudes toward eating—or eating psychopathology—may result from their perceptions of their parents’ attitudes about food.
- Statin medications with long term use may ward off dementia according to John Hopkins researchers.
- Body contouring surgery to remove excess skin improves long-term weight control in patients after gastric bypass surgery, reports a study in the October issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
- Early treatment of heart attack patients with an inexpensive beta-blocker drug called metoprolol, while in transit to the hospital, can significantly reduce damage to the heart during a myocardial infarction, according to clinical trial study results published in the journal Circulation.
- New research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is revealing that short sleepers, those who sleep less than six hours per night on average, are the most likely to experience drowsy driving , even when they feel completely rested.
- All children should have flu shots, even if they have an egg allergy, and it’s now safe to get them without special precautions. “In a large number of research studies published over the last several years, thousands of egg allergic children, including those with a severe life-threatening reaction to eating eggs, have received injectable influenza vaccine (IIV) as a single dose without a reaction” said allergist John Kelso, MD, fellow of the ACAAI.
- A new study by Penn Medicine researchers published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that busy intensive care units (ICUs) discharge patients more quickly than they otherwise would and do so without adversely affecting patient outcomes – suggesting that low-value extensions of ICU stays are minimized during times of increased ICU capacity strain.
- Study shows first direct link between obesity and risk of pancreatic cancer. Mice are used to model human obesity and metabolism. Mice given high-calorie, high-fat diets developed high numbers of pre-cancer lesions. Results support a low-fat, low-calorie diet as preventative measure against cancer.
- Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made a discovery that, if replicated in humans, suggests a shortage of zinc may contribute to diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, which have been linked to defective proteins clumping together in the brain.
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Article of the Week
Housecleaning Reduces Stress
For most people stress and mess are unremitting realities in daily life. In fact, the various stressors and disarrays share a common denominator – clutter – both the physical and mental kind. Why not then kill two birds with one stone? As long as you have to clean your place, why not use it as a targeted method for coping with stress?
Cleaning carries emotional benefits: Catharsis, clarity, control and change. These good feelings lead directly to self-improvement and empowerment. For example, when you clean out your space, you can distinguish between what inspires you and what no longer serves you. Getting rid of what you no longer need, makes room for positivism and invites good things into your home, including friends, as you are no longer embarrassed by the mess.
Here are 6 cleaning tasks and their emotional/intellectual/spiritual rewards:
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Addicted to Stress: A Woman's 7 Step Program to Reclaim Joy and Spontaneity in Life
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Stress will always land on your doorstep, but you don’t have to constantly open the door. It’s time to build immunity to external pressures and cultivate an inner peace which does not depend on outside influences. Shed that endless to-do list. Leave the straight lines of your personality to enjoy the surprising detours life has waiting for you.
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