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Cultivating Mindful Awareness
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Trend watchers know that wellness-efforts to better connect with people, improve your health, and live longer, less stressful lives- has become a major focus from bookshelves to the boardroom. Major corporations, the government, insurers, and hospitals are supporting health promotion and disease prevention activities. More and more hospitals are offering complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapy choices to patients. Indeed, with a consumer outlay of $50 billion, taking responsibili...
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Consequences from stress range from helpful to crippling.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; NEW ORLEANS _ Thanks to recent advances in biology, scientists are beginning to dope out why the myriad stresses of daily life make you feel so bad. They are now able to see how stress, an emotional phenomenon, actually changes the physical structure and chemistry of your brain, sometimes leading
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Pressed by stress? Learn to roll with the blows.(LIFE - HEALTH)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Gabriella Boston, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Erica Lodish of Bethesda used to head straight for the fridge when she got home from work. She buried the stresses of work, family problems and disappointments by eating, preferably cheese and crackers, anything salty. I eat to calm myself, Ms. Lodish
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Stress leaves 'lasting legacy' in pregnancy
Scotland on Sunday
; EMMA Woods was a childminder and already had two children of her own, but her third pregnancy became one of the most stressful experiences of her life. Worse still, the 35-year-old from Orkney wonders if it has left a lasting legacy. Woods fears the stress she suffered during those nine months
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Hormones protect women from stress.(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; WOMEN suffer less than men from stress because of their hormones, researchers said yesterday. A study indicated that the female hormone oestrogen reduced production of potentially harmful stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenalin. Secreted over long periods of stress, stress hormones can help
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Mirror Health: BEAT STRESS (whatever your age); Stress: we all suffer from it and we all know it damages our health. But did you realise its effects - and the best way to treat them - depend on your age? Don't worry, though: experts reckon you can beat your body clock - no matter how wound up it is.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England)
; ... in women, making them more sociable. Experts believe talking is a woman's way of tackling pressure. Your danger zones The good news about stress and the 20-something body is that on the surface most effects are minor: just the odd bad mood, skin breakout and ...
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Are you secretly stressed? Sneezing spells. Chocolate cravings. An addiction to solitaire. They could all be signs you need stress relief--now. Tune in to these six sneaky stress symptoms, and tune out the problems taking a toll on your health.(health)
Marie Claire
; STRESS SYMPTOM #1 You crave chocolate. Or a plate of fries. When under pressure, your body wants high-fat, high-calorie foods because they can blunt stress, says Norman Pecoraro, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California San Francisco. The stress hormone cortisol is what makes
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Stress and drug abuse.(HEADS UP REAL NEWS ABOUT DRUGS AND YOUR BODY)
Science World
; Myth vs. Reality Myth 1: Drug abuse is harmful, but it does relieve stress. Reality: Some drugs of abuse affect your brain the same way stress does. Long-term abuse of drugs makes users more sensitive to everyday stress than non-users. Myth 2: All stress is bad for you. Reality: Stress can help you
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Stress and drug abuse.(HEADS UP: REAL NEWS ABOUT DRUGS AND YOUR BODY)
Scholastic Choices
; Myth vs. reality Myth 1: Drug abuse is harmful, but it does relieve stress. Reality: Some drugs of abuse affect your brain the same way stress does. Long-term abuse of drugs makes users more sensitive to everyday stress than non-users. Myth 2: All stress is bad for you. Reality: Stress can help you
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 "Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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STUDY TRACKS MOTHERS', KIDS' STRESS CHILDRENS' AND MOTHERS' LEVELS OF THE STRESS HORMONE CORTISOL WERE TESTED OVER YEARS.(FRONT)
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
; Byline: DAVID WAHLBERG dwahlberg@madison.com 608-252-6125 What started as a study about maternity leave has become a revealing measure of the impact of a mother's stress on her children, even through their teen years. The Wisconsin Study of Families and Work began in 1990, three years before the
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Town & Country's Guide to Coping With Stress.
Town & Country
; Stress is a fact of life -- sometimes it's even a useful stimulus. The trouble begins when stress shades into distress, which sparks everything from anger and depression to heart disease and chronic pain. (Studies even show that wounds heal more slowly in stressed people.)If something has to give,
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